I sometimes (not often enough) write up crazy ideas I've had that I never actually got around to making... so here's An Automated Announcement System!
"An audio robot to do the work for you…"
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016...app.thestorygraph.com
Of course.
“Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a former faith adviser to the #Trump White House, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he molested a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said”
nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/robe…
Former Texas Megachurch Pastor Is Indicted on Child Sex Abuse Charges
Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.Hank Sanders (The New York Times)
Also not
- an immigrant
- a [[[globalist]]]
- trans
- a DEI candidate
- a peaceful protestor
…. etc
Travel Guide For Bogota - Bogota Purple Guide
Our Backpack and Snorkel Bogota Travel Guide provides the best things to see in Bogota so that you can make memorable moments on a relaxing vacation in Bogota.backpackandsnorkel.com
Adam Curry,
former MTV VJ turned podcaster
turned Christian nationalist,
says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE
"are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."
peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/a…
Adam Curry Says Musk/DOGE Critics Are 'Under Dark Spiritual Spells'
Adam Curry, former MTV VJ turned podcaster turned Christian nationalist, says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE "are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."People For
Jesus Christ (no pun intended) I followed some of his activities in the early days of the web. Then he and John Dvorak started a podcast and Curry was going down the loony tunes path with “don’t carry a phone, use an iPod touch on WiFi only”, and then prior to the 2016 election, I had to stop listening.
Seems he’s gone full batshit crazy.
A Fast Rewind to the Era of Tapesponding
hackaday.com/2025/03/12/a-fast…
A Fast Rewind To The Era Of Tapesponding
Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1950s, a curious and crafty group of enthusiasts invented their own global social network: on reels of magnetic tape…Hackaday
Setting up Nginx Proxy Manager was easier than I thought! A few hurdles at first (longer blog post in the works) but I got it all working without much issue.
I am seeing things timeout every now and then but it seems a common problem so hopefully I can get that fixed.
#nginx #proxy #selfhosted
I also managed to get docker running Nginx Proxy Manager on a Raspberry Pi, which had a few challenges but I think I've cleared all the hurdles.
The main issue was no clear direction on getting Docker and the container to startup at boot. Lots of forum post reading on that topic.
Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…
Total Eclipse of the Moon Coming to the Americas on the Night of March 13-14
A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025.SETI Institute
It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.
It's very quick and easy to do:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!
How do I pin posts on my Mastodon profile? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.
Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...www.simonandschuster.com
thesunion.com/news/canadianele…
What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325265/sudiksha-konanki-missing-dominican-republic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.
I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.
I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse #ProjectGutenberg
In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Using the shell command in CAD software might seem like an easy way to hollow out a model for 3D printing, but it often leads to inconsistent wall thickness and print artifacts. This post explains why the shell command falls short and introduces a more precise manual modeling approach to achieve uniform, high-quality prints.
I find it interesting what is happening to the polls in Canada.
What looked like an upcoming comfortable victory for The Conservatives has changed dramatically after the inauguration of Trump.
Should the Liberals end up winning the election later this year, the US president would be facing the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney.
We would then see the chaos president Trump fighting a trade war against a calculated, educated and experienced economist who has lead central banks.
Until then we will all experience a whole flood of tariffs and EOs....
Let's sse if the USA still "exists" by then. 😬😱
Just sayin':
Nobody ever has seen a sadistic destruction of a superpower before. Who knows what's gonna happen til fall.
This happens all the time.
French fries are not French, they’re Belgian at best.
One of the most popular Chinese dishes in the USA is General Tso's Chicken. In China no one knows who the General Tso is and never tasted his Chicken.
This is not an exhausting list.
reminds me of the dutch "filet americain"
which 1) for whatever reason has a french name
and 2) is literally raw minced beef with some spices that you're supposed to put on a slice of bread (with maybe some onions/eggs/more spices).
I guess maybe because americans like meat and boneless things? I have no idea what the connection is here honestly
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first.
BIM:
Syres916 fixed two cosmetic bugs in the UI code,
furgo16 re-enab
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#DevelopmentUpdates
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a ne…FreeCAD News
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
openculture.com/2018/08/salvad…
Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney's Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few laid eyes on its unfinished materials again until…Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the First Day in Dublin in Ireland - Ireland Purple Travel Guide
On your first day in Dublin, there is a good chance that you will be tired and exhausted - take it slow and have a relaxing afternoon in one of Dublin’s most beautiful parks.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
daringfireball.net/2025/03/som…
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environme…Daring Fireball
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Chapter terbaru dari The Extra is Too Strong (Chapter 87) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Adventure #Fantasy
🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari The Extra is Too Strong (Chapter 88) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhwa #Action #Adventure #Fantasy
axios.com/local/washington-dc/…
#news #poll #DC #WashingtonDC #Maryland #Trump
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manga #Comedy #Romance #SliceOfLife
Chapter terbaru dari Wolf Falls in Love with Moon (Chapter 25) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
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#EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manga #Comedy #Romance #SliceOfLife
🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥
Chapter terbaru dari Wolf Falls in Love with Moon (Chapter 26) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉
📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya.
✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya!
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Michael Elliott, Towson University
For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun – it’s sacred, a sociologist explains
Beyond entertainment, fandom provides meaning, values and essential community to some participants.The Conversation
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in reply to Ashe Dryden • • •Is this... this is this a response to Jon Bois' The Bob Emergency?
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The Bob Emergency: a study of athletes named Bob, Part I | Chart Party
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