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Paywall? https://archive.is/UWXk4

The bans, largely at the state level, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in children’s products to mercury in personal care products to PFAS in food packaging and clothing.

If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such s cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage, the plan’s opponents say.

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency move involves changing the way the agency carries out chemical risk evaluations, which would also pre-empt state laws that offer the one of few meaningful checks on toxic chemicals in consumer products.

Depending on the situation she goes by: fuckemis, cutemis, deliciousmis, shitemis, fatemis (she used to be a whole pound over weight but she put in the work and now has, what I imagine would be, a slammin bod in the cat world) etc.

Das Treffen findet zum wiederholten Male in Jüterbog rund 60 Kilometer südlich von Berlin statt, weil die AfD in der Hauptstadt keine Räumlichkeiten gefunden hat.

About 240,000 Ukrainians have been settled in the US as part of the Uniting for Ukraine – or U4U – program launched during Joe Biden’s presidency. But according to CBS News, some resettled Ukrainians received emails this week telling them that the US Department of Homeland Security would be terminating their legal protections.

More than 20,000 Ukrainians who flew to Mexico at the start of the war were also allowed into the US, which allows DHS officials to offer temporary work permits and deportation protections to migrants on humanitarian grounds.

(In case you missed it, the link goes to a mastodon post of a blind user sharing their joy)

Lemmy also has ALT texts when you upload an image.

Other reasons why ALT texts are awesome:

• people with smartphones sometimes configure their clients to NOT download pictures/videos to save data. Picture Descriptions enable them to a) interact with these posts properly without the risk of not understanding a big part of the post. b) enables the conscious decision if they want to see this media.
• search engines can index this post better, so your post will have more reach when you duckduckgo for it.
• fediverse people searching for things can find your post
• people who are confused what the image on the post means can read the picture description to understand nuances they missed. And there are many reasons why that might be the case
  • people not knowing people/scenes referenced in the image
  • different sense of humor, so they don't get the joke, but might want to understand the joke
  • different life experience - the viewer might be a 14 year old child - so they don't get the joke, but might want to understand the joke
  • people having difficulties reading emotions depicted in the facial expressions in the picture
  • people having not slept enough or are otherwise exhausted

however, it should also not matter why people might not understand the picture, because there are probably plenty of other reasons i don't know why it is perfectly normal to not understand a picture.

and even when you think that you only have 12 followers - none of which you think need a picture description - your post might get boosted; it might get viral accidentally because it hits a nerve.

However, of course there are times when you don't have the energy to describe the media properly. This is fine! We all know situations like this.

• For mastodon, there exists a bot which can generate a picture description using a local artificial intelligence hosted on their server: https://fuzzies.wtf/@altbot (see the profile description on how to use that)
• It is even possible to mention them in lemmy: @altbot@fuzzies.wtf (it might be the case that your instance doesn't know about this account yet, but then you can search for "@altbot@fuzzies.wtf" which will force your instance to index this account.
• You can request help with alt texts by including hashtags like #ALT4me
• when you receive a picture description, either from the bot or from other people, you can edit your post and insert the picture description afterwards.

Thanks if you participate in making the fediverse an awesome place for people with reduced sight! 💜

The British military made the discovery after a number of them washed ashore and were located by the Royal Navy. They are being seen as a potential threat to national security.

The situation has not previously been made public but it has been reported in The Sunday Times that Moscow was looking to try and collect intelligence on the UK’s four Vanguard submarines, which carry nuclear missiles.

https://archive.ph/GVHE0

Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies, said a report written by Dr. Daniel Solomon, who watched the autopsy, conducted by Israeli experts, at the request of the boy’s family.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of Solomon’s report from the family. It did not conclude a cause of death, but said Ahmad was in a state of extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It also noted that Ahmad had complained to the prison of inadequate food since at least December, citing reports from the prison medical clinic.

Is this a bug or is it real? Everyone is saying that Otto is the new European amazon but it doesn't seems like that. (I am already buying from allegro but they don't have this product in stock)