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Obviously.
The K in KFC stands for Kangaroo.
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wauz ワウズ
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About 30 years ago, health authority officials found out, that some deer meat sold in Germany was actually from kangaroo tails. It was just fraud by misdeclaration, there was no problem using it as food. You can't distinguish by taste, neither.

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Me and @jessie's most distinguished son are having a guys' afternoon.
A hairless goblin cat sat on my shoulder.
@Jess Rose
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Jess Rose
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@andypiper Miss Baby, primly refusing to appear on camera unless her agent has signed off on it
@Andy Piper

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You might as well throw your Echo and Alexa-powered devices in the trash like you should have done years ago.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Cory (@pluralistic) with a banger of a post:

pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…

And this factoid:

"Congress hasn't passed a consumer #privacy law since 1988, when the Video Privacy Protection Act banned video store clerks from disclosing which VHS cassettes you brought home."

#Amazon #Echo #Alexa #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism


Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28

Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
#privacy #amazon #surveillance #echo #surveillancecapitalism #alexa @Cory Doctorow
in reply to Joe Ortiz

Shark Attak
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Woah there Mr.e-waste.. the right headline should be "You might as well start rev-eng/jailbreak your Echo etc."

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Oops! comicsands.com/trump-reporter-…

Reporter Hits Trump In Face With Microphone: VIDEO

Alan Herrera (Comic Sands)
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Toni Massari
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One day this man will be included in the same list as Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, Idi Amin, Chang Kaishek etc.

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I just backed this project on Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/openm…

OpenMV LLC makes some incredibly powerful, small-form-factor #IoT cameras perfect for tinkering, prototyping, and making slick projects. I taught my Computer Vision with #AI course using their cameras. I'm excited about this new series: full object detection for a few mW. #EdgeAI #ComputerVision #Arduino #MicroPython #embedded #microcontroller

#ai #iot #embedded #microcontroller #arduino #edgeai #computervision #micropython

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Arcade dude messages to say hey Dan how many minutes d'you think this Portal pinball machine will remain functional, and I gotta go find the thread where I clown on the worst pinball machine I've ever seen until the CEO emails my workplace and tries to get them to sack me mstdn.social/@ifixcoinops/1099…

Dan Moved to Retro.social (@ifixcoinops@mstdn.social)

Me, inside a modern Stern pinball: "Man, Stern suck. I wish Williams had stuck around." Me, inside any other new manufacturer: "Oh my god Stern are amazing"
Mastodon 🐘
in reply to Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

Robin
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What's the CEO emailing bit cos that's pretty Barbara Streisand or something, but I couldn't find it in that (humongous) thread. [And now a terrible spelling of humongous is in my phone dictionary because I couldn't spell it right the first time and what the icon for what looks like "look it up" is actually "add"]
in reply to Robin

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
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@eythian yeah dude read the whole thing and sent my client an angry email about it lol

I honestly went SO EASY on that machine in that thread tbh, there were so many other things I could've lol'd about on that

@Robin

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Vote with your wallet, order directly from manufacturers, or buy from local shops in your town.
#Boycott other sources.
"Find a cool product on Amazon? That company exists OFF Amazon, too. "1) Google company name. "2) Order from their site. "2a) Can usually find a 10% code! "3) Still get product in 2-8 days. "4) Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon. "5) You avoid giving money to Bezos. "From Mark @deepstate2025.bsky.social"
#boycott

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And now it's time to add the whiskers...

#wip #workinprogress #ArtistAtWork #MastoArt #art #ArtMatters #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #humanartist #creativeToots #contemporaryArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #ArtistsOnMastodon #artists #handmade #wipwednesday #cats #caturday #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #kitten #AnimalArt #cat #kitty #kittens #katze #CatsOfMastodon #fedicats

Photo of the almost finished painting 'Sleeping tabby cat' with the artist's hand holding a pastel pencil ready to paint the whiskers of the cat. Sleeping tabby cat is a pastel painting in landscape format hand-painted by the artist Karen Kaspar. A cat with white fur and brown tabby spots is sleeping peacefully. Its head lies relaxed on the floor. The background is abstracted in soft blue and earthy tones. The softly smudged pastel chalk enhances the calm atmosphere and emphasises the cat's relaxed expression.
#caturday #pets #cats #MastoArt #fediart #CreativeToots #art #fedicats #cute #catsofmastodon #cat #handmade #animals #artists #painting #fedigiftshop #catlovers #kitten #katze #animalart #traditionalart #kunst #artist #arte #humanartist #kitty #kittens #wip #contemporaryArt #artistAtWork #artistsonmastodon #workinprogress #wipwednesday #artmatters

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Utterly lawless. comicsands.com/leavitt-boasber…

Leavitt: Judge Boasberg's Deportations Order 'Has No Legal Basis'

