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@Miraz Good article. Intimidation.

It would be interesting to find out if the Chinese navy exercise just happens to be over any undersea communication cables.

@mitchw Not often. The phone is nice when you get stuck waiting somewhere, but most of the time I use a ebook reader.

@cheribaker GM. Onward, coffee, both breakfasts, more coffee, art and adventure!

@bradenslen.bsky.social I know and I'm worried. Cecilia, I'm counting on the UK to be the last redoubt of decency when all else fails.

@hookland.bsky.social I once interviewed Bill Hicks who talked about the pornography of doom. I refuse the pornographers of doom. I refuse to turn the terror of the now into a spectacle, into engagement farming. We can be engines of kindness, connectivity and wonder online, so forgive me for concentrating on that.

@Miraz Heh, watching cement set isn't exciting, but seeing the progress on your new home is. Thanks for posting these updates.

@cheribaker Um, si. :)

@JohnPhilpin Social network replies are impossible to predict. I syndicate to Micro.blog, Mastodon, Blu Sky and sometimes XTwitter and sometimes I get a response on one or more. Sometimes. And I can never predict what will get a reaction - more often a tiny throwaway line will get a response and something serious will get crickets. LOL. It's strange out there.

Never looked at Threads, but you travel far and wide online so you are known.

@manton

I’ve also found that before Twitter, blogs were often microblogs.

This was my own experience back in the old days of blogging. All pre-Twitter, I felt guilty about my many microposts because I felt somehow all blog posts had to be a brilliant essay. Many years later that was one of the main reasons I tried Micro.blog, because MB worked so well with both long form and micro posts and those micro posts were okay.

@joanwestenberg.com I literally cannot tell if im joking

@pratik If you want privacy against governments, don't go online. You know that. Otherwise you do the best you can with the tools you have available. You can make it harder for casual snoops, crooks, corporations and enemies with a political agenda that oppose you to gain access to your data.

@pratik I don't have real good answers. My impulse would be to find privacy based services in the EU, UK, Australia and NZ depending. The answer might be different for each service.

We are not going to keep national intelligence services from our data if they really want it, so I'm not talking about that.

@rnovotney.bsky.social It always seems very important to Trump to be able to deny the blame. Trump never wanted to help Ukraine. Trump could care less about Ukraine. But he still has to "sell" his selling out to Russia to parts of Congress and the the American public. He thinks he can do that, I guess we will see.

@rnovotney.bsky.social I was thinking more in a not get spied upon, monitored, and arrested for political speech sort of way.

But you are right, many countries seem to have many different ISP's for internet connection either wired or cell. Whereas once you get away from major highways and cities in the US connection gets dodgy.

To be fair:

1. I have heard a lot of complaints from UK friends about their wired, household ISP's.

2. We do have a lot of long distances here in the US.

@AndySylvester Very nice looking link and live blogs. Great theme. I've bookmarked both for eventual inclusion in the directory but I'm going to let them simmer for awhile before inclusion until you get them fleshed out.

@Ilka4You I think it takes awhile for resistance to form. Right now many of the people being effected by Trump decrees have not yet felt the results. A delayed reaction.

The longer he and Mush go on the more resistance builds.

@Miraz Those look so good.

@ChrisJWilson That is a really good find. Enjoy.

@JohnPhilpin Interesting. The link at the bottom takes me to Mastodon and the orig. post there. Which I like because it give credit like a repost to the OP.

Anyway I never used that feature before so I wasn't going to edit the code because I wanted to see how it turned out.

@bradenslen I think this the first time I used "Embed" on Micro.blog and it works. Very cool!

@johnjohnston I lost track of them too, and then this surfaced after all these years.

@ceciliapeartree.bsky.social My former house had a large lawn with quite a bit of clover in it. I had no shortage of bumblebees who loved clover and would get quite upset with me when I would mow.

@JohnPhilpin I have never ever heard of these before. So amazing. Thanks for posting.

@joshuapsteele LOL! Okay you're in. :)

@johnjohnston @Miraz You are welcome. Thanks for the feedback. The UK is doing similar work with bison and I think I read somewhere Poland may also be doing the same.