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

**UK's 'historic' general election: Five things to know**

"British PM Johnson's sweeping win sets UK on course to depart the EU by the end of January."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/12/uk-historic-general-election-191213101658641.html

And on the Bad News department...

"**Johnson wins 'huge' mandate for swift Brexit in UK election**

"Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a resounding election victory on Friday that will allow him to end three years of political paralysis and take Britain out of the European Union within weeks. "

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-election/johnson-wins-huge-mandate-for-swift-brexit-in-uk-election-idUSKBN1YG2O5?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews

Write.freely is the software and host for my new blog. I am enjoying the experience - had meant for a long time to put down in writing ideas, stories and images from projects, travel, etc.

A "Writer's Guide at the developer's page"is helpful.

While the plain interface of write.freely has no distractions (just a screen to type on. Dark mode is available, very few buttons), to make text look nicer on screen you will eventually want Bold, Italics, bullets, etc.

The Guide helps learn those.

https://writefreely.org/docs/latest/writer/writing.md

* Editor's Note : This blog post is being prepared to celebrate the research work of our fellow QOTO.org user Chikara, @chikara , who has been sharing the fruits of his curiosity and study of the evolution of Technology, Arts and Science in Japan.

I had meant to suggest to him that his posts would look wonderful in a Blog format, and be preserved, made easier to find for anyone interested in following them.

Upon seeing his post of the Prussian Blue history, and the beautiful gravure of the Great Wave, I knew the moment was now.

Thank you, Chikara, for sharing with us all of your findings.

チカラ、私たちとあなたの調査結果のすべてを共有していただきありがとうございます。

A reminder, we still have a few days left for anyone wishing to nominate a Qoto.org user for a Moderator position now open.

Having been nominated to the post, I wrote my views of what this important job includes.

See it on my new blog post: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/qoto-moderator-nomination-process-notes

Interesting!

https://www.gadgetmatch.com/the-pirate-bay-streaming-service-baystream/

Retoot from https://todon.nl/@Bells/103296868104871811

"My personal warning to you if ever you choose to use pirate Bay for whatever thing... Please for the love of Pete to use a VPN. Personally I prefer boxpn.com because they have really good customer support... And they're not expensive... And they are backed by hackers... But whatever service you use please if you're going to stream from pirate Bay please please please use a VPN to a country such as Switzerland where it is not illegal.
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(2 of 2) These are my own original posts, opening the thread, as well as my replies in the discussion that followed.

The original thread contains all of the messages. Here: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103295870956494137

Thank you to @freemo for his dialogue on this thread.

I have just prepare a post at Qoto.org's Discourse Forum, grouping a series of Toots I posted here earlier today..

This is probably easier to read on screen. https://discourse.qoto.org/t/a-gentle-note-to-our-fellow-qoto-users-personal-reflections-by-design-rg/141

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Things we see in the Feeds.

Steve Wozniak's original Apple I computer. LARGER images in the post linked.

https://www.design-is-fine.org/post/131971266669/steve-wozniak-apple-i-personal-computer-1976

@design_RG@twitter.activitypub.actor Clarification, post above done at birdsite due to annoying spam and chatter from a group of people attending a uni conference and invading the #Slowly tag, which is used simultaneously by different groups.

Sent a message to them, hopefully. #sarcasm #noise #slowly is for #writers

Power to the people #fediverse #newusers #CutTheClutter #xp
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RT @design_RG@twitter.activitypub.actor
#slowly is getting a lot of eager participation, maybe people not realizing the hash tag is used by various groups, interests.

Thankfully the MUTE button will quiet the chatter.

Yey, better now. #spamoff

No feelings were harmed on the production of this tweet.
https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1205222410208854016

Cool Badges we get for participating in our #Discourse Forums right here at QOTO.org...

https://discourse.qoto.org/

Folks, good morning, hope you all are well. A personal request of mine.

Please consider trying to reduce the amount of General posting, as we have so many short messages with momentary thoughts that more serious posts are getting buried.

A couple of things to suggest, which I think could help:

1. If you post a topic, and follow up with a reply to it soon, talking to yourself with an update, etc.

You can greatly help reduce clutter in the Local timeline (and all the federated ones) if you set the privacy level of the Second and further messages as 'Unlisted'.

They WILL go out, and anyone interested in the first post will see the following replies. These replies will NOT appear in the Local, Home (for your Followers) or Federated feeds.

Keeping it simple - - First post, you can use the Globe icon, Public setting.

Replies to follow - - Use Unlisted, the one with the Open Padlock icon. See illustration below.

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