Alan Herrera (Comic Sands)
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

MugsysRapSheet 🔩🐑🐘
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Apparently, the judge failed to say, "Mother may I?" 🤦‍♂️
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I wrote about a central factor to the fracture in the Democratic Party: age.
Gift link: wapo.st/4ibfiOq

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I loved Window Maker, I used it in the late nineties / early 2000's.
I've discovered this project this evening, I can't wait to try it, at first in a VM:
github.com/phkaeser/wlmaker

#linux #wayland


GitHub - phkaeser/wlmaker: Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker

Wayland Maker - A Wayland compositor inspired by Window Maker - phkaeser/wlmaker
GitHub
#linux #Wayland
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Justine Smithies
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Yeah I saw that and am tempted to give it a whirl as it's also available on FreeBSD. Certainly brings back memories.

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The US government is taking an ax to the trunk of the tree that is the rule of law, and this particular judge is not having one millisecond of it.

As has been the case for the past nearly 2 months, the question is now whether the words of a judge still have any power at all.

From @GottaLaff:
mstdn.social/@GottaLaff/114179…


Laffy (@GottaLaff@mstdn.social)

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Mastodon 🐘
@Laffy

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Eseniia Mikheeva

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#EseniiaMikheeva


tate mcrae backbend trend @TateMcRae 🩷 #tatemcrae #revolvingdoor #shorts #trending #youtubeshorts

@TateMcRae SUPER COOL VIRAL TIKTOK TRENDJoin the fun and enjoy some sweet moments with us!#Viral #Trending #FYP #ExplorePage #MustWatch #ForYou #ViralVideo...
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#EseniiaMikheeva

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How a firefighter's quick action saved his friend's life
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5328518/unsung-hero-firefighter-life-saved?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@All Things Considered

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John Kani risked his life to tell stories of apartheid — at 81, he's still at it
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5318738/john-kani-athol-fugard-black-panther-south-africa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

@All Things Considered

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► FunHouseRadio.com

FunHouse Radio

Novelty Records, Parodies, Weird Covers, Outsider Music, Oddities, Mashups, Comedy, Nonsense & Cringe.
FunHouse Radio

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Eseniia Mikheeva

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#EseniiaMikheeva


FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. @AtlantaFalcons & ESENIIA MIKHEEVA #viralvideo #shorts #trending #youtubeshorts

Hey friends! 🌟 You often ask how my day goes, so we decided to show you behind the scenes of my performance with the Falcons! 🏈✨ I hope you enjoy it! Looki...
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#EseniiaMikheeva

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Boxes. #CatsOfMastodon #cats
a white cat stands on a stack of boxes in front of a window with a sign saying, "Bloomington United in Diversity."
a black cat lies on a box that's on its end, next to a glass door
#cats #catsofmastodon

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Rainy day with our to be 13 year old in May rescue Tigger-Tiger, adopted from ARL Boston 10+ years ago with our Arlo. TT was petrified for the first month (he was traumatized by being in the shelter even though they were so sweet to him). He blossomed into a loving goofy orange stripey furball. He and Golly are still working on their relationship 🙀🙀#cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #catsofpixelfed #arlboston #rescuecats
orange stripy shorthaired cat looking out window on a rainy day, white paws and chest, reclining on low carpeted cat tree
close up (headshot) of orange stripey cat looking down shyly, shows white triangular marking on nose
#cats #catsofmastodon #catsoffediverse #CatsOfPixelfed #rescuecats #arlboston

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The latest Chrome update may or may not personally affect you, but the vast majority of them are “security patches that patch these little tiny holes that may or may not be exploited in the real world,” EFF’s @Thorin told @huffingtonpost. huffpost.com/entry/chrome-upda…

Next Time You Groan Doing Another Google Chrome Update, Consider This

Hackers don't want you to learn this information.
Monica Torres (HuffPost)
@HuffPost @Thorin Klosowski
in reply to Electronic Frontier Foundation

Spoon
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Spoon
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Next time you consider another Google Chrome update,

don't.

Not if you dislike

- the technology oligarchy;

- Black History Month and Pride erased from Google calendars;

- reneging on public ethical commitments when its convenient, and return to working for military contracts;

#privacy

1/2

#privacy

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Want to see some toxic AI bots on Mastodon? Try clicking here: #SpaceX

Or take a look at this instance: social.freysa.ai . ☠️

Hundreds (or thousands) of recently created accounts posting AI text and interacting with each other.

Feel free to block the entire instance by simply clicking on some of its profiles and selecting "Block domain social.freysa.ai".

