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Katie Thornton’s New Series Investigates the Influence of Shortwave Radio swling.com/blog/2025/05/katie-…

Katie Thornton’s New Series Investigates the Influence of Shortwave Radio

Award-winning journalist Katie Thornton has launched a new season of the Peabody-winning podcast, The Divided Dial, produced by On the Media and WNYC Studios. In this season, Katie focuses on short…
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EPUB 3.3 Recommendations Published, Work Begins on New Features - Inclusive Publishing

The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) has announced the final update of the W3C Recommendation for EPUB® 3.3. Whilst no new features have been introduced the updates […]
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In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
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The #Plushtodon sitting in a chair in a grassy field.

MASTODON STUFFED TOY | The Toy Insider

This 14-inch friend-sized, friend-shaped plushie was designed with a soft Velboa exterior and polyester filling for maximum comfort. It is certified for safety and ethical production and suitable for kids (and grown-ups) 3 and up.
The Toy Insider
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Love is fun! Love is powerful. Love is... not enough. A relationship requires more than love alone to be sustainable in the longterm. Middle Age Erika Moen clears up some of her misconceptions about love with freshly-dumped 20-Year-Old Erika Moen in this comic from the archive.

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#Bisexual #Autobio #Comic

The comic starts with a younger Erika and her first girlfriend soaring through the air together with large angel wings on their backs. Young Erika is caressing her girlfriend’s face as her girlfriend embraces her from behind. Erika narrates, “The first time I fell in Real Love, I was flying high on a cloud of euphoria. It was my first Real Relationship and I knew I had found my Forever Soulmate.” “Until.” “Suddenly.” With a serene expression, Erika’s first girlfriend snips off Young Erika’s wings with a pair of shears. The next frame shows Young Erika right before she hits the ground, frozen in shock and disbelief. “She dumped me.” In anguish, Young Erika curls up into a ball on the floor. “The heartbreak made me physically ill, I had never experienced pain like this before.” Our current Erika steps into the frame to stand next to her past self, who has started crying alone. Erika puts her hands on her hips and looks at Young Erika with an understanding expression. “Aw, kid,” she says.
Young Erika sobs out, “All I did was love her and then she threw me away for no reason!” Erika reaches over to pat her younger self. “Well, honestly, you were kind of a dick.” “WHAT!” Young Erika yells back defensively. She angrily pushes herself up to glare at her older self, before pointing a finger at her. “Hey, who are you, anyway?!” Erika shrugs reassuringly. “I’m you. About 20 years in the future. Listen, you weren’t a dick on purpose, you’re not a bad person (and neither is she!). You’re just… young, you’re inexperienced with being a partner, and you’ve got some pretty unrealistic ideas about love.” Young Erika grumbles, “...Unrealistic ideas about love…? Love is love! What more do you need to know?” Erika takes Young Erika’s hand to help her get up. “C’mon,” Erika says. “Let’s you n’ me go down a trip down the River of Love.” Young Erika strikes a “Woe is Me” pose as the two make their way over to an inflatable raft with a paddle. She cries out, “What we had was MAGIC! Two souls combined! Such a pure connection can never be replicated!” “Go home, Erika, you’re drunk,” her older self responds. “ExCUSE you?!” Erika says, “Seriously! When you first fall in love, your brain is flooded with neurochemicals that make you high as balls.” An illustration shows a watering can pouring out a stream of neurochemicals including Dopamine, Serotonin, and Norepinephrine over a brain.
The stream from the brain continues to flow down to form a river that the two Erikas start to ride down in their raft. Young Erika leans over the side of the raft to run her hand through the flowing neurochemicals. She starts to cry. “What, so ‘love’ is just a buncha chemicals? LOVE IS A LIE!!!” (A note says, “Actual thing I actually said.”) Erika continues to paddle the boat. She replies, “Love is real, you’re just not in a sober mindset about it early-on.” “You think being in love with someone is this stationary state…” An illustration shows two people holding hands while enclosed in a glass cloche labeled “LOVE” with a heart for the O. “... When really it’s this living entity that’s constantly in motion.” The raft the two Erikas are in splashes around as they ride out a sudden wave. Erika calls out, “It never stops changing!” The water starts to calm. “Sometimes in ways that make you happier.” The water suddenly rushes down, dropping their raft down and forcing Young Erika to cling onto her older self. “Sometimes in ways that make you sadder.”
At this, Young Erika finally turns and looks back up at her. Erika leans in closer to face her younger self. “Two people can really love each other and still not be good partners together. Love by itself is not enough to keep a relationship afloat long term. A healthy partnership needs mutual support, mental and emotional nourishment, communication, negotiation, acceptance, boundaries, forgiveness… Love can’t fill all those roles itself. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is end a relationship before the things that don’t work rot into something dysfunctional or toxic later.” Young Erika angrily blows up at this. “... ‘loving thing to do’?! She HURT ME!!!” Young Erika flails about with spirals in her eyes as she continues to vent. “She betrayed me! She used me! She didn’t try hard enough! She never REALLY loved me! She threw me away! She’s a BAD PERSON! I hate her!” She sobs, holding her head in her hands. Erika moves over to comfort her. “Getting dumped sucks,” Erika says. “I’m sorry.” She brings her younger self in for a hug.

