Because there really isn't.
And remember... Ding dong the wicked bitch is dead!
God bless you all and remember not to take what you have or the people that love you for granted.
No alt image description necessary, just listen to the wisdom that Dorothy shared with us all, and set aside some time this coming week to give thanks for all the things you and yours have been blessed with.
#tallship #Thanksgiving #no_place_like_home
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This back alley mural is an homage to Eleanora Fagan, one of my great musical influences, and one of the most celebrated jazz singers of all time.
At the bottom of the frame you'll notice the two rails, the wooden cross ties long since buried beneath the asphalt of the alley. I stood wondering for a very long time why there was literally no clearance for passing trains.
#tallship
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This is there beautiful Naya, during in repose with her legs crossed in front of her like a proper lady.
This is shortly before she started really slowing down and becoming arthritic and lethargic. And then she just stopped eating and began to wither away.
She would still take food from me to be polite, but just drop it into the ground.
As wolves do, one day she decided to wander off alone into the woods to die on her own without fanfare.
Uh, Oh! We've Ratcheted up to a threat now on Adblock and UblockOrigin...
Soft landings usually mean it doesn't hurt very much at first, then perhaps the event becomes more frequent and escalates to something that looks like the attached screenie...
When this happens, you may wish to avail yourself of some of the alternatives below.
Once you get here you're faced with trying options or even becoming disenfranchised. Switching to another browser is a prudent test, some have suggested pasting links into Incognito Mode tabs or logging out, while others have claimed that stock Brave Browser seems to humming along for them; and third party utils from among the list that follows:
#### Web based:
#### Android (both are available at F-Droid):
#### Desktop:
- FreeTube ( Linux | UNIX | Windows):
#### Browser extension (a native, local, cross-platform solution):
- AdNauseam
This last option is a simple browser extension that is apparently quite popular with folks, levying its own ethical pressure upon those who would force-feed you with data mined ad generation. The README file has some great information on the methodology incorporated.
On #Android, I haven't been presented with any of these foreboding pop ups warning me about blockers. I typically use #Brave or #Vivaldi Browser, they're stock, but I use the YouTube app more than I do any one of my browsers on my phones.
I also run the #DuckDuckGo "App Tracking Protection service". This is NOT #FOSS, so your choices are either installing from the #Aurora or Google Playstore, yet there's no requirement to use the #DDG browser to enable this protection - it's not for your browsers though (even DDG), it is designed to work with pretty much everything on your Android EXCEPT browsers; i.e., almost all of your installed apps, seamlessly, and since most folks stream YouTube videos through the Google YouTube Android app, I surmise that it targets and obliterates ads in the app (I haven't confirmed the veracity of that, it's merely supposition, but it blocks zillions of attempts by installed apps to phone home).
I'm Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, personal observations, and concerns; other toolsets or applications that meet your needs, and why you may have chosen those particular types of tools.
I hope that helps!
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Let's talk about **Buttered Sausage**!
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=C_sCtDm26Ls&si=QAzowvK01aAoOZFQ&local=true
#tallship #This_is_your_brain_with_no_motorcycle_helmut
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My wood fired #Stanley_cooker stove and oven.
Everything is better when it's cooked in an #Iron_skillet.
I baked a few cakes in that oven, which is a real challenge - adjusting the type and amount of wood in the firebox as well as the redirect of the heat to the oven box.
It takes constant attention. The first cake, I had to cut out the center, which wasn't done, like a bundt cake.
#tallship #off_grid #foodpr0n #Humboldt
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There's a new kid on the block - and there's no punches being pulled here either - I would love if some of the folks could weigh in here with their thoughts about the developer's observations...
https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/azorius-01
Maybe some of our friends such as @mauve , @silverpill , @smallcircles , or
@helge could offer some observations?
I wonder, considering the rapid explosion of development in our #Fediverse, how much was born of frustration or disdain?
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My solution, even though almost all services I've deployed in the past decade or so are actually #GDPR or #CCPA compliant, has just been to include a prohibition in my ToS/AUP for residents of the #EU and sometimes #California too, respectively.
I believe in #cancel_ulture. I am glad that there are US states and even entire countries that wish to exclude themselves from participating in the Internet with the rest of us - go paint yourselves into a small corner of your little fricken' bedrooms until you can't even get out into the kitchen to make yourselves a #ham_sannich.
