I don't know why people post images of text on social media. If they had just copied/pasted, it would have word-wrapped for literally everyone. But a horizontal image of text is bad on a smartphone. I have to zoom in so I can read it, pan right to the end of the line, drag left to the next line, and so on. Or I could go into my phone's settings, enable screen rotation, re-orientate my phone in my hand, zoom in again, and maybe I can read it all now... More often than not, I just skip the post.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

The alternative is a Twitter post.

Here is the text Muhammad Shehada:

Israeli journalist Uri Misgav predicted hours ago that Netanyahu will imminently resume the war in Gaza b/c "everything is closing in on [him]" (e.g. corruption trial, his wife under investigation, national crisis, budget crisis, renewed mass protests...)

Uri Misgav:

Everything is closing in on them. estimate they may start a war in Gaza or elsewhere in the next two days.

Explanation: They can't really fire the head of the GSS. And not the attorney general. A clear contradiction of the accused in the crimes whose immediate court is being investigated at Qatar- Gate and his wife is due to be investigated long ago for harassment of Hadas Klein and Liat Ben Ari. And these are also moves that must pass in the Gronis Committee for appointment of seniors, which currently does not have enough members.

And so he will need a new war to divert the fire from his failures and the regenerating protest, and the appeals to the High Court, and the interviews of security officials who decided at the right time to free Nazareth.

He panicked and went all-in, as usual without consideration and thorough examination of the consequences, again loses his pants, and now the only finding left for him is to use the Chief of Staff and Chief of Staff in his pocket.

He must not be allowed to resume fighting and sacrifice kidnapped and soldiers on the altar of his legal and family interests. Not allowed. That would be an illegal decree in the story that a black flag is flying over it.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the transcription. Adding the text of a screenshot helps out blind peeps online.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, excellent point.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The alternative is a Twitter post.

some people use xcancel, a twitter proxy if you will, to read posts without giving traffic to actual twitter. its a good balance imo.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I tried Nitter once but could not get it to work. Thanks for the recommendation.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago

I use this to select a healthy Nitter instance: https://status.d420.de/

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Often people do this to fly under the word monitor radar.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that even a thing on lemmy? Or are you thinking it's just force of habit?

[–] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's probably a SOP at this point.