Your favourite social media platform should not be where you get your facts from. You get jokes and share with your friends, but facts they ain’t. Get your world news from actual news sources instead.

En Europe, il faut protéger la démocratie. Du peuple.
Pour l’idée même d’Europe, ces dernières semaines furent particulièrement révélatrices : il apparaît clair, dans la bouche de nos dirigeants, des politiciens de carrière et des imputrescibles factotums qu’on retrouve dans tous les médias de grand chemin que pour protéger la démocratie en Europe, il va falloir la protéger vigoureusement, notamment d’être prise en main par […] ⌘ Read more

Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more

Hey this could be good news for self-hosters and folks that want to run their own yarnd? 🤔 Vultr is offering 1 vCPU, 500MB Memory and 10GB Storage for FREE! That’s right $0.00 🤣

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Fact Check: Melania Trump’s Nude Photos Aired on Russian State TV
Aleksandra Wrona,  Staff Writer  -  Yahoo! News | Snopes

_Stephan: Russian state media a few days after the U.S. election aired soft porn photos of soon-to-be first lady Melania Trump. I am leading with this story today because I think it is telling us something very important about the geopolitical trend showing the decline of the United States. Think about it for a moment. The American people … ⌘ Read more

Newborns are being left in dumpsters in Texas, but Republicans don’t seem to care
Amanda Marcotte,  Senior Writer  -  Salon

_Stephan: A major part of the Great Schism Trend I have been reporting on for years, which both politicians and media largely ignore is politicians not physicians making healthcare laws, and legalizing the government’s – read men’s – control over women’s bodies. Nowhere is that made clearer than in Texas where, as this ar … ⌘ Read more

thanks to prologic i now know i can post video here. sorry for bringing idol fancams to this humble network do you still love me

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testing video posts here’s a yunjin fancam

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Australia Banned Kids From Social Media. Now It Has Advice for the US.
Steven Overly,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As I have been saying for years now, the internet and social media are sewers that are completely distorting how children born since 1997 have matured. That’s when the Six Degrees website launched, and what we call social media began. It has completely changed the culture of developed societies. Now, finally, as this article describes, a few count … ⌘ Read more

Trump Bibles, Rudy coffee, Tucker nicotine pouches: the rightwing knick-knack racket
Adam Gabbatt,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Here is another American trend that is getting almost no coverage in the increasingly coorrupted U.S. billionaire owned media. Once again I saw the trend but have had to go to another British newspaper to get a decent article describing the trend. The Republican Party has become a billionaire-controlled organiz … ⌘ Read more

i should use my media goblin instance

image upload test. have a wonyoung

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Pioneering innovations for the car of the future: Mercedes-Benz provides exclusive insights into research activities and future technologies
,    -  Mercedes-Benz Media

Stephan: We are on the verge of a revolution in how cars are built, and here is a first report on the trend that is developing. Good News on Christmas Day.

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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action?
Nesrine Malik,  Columnist  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Day after day, in both the American and international media, I see and read, or watch, horror story after horror story of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Muslims, much of it done with weapons given to fascist Netanyahu by Presidents Trump and Biden. Two men who, in my opinion, are both too old to hold th … ⌘ Read more

10 Social Media Stunts That Ended in Arrests or Worse
Competition among social media influencers to gain subscribers is intense because more subscribers equals more advertisers, which, in turn, equals a bigger income. Partly for this reason, those who operate social media platforms sometimes perform ill-advised, reckless, and dangerous stunts. The ten social media stunts on this list led to arrests on various charges and, […]

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New MacBook Air Models With M4 Chip Expected to Launch ‘Earlier’ Than iPhone SE 4 and iPad 11
Apple is rumored to have many product announcements planned for the first half of next year, including updated MacBook Air models, an iPad 11, an iPhone SE 4, the AirTag 2, updated iPad Air models, and potentially more.

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GOP senator who appeared to urinate on self in DUI test caught double-dipping on expenses
Cassandra Stephenson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | Tennessee Lookout

Stephan: I want to make a point today that most of the media either does not see, or won’t properly address. They do one-off stories like this one, but they don’t report on the trend I described in my editor’s comment.