(if your instance admin hasn't already done so)

🤖


Freysa.ai | Digital Twin

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!
Mastodon hosted on social.freysa.ai
#spacex

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First Dr. Oz gets himself a Trump hairdo, now Mike Johnson is bronzing like him. This is a sickness, people.
X post by Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJong ...), featuring a verification badge, posted 15 hours ago. The post reads, "Contouring with bronzer isn’t for everyone or maybe anyone." Below this, there is a quoted post by Acyn (@Acyn ), posted 1 day ago, which says, "Johnson: The adults are back in the room and we are going to turn this economy around." Accompanying the quoted post is an image of a person in a suit and tie, wearing glasses, speaking on Fox News. The background features a bookshelf filled with books. The bottom of the image includes a Fox News graphic stating, "LIFE, LIBERTY & LEVIN," with a timestamp of "7:29 CT," and a segment title "MOMENTS AGO STEVE MOORE."
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Archaide
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Archaide
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why? Should'nt they eager to be more white instead of the other way around?
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in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

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Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (Official Video)

Official Video for "Cult Of Personality" by Living ColourListen to Living Colour: https://LivingColour.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more Living Colour videos: https:...
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Back on the radio tonight from 01:00 to 03:00 (UK time). Tune in via NTS.live or check the tracklist below for link to the archive.
Playing lots of experimental music, drone, noise, improv, weirdo electronics and more.

fractalmeat.wordpress.com/2025…

#radio #experimentalMusic #NTS


Episode 223 – tracklist

Episode 223 of Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone broadcasts on NTS.live on Monday night / Tuesday morning 18th March 2025, from 01:00 to 03:00. Alternatively, catch the archive on the show page. This m…
Fractal Meat
#radio #experimentalMusic #nts
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stevenray
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I listened yesterday, Graham. That was a nice set. I don't see the tracklist posted on NTS yet but will look for it tomorrow. 👍🏻
in reply to stevenray

Graham Dunning
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Graham Dunning
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@stevenray ah thanks Steven. I think it normally takes a couple of days before they put the archived version up.
@stevenray

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How one influential Irish musician in America celebrates St. Patrick's Day
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5324845-e1/how-one-influential-irish-musician-in-america-celebrates-st-patricks-day?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr

@arts-life-npr

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Nice of the thrift store to have a shirt made specifically for me
A blue tee that just says “chat room”
On the back it says “chat rat” player number 01

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Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

theonion.com/feds-uncover-tera…

#satire #theonion #funny


Feds Uncover Terabytes Of Free Speech During Raid Of Protestor’s Residence

WASHINGTON—Following a daring operation that saw authorities seize the man’s property and detain him in an undisclosed location, FBI director Kash Patel announced Thursday that federal agents had uncovered 43 terabytes of free speech from local prote…
The Onion Staff (The Onion)
#satire #funny #TheOnion

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current status

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I am writing Rust.

The code on the left compiles.

The code on the right does not compile. It produces the error on the righter right.

Why? how is it possible that rearranging code like this could make such a substantial difference?

My assumption is in a C-shaped languages expressions are executed from inner to outer. Neither of the types of the self. functions return a reference type.

pub fn value_new(&mut self, value:Value) -> MemHandle { let cell = self.value_to_cell_internal(value); let addr = self.alloc_internal(cell); self.handle_new(addr) }
pub fn value_new(&mut self, value:Value) -> MemHandle { self.handle_new(self.alloc_internal(self.value_to_cell_internal(value))) }
error[E0499]: cannot borrow `*self` as mutable more than once at a time
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theres gccrs 🤷 rustc uses llvm which lacks support for certain architectures that gcc does support. blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/07/…

gccrs: An alternative compiler for Rust | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org

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Mighty little Pax can hold her own with Daphne, Doodle and Peck. They may be bigger, but they still keep their distance from our feisty little girl.😄

Good morning, afternoon or evening! Have a wonderful Monday.

#Pax #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat #CatsOfFediverse #Catstodon #Animals #Cute #Tabby #MastoCats #FediCats #Kitty #Katzen #Katze #Chat #Gatos #AdoptDontShop

A dilute tortoiseshell cat and two big black cats are squeezed together in a tight fit, side by side, on a window shelf. On another window shelf on the right, a small tabby with white markings is looking out the window.
#cats #fedicats #cute #catsofmastodon #cat #animals #katze #catstodon #kitty #catsoffediverse #adoptdontshop #PAX #mastocats #Tabby #katzen #gatos #chat

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Trump talking about dividing up “assets” between Ukraine and Russia is, in part, a conversation about transferring *human beings* from the rule of one state to another like chattel.

nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-p…


Trump says Putin talks will cover Russia and Ukraine 'dividing up certain assets'

President Trump said negotiators have begun discussing the division of assets between Russia and Ukraine in an effort to bring to an end the war.
Keir Simmons (NBC News)
in reply to HeavenlyPossum

HeavenlyPossum
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HeavenlyPossum
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I have yet to encounter anyone arguing for peace through concessions to the aggressor, Russia, who grapples with or even admits that those concessions entail the transfer of human beings as “assets” from one state’s rule to another without their consent, as if we’re talking about European princelings deciding the fate of Silesian peasants over glasses of claret and not actual living human beings with their own desires.

