felix (grayscale) 🐺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davatron5000</span></a></span> I've seen it said, "bad alt text is better than no alt text", and I think in this case that's still true. still, it might help to have a short tag like "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autogenerated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autogenerated</span></a>" at the front, so someone can recognize that it might be mangled and unmangle it. "I don't like sand" is an iconic enough line that it's possible that someone hearing that would recognize the context and understand how it got mangled</p>