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Trump Pledges: “Death to America”
John B. Alexander,  Commentator  -  Daily Kos

Stephan: John Alexander lays out what is going on very accurately. He also makes a point that I think is critically important yet not properly discussed in media, and certainly not in social media. Donald Trump and his MAGAt Congressional zombies are in office because American voters put them there. It is the voters that created what is happening to the United States.

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Bro.. Gitea I think you are drunk. How is Jan 2024 5 days ago?

Bro.. Gitea I think you are drunk. How is Jan 2024 5 days ago?

My 400th Twtxt Post will be about you: wishing you, reader of my Twtxt feed, all the best for the coming year and most of all love, health, and that your projects and work may contribute to the greater good of all mankind. I will be taking a social-media break for a couple of weeks to enjoy this special time with my family. I hope you will be able to do this with your family and friends too.

Republicans cry foul with some judges ‘unretiring’ before second Trump term
Anthony Adragna,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: The Republicans have been trying to take over the nation’s judiciary for several decades led by Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. This “unretiring” of Democratic judges, blocks Trump as this article describes. This isn’t getting much media attention, but it is going to have an interesting positive effect.

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Zero surpresas no Steam Replay deste ano
#balatro

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Anyone started seeing this from Slashdot? 🤔

DRM-Free, Downloadable Media is a Good Thing
The Lunduke Journal adds DRM-free MP4 downloads to the many ways to enjoy the show (Locals, YouTube, X, Rumble, Facebook, Patreon, & Podcast feeds). ⌘ Read more

iOS 18.2: Bring Volume Slider Back to iPhone Lock Screen
Apple in iOS 18.2 has reinstated a Lock Screen feature that was unceremoniously nixed from its iPhone OS two years ago, leaving many users wondering why it was taken away in the first place.

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The feature in question is the on-screen volume control slider in the Lock Screen media player interface. Prior to 2022, the volume slider was a familiar pr … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Devils, in Detail https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/15/devils-detail.html #ethics #harm #media #rant

Sinalética passiva-agressiva é um género pouco valorizado

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Deepfake Pornography Targeting Members of Congress
,    -  American Sunlight Project

_Stephan: The internet has become a sewer, and unbelievably – to me at least – nearly one in six women members of Congress have deepfake pornography images of themselves floating around social media sites.  I have already done several reports on schoolgirls and their classmates discovering fake nude and fake porn images of themselves; it is a particular problem in the 7th and 8th grades. … ⌘ Read more

Kaidan: Kaidan 0.10.1: Media Sharing and New Message Marker Fixes
This release fixes some bugs.
Have a look at the changelog for more details.

Bugfixes:

• Fix displaying files of each message in appropriate message bubble (melvo)
  
• Fix sending fallback messages for clients not supporting XEP-0447: Stateless file sharing (melvo)
  
• Fix margins within message bubbles (melvo)
  
• Fix hiding hidden message part (melvo)
  
• Fix displaying marker for new messages (melvo)
  

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?
Stephen Starr,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As I read or watch American journalism media I have been struck by the interviews with Trump voters who, if Trump does what he says he will, are going to be severely impacted, but don’t seem to think that will happen to them. It is very weird, but it seems to be the case. So by March, I think we are going to … ⌘ Read more

The End of Physical Media is Here (and That Sucks)
Blu-Ray is dead - everyone from Sony to LG is ceasing production – with no physical media alternative to take its place. ⌘ Read more

da fuq?! Haven’t seen this kind of shit™ on IRC since the good ‘ol days of AustNet (now dead right?) when IRC was way more popular than it is today 🤣 #IRC #Porn

#bomdia ciberlandia

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Gen Z spends record six hours a day online
Matthew Field,  Senior Technology Reporter  -  The Telegraph

