1. Do Not Go To War With The Demons Of Mazandaran by Lowen.
2. Erosion / Avulsion by Hidden Mothers
3. Bloom & Decay by Dawn Treader
4. Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation
5. Hellfenlic by The Infernal Sea

A mug on a plate is not interchangeable, conceptually, with a teacup and saucer. Even ones decorated in a rather fetching Wedgewood-esque style.

If you stick to the apps that are indicated as being well supported it’s good. The main reason I use it is because I’m part of a team that includes people not comfortable with the command line so having a web interface to manage a server means not everything falls on my shoulders.

Speaking as one, the majority are decent people but there is a minority who are openly fash and a sadly growing amount who tolerate fash bands cos the riffs are good.

If its open source and privacy respecting then I’ll use the app. If its not and I have to use the service then website

Great to see another brand new browser under active development!

The only way the US could return to a viable closed economy is if the world jumped into a time machine and went back to the 80s.

Over here in the UK, whilst Brexit is an absolute clusterfuck and was always going to be, it was never the plan of even the most Faragian of people to enact a closed economy.

I don’t think any Westernised economy could successfully run a completely enclosed economy anymore.

UK experience:

• Open all your windows to air out for at least 20mins every day. If the place is prone to damp, twice a day. This includes days its sub-zero outside
• Cheap rugs in strategic high traffic places protect shit carpets
• If the landlord supplied it, the landlord fixes it
• Get a windup torch for when the power goes out (it will)
• Massive electric blankets to wrap up in rather than having the heating on 24/7
• Charity shops for cutlery, glasses, mugs, plates. cooking utensils etc. Just make sure to clean them well before using.
• Heavy thermal curtains in front of external facing doors and between rooms (if open plan).
• Make sure you know exactly where elec/gas/water meters are, make a note of their reg. no. and take regular readings.
• Get storage solutions that stack high rather than wide.

Glad that red circle is there otherwise I would never have noticed that in this story about a book he was photographed holding a book.

I fully support the autonomous right of all people to make informed decisions about their own lives and on paper the idea is a no-brainer.

But unless the legislation surrounding it is very, very tight it could easily be misused or abused. We already live in societies where people with disabilities - particularly learning based disabilities - are seen as having less value. I have overheard conversations where people pass comment on people with disabilities such as “Can’t be much of a life”, “would’ve been better for them if they’d died at birth” etc etc.

Amongst the first group of people the Nazi’s targeted were people with disabilities that they referred to as ‘useless eaters’ and subhuman.

I’m not suggesting that laws allowing self-euthanasia are akin to fascism so don’t Godwin me. All I’m saying is that without very strong legislation and a lot of checks, laws like this can be used to justify a lot of things.

What I’d really like is LibreWolf level privacy protection whilst the browser is running but that allows me to retain cache, history etc but also encrypts everything locally when the browser is closed and is password protected and only decrypts everything when the password is entered.

Much like my fellow English folk in this thread, I wasn’t sure what they even were. The only times I’ve ever had them is on an egg mcmuffin at the local Mickey D’s.

This feels like a filler post. What can we usefully learn about a browser that’s over a year away from an alpha release?

We will get whatever companies and algorithms push at us, just like social media. The idea that media is tailored to us is a bit of a myth in my opinion when that tailoring can be overridden at the whim of an advertiser paying more than the competition.

I’m also not sure that tailoring things is really good for personal growth. Of course we all have tastes and prefer certain genres in terms of things like games, books, movies, music etc but having just tailored content seems like a bit of a dead end street where its more and more difficult to find experiences you’ve never even considered, let alone tried.

Freedom of speech but no freedom of thought.

a list of the people I subscribe to, to quickly view their content

One of the left side (on a desktop browser) menu headings is ‘Lists’. Click that, create a new one called whatever you like. You can then add people to that list.

Not quite the same thing but close - and more discerning maybe. There’s also a ‘following’ header which is literally exactly what you’re after.

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Possibly too esoteric a reference but if you know, you know etc.

The people leaving Twitter right now want Twitter minus Elon. That’s Bluesky. They’ve heard a couple of their Twitter follows mention it and they’ve gone to their app store where they find an app called Bluesky, install it and easily join and start using it. Once they do they are finding it pretty straightforward to find people they used to follow on Twitter.

That’s all people want.

Yeah, we broke away from TST in around 2018. Too centralised, too controlling, with concerning owners. We also have a couple of US Orders these days (Steel City in Pittsburgh and House of Heretics in Seattle).

And it’ll stay that way until people use, and keep using, this space. So, to use an overused phrase, be the change you want to see :)