Amanda Unvarnished

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

Greetings!

For those wondering how to create a Friendica community/group, check out this page from the official web site:

https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/groups-and-privacy

—@queenslight

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

Episode 224 of Living Blindfully is now available to Living Blindfully Plus members, and features plenty of detail on the SensePlayer from HIMS. You can gain instant access, and keep the podcast viable, by joining Living Blindfully Plus at https://LivingBlindfully.com/plus. It will go public in 72 hours. Hope you enjoy it.

—@podcast

Get in losers, we’re chasing a tennis ball

—@ancient_catbus

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

I don’t want to “maximise my productivity”, I want to step through a wardrobe and have tea and buttered potatoes with a family of talking beavers.

—@iconawrites

#MutualAidRequests #MutualAid

Hi everyone, I’m assisting our admin and other mods here with updating our blog page with the Mutual Aid requests. We will then share this blog periodically and boost it, so that people can visit and donate (or buy things for people off lists) as needed.

What I need from all of you: Who you are, what aid you need, and how people can help.

Thanks all.

This is where we’ll post the requests: https://disabledsocial.github.io/Disabled-Social-Blog/posts/mutualaid/

—@Aaidanbird

@ScottBlanks @kf4yfa https://github.com/metabolist/metatext#seeking-maintainers

“Development of this project is currently paused. Email info@metabolist.org if you or your organization are interested in taking ownership of the project.”

The app should still work okay but it probably won’t get new features any time soon.

—@objectinspace

David Attenborough: Many animals have been known to seemingly freeze when encountering bright lights at night.

Me: *opening refrigerator* Good thing that doesn’t happen to huma-

—@Aikiwomannc