@valkyrie #alt4you Illustration of the Lorax by Dr. Seuss - photoshopped into a combat helmet, a pair of binoculars over each eye (that’s to say two pair, side by side), and holding a machine gun, with the added legend “The trees can’t be harmed if the Lorax is armed.”

@peter #Alt4You:

Chris Hayes, posting on Bluesky:

It's very weird to me that in all the
(genuinely comical) hermeneutic reading
of Trump's decision to annihilate the
global trade system, no one actually
quotes one of the major reasons he
himself cites for it:

He wants to abolish the income tax and
fund the government almost entirely
through tariffs, thereby delivering the
most regressive bonanza to the rich in the
history of American taxation. He has said
this many many times. He said it *at the
announcement* and yet pieces like this
just ignore it.

@TheBreadmonkey @altbot And there's also the thing where you can reply with suggested alt-text and if I could only remember what the hashtag was for that my comment would be useful.

Anybody remember that hashtag?

Edit: I think it's #Alt4You

#Alt4You

Screenshot of a tweet from Marco Rubio:

Secretary Marco Rubio
@SecRubio

17:46
4/5/25

I am taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States, effective immediately, due to the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner.

@cookiesinheaven @ai6yr [Image description: in a large crowd of protesters, one holds up a sign reading "We are Tariff-ied / Call in the Rational Guard". There are tall palm trees in the background and many people are wearing sun hats; it must be warm.]

@Lana #Alt4You

"Terrible things are happening outside... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.
Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." - Anne Frank (Jan 13, 1943)

Text shows over a photo of bundled-up people, including children, at least one with a Jewish star affixed to his coat, standing in front of what look like railroad boxcars.

@newsthump #ALT4you

@GossiTheDog #alt4you Rolling Stone headline:
'Not Good'

Trump shares video about how he is 'Purposely Crashing the Stock Market'

Several close allies of the president told Rolling Stone they were "at a loss for words" when asked about the video

By Nikki McCann Ramirez
APRIL 4, 2025

@marklevinenyc.bsky.social #alt4you Budget Lab at Yale chart showing the US effective tariff rate falling from nearly 30% at the urn of the 20th century to something more like 3%, then rocking back up in a straight vertical line at the end of the chart to nearly 30% again.

@camwilson

Alt text:

Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to Al models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of traffic generated by scraper bots is unprecedented and presents growing risks and costs.

The graph below shows that the base bandwidth demand for multimedia content has been growing steadily since early 2024 — and there's no sign of this slowing down. This increase in baseline usage means that we have less room to accommodate exceptional events when a traffic surge might occur: a significant amount of our time and resources go into responding to non-human traffic.

@auschwitzmuseum

#Alt4You Black-and-White photograph showing a member of the SA, on the left side, sticking antisemitic notes to a shop window that has already a huge poster at its center that says "Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!". To the right, a member of the SS is watching the people passing by. At the left side of the photo, a female carrying two bags is looking at the notes.

@KarenDorman @w7voa thank you! a good hashtag for alt text written for someone else's post is #Alt4You

@w7voa
#AltText of image from above of a piece by Joel Simon for Vanity Fair.
#Alt4You

@Benjaminblackoak @cafechatnoir Image description:

A black rectangle with a grey border, and the following text, in a white serif font;

"The far-right is angry because they're being judged by the content of their character rather than by the color of their skin.”

@LuisCrespo #alt4you Comic depicts a dog in an "In the sun" shirt, saying:

"Remember capitalism is working perfectly.

You're supposed to be exhausted and frightened that you will lose your job and die old and homeless, it makes it easier to treat you like garbage and pay you less. If you're worrying about the rent you're not worrying about firing all the billionaires into the sun where they belong."

Dog is pointing at a diagram of a rocketship labeled "billionaires" on trajectory to the sun.

@helenczerski Alt text: A photo of the ‘Green Pioneer’, a 75-meter long dual-fuel vessel capable of running on green ammonia. The hull is painted a dark blue, the superstructure is painted white, and there is a large green zero on the side covering both the hull and the superstructure, and ‘Leading the way to real zero’ and 'fortescue.com’ down the side.

It is moored in a harbour, with tall office buildings and skyscrapers visible in the background.

—

More information on the vessel can be found at the following links;

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/worlds-first-dual-fuel-ammonia-powered-vessel-arrives-in-the-uk

https://zero.fortescue.com/en/case-studies/green-pioneer

https://www.fortescue.com/en/articles/fortescue-green-pioneer-makes-splash-in-uk-as-critical-moment-looms-for-global-shipping

@wendyhk Alt text: Een foto van de voorpagina van Trouw, een Nederlandse krant. De tweede helft van de pagina ('below the fold’) wordt bijna geheel ingenomen door de namen van de Palestijnse doden in Gaza, beginnend met alle kinderen van minder dan een jaar oud. Er boven de kop “Gaza, 50.000 doden. Dit zijn de namen”

@moira @damnyouwillis.bsky.social #alt4you addendum as the screencap has great text - part 1:
Colin Fraser @colin fraser
No this is a misunderstanding of the term "slop". Slopness isn't about whether it looks good in your opinion. You can like slop.
QT of sophie @netcapgirl
outside of midjourney, when people would think of "ai generated images" they would mostly think "slop" but that all changed with a chatgpt update and one guy's post about sending ghiblified images to his wife