First bike ride in about 2 months this morning.... This is going to suck.
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@NicLovesMetal you clearly don't have an 8 & 10 year old who both had friends sleeping over last night! 😩
@lsp Well.... as a self employed person I was wondering about waiting until the next tax year and then I thought... well my office could do with some pictures.... business expense and less corporation tax. So in reality you're doing me a favour Jack! 😎
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BREAKING: Ye has announced his 2024 presidential bid, running against Donald Trump and Ron Desantis.
The republican party is worried that this will split the antisemitic vote.
And then there's no telling who the other 20% of the party will support.
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Thanks to a push by hiring managers at Determined, all Determined job listings, everywhere, now include a transparent salary range. We are currently hiring across engineering, docs, advocacy, and product.
Search http://careers.hpe.com for Determined: https://careers.hpe.com/us/en/search-results?keywords=determined
@Cmastication @russellpierce yeah so there's a few bits at play and I wonder how we can make it better.
Qoto has been making waves for good or bad and the policy about not blocking is quite clear, but certain servers have been silenced so you wont see people unless you want to seek them out: https://qoto.org/about/more#unavailable-content
Also the ability to block folks from the fediblock at a personal level is made apparant to you but its not as easy as it could be:
https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109303687938265107
I wonder if as part of the usability of the plaform or improvements we could possibly bring as a community is making that application of fediblock and any updates easier for folks that want to leverage it.
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@magicaltrout agreed. de-fed should be a “nuclear option” not a “house cleaning option”
@Cmastication Yeah, there's been similar rumblings over here on qoto ironically due to the refusal to block servers by the admins the others then block us I believe is how it is currently going.
Personally, in the main I'd rather know whats going on and block myself rather than have large chunks of the network go dark because of a choice by an admin, or an admin on the other end.
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if Henry Kissinger outlives Twitter i'll lose my shit
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From lifeboat postcards to prints, all purchases really help to keep The Lifeboat Station Project afloat.
My creations are already heavily discounted at the hands of high inflation, so my prices will be staying the same this weekend and with the same great value as always!
@lsp Having grown up in and around Walton, Whitby and Robin Hoods Bay and now sailing out of Harwich I have a large amount of prints I need to purchase at some point!
@bibliolater to me you have a white square
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Yet again: talking about how I wish the OFFICIAL Mastodon app was better does not mean I am asking for recommendations for third-party apps.
I am well aware of @mastodos, @Tusky, @fedilab, etc.
The fact remains that for people on mobile platforms, searching "Mastodon" in their app store will bring them to the official app. I care about THEIR experiences, and am going to be vocal about improving it whenever I can.
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Hi followers - thanks!
After a few days of playing on qoto.org I've decided to move to c.im where I'm @markxs so please follow me from there.
For some reason the qoto server won't let me complete the "move account" even though I set up my alias for this account over at markxs@c.im. Fair or not (I don't know the facts and don't want to know the drama) many Mastodon instances are defederating qoto.org or even outright blocking it. So it might be that for why qoto can't see its alias over there
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@IanThistlethwaite what about the "I shut down Facebook to save my mental health years ago" option? 😄
