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ये दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी? ہم دیکھیں گ
je ne sais rien, non sono qui.
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FYI if you're buying the away kit: every piece is different

Just thought I’d share for those not aware and have the option to buy online and in-person. The black “stripes” aren’t copy and pasted on every single kit, the printing method used makes each kit’s stripes slightly different. It’s only slightly different, but every kit is unique. So if you have the option - maybe buy...

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@I_am_the_grass But all uniformly vomitously awful. I am desperately hoping that sales of this nightmare pukefest are so bad that Adidas never does anything remotely similar ever again

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The new star rating stats
@thestorygraph are AAAAMAAAAZING - worth getting Plus for just on their own! Focusing on the positive, here are my stats for my 5-star reads. Happy to see nonfiction supplying nearly a quarter of them. @bookstodon

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TFW you realise that you and a character in a book are destined to be BFFs, literary soulmates. The book, aptly enough is "First Impressions" 😆
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tailsy, to random

In the market for a dedicated e-ink reader. Do any of them handle PDF rendering decently, or is that still a tablet thing? Is the Kobo Libre 2 any good?

(I have a Kindle and want to replace it with a non-Kindle for secret reasons, so please don’t suggest them to me. Thanks!)

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@tailsy For PSF on e-ink, the basic rule is, the bigger the better. I've been a Kobo fan for 5 years, and have gone from 6 to 6.8 to 7 to 8-inch. The 8-inch is the best of them, imo. I have a Libra H20 (gen 1) and it's ok fpr PDF, but the 8-inch is much better. Also, there are better reading apps to use on Kobo readers for PDF. I use KOReader on my Sage, it works very well.

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@soycapitan451 @sabreW4K3 The rant was clearly clickbait, or rage bait, and of course it worked. Angry fans springing to his defence =engagement = revenue

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@poorlydrawnarsenal @Astrealix this is an example of how useful and important hyphens are - there's a world of difference between "Reiss resigning" and "Reiss re-signing" 😁

Tutanota, to random
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Google has found another way to monetize your data: The tech giants that earned ~225 billion U.S. dollars in 2022 with posting targeted ads, has updated its privacy policy. Google now says that it will scrape all information on the internet to train its AI systems Google Translate, Bard and Cloud AI. Whether Google is also using private Gmail data for training its AI, remains unknown.

Read more 👇
https://tutanota.com/blog/google-trains-ai-with-your-data

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@Tutanota Thanks for the heads up. Removed any last shred of doubt about whether I would renew my @protonmail Proton Unlimited account in December

bitwarden, to Cybersecurity
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Further secure your digital life with #2fa. What is your favorite authenticator? https://bitwarden.com/blog/top-10-burning-questions-on-2fa/

#cybersecurity #security #passwordmanager #passwordsecurity

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@bitwarden Into my 3rd or 4th year of Bitwarden Premium and I was TODAY years old when I discovered BitwardenPremium has its own authenticator!🤦‍♂️ How do I generate a secret for manual TOTP start?

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Seeing
news of
new stats/tag toys for Plus users
@thestorygraph prompted me to check the taglist of "my favourites". Up to 40 now, a pretty good sample of who I am as a not-very-uncommon reader.😀
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A list of books tagged as "my favourites" at The Storygraph. List here (screen reader friendly) https://app.thestorygraph.com/tags/4947817b-761c-4e21-9feb-39a60c955494

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@courts @bookstodon Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy, and then perhaps his Aurora, in which he explicitly repudiates and rejects the whole point of his earlier trilogy. 😊

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@40below @courts @bookstodon Thanks for the rec!

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@yerald @jayalane @courts @bookstodon EXACTLY! I was enjoying Aurora up until that point, LOVED IT from then on. So very, VERY rare, and brave.

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@yerald @jayalane @courts @bookstodon Thanks!

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@jayalane @yerald @courts @bookstodon I can understand why multigenerational spaceship stories might not grab you, but imo Aurora's worth it for what might be called the punchline of the story. It does not go where you might expect

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@ryanpendell @bookstodon This was one of the highlight's Umberto Eco's insufferable "Mouse Or Rat" for me - an analysis of how some Italians may think they're reading Dante as Dante intended, when translations may be more 'faithful' because of being into current languages.

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As I told my husband when he read me a headline that Threads had launched: Yeah, I know. It's annoying. I made an account:

threads.net/@thegrammargirl

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@grammargirl I'm with Ann McCaffrey - Thread(s) is evil, burn it with Dragon fire. 😀

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@I_am_the_grass If can get PAID 30-50M to get rid of their trash, win-win and truly party (sic) time, imo

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@Figaro2x A bit too kind, possibly. The way the judicial system dehumanises and minimises sexual violence against women, coupled with the deep institutional misogyny of the Met means that when three different women take all that on to make the same accusations against someone, it's a near certainty they're telling the truth. And any man who does that to women deserves to be called MUCH worse than "trash"

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@gunnersaurus @I_am_the_grass I wouldn't be surprised if Arsenal always expected to end up having to pay in that sort of structure. Obviously, they'd have preferred not to, hence holding out (pun unintentional! 😁) for smaller, longer instalments, but I suspect KSE went into this deal ready for the worst case scenario

JohnBarentine, to NewZealand
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"As the world’s southernmost Dark Sky Sanctuary, is home to some of the best stargazing on the planet. This is perhaps unsurprising, given that one of the meanings of its name is ‘land of the glowing skies.’"

https://adventure.com/new-zealand-rakiura-track-stargazing/

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@JohnBarentine The island's name is the primary reason we went there for a holiday last year. Sadly, those glowing skies were indeed very dark every night - with clouds. 😞 Seeing kiwi in the wild during the day on Ulva/Te Wharawhara was some compensation, at least

lydiaschoch, to books
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Which book(s) do you wish you could read again for the first time? @bookstodon #Bookstodon #askFedi #ReadingCommunity #Books

Read Texas Am GIF by Texas A&M University. A dog (of the Sheltie breed, I think?) is sitting on a grey couch and looking attentive as pages in a book are flipped by some invisible means. It gives the illusion that the dog is reading the book.

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@lydiaschoch @bookstodon Easy:
A Suitable Boy

and

The Count of Monte Cristo

ronsboy67, to Arsenal
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With 38 minutes left until month 6 of 12 is finished, here are my top reads of the YTD. Thanks to the AWESOME tag stats
@thestorygraph , I know that these 11 averaged 4.73/5 - the scores show why TSG scoring is so MUCH better than its VERY ill-yclept Amazon-owned competitor. Also, strong representation, Wrighty just missed out making it 3
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@spelled_with_a_k @thestorygraph @bookstodon

I joined as a Plus member back in September 2020, have a nice "Early Bird" badge next to my name and wonderful extra stats to show for it. If you're into data and analytics, do give Plus a go, I doubt you'll be disappointed

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@WorldcupCSR @gunnersaurus @ironeaglebird @poorlydrawnarsenal Sorry, but that must not be allowed to happen, for one overriding reason

"Your defence is in trouble" is my notification ringtone 🤣

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@gunnersaurus @ironeaglebird @WorldcupCSR @poorlydrawnarsenal Ringtone aside, this is the real reason I prefer selling Balogun. I think he'd raise more money than Eddie

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