*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

A New and interesting Mastodon Guide project is being developed. I saw a post from one of the authors yesterday on birdsite, he was looking for translations for French and Spanish.

Gave it a read later, it's probably a Mid Level guide - I learned things I did not know until now, for example.

But I think a bit too detailed for a totally new user. Maybe moving the extensive section on Instances down further into the guide, or as subsection, could help.

https://rame.altervista.org/mastostart/

Including here some screenshots of something that until now baffled me -- the bizarre way threads break out into tangents if people do not keep the same @ attributions and people in their post.

Coming from the Forums world, that is weird for me, and a Bug, not a Feature as far as I am concerned. 😜

Luxor and Cleopatra are beautiful. Better than a Black cat? Only two of same. #cats #mastocats #meow #moa #familiar
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RT @CatDisapproval
Of course it's Black Friday! All Fridays are #BlackFriday to me!
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1200406059292209152

Busy morning. 4 hours session, VPN says 1 GB of downloaded data.

Web only, no streaming videos or binaries. Yikes.

Don't know how they do it, get away with it, but...

Found a website listing many, many books, including the one with the cover below, by Charles Bukowski.

https://bookfrom.net/charles-bukowski/

You CAN read the whole book online it seems, and they have many other authors. From trashy breathless romance novels to works we can be grateful to get access to. Android app for mobile if needed.

Rather cool. Librarian in me wants to spread the word. Hush, hush. DMCA is a thing.

They do have many of Cory Doctorow's books too, excellent sci-fi writer. https://bookfrom.net/cory-doctorow/

#books #freebooks #fiction #scifi

Very gorgeous Grey. #cats #mastocats #meow #xp #moa
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RT @gayocats
TaorminaCat_078
https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1202575860928090112

Datatypes by programmers who love Anime too.

from fluffy-chan, https://nya.social/notes/816eca951709ee17ee2ae44c

@_lunawinters More info on my gang.
I read this article first, before taking the test, and felt very attracted to her type. Cool gal. Love the glasses too ❤️

https://introvertdear.com/news/female-intj-personality-confessions/

https://introvertdear.com/news/intj-personality-signs/

@_lunawinters Redid this test, took my time to try to get best possible answers. And the result is in.

INTJ, and it seems right. 😉 😄

from https://personalityhacker.com/

Video even. https://youtu.be/gzDAaK1WeB4

When you know the driver ahead is really. into. Gaming.

little panthers are awesome. #cats #mastocats #meow #xp #moa
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RT @CatDisapproval
You've showered? Where do you think you're going? #WhiskersWednesday
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1202213656454406144

"Is Google Making Us Stupid?

What the Internet is doing to our brains"

An important read. Take your time, turn off distractions - and work thru it. Worth it! RG

"I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose. That’s rarely the case anymore. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin looking for something else to do. I feel as if I’m always dragging my wayward brain back to the text. The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/

** Help keep the World's Encyclopedia alive and well. **

For many millions of people, it is their major source of reference, curated information. Any small donation helps.

I do use Wikipedia daily, and value its services; just renewed my yearly donation to help keep it running.

Donations accepted here: https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

Mom joins Mastodon...

Installed the Beta version. It installs on a new folder, does NOT overwrite MS Edge current version (which is a nice browser, imo).

Shows on desktop and Taskbar as "Microsoft Edge Beta"

** The New Microsoft Edge (Chromium based browser) is now in Public Beta - with a full release coming in January 2020 possibly.

* Available in 3 streams - Beta (Stable), Developer and Alpha/Canary, with more frequent changes (similar to Firefox Beta channels)

"The release candidate of the new Microsoft Edge for Windows and macOS can be downloaded right now with general availability targeting Jan. 15 in more than 90 languages. Microsoft Edge runs on the same Chromium web engine as Google’s Chrome browser, offering you best in class web compatibility and performance."

* Get it here: https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download

* Or, watch a features short video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1201637301199233025

#xp #moa #uspol
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RT @BernieSanders
This is what happened when people in the U.K. were asked how much health care costs in the U.S.

Remember that our outrageous for-profit system is not the norm in other countries.

We can and we must do better.

We need Medicare for All now.

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1201968538895958018

This seems like a wonderful tool, we could really benefit from it.

"Translate Your Status

To translate your status, include this anywhere in the status content:

@translator@toot.works LANGUAGE

Where LANGUAGE is the 2-letter language code for the language you wish to translate the status to (see the table below for a list of language codes)."

From https://christopher.su/projects/translator/

Had to check... 636 Tweets. Joined November 2011.

1,800+ posts, in a little less than a Month.

Feeling welcome here makes a big difference. Compare to birdsite, less than half that in years of use.

Thanks, #fediverse !

NOT Working. 😞

Visited domain site, and it's offline.