_Stephan: This is why the weaponization of lies has become such a powerful factor in the shaping of culture in the developed democracies, particularly in the United States. As local media dies, and major corporate media is taken over by billionaires who also own the major social media platforms the survival of democracy becomes ever more problematic, and the power of the oligarch … ⌘ Read more

A Corporate Media System Bound to Capitalism Delivers for Trump for a Second Time
Victor Pickard,  Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication - Co-director the Media, Inequality & Change Center  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: This is an article confirming what I have been telling you for several years now about the failure of American corporate media to properly and accurately cover Trump and the MAGAt movemen … ⌘ Read more

A social media ban for under-16s passes the Australian Senate and will soon be a world-first law
ROD MCGUIRK,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Australians seem to have learned what American politicians have not, or will not. The weaponization of misinformation has distorted the thinking of every generation, but particularly the young. It distorted our election in the United States, and is a destructive force in a dem … ⌘ Read more

Btw about social: found very interesting thing about twitter:

The legal basis that X asserts in the filing is not terribly interesting. But what is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends. In the filing, X’s lawyers essentially say—like many other software companies, and, increasingly, device manufacturers as well—that the company’s terms of service grant X’s users a “license” to use the platform but that, ultimately, X owns all accounts on the social network and can do anything that it wants with them.

Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations
Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing
You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

Also this ☝️

Its time to brush up on your competitive programming skills!

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

Its time to brush up on your competitive programming skills!

https://cses.fi/book/book.pdf

Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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Go ahead, ban kids from social media, but please outlaw these grown-ups too
Curtail under-16s, by all means, but let’s not forget the adult Insta-imbeciles, LinkedIn humble braggarts, Twitter twits and the rest. ⌘ Read more

[LFF] [1.2 XMR] Fundraiser for hosting the Monero archive for one more year

I have now been hosting the monero archive for more than a year now (started sometime in September 2023), I would like to keep on hosting it for one more year (at least). This fundraiser is for one more year of hosting. The price is the same at 0.1 XMR/month for hosting + maintenance.

Links:

• https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/yg9f/
  
• https://git.4rkal.com/
  
• [archiv32ihkwhf26umylx3u7tg … ⌘ Read more

I wish I could view source twts like this to know if the root was not found and this was actually in reply to something i cant see.

I wish I could view source twts like this to know if the root was not found and this was actually in reply to something i cant see.

You can now reset your Instagram algorithm, but things may get a little boring
Amid rampant debate on social media, the move is a welcome step of giving users more control over their feeds. ⌘ Read more

Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
Gillian Booth and Katie Smith,  Social Media Editor | Social Media Assistant  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It is clear from reading the social posts of physicians and nurses that they are seriously alarmed by what the Trump administration and the MAGAt Republicans in Congress have in mind for health care. I have selected this story because it offers links you can click … ⌘ Read more

China looks to step into global vacuum as Trump vows to pull U.S. back
Christian Shepherd and Katrina Northrop,  Reporters  -  msn | The Washington Post

_Stephan: While America is lost in the nightmare of our culture wars, and we are about to put into office an administration based on the mafia, China is becoming the world leader. What is worse neither our politicians of either party, our media, or the American people seems capable of telling ourselves t … ⌘ Read more

Este é um vídeo publicado pela Polícia Judiciária na sua conta do Twitter. A começar pela banda sonora brostep, tenho várias questões sobre o estilo de edição e o seu significado

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A Trump Judge Just Nixed Overtime Pay for Millions—and Media Yawned
Greg Sargent,  Staff Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: If you are an hourly worker and you voted for Trump, you just got screwed out of overtime pay, although you may not know it yet since after I found it on an academic legal site I only found this report in The New Republic in the general audience press. The media as the article describes either didn’t understand the judge’s decision … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS] Monero FCMP Video Draft

Please see ours and xenu’s video here about FCMP. We think it’s ready to get shared but looking forward to everyone’s feedback before we officially share it in the Social media channels.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=1ZYMTbjoDaM
  
• MO report
  

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deparei-me com isto no aliexpress e espero não ser o único que fica 🤔 com esta forma de abreviar

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Maintenant, c’est vous les médias.
Décidément, la campagne et l’élection de Donald Trump auront servi de « révélateur » et ainsi montré que le journalisme occidental, dans son acceptation historique, n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même et a largement fait place à une véritable presse de propagande, dont les messages sont devenus de plus en plus délirants et outranciers à mesure qu’elle […] ⌘ Read more

[LFF] [100 XMR] Ross Ulbricht Freedom Party

After coordinating with @DouglasTuman and @vikrantnyc, we have launched a freedom fund for the release of @RealRossU!

