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nixCraft, 18 days ago to random

Google Ad from 1999. https://www.instagram.com/blackcactusx/p/C4llg93IaGb/

mathling, 2 months ago to martialartsmemes

#humour #eclipse

glynmoody, 4 months ago to random

Britons living abroad regain right to vote in UK elections as 15-year rule ends - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/jan/16/britons-living-abroad-regain-right-to-vote-in-uk-elections-as-15-year-rule-ends let's hope all the people who suffered thanks to #brexit register and vote...

FreakyFwoof, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Right. There's been a lot of talk about #AltText and it's place here on the fediverse of late.
Whether you're blind, deaf or sighted, I'd be curious to not only have you fill out the relevant choice, but feel free to respond to this with more detail if you like.
Do you make use of, benefit from or even find alt-text useful, whether for images or audio?

gutenberg_org, 7 months ago to books

"Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad."
The Inimitable Jeeves

English comic novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and playwright Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was born #OTD in 1881. He is best known as the creator of Jeeves, the supreme “gentleman’s gentleman.” He wrote more than 90 books and more than 20 film scripts and collaborated on more than 30 plays and musical comedies.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/783

#books

Cover of My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse. This is the 1920 impression of the first (1919) edition, published by George Newnes in July 1920.
Illustration from page 61 of Wodehouse, P.G. (1910). The Intrusion of Jimmy. New York: W.J. Watt & Co.

aral, 9 months ago to climate

“British Petroleum, the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals. It’s here that British Petroleum, or BP, first promoted and soon successfully popularized the term ‘carbon footprint’ in the early aughts.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

Via @ajsadauskas

#BP #ClimateChange