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Léonie Watson ●

Give me four minutes and I will change how you see social media. Forever."

Italian film-maker @_elena introduces the fediverse: a new era for social media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

The more we like and share this video, the more it'll irritate the hell out of Musk, Zuckerberg and co.

You know what to do!

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In 1997, Mary Schmich published a guide to life in the Chicago Tribune. In 1999, Baz Lurhmann turned it into a chillout anthem called Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen).

It was, and remains, some of the best advice for life I've ever heard...
https://tink.uk/advice-for-life/

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We've been turning out and I came across an old newspaper I own, dated 23 November 1963 - the day the UK headlines reported that JFK had been assassinated.

I came across it originally about 30 years ago underneath a pub carpet where it'd been used as underlay, presumably sometime in late 1963.

#love #history

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Also came across a leatherbound journal dated 1895, apparently written by one James Smith and dedicated to someone called Mabel.

It's full of quotes, poems, and excerpts from hymns including one by Charles Wesley.

I have no idea where it came from or who the owner might be. The handwriting is barely legible in places, though there is what I think is a piece of pink blotting paper still tucked in the back.

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Making sticky pork belly slices; cooked in ginger ale, then clarted in a reduction made with maple syrup, lime juice, ketchup, ginger, chilli and garlic.

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PerlBod just hacked back the enormous Rosemary bush in our garden and I now have a huge bunch of it sitting on my desk and making my office smell fabulous!

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Listening to Ben Loewenstein, Waymo's Head of UK and EU regulation and policy, talk about autonomous car accessibility for blind and low vision people.

Have to acknowledge that Waymo has clearly given it a lot of thought.

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It seems that Windows 11 doesn't load the modifier key tables, so even though the shortcuts are exposed in the UI, they don't work. 😩

On the upside, a slightly quicker way to open a folder in Terminal is to type "wt" into the folder address bar, which is a bit less faffing about than going via the context menu at any rate.

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Dear Fediverse, does anyone know why keyboard shortcuts that use Alt as the modifier in the Windows 11 right click/context menu might not be working?

For example Alt t is supposed to open Terminal on the current folder, and Alt o is supposed to open More options on the context menu, but neither seems to work.

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You might not know that migratory birds like Swifts and Starlings are in trouble in the UK because modern houses have nowhere for them to nest.

The solution is to include a single £35 "swift brick" in every new build (a hollow brick that creates a nesting spot).

The Labour Gov is blocking the proposal to mandate this, and I've just signed this petition to encourage them not to:
https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/swifts-petition

Note: the donation at the end is optional.

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Good grief. made a pot of tea that's sticking to even my ribs (and my ribs are quite accustomed to tea you could stand a spoon up in).