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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • I actually tend to do these less verbose than what I've seen is common with others. I concentrate first on getting across the specific message of the post, and second on describing details that help get across the mood.

    The wide shot is an important detail, because it explains why we didn't see the other subjects in the first frame. The lack of visible mouth felt important to me because it contrasts with the smile in the first frame, the lack of smile (or indeed any mouth) gives it a weirder feeling.

    Your initial comment seemed like a fairly innocent question and I was happy to answer it, but seeing the thread continue, it's looking more like a baseless accusation. And that's dickhead behaviour. Don't do that. To me, or to others. It's extremely rude, and honestly provides nothing of value. It's especially galling to be accused when I'm spending my effort trying to make this a more inclusive space.

  • Nope, just me! 😊

    Back on Reddit, I was a co-mod of a sub with the guy who founded the "transcribers of Reddit", and that helped instill in me an appreciation for the value of accessibility.

    It's not too hard to do and I'd encourage anyone to give it a go. There's no need for perfection, and you get a better sense of it as you get used to doing it.

    Mastodon and Pixelfed both yell at users to provide alt text for their own posts, but unfortunately Lemmy's devs don't seem to have quite the same care for accessibility.

  • Interesting. What client are you using? It displays fine for me in lemmy-ui (the default Lemmy web app).

    I hope this helps rather than being pedantic & annoying?

    Absolutely it does! Unfortunately Lemmy and Piefed clients are...inconsistent, at best, when it comes to how some of the finer points of syntax get parsed. Spoiler text is among the worst contenders, because of how non-standard the syntax is (second-worst contender: superscript & subscript). I'll try adding in the newlines and hopefully it won't cause any extra problems, but I can't guarantee it'll help.

  • Not all protestants are boring like that. This has very "so-called 'non-denominational' protestant" energy to it. Quite different from an Anglican, or Calvinist, or Presbyterian, or Methodist church.

  • Tweet by Sofia "Buff Girlfriend" @sofiabuffgf:

    They should make protestant Dark Souls where instead of cathedrals it's just like regular rooms with folding chairs

  • A Tweet by Sandy Petersen @#SandyofCthulhu

    Whenever the US Army has created a new higher rank, George Washington is promoted to it, and if he isn't the first, his promotion is postdated so that he has seniority. So when we instigated the rank of 3 star officers in the Civil War for Grant & Farragut, and the rank of 4 star general in WW1 for Pershing, George got to be that rank too.

    This means George Washington is always the highest ranked soldier, senior to every other officer. This means in the zombie apocalypse, he will be in charge.

    [A photo of George Washington, edited so he has blood stains around the neck, a partly-healed wound on his forehead with the stains of blood dripping down from it, and unnatural eyes, so he appears as a zombie.]

  • A picture of a VW car driving down a motorway with the road and background blurred. It is captioned:

    Golf 7

    From Berlin to Warsaw in one tank.

    Underneath that is the "Awkward Look Monkey Puppet" meme, awkwardly looking towards the camera and then away.

  • A cartoon of a woman standing next to a coffee machine, holding out a takeaway coffee container. She smiles as she asks "Frankenstein?"

    The same woman, now with no visible mouth, in a wider shot, showing two figures raising their hands and looking at each other: a man in a lab coat, glasses, and with grey frizzly hair, and a depiction of "Frankenstein's monster" as soon in popular culture.

  • When you accept him as gay, the hair, makeup, ballroom, and Liberace-themed decorations suddenly makes a lot more sense.

    [A picture of Trump and Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office, in a wide photo showing the background filled with an ornately-decorated background including portraits of former US Presidents in gold-trimmed frames, a fireplace with many ornate golden trophies displayed on the mantelpiece, and other bright gold decorations.]

  • A picture of a man with safety goggles on carefully looking into a test tube of green liquid. The liquid is labelled:

    Python 3.14.0

    Release Date: Oct. 7, 2025

    And the picture is captioned:

    Finally

    π-thon

  • What if you're a farmer and are addressing a sow?

  • Screenshot of a Threads post by eileenmaryoconnell:

    Times when it's ok to call a woman "Piggy" at your job:-You're a Muppet addressing one of your fellow Muppet coworkers by her actual legal name-Literally that's it

  • Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is "junior react developer", "senior react developer". So this meme seems to have come full circle.

  • The stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.

    The man stepping on a rake is captioned "programming for the first time".

    The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned "programming for the hundredth time".

  • Haha yeah same. Except it was my high school musical, where

    Indian music was the "set text" for the world music section of my music course.

  • Crossherd #256🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩Time: 0:40crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

    A raga is more like a scale than a melody. Grumble grumble.

  • Crossherd #255⬛️⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️Time: 0:52crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

    on the lamb

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 22 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 21 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 20 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 19 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 18 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 17 September

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone

    How the government is tightening its grip on reporting [by banning third-party comment on embargos] | Media Watch

  • Games @sh.itjust.works

    If Baldur's Gate 3 is "an entire roleplay setting," then Bloodlines 2 is a "scenario," says dev

    www.pcgamesn.com /vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2/baldurs-gate-3-pressure
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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 13 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 12 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 11 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 10 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 9 September

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    uninvited

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 8 September

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    Dracula Readthrough 2025, 7 September

  • Australian Politics @aussie.zone

    If Albanese’s lost his bottle, he should retire

    www.smh.com.au /business/the-economy/if-albanese-s-lost-his-bottle-he-should-retire-20250902-p5mrp9.html
  • Australia @aussie.zone

    ‘A fundamental part of growing up’: Why Aussie kids can’t swim any more

    www.smh.com.au /national/a-fundamental-part-of-growing-up-why-aussie-kids-can-t-swim-any-more-20250807-p5ml96.html
  • Vampires @lemmy.zip

    Paradox refunds PlayStation Store preorders of Bloodlines 2 in preparation for 'adjustments' to its reviled $30 DLC to be revealed later this month

    www.pcgamer.com /games/rpg/paradox-refunds-playstation-store-preorders-of-bloodlines-2-in-preparation-for-adjustments-to-its-reviled-usd30-dlc-to-be-revealed-later-this-month/