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PLEASE BOOST HALIFAX, N.S., LOCAL

“My daughter was at Williams Lake today. When she and her partner returned from a walk, they found the car burgled. She is heartbroken because the thieves took a journal she had been writing over he past year of my wife’s cancer and death. Please, if you have or know who has this

PLEASE return it no questions asked to any Halifax firehall. Be kind….”~

Dr. Will Brooks, MSM, Lorne Street Fire Co. @ChiefWB3

#HALIFAX #Journal #Boost #NovaScotia

—@Rasta

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It’s been a while since I’ve written something for my blog, and just posted about my journey into #TactileGraphics and #TactileArt after having gone #Blind almost a decade ago. I never thought I’d draw again, and here I am helping to teach other blind and low-vision folks how to create drawings both physically and digitally! https://marconius.com/blog/index.php/2023/04/16/on-drawing/

—@Marconius

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You don’t need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.

Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links. This is really bad for privacy. If you use link shorteners on Mastodon, people may assume you are just doing it for tracking purposes.

More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon

—@feditips

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I don’t care for the company, but give Substack credit for clever marketing. It’s somehow persuaded a lot of people that newsletters should be called “Substacks” — when they’re just one of many newsletter offerings, albeit a popular one.

No one calls anyone else’s blog a “WordPress” — even though the vast majority of blogs are written on that platform.

It’s understandable that people who publish on Substack do this.

But if you aren’t and do it anyway, you’re doing free PR for the company.

—@dangillmor

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Fellow North Carolinians, if you want to follow a bot that reproduces info in text from the National Weather Service’s Raleigh office (#ncwx info), follow @iembot_rah. If you are in southeastern NC, substitute “ilm” for “rah” to get the Wilmington office. In Charlotte and elsewhere in western NC, follow the Greensboro-Spartanburg, SC, office at @iembot_gsp. You’re welcome, and thanks to the unpaid but dedicated #weather geeks who set up these bots.

—@panamared27401

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My Fediverse Decision Crossroads: On Friendica
I’ve had a Friendica account on the fediverse almost since day one, even if I didn’t actively use it initially. In 2018 I started heavily using Diaspora and Mastodon instead of it since I preferred their simpler UIs. It wasn’t until early 2019 that I revisited Friendica since it tied together all of the Fediverse into one experience. It has been my primary portal into all of those networks ever since. Despite a lot of effort by a lot of people it hasn’t been all roses though. As I want to adopt a social media system that I could recommend to my dad the warts of the system still weigh on me. As I host my own I see some big ones there too. What I need to decide is if I want to do the leap to help trying to fix them, if they are fixable, or do the leap off of the platform into something else.
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Once a month, I buy fresh raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries in bulk, put them on cookie sheets, freeze them and put them in the freezer in the garage, and then bag the frozen fruit for the kitchen freezer. (I eat it for breakfast.)

I store the frozen fruit in quart-sized freezer bags.

When I’m bagging the fruit, two of the dogs hang out in case I drop some. (I rarely do LOL.)

Here’s last night’s view.

—@CharJTF