#alt4you

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I swear I am typing up this #ALT4you of my own volition and am in no way under duress: { madwomanlauren Are any other women struggling to reconcile two very distinct urges: 1) to be cozy and make soup and bake treats; and 2) to form a female vigilante group and hunt down predators c.m.manfredi Hear me out. We start the soup in a slow cooker. We go fuck shit up We come back for soup and treats and cozy pyjamas } The above under the larger caption: "This gets my vote for the best thing I've seen on the internet today" by The Mouthy Ren and the rest is cropped out

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social#ALT4you A take on MC Escher's artwork "Drawing Hands". In the original, two hands, one right, one left, come to life from the paper on which they are drawn, to draw each other. In this variation, one of the hands is human and drawing the other, whereas the other hand is robotic and holding the other end of the pencil to erase the human hand.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #Alt4You The problem with Congress as explained by one graph. [The image then goes on to show eight pie charts. Eh, go fig.] Millionaires in Congress: 51% Millionaires in America: 5% White men in Congress: 77% White men in America: 31% Women in Congress: 21% Women in America: 51% Over 55 in Congress: 67% Over 55 in America: 28%

@stonebear2@hachyderm.io #Alt4You Social media post by Nicole Renée (@the_mommy_lama): Talked to my college kid yesterday. Cornell rapist Johnathan Newell now attends my child's small private college (it's in his home town). The rest of students in the school doxxed his home address and started group chats to notify each other every time he is spotted on campus. I hear he is being harassed on the daily. He won't last much longer there. May he and every other person in that group chat never know another moment of peace.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #Alt4You ^^ @Soozcat@raphus.social (She's good about alt'ing when folks do that, thanks!)

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #Alt4You Men on the Clancy Case: "you don't need evidence, her husband said she admitted she did it" Men on the Cornell 7: "there's no evidence! You can't believe what she said just because she said it"

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #Alt4You Screenshot of a tweet(?) by Jennifer Wright, .@JenAshleyWright: "I never thought living through history would be so fucking stupid."

@Heidi@infosec.exchange header text 'How Cyber Works' above silhouette of figure with outstretched arm. Diagram like olfactory system shows chaos goes into mouth, to belly full of spite (and stars), along arm and electric cyber zaps out of fingers. #ALT4you

@AaronDavid@beige.party @dyckron@cosocial.ca One of my favourite quotes. #Alt4You: JOHN BOGLE, the Vanguard founder who passed away in 2019, once told a story about money that highlights something we don't think about enough: At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, "Yes, but I have something he will never have ... enough” Enough. I was stunned by the simple eloquence of that word-stunned for two reasons: first, because I have been given so much in my own life and, second, because Joseph Heller couldn't have been more accurate. For a critical element of our society, including many of the wealthiest and most powerful among us, there seems to be no limit today on what enough entails.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social#ALT4you A person is holding a small collection of very strange strawberries, with quite a few lobes, far more than the usual one. Dialog: Buyer: are these strawberries genetically modified? Seller: why do you ask? Strawberry: yeah, why do you ask??

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social#ALT4you Caption: I'm not coming to work today, I'm at the hospital getting an MRI Boss: I don't believe you, send me a picture The picture: A man in red gym shorts is lying on a somewhat medically-looking table with a white cloth, and his head is indeed in a machine with a round hole, but on closer inspection the machine is a front-loading washing machine (or dryer), and the chair and window in the background further stretch the truth

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Also #ALT4you Monk 1 "can you highlight the text you would like me to focus on?" Monk 2 "in any particular way?" Monk 1 "surprise me" And there follows a mosaic of text samples from what appear to be medieval sacred texts, each with various doodles pointing to various bits of text, including hands with pointy fingers, one hand with improbably bizarre fingers, and finally one fallus in, um, a butter dish? pointing to a paragraph or other.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #alt4you social media post. Original post is: "The relationship between smartphone/Internet use and loneliness was BIG." Children are lonelier than ever. Can anything be done? The post quoting this reads: We invented suburbs where everybody lives a half-hour drive from their friends and there's no sidewalks or bike infrastructure and we blame smartphones for children being lonely.

@ambiente #ClimateChange #climateDisaster #ALT4you

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social #ALT4you When my boyfriend and I moved in together, we each had a cat. Normally, mine sits with me and his sits with him. But tonight we are sitting in each other's chairs, and also with each other's cat. It turns out the cats are attached to the spots they sit in, _not us_

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Oh, almost forgot. #Alt4You A somewhat rotund and balding man peers inside the rudimentary feed hopper of an enormous industrial rotary shredder. The machine is resting outdoors, on leveled ground, apparently awaiting installation. The scene is captioned "Don't let them fool you, we could have the whole Epstein list dealt with by lunchtime today." The hopper extension would need to be bolted on, but we could do it.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Also #ALT4you A shrink-wrapped toy is hanging on a peg in a store. It is labeled Doctor Play Set, Ages 3+, and consists of various doctor bits like a toy stethoscope, some toy pills, etc, AND A SHOTGUN.

@jwz@mastodon.social May I suggest an alt ? Adding it to the image would make it accessible to everyone. Two stacks of red cards with white writing. On the front : Do not talk to me about "AI" In a smaller font : you make me long for the sweet embrace of death. On the back : By using AI, you have given a pass to : The staggering climate and ecological impactThe outright attack on labor by capitalThe systemic disregard of consentThe basis in wholesale theft and plagiarismThe assault on the very concept of objective truthThe enrichment of the most cringe billionaire fascist motherfuckers the world has ever seen There is no ethical use of AI If you ignore all of that, you are trying to negotiate what level of harm to others you find acceptable for your personal, selfish benefit. You advance the agenda of these hollow-eyed, joyless money-ghouls who resent art, creativity, and life itself. The machine is disgusting and must be destroyed. #alt4You

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social @JonChevreau@mstdn.ca #alt4you @Owennfa My boomer dad asked me last week why I'm still renting at 43. I told him a starter home in our area is $410,000. He said "so save up." I said the down payment alone is $82,000. He said "that's not so bad, break it into pieces." I said after rent, insurance, and daycare I put away maybe $400 a month. He did the math out loud. Got to seventeen years. Went quiet. … 🧵1/2

RE: https://mastodon.social/@israajamal/116999130186351006 Image description is a massive fiery explosion on a street that's mostly filled with tents and frightened people. The explosion is father back, the people in front, seen from higher up, are silhouetted by its bright light in various poses of alarm. #Alt4You Like what is there left in Gaza to blow up??