Australia has had a massive Eurovision fan base for decades. It was a market just dying to be tapped into. Plus, the Australian broadcaster pays a sizable fee to participate.

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin.

I thought something like that had happened when I first read Cloud Atlas, but nope - that’s just how it’s written. I loved it once I understood.

In Oz, they certainly fucking do.

Went camping, set up the public BBQ, lit it. Vegan comes along and insists that we can’t cook meat on it because it will contaminate whatever she was cooking.

She turned a particularly interesting shade of green when I reminded her that it was public, had been used by a bajillion meat eaters, and meat contamination was the least of her worries - given druggies and drunks would piss on it in the wee small hours every public holiday.

She left soon after.

They regurgitated a Simpsons episode and replaced the dolphins with KuaToa?

They probably saw how well going hard against asylum seekers worked for the Australian Labor Party. Without that as a platform, the conservative parties basically had little to offer voters, and subsequently imploded.

Except all those times where you learnt how to do something when you set it up years ago, and haven’t touched it since because it just bloody works. Then when you need to upgrade to a new machine you have to learn it all again.

Been using Linux for thirty years and it still happens.

Wait around for two hours in case it comes back.

Guns don’t kill people. Cats do.

It has all of them, but it’s bare bones and doesn’t scale well. The instance where I have an account regularly falls over - sometimes for months at a time. Most of my friends there haven’t returned.

I don’t feel it’s currently a viable Facebook alternative, and it would need monumental amounts of work for it to become one.

It’s activitypub, but can be configured to also use AT as well.

I do indeed have the mind of an artist. I keep it in a small jar under my bed.

Unfortunately, mostly broken at the moment. Normally it’s great, though.

I’ve been having issues with Piefed.Social for last day or so (before the update was announced). I even submitted an issue on GitHub. It seems to have fixed itself now though.

Sadly, the first thing the defending lawyers will point out is where were the parents in all this? Why was he able to turn off the parental controls, and why didn’t the parents notice?

If I removed ActivityPub from my blog, I’d get no readership whatsoever. It’s not like search works anymore.

Filters already mute keywords and can be set for specific periods of time. AFAIK*, subscribed blocklists were rejected because they could be used to target minority members by bad actors. How are custom feeds different from lists?

• From threads on the subject months ago, so that might have changed.

Not really that hard to explain, unless I’m missing your point. Wafrn is a federated Tumblr-like platform that allows two-way interaction with Bluesky users (without the need for bridging).

It’s fanfic of some old guy’s playthrough of F1 23. It’s fun if you leave your brain in the fridge.

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse. Fantasy with a Native American mythos. It started great, then became a soap opera.