Links:

• https://farside.link/nitter/MgkMshrmBrkfst/status/1857974202072182843
  
• https://kuno.anne.media/fundraiser/olm1/
  

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Pequeno bug do Tusky esta manhã, poético e invernal

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Anti-Musk: The social media site picking up a lot of X refugees in Australia
Bluesky is Australia’s top-ranked social media app in both Apple and Google’s app stores, firming as the social media website of choice for those quitting X. ⌘ Read more

Interesting list of features to protect users and communities on bluesky. I wonder if any make sense in text context.

Interesting list of features to protect users and communities on bluesky. I wonder if any make sense in text context.

@prologic@twtxt.net I recommend its Wikipedia entry is edited then, if you are completely certain.

“Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media service primarily operated by Bluesky Social, PBC.”

That I know of, you can run the PDS, and pretty much everything else.

Why is the rooted post after the replied post?? time shenanigans?

Why is the rooted post after the replied post?? time shenanigans?

CNCF Presents Top End User Award to Adobe
A global digital media and marketing solutions leader has contributed to 46 CNCF projects and shared a reference architecture for its Internal Developer Platform SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America – November… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

Righto, @eapl.me@eapl.me, ta for the writeup. Here we go. :-)

Metadata on individual twts are too much for me. I do like the simplicity of the current spec. But I understand where you’re coming from.

Numbering twts in a feed is basically the attempt of generating message IDs. It’s an interesting idea, but I reckon it is not even needed. I’d simply use location based addressing (feed URL + ‘#’ + timestamp) instead of content addressing. If one really wanted to, one could hash the feed URL and timestamp, but the raw form would actually improve disoverability and would not even require a richer client. But the majority of twtxt users in the last poll wanted to stick with content addressing.

yarnd actually sends If-Modified-Since request headers. Not only can I observe heaps of 304 responses for yarnds in my access log, but in Cache.FetchFeeds(…) we can actually see If-Modified-Since being deployed when the feed has been retrieved with a Last-Modified response header before: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/cache.go#L1278

Turns out etags with If-None-Match are only supported when yarnd serves avatars (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/handlers.go#L158) and media uploads (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/media_handlers.go#L71). However, it ignores possible etags when fetching feeds.

I don’t understand how the discovery URLs should work to replace the User-Agent header in HTTP(S) requests. Do you mind to elaborate?

Different protocols are basically just a client thing.

I reckon it’s best to just avoid mixing several languages in one feed in the first place. Personally, I find it okay to occasionally write messages in other languages, but if that happens on a more regularly basis, I’d definitely create a different feed for other languages.

Isn’t the emoji thing “just” a client feature? So, feed do not even have to state any emojis. As a user I’d configure my client to use a certain symbol for feed ABC. Currently, I can do a similar thing in tt where I assign colors to feeds. On the other hand, what if a user wants to control what symbol should be displayed, similar to the feed’s nick? Hmm. But still, my terminal font doesn’t even render most of emojis. So, Unicode boxes everywhere. This makes me think it should actually be a only client feature.

Unfortunately the US media has been making it a nail biter on purpose when in reality it is not. Get out and vote in numbers that cannot be denied. And then get everyone else around you to vote also.

Maybe one day enough states will make it into the NaPo InterCo to finally put the EC to rest.

Unfortunately the US media has been making it a nail biter on purpose when in reality it is not. Get out and vote in numbers that cannot be denied. And then get everyone else around you to vote also.

Maybe one day enough states will make it into the NaPo InterCo to finally put the EC to rest.