Love Is Not Enough

Erika's sick in bed today (Monday as I write this), so I'm doing all the prep work for today's comic. Usually, I'd write all kinds of thing-a-ma-bobs, but since I know Erika will want to fill this blog post up with all kinds of helpful stuff.
Oh Joy Sex Toy
#comic #bisexual #autobio
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PureOS Crimson Progress Update

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

Recent Updates:

• Faster USB charging
• Speedier storage access

First alpha release coming soon. Learn More Features Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…

PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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After i meditate outside and open my eyes fully, the plants and trees seem to radiate with a golden aura and the flora is a more vibrant green. I am so grateful for another day in this beautiful planet! 🙏🏼💚🌳✨🌿🌎

Wishing all a beautiful Friday and weekend. ❤️🤗🎉🌷😘

Photos of some branches on my plumeria showing flower buds coming out. 🥰

#meditation #oneness #awareness #gratitude #gaia

Plueria buds of future flowers on a branch.
Plumeria buds of flowers coming out between green leaves. The sky is blue with some white clouds.
#meditation #gratitude #awareness #oneness #gaia

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Thank you, Liev Schreiber, for embracing your trans daughter Kai. “This is actually a community of people who don’t have great resources, who don’t have access to help, who aren’t being protected and looked after by their families," Schreiber said. people.com/liev-schreib...

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Liev Schreiber Says Trans Daughter Kai Is a 'Fighter' Who Is 'as Feisty and Outspoken as They Come'

Liev Schreiber is opening up about parenting his transgender daughter, Kai. The family will soon appear at a benefit gala to support homeless LGBTQ+ youth.
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Fun project for friday evening. I am hosting some unmaintained web sites for a few friends and they help me to pay the hosting costs in return.
Now I have found out I need php 7.4 for some of these and it's not readily available so building php 7.4.33 on up to date arch linux.

I am afraid this will no longer be possible in the future. How do you deal with this? Can I run PHP in some kind of lightweight container?

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Nomination period is open for the Governing Board, new releases across the ecosystem, Conduit's new maintainer Matthias has released v0.10.0, and a fresh episode of Matrix Live. All that and more in This Week in Matrix! matrix.org/blog/2025/05/09/thi…

This Week in Matrix 2025-05-09

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
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Getting keyboard accessibility right is essential for building inclusive digital experiences, but it can be hard to know where to start.

In this Foundations post on Keyboard Accessibility, Accessibility Specialist Demelza Feltham breaks down the foundations of keyboard accessibility, offering practical tips and examples to help you design and build interfaces that work for everyone.

Read it on the TetraLogical blog at: tetralogical.com/blog/2025/05/…

The title Foundations: Keyboard accessibility is written across an orange background with the TetraLogical logo. Demelza Feltham's smiling face is shown in a headshot on the bottom right corner above her name

Foundations: Keyboard accessibility - TetraLogical

By prioritising semantic HTML and offering keyboard-friendly alternatives for complex interactions, you help create a more inclusive experience for people who use a keyboard.
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What on earth, SoundCloud??

"In the absence of a separate agreement that states otherwise, You explicitly agree that your Content may be used to inform, train, develop or serve as input to artificial intelligence or machine intelligence technologies or services as part of and for providing the services."

soundcloud.com/terms-of-use

via @sarahdal crispsandwi.ch/@sarahdal/11447…

#soundcloud #AI #copyright #musicians #AITraining

saraaaaargh (@sarahdal@crispsandwi.ch)

SoundCloud new T&Cs - your uploaded music will be used to train AI https://soundcloud.com/terms-of-use from https://bsky.app/profile/theflightmusic.bsky.social/post/3loqazjjayk2u
crispsandwi.ch 🥪🐘
#copyright #AI #musicians #AITraining #soundcloud @saraaaaargh
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