Klye @khird@qoto.org
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@peterdrake you could script it using [Mastodon.py](https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py). First you'll need an instance of the Mastodon class set up with your credentials - mine is called `qoto` in the below snippet. Then loop over your followers, get each's id, and call the following internal function (since Mastodon.py doesn't know about QOTO's nonstandard subscribe feature):
```
qoto._Mastodon__api_request('POST', f'/api/v1/accounts/{id}/subscribe').
```
@msprout haha I never authored content, but lots of things that we use apps for today offered twitter feeds you could subscribe to. "An automated service that texts me whenever $TEAM scores" was a fun concept before we had smartphones.
@msprout eh I can sympathise with this. I used twitter when it was SMS-based, and it basically just worked. Mastodon is a constant battle trying to figure out why I can't see my followees' posts, whether this interesting a locked account is afk or ignored my follow request or their server just barfed on it, why 2FA is broken (server-side clock was wrong),... there's an endless list of things that don't work and take effort to fix.
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#HamiBahadori ist inhaftiert,wurde gefoltert, ihm drohen 5 Jahre Haft. Weil er #Bahai ist.
Was macht er? Er schickt eine Nachricht aus dem Gefängnis an die Öffentlichkeit. Riskiert alles. Mut und Wut von einem, der sagt, Menschen wie er haben im #Iran keine Rechte. Das stimmt.
Quelle: https://nederland.unofficialbird.com/isabelschayani/status/1645160390953672704#m
@Shayman As I understand it, they signed up to play in a conference (the GNAC) spanning Oregon, Washington, BC, and Alaska, but that one ended up dumping football a couple years back so the football teams got folded into the Texan conference. To play football in USports, all your other athletic stuff has to go through them too, so when their membership in the Texan conference expired, they had three options:
1. Join another NCAA conference as an affiliate for football only
2. Join USports or another NCAA conference for all sports
3. End the football program
I think they tried number 1 and couldn't find a conference that'd let them join on acceptable terms, and they decided (probably correctly) that it'd be a worse outcome to lose NCAA competition for soccer, basketball, etc. if they went with number 2. So they wound up losing the team for lack of a conference to play in.
@msprout at first glance I thought this was a temple construction photo - the base looks awfully like a nine-pointed star.
@msprout can you share what the final result looks like? "Subsect" doesn't return any useful results, and I'm an Inkscape guy so I can't just follow the Adobe-specific directions to see what you meant.
@stonebear randomly coming across well-wishes during the Fast is always such a nice surprise!
@peterdrake wangdaye.com.geometricweather has excellent home screen widgets for a quick overview, and I saved the NWS meteogram as a browser bookmark for more detailed info.
@nomi I think "profitable" is less the benchmark than "the most effective use of the transit dollars". Where do you put a railroad that couldn't be more cheaply served by a bus route on existing infrastructure? Setting aside a lane for buses during rush hour, like we have on 670, gets you most of the benefits of a grade-separated railway.
Apart from the expense of buying up the right-of-way and constructing the tracks, bridges, etc., trains have a few inefficiencies relative to buses:
- They can't make temporary detours. If a storm damages the line (freezing rain on the catenaries, for instance), the trains are stuck until repairs are made.
- It's extremely expensive to permanently reroute the line when needed. The greyhound station was recently relocated a couple blocks over, and COTA just adapted the bus lines to the new transit centre. They couldn't have done that with trains.
- The space can't be used for anything else. On off-peak hours, the bus lane can be designated a carpool lane, emergency vehicles can bypass traffic to reach an accident, etc. Train tracks just sit empty.
@lapingvino They operate in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina
@lapingvino Baron's
@realcaseyrollins I haven't used any but TestDisk looks to be recommended in a couple places
@realcaseyrollins maybe try getting a clean bitwise copy first using ddrescue? It's saved a couple failing hard disks for me over the years and might be able to do the same for optical media.
@Shayman solution nobody asked for: roller-coaster-style seats with over-the-shoulder restraints instead. Solves lots of problems:
- easy to find, just reach up
- everyone's in his seat while the seatbelt sign's on because the stewardess won't unlock him
- no more lawsuits over the seatbelt buckle just saying LIFT and not LEVER
@msprout It's been heavily covered in our local news media - OTOH, this is in fact the first I've seen of it on social media from outside Ohio. Probably not too surprising with the earthquake doing a better job satisfying global demand for disaster news. I'm mildly surprised to discover that people elsewhere know or care about it. @demarko
@MeroFromVero or, for something slightly less apocryphal: https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/weird-news/2013/10/10/judge-tells-ohio-man-he/23537926007/
@Shayman eh I get some people who complain the other way: "Hi X, it's Kyle -" "Yeah, I know; it shows your name on my phone." I don't think you'll please everyone, and it might have to do with when you learned phone etiquette relative to the proliferation of smartphones.
On the other hand, one calling tactic I really despise is calling me and asking, "Who is this?" If there's someone specific you want to talk to, you can ask if I'm that person or ask to speak to them. By name. If you're dialling random numbers, the next one on your list is just as random as mine; try it instead. I'm not giving you any more information about me than you already have.
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