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Trying out the Set Date feature in MarsEdit to schedule the publishing of posts. If this works correctly, it should show up at 18:15 (I’m sending it at 18:10).
I did what @sod told us not to do, so you don’t have to. Now you know, you don’t have to and should not click here.
We will always love you, Freddie.
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Farrokh Bulsara (5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991).
I just updated my blog’s header with Font Awesome icons following this tutorial by @manton and I love it.
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Shortcut to open Lillihub
I made a very simple Shortcut to open Lillihub in Safari on my iPhone. It looks for a previously existing tab that may have Lillihub open and, if that’s the case, goes to that tab. If there’s none, it opens Lillihub. Once again, thanks so much to Loura for building such a nice service. #tech
You can install and try it here;
I can actually post from Lillihub, just as easily as micro.blog.
It shows my categories and crossposting choices. This is great.
Regarding crossposting, I noticed that it only shows the first of the feeds I have in my Account settings, and in my case is not my main feed. So I changed the order of my feeds so that the main one is the first in the list, and now Lillihub shows the correct crossposting choices for me.
Thank you so much, @loura
Want to try out a new Micro.blog web client? You’re in luck! I’d like to introduce Lillihub 🐸. It’s a delightful web app to view your timeline, make posts and keep up with conversations. You can even manage your books and bookmarks. Enjoy! 😁
I was going to say I'm burning the midnight oil but it's 4:21 already and I'm not halfway through my task yet, so I guess I'm going to be welcoming the morning lights, or whatever idiom you prefer for an all-nighter.
I had not listened to Puddles Pity Party for a while. I find him fascinating. And this performance with the PostmodernJukebox and the wonderful voice and presence of Haley Reinhart, it’s just from out of this world.
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> The settlers look like soldiers. They come at night, but sometimes during the day, wearing army uniforms. They execute operations against Palestinians, beating us, taking our phones and smashing them to prevent us from documenting their terror. The settlers steal things from our homes and take our money. And in the end, their message is always the same: “You have 24 hours to flee, or we will shoot you.”
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> Over the last three years, settler violence steadily increased day after day. Those of us who live in villages near the settlements know these settlers, especially the violent ones who assault and try to expel us. Four days ago, they came to my village at night. They forcibly entered my neighbor’s home and detained all the men and held them at gunpoint. Then they took them outside the house, and with an M16 gun pointed to the head of the house owner, they told him he had two options, and there wasn’t a third: “Leave or die.”
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> Things have never been scarier for us. We tried to call the Israeli police to tell them what their citizens are doing to us. They told us we are in a state of war, and that they are powerless to do anything. But even last year, my home was raided in the night by the IDF. They blindfolded and arrested me, terrifying my family, only to release me later without charge but with a stern warning: Stop “causing all the trouble in the area.” Since the beginning of the war to the south, settler violence has increased, but for us, it did not begin on Oct. 7.
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> None of us are able to so much as disagree with the settlers, let alone fight back, because killing a Palestinian today is very, very easy. If anyone so much as objects to the settlers, they will shoot them immediately. The settlers tell us there is no law because we are at war, and that our land is now forbidden to us, and that it now belongs to Israel. And if we stay, we will die.
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> There is no solution for us. In light of war and what is going on, the future is very, very bleak for us Palestinians. I don’t see a future. But even so, we are living on the hope that the conscience of the free world will change this situation, and give us a small ray of hope for the future.
This has to stop. Israel has every right to defend itself, but has no right whatsoever to illegally occupy and colonize, nor to terrorize and kill people in order to rob them off the land where they live. Shallom 🇮🇱 Salaam 🇵🇸
I have been seeing this post multiple times on my timeline. Whenever the picture catches my attention, I mistakenly associate it with Nosferatu. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/111383107840365597
I don’t know, man. I have experienced some glitch every now and then, but the truth is I have amped up my Shortcut use in the last months and I’m constantly finding new ways to take advantage of this system. I have 235 shortcuts right now and I can fairly say I use 30-40 of them regularly. https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/111377915253844878
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is coming up next year. And the teaser shows Ernie Hudson, Dan Aykroyd and, wait for it, Bill Murray. I can’t wait.
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This guy’s Spanish accent is delightful. Unapologetic (not thad he needed to apologize) and inspirational for self-aware people like me. And the clock that he builds is astonishing. Give it a watch (not pun intended).
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> Since my goal is to add entries to the index right after writing them in the notebook, I have Shortcuts get and format the date for me in the first two steps. Step 3 brings up the dictation UI and records my description of the note. Step 4 combines the date, dictated text, and a trailing linefeed into a chunk of text that Step 5 then appends to the index file. The file is named “Notebook index.txt,” and it’s stored in a folder named “personal” in the root directory of iCloud Drive. Dictation errors can be fixed in either BBEdit on my Mac or Textastic on my phone.
I struggle with dictation and voice control. I really think that the system works well in English and it’s not so reliable in Spanish. But people like Dr. Drang or Macsparky always make me want to make dictation work. #tech
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> # Publish to Micro.blog > > ##### Use Apple Shortcuts to publish text to your Micro.blog without any frills. > > This shortcut uses the Micropub API to publish text passed into it to the default blog on your Micro.blog account. It’s best used as a function that is run from another shortcut. > > Take note that there is no preview of the published text with this shortcut so that it can be as streamlined as possible. Check over your post before running the shortcut, or use a preview action in whichever workflow sends text to it.
Look, @jarrod, I did it!
I just bought a coffee to support @feditips@mstdn.social and you should too.
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TIL, thanks to the Internet Artifacts site, that the a cappella version of Tom’s Diner by Suzanne Vega’s was the first recording that was ever encoded into MP3.
I love the song. My beloved English teacher, Garbiñe Badiola, used it to teach me this beautiful language. So I thought that it could only be appropriate to bring the song to my blog.
Enjoy. Thank you, Suzanne. Thank you, Garbiñe. And thank you, Hiro, for showing me the Internet Artifacts.
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My engagement level is far lower in the Fediverse. I mainly write in Spanish, and there’s still very few people from Spain, and particularly from the Spanish #lawfedi. But I hope I’m here for the long run. I love the Micro.blog concept and environment, and it allows me to connect to the whole Fediverse with ease, albeit not with the myriad of features that Mastodon apps provide. I don’t want bells and whistles, though, and I’m sure this commitment to my own federated place will pay off.
I had unfollowed this guy a long time ago, then it showed up in some reply in my timeline and I decided to follow him back, a few things he said were interesting. Then he flooded my timeline with his constant posts, and I remembered why I unfollowed him.
Hi @vincent @Mtt I sent a support mail to Vincent but now I’m thinking it might be a Tiny Theme issue. I think I don’t really know what I’m doing, sorry 😅.
I’m trying to set the footer of my blog at micro.blog, using Tiny Theme, and the webring is giving me trouble. It renders in a separate line and to the left instead of centered. This is the code I’m using
Visitas <span class="tinylytics_hits"></span> · Web amiga <a href="" class="tinylytics_webring">🕸️💍</a><br>
Sitio alojado en <a href="https://micro.blog">Micro.blog</a> con plantilla <a href="https://tinyformicro.blog/">Tiny Theme</a> <br>
And you can see in my footer that the webring does not show properly. It should show just after the «Web amiga» text.
Any ideas, please? Many thanks.