#tallship #overreach
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RT: https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000519/entities/urn:activity:1555677128723271689
The Missus and I are going to #PuertoRico. She has #fibromyalgia (severe, chronic pain and fatigue) and is often fairly limited, physically. I wonder if folks familiar with PR across the fediverse can recommend activities for us (other than the obvious beach time) that will give her fun experiences without over-stressing her body. We will have a vehicle.
I know this is a niche question, so I appreciate your boosts to reach folks who can help!
I made the mistake of originally publishing this photo at http://www.viewbug.com/photo/5280904 back in December, 2013 - don't do that! Viewbug kinda really sucks and you can't even download your own photos. Here's the specs I have on this:
From, "The Piggy Opera", Concordia Elementary School, San Clemente, California.
The tell tale signs of a child who still sucks her thumb is apparent in this portrait of a girl with a starring role in a school play.
KODAK DC4800 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Aperture f/4.5 Shutter 1/250
* We didn't really have a #Fediverse back then, although we did have a few platforms that still exist and are the major parts of the Fediverse today, such as #Friendica (had a couple of name changes since then), StatusNet/PumpIO, etc., but none of that is really important.
* This is the first photo of a series - I'm prolly going to try out "collections" and make this part of one. I still have a bad taste left in my mouth from the #gplus days when they launched collections, but I digress.
* The Piggy Opera was her first grade school play, and from an age of innocence that eventually evolves into some awareness on the childs part that I think most parents loathe - we always wish for them to remain the "Itty Bitty Baby" that we carried everywhere on one arm; and this was in the last months of when she was still light enough for me to carry her everywhere.
#tallship #ginger #piggy #The_Jennifer #Piggy_Opera #Children #closeup #closeups #faces
Oak, Doug fir, and Madron, bucked and split and stacked up on my porch like a solid wooden brick, 7½' high x12' wide x 6' deep.
That's a lot of fucking fire #wood!
Everything I cooked and all of my heat came from that wood stack.
#tallship #off_grid #rural_life #Humboldt
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I've seen this on four social networks in the #Fediverse now in just over a week - #ActivityPub, #ZOT, #nostr, and #Movim/XMPP. These memes are going around, but what about those privacy disrespecting, deprecated legacy silos like #Faceplant, #Twitter, and #InstaSPAM or #Reddit - Why is it that we're preaching to the choir instead of to the sinners of the #SunnyVale_Syndrome?
Go forth, save those poor souls over on the silos, Tell them that they're pork bellies. Muahahaha!
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Fresh release from the streams repository. Available now.
Includes some enhancements to our defenses against Meta/Threads after reviewing their updated ToS.
Also includes access to protected content via OpenWebAuth over Opensearch.
And some other stuff.
You will want this update regardless of your stance regarding Meta.
If you are uncomfortable with Meta and their business practises, visit 'admin/security' and add 'threads.net' to 'Block communications from these sites' -- and also set 'Require signed fetch requests'.
So I would have been about 11 years old. By comparison, my daughter had a supercomputer about the exact same size when she was 11.
I posted earlier on this here: https://friends.grishka.me/posts/452946 , but for some reason I'm unable to boost it here.
#tallship #Sears #calculator
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I read that they evacuated everyone way out in #Salton_Sea yesterday, not that anyone can stand living there anymore, but does that mean it got filled up with water again?
I drove past it over twenty five years ago on my way to #Yuma and it stank like shit back then, lolz.
I so enjoy pondering the magnificence of the #Twilight skies when the #Moon is a #waxing_crescent.
#tallship
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When you're an incompetent buffoon, having surrounded yourself with expendable, incompetent buffoons, and you engage in buffoonery...
This is what it looks like, lolz. 🤘💀🤘
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-20/russia-luna-25-spacecraft-crashes-onto-moon/102753294
What a bunch of fucking morons!
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Most people don’t know about the small deer in Cozumel. He got out of the road before cars came by. 👍
#photography #fotografia #fotografie #deer #Nature #naturephotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Cozumel
#LauraCochranPhotography
I dunno if these are poodles crossed with labrador retrievers, some white, some chocolate labs, or Airedales.
The sight of 8 big dogs of this size just jumping into a tiny hatchback sedan (one in the front passenger seat) from a single command by their owner leaving the wholesale commercial grocery outlet in Arcata California.
Their level of obedience, organized discipline, from roaming the parking lot to this astounding shot - Priceless!
12 August, 2021
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