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Shane McKee
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Genetics/Genomics doc, cycling for Nazareth Hospital, developing solutions for #RareDisease and Digital Healthcare. Want to see peace in Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine & Planet Earth. Let's build a collaborative future, not an imagined past.
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I came in like a

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Here is how I write alt text: I imagine the viewer/ reader is playing a text adventure and has just typed "look at picture", then I write what the game would tell them.

The opening scene of the ZX Spectrum adventure game "The Hobbit". By todays standards it's a crude rendering of the inside of a hobbit hole the floor is lurid magenta and the circular door is green. Beneath the picture the pixel font text reads "You are in a comfortable tunnel like hall". Below this the player has typed "LOOK"
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I use that exact Spectrum Hobbit screenshot as my Teams background. Good point re the ALT text usage. Text adventures (I think) are highly underutilsed as potential teaching tools. They seem to access a part of the brain that other pedagogical methods can't touch.

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Enya's mum Florence was such a mega-fan of The Wombles that people used to call her "Orinoco Flo".

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We went to see his concert in Belfast earlier this year. It was genuinely lovely - a fair dose of self deprecation and humour, and a great rapport with the audience. #YouKnowTheRules

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Problem is that Israel is systematically dismantling Iran's assets in the Levant, so they're a write-off anyway, and there will be some in Hezbollah tempted to think feck it and blow all the arsenal as soon as possible. It's hard to see how this doesn't get worse.

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That's exactly what an evil mastermind releasing sharks into flooded streets would *want* people to think...

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Tur-ken-istan indeed!

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Awaiting your pearls! (for the record, I loved it)

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Just finished watching Kaos. Will save my write-up to the weekend, but am just imagining how it would have been if, as originally planned, Zeus was played not by Jeff Goldblum but by Hugh Grant.

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Shane McKee
@shaneir.bsky.social
Genetics/Genomics doc, cycling for Nazareth Hospital, developing solutions for #RareDisease and Digital Healthcare. Want to see peace in Northern Ireland, Israel-Palestine & Planet Earth. Let's build a collaborative future, not an imagined past.
77 followers130 following246 posts