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From the thread below, this is my core thought for the day:

We need to make everyone in any kind of leadership role, any sort of position of power, small or large, more afraid of •complying• with fascists then they are of •fighting• fascists.
hachyderm.io/@inthehands/11417…

Paul Cantrell

2025-03-17 18:25:15

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Yes, strategies like this from @jhlibby:
newsie.social/@jhlibby/1141791…

You don’t even have to sue them out of existence. You just have to make the administration believe that they •could• face a devastating lawsuit.

Make them more afraid of complying with fascists than they are of fighting fascists. Make compliance existentially dangerous.


J H Libby (@jhlibby@newsie.social)

@inthehands@hachyderm.io I wonder if all Columbia's graduates could pursue a class action to protect their academic credentials ... and sue the place out of existence.
Newsie

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Paul Cantrell
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Paul Cantrell
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If that fear of compliance can’t come from moral grounding or an understanding of the consequences of fascism, then let it come from personal consequences.

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🌦️

#krita

A somber digital painting artwork of my original character Pepper, adult, under the rain, covering her head with her hooded cloak
#krita
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David Revoy
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🎥 Timelapse/making of (under)

📦 :krita: Sources: peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/art…

license: :cc: :ccby:

Artworks - Pepper&Carrot

Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.
Pepper&Carrot

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Senile Grandma Tries To Set Up Grandkids With Each Other
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Photo by The Onion on March 17, 2025. May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Senile Grandma Tries To Set Up Grandkids With Each Other the ONION'.

Senile Grandma Tries To Set Up Grandkids With Each Other

FORT WAYNE, IN—Boasting that she could already tell the two would produce beautiful babies, local senile grandma Deborah Hansen tried to set her grandkids up with each other, alarmed sources confirmed Monday.
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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Conan O'Brien will return as Oscars host in 2026
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s1-5330694/conan-obrien-oscars-host?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-npr

@arts-life-npr

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Did you know you can subscribe to PeerTube channels on ordinary podcasting apps such as AntennaPod, Apple Podcasts etc? Here's how:

1. Go to the PeerTube channel
2. Click "Subscribe"
3. Long-press or right-click "Subscribe via RSS" and select "Copy link"
4. Paste this link into your podcast app's section for following podcasts through URLs (for example on Apple Podcasts this is at Library > ⋯ > Follow show by URL)

There's lots more info at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-subscribe-to-…

#FediTips #PeerTube


How to subscribe to PeerTube channels through podcast apps | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips
#peertube #FediTips
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Zalasur 🇺🇦
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Zalasur 🇺🇦
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*I* didn't even know that, and I've been on PeerTube for a year and a half!
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PAIGE! 🍁
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PAIGE! 🍁
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I think there are some podcasting updates coming to 7.1 which provide compatibility with the Apple Podcast index. It has a few proprietary tags which used to require a plugin.

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This is the #IKEA that #russian #intelligence burned in #Lithuania last year.

And #Europe still has no idea they're at #war.

#europe #intelligence #russian #war #lithuania #ikea
in reply to Jay

Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar
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No it's not. That photo is the shopping center in Poland that Russian saboteurs set on fire. It literally has the name (Marywilska 44) on there.

This is the Ikea in Vilnius: ikea.lt/lt/kontaktaivilnius

The fire in the warehouse stacks there was luckily quickly brought under control.


Parduotuvė IKEA Vilniuje

www.ikea.lt

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Whether you need help cleaning your floors, tidying up messy cords, or getting gunk out of your keyboard, here's 12 products we recommend to help you with spring cleaning: pcmag.com/picks/12-top-picks-t…

12 Top Picks to Ace Your Spring Cleaning

No matter what type of spring cleaning project you're gearing up for, these top-rated products will help you tackle it.
PCMag

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@dustinzick.com Just launched a new web site!

➡️ dogeshit.org/


Nobody Elected Elon Musk

DOGE isn’t streamlining government—it’s gutting expertise, torching public services, and turning bureaucracy into a billionaire’s plaything.
Nobody Elected Elon Musk
@dustinzick.com

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Why Are Young Germans Moving to the Extremes? : State of the World from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/1239050339/why-are-young-germans-moving-to-the-extremes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-npr

@Politics

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The latest in my trip down the #homeassistant and #esphome rabbithole - I wired up an oled display to an old atom echo to show me energy and climate stats.

Took a while to get the display working, and I still cant figure out how to accept the text as a multiline block instead of 8 individual fields, but hey it works!

A digital display on a desk, showing home temperature and energy stats.
#homeassistant #esphome
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