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finished reading Legends & Lattes 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑
A lovely little story about an ex-adventurer who turns her orcish hand to opening a coffee shop. Everyone is nice except for the odd dickhead who provides narrative tension. Imagine the Discworld with hygge instead of satire.

#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Fantasy #CosyFantasy

@WildWoila @WildWoila@friendica.world

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For the first time this week, I honestly feel like the #Fediverse can almost replace the entirety of Big Social.

There’s only one thing needed: #Friendica needs a better looking UI.

If it could have something more sleek, then it would totally be able to replace #Facebook.

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@Chris Trottier @Julian Fietkau There are now full GitLab repos about this for everyone looking to contribute:


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To me NewPipe is genuinely one if the greatest apps ever created.

Reply your favourite Open Source apps, please. I must explore.

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"Basalting the Senses II: God's Hopscotch"
The tops of exposed basalt columns, west of Liawenee, Tasmania

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Seeking help! Does anyone know where I can buy Iota-Carrageenan nasal spray (that doesn’t have saline in it) to be delivered in the U.S.? Looking for same ingredients as Betadine, which has been discontinued.

Do not send any other non Iota-Carrageenan nasal spray, that is not what I need. Iota-Carrageenan only 🙏

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I'm in Canada, but look for the Salinex ProTect spray as a replacement!
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this is sold as algovir in Germany, there must be online pharmacies willing to ship that to the US

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January 21, 2025- “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Has Surged Since The Pandemic, Study Reveals” “ Scientists are growing concerned that infections of the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be triggering more cases of chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).

A new study has found that six months or longer after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, participants were 7.5 times more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for ME/CFS than those who had not been infected. “ - sciencealert.com/chronic-fatig…

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I cannot get over the incredibly stupid ways in which ActivityPub / fediverse is being mismanaged.

The UX sucks & bad. No web developer in their right mind is going to say "Hey, lets add Share With Mastodon buttons on our pages". I saw one site that did and it prompts users to enter the URL of their home instance before the share can go through.

If fedi is like Email, then why doesn't activitypub have a protocol prefix (like Email) to avoid this problem?!

#ActivityPub #Fediverse #mastodon

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Sounds like you really have a handle on what needs to be fixed. I'm not a programmer and only understand what you are saying at the most basic level. Since you know what needs to be done, why not do something about it?
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Here is an example of how #activitypub doesn't work alongside the Web:
ioplus.nl/en/posts/trump-has-f…

Note the Mastodon 'Share' link which is: mastodon.social/share?text=Che…

Why am I being asked to login when I'm already logged in to mas.to _and_ infosec.exchange? Do you have any idea how confusing and off-putting this is for non-techie users??


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When I first heard of #Solid, I thought it was a pipe dream.

But this looking more and more real as time goes on, and if so, it will solve one of my biggest complaints about the Internet: how to manage digital identity.

solidproject.org/about

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@julia No worries. These things get confusing nowadays. For example, it bugs me that Google’s AI is known as Gemini when there was already a Gemini protocol.

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This is what makes the Episcopal faith so special. That radical love and compassion is what is needed in this world right now

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Person in Switzerland (on Reddit):

Neurologist: "before the pandemic, his whole team of 3 people, who deal with the ME/CFS cases here, treated 10 patients PER YEAR. Now, after Covid19, he alone sees 5 patients PER WEEK to determine and/or treat patients for ME/CFS"

@mecfs
#MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME @longcovid
#LongCovid #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19 #LC #Covidlonghaulers #PostCovidSyndrome #longhaulers #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC

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Review of "Ocean's Echo" (4 stars): Very likeable despite foibles


A queer romance set in a space-faring future where humans have developed telepathic abilities. Two telepaths are thrown together by political expediency, and despite initial incompatibility (they are both very different sorts of neurodiverse) they build a strong partnership, and eventually love. The two protagonists are well portrayed, and very likeable despite their foibles.

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booksns.com/109463/ Apps for keeping track of book collection #books I’ve been using Libib for the last couple of years, but the app is clunky, laggy, and has annoying glitches and lacks what feel like basic features like being able to search by tag without scrolling through a list of literally every single tag you’ve created, being able to see the total number of books …

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Do we have any outdated metaphors that hold (soil) ecology back?

#environment #soil #ecology

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