@eleniartikou I always associate this tone with the early cinema pioneers, it's great to see someone actually smile in a sepia portrait. If you want to share it so fediverse users who use screenreaders (visually impaired, technical problems where pictures don't load, etc) you can add alt text. #alt4you "A sepia portrait of me smiling."

@sundogplanets @ScottMGS #Alt4You (first pic)

Waitangi Regional Park (with logo)
Ātea a Rangi Educational Trust (with logo)

Main text on the right:
Ātea a Rangi
The star compass
Like the sun, stars appear to rise in the east and set in the west. If you know where stars rise and set, the horizon can be used as a compass.

The Ātea a Rangi splits the horizon into four quadrants of wind: Tokerau, Marangai, Tonga Puāwanga and Tapatapa atiu.

The horizon also divides into 32 equal areas called whare (houses) which are the pou (carved posts) around the compass. The four main houses are Whitinga, Tomokanga, Raki and Tonga.

Stars that rise in a house in the east, also set in the same named opposite house in the west, for example Matariki rises in Kāinga ki Tokerau and sets in Kāinga ki Tapatapa atiu. If stars are seen close to the horizon, they can be used to determine direction.

On the left, a diagram of a compass, showing two halves (“Celestial Bodies Rise” and “Celestial Bodies Set”) and divided as described below:

The same seven houses repeat in all four quadrants
Rā: the sun
Kāinga: where the sun lives
Ngoi: a land bird used to find land
Manu: the waka or canoe as a bird flying across the ocean
Ngā Rangi: the heavens are where we get our clues
Ngā Reo: the navigator listens to the voices of the stars
Kore: the void where there are no clues

About the compass
The star compass was the vision of the Atea a Rangi Educational Trust.
It shows a resource used by the ancestors of the Māori to navigate sailing waka throughout the Pacific Islands. This area also marks the first place in Hawke's Bay where Europeans and Māori lived together as a community.

For many years this land was neglected and used as an illegal rubbish
dumping site. Hawke's Bay Regional Council developed the site, raising
the star compass platform, driveway and carpark above river flood risk
level and extending the wetland.

Many local community planting events have helped to improve
The wetland as a habitat for birds, fish and other creatures.

Lower right:
Ātea a Rangi Tours
(blurb leading to the URL www.atea.nz)

@aeris #ALT4you
"FRANCE TRAVAIL a précisé que les attaquants ont exfiltré de cette manière 25 giga octets (Go) de données concernant 36 820 828 personnes vers des plateformes d'hébergement externes."

@IllWill
Alt-text: The title of the piece, "Venezuela and the New Division of the World - Colapso y Desvío", overlaying a photo of a seaside oil refinery taken from just offshore

#Alt4You

@IllWill
Alt-text: The title of the piece, "Venezuela and the New Division of the World - Colapso y Desvío", overlaying a photo of a seaside oil refinery taken from just offshore

#Alt4You

@IllWill
Alt-text: The title of the piece, "Venezuela and the New Division of the World - Colapso y Desvío", overlaying a photo of a seaside oil refinery taken from just offshore

#Alt4You

@arretsurimages #Alt4You

Dernières heures pour faire un don à Arrêt sur images !

Collecté 83 433 €
Dons 1228
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On y est presque ✊

@arretsurimages #Alt4You

Dernières heures pour faire un don à Arrêt sur images !

Collecté 83 433 €
Dons 1228
Objectif 100 000 €

On y est presque ✊

@2avesag.as #ALT4you Screenshot of a post by Bernadette Hogan that says, "@GovKathyHochul in Queens says she has no plans to raise the congestion pricing base fare for passenger cars from $9 to $15 because it would be a lot for families and small biz.

(And she's up for reelection.)"

@rbreich

#alt4you

@jaz #ALT4you and a random tampon

I'd like to better understand how (whether?) #Alt4You hashtags get searched for.

If you depend on alt texts (permanently or just atm): how do you deal with posted images that don't have one?

Do you hope to find an #Alt4You in a reply, and search for it, if the post reads interesting?

Do you just skip, no matter the text of the post, if there's no alt text?

@smaurizi #alt4you

Martin Konečný writes this short summary on 2025-10-14.

EU Commissioner press briefing yesterday:

Journalist: You've said that Russia should repay for reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you believe Israel should repay for reconstruction of Gaza?

EU chief spox: It's an interesting question, on which I have no comment at this stage.

I'd like to better understand how (whether?) #Alt4You hashtags get searched for.

If you depend on alt texts (permanently or just atm): how do you deal with posted images that don't have one?

Do you hope to find an #Alt4You in a reply, and search for it, if the post reads interesting?

Do you just skip, no matter the text of the post, if there's no alt text?

@nitot #ALT4you Bande dessinée en deux cases. Première case : une personne demande à un personnage incarnant une IA si un champignon est comestible. L'IA répond que oui. Deuxième case : la personne est alitée, visiblement très fiévreuse, l'IA, à son chevet, lui dit qu'elle avait raison, le champignon était toxique. L'IA demande si la personne veut en apprendre davantage sur les champignons toxiques.

@smaurizi

#Alt4You

Graph showing that the numbers of nuclear warheads of the Soviet Union/Russia and the US grew from zero to 10s of 1000s in the 1950s, dropped dramatically during the late 1980s, and dropped more slowly during the 1990s.

Title: "Thanks to Gorbachev & the anti-nuclear-arms-race movement, Global nuclear-warhead stocks have been reduced 85%"

@cartes_app
#ALT4you
Détournement du mème de XKCD Dependency.
La légende est remplacé par "All OSM infrastructure", le commentaire qui pointe sur la brique sur laquelle tout repose par l'image de profil de @cquest

@Taweret The video shows a young man in swimming trunks looking into a small pool with a pink liquid covering the surface. He dives into the pool, but the person who emerges from the pool is a woman in a bikini. She looks at the camera and says, “That's what they meant by gender fluid.” #Alt4You

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#Alt4You (it doesn't fit into Mastodon description character limit)

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STATEMENT ON ITALIAN NAVAL FRIGATE ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMINE THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

September 30th, 2025

The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed us that the naval frigate shadowing our flotilla will soon issue a radio call, offering participants the “opportunity” to abandon ship and return to shore before reaching the so-called “critical zone.” Let us be absolutely clear: this is not protection. It is sabotage. It is an attempt to demoralize and fracture a peaceful humanitarian mission that governments have failed to take on themselves, even though it is their silence and complicity that led to this point.

This is cowardice dressed up as diplomacy. If Italy truly sought to protect lives, it …