↪ Replying to @beantin
@beantin I didn't sign up when I couldn't get my username. 😅 That's all I wanted really. All the kids are talking about Clubhouse.
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↪ Replying to @erikjrvla
@erikjrvla Ouch! In my case it was a distant relative, so no threats 😅
When there's a new social media platform being announced, you sign up for the beta and your username is already taken. I'm apparently getting too old for this sh*t.
I'm calling it a hostile takeover by a new generation. 😝
Reminds me I many moons ago paid good money to secure "axbom" on YouTube. The student I bought it from was thankful and at that time it was a win for both of us.
↪ Replying to @bruvik
@bruvik @Andrew_Arnold Why did I not know this! 😅
Podcasts are great, but if I want to listen to live international radio, what apps or services would you recommend? Preferably ones that work on iPhones with the screen locked... it's frustrating with all the web based radio stations and how poorly that works on mobile.
Answering my own question, this is the one I'm using now: @myTunerRadio
It also has for example a CNN audio feed.
↪ Replying to @TatianaTMac
@TatianaTMac Yes, that's a good way of putting it.
Looking for an online form builder that takes #accessibility seriously. Any suggestions are welcome. 😊
(preferably EU-based)
Running online workshops has really become one of my signum services during the pandemic. I enjoy it but more interesting I become a different person. My energy changes, the pitch and pace of my voice and I activate a laser focus on participant feedback that is exhausting. 😅
Today I felt energy fading and only had 10 minutes left. Instead of powering through I broke the trend by spontaneously showing a "cute animal" clip. It had the desired effect and I was able to end with more room energy for the final exercise.
It's predictable how free speech pundits are now reflecting on the concept of white supremacists being "canceled" as a problem. All while not acknowledging how non-WEIRD* voices have been suppressed since the dawn of social media.
*White Educated Industrialised Rich Democratic
Cartoonist Rob Rogers told his story about being fired for criticizing Trump, obviously in cartoons. This happened in June 2018.
thenib.com/i-was-fired-fo…
"Banana republic" coups was always an American invention. In 1954, under the guise of fighting "communism" the US covertly deposed democratically elected Guatemalan president Árbenz and replaced him with a dictator. The coup was in support of United Fruit Company, today Chiquita.
Please do read more about the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'etat:
"The CIA armed, funded, and trained a force of 480 men led by Carlos Castillo Armas. The coup was preceded by U.S. efforts to criticize and isolate Guatemala internationally."
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guat…
And then read about the United Fruit Company and how Chiquita's banana industry brought environmental destruction, slave-like exploitation of workers, massacres and corrupt military governments to Latin America.
link.medium.com/F5mYovkQ9cb
Before the Guatemalan coup, their first democratically elected leader introduced minimum wage and near-universal suffrage, and turned Guatemala into a democracy. Árbenz then instituted land reforms which granted property to landless peasants. This is what the US did not tolerate.
↪ Replying to @stephenanderson
@stephenanderson @MURAL This is just perfect. Congratulations!
One of my biggest regrets is not sustaining the creative writing I spent so much time on as a teenager. This year I have vowed to try and find my way back to writing some fiction again.
World leaders falling over themselves to call for the release of Navalnyj.
Meanwhile in Uganda… x.com/Smith_JeffreyT…
How simple would it be for Twitter to number the tweets in threads for us, including the number of tweets? It seems like a no-brainer and yet appears there is resistance to this simple usability-enhancing feature.
↪ Replying to @maxkruger
@maxkruger @raindrop_io Cool, I just use Apple's Reminders app for this whenever I sign up for something.
Means I can just use Siri and say "Hey Siri, remind me in 25 days to cancel my subscription X".
↪ Replying to @KerynHassall
@KerynHassall Whooa! That is beyond awful, and exactly the type of thing I'm looking for examples of. Thank you.
↪ Replying to @KerynHassall
@KerynHassall Thanks for clarifying Keryn! I did wonder why it seeemed to be especially making the rounds in Australia.
This sentence is so beautiful in how it captures cultural and governance uniqueness:
"Not long after delivering his statement, Rutte got on his bicycle and rode to the king's palace in a forest in The Hague to formally inform the king."
smh.com.au/world/europe/t…