Apple to Donate Towards Relief Efforts in Spain Following Flash Floods
In a social media post today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will be making a donation of an undisclosed amount towards relief efforts in Valencia, Spain, following deadly flash floods in the region.

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@bender@twtxt.net I try to avoid editing. I guess I would write 5/4, 6/4, etc, and hopefully my audience would be sympathetic to my failing.

Anyway, I don’t think my eccentric decision to number my twts in the style of other social media platforms is the only context where someone might write ¼ not meaning a quarter. E.g. January 4, to Americans.

I’m happy to keep overthinking this for as long as you are :-P

Ces collisions d’actualité qui montrent ce que les médias veulent cacher
L’actualité est pleine de faits divers d’intérêt très variable. Cependant, en rapprocher certains permet de fournir, en creux, des informations que les médias se gardent bien de trouver et pire encore, d’analyser. Ainsi, par exemple, on découvre dans l’abominable presse populiste de droite qui grignote du chaton qu’en Essonne, les urgences médicales concernent parfois les […] ⌘ Read more

Wikipedia’s War on Israel, USA, & Truth
Pro-Hamas and Pro-Iran editors flood Wikipedia (& Google) with false data, while Wiki Media Foundation earns hundreds of millions of dollars. ⌘ Read more

‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

#bomdia ciberlândia, aqui vai a dose diária de crítica às autoridades

via este post no passaralho

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Derrière le Manque de Moyen™, ce que cachent les démissions des maires
L’actualité politique française est totalement occupée par les gesticulations parisiennes : les parlementaires s’agitent en Commissions et à l’Assemblée, les médias font leurs choux gras de leurs saillies, la presse relaie et analyse avec gourmandise les propositions et les joutes verbales. Pendant ce temps, personne ne s’occupe plus des difficultés de la Province. Pourtant, les signes […] ⌘ Read more

Este combo título+autor

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One book created panic about social media. But what if it’s bunkum?
Labor will push age-limit legislation for social media through despite the fact scientists and experts have said it won’t work. ⌘ Read more

Alleged M4 MacBook Pro Unboxing Video Reveals These Four Upgrades
An alleged unboxing video for an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom. The video was later linked to on social media platform X by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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People stranded on the roof of a hospital in Tennessee after hurricane Helene

People stranded on the roof of a hospital in Tennessee after hurricane Helene

Wild flooding in Ashville, NC due to Hurricane Helene

Wild flooding in Ashville, NC due to Hurricane Helene

https://jacobin.com/2024/09/rashida-tlaib-antisemitism-palestinians-media

@sorenpeter@darch.dk not even this: https://twtxt.net/media/AzUmzTN5YEJdt4VPeeprjB.png?full=1

So I whipped up a quick shell script to demonstrate what I mean by the increase in feed size on average as well as the expected increase in storage and retrieval requirements.

$ ./compare.sh
Original file size: 28145 bytes
Modified file size: 70672 bytes
Percentage increase in file size: 151.10%
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Okay folks, I’ve spent all day on this today, and I think its in “good enough”™ shape to share:

Twtxt v2:

• Specification: https://docs.mills.io/uJXuisaYTRWYDrl8A2jADg?both
  
• implementation: https://gist.mills.io/prologic/afdec15443da4d7aa898f383f171ec1b
  

its replacing the contents of body for some reason.

its replacing the contents of body for some reason.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hi. i have noticed sometimes when i hit the back button i lose all the surrounding layout and just have a list of twts.

@prologic@twtxt.net Hi. i have noticed sometimes when i hit the back button i lose all the surrounding layout and just have a list of twts.

‘Parents already have the tools’: Snapchat boss pushes back on social media ban
Tech billionaire Evan Spiegel is the first global CEO to weigh in and says parents – not tech companies – should carry most of the responsibility for their kids’ screen time. ⌘ Read more

If we’re going to ban kids off social, what on earth will they do outside?
Banning access to social media for young people is an honourable idea, but we need to make sure they have other things to do instead. ⌘ Read more