There are special kinds of accounts on the Fediverse called groups, which work like superpowered hashtags:
1. People follow groups they're interested in
2. People post to a group by mentioning it in their post
3. When a group is mentioned, it boosts the post to all its followers
It's similar to following hashtags but a lot more powerful, because a group actively pushes all its posts to every server that has at least one group follower. More info at:
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What chaffs my crisps is that the author refers to Austen's period as 17th C. No, no, no, she's late 18th, early 19th C! She's Regency! She's Georgian! This is easy to verify, why are journalists so lazy?
cornellsun.com/2024/11/14/jane…
#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia
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🔋 At COP29, six countries pledged to 6x their energy storage by 2030, while in the U.S., battery capacity has grown to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in just four years.
😡 COP29 has at least 1,770 fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance, 123 with badges from the host country.
💡 Where you bank matters. $1000 in a fossil-fuel-investing bank can have the same carbon impact as a cross-country flight—every year.
Read more: talkingclimate.ca/p/put-your-m…
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Climeworks carbon capture and removal
From Badvertising: Polluting our minds and fueling climate chaos:
The only provably legitimate offset [for carbon emissions from a flight] would be an engineered solution that removed a measurable amount of carbon directly from the atmosphere on roughly the same timeframe as the plane exhaust put it there, and indeed this option is now available for purchase from a company called Climeworks - at a price of around $1,000 per ton. This is approximately 100 times the price of an equivalent offset from a low-cost carrier like Ryanair; readers can no doubt draw their own conclusions.
Climeworks “is the first direct air capture company worldwide to achieve certification of its carbon dioxide removal activities…”.
From what I’ve read, it is the real deal. It's not just for businesses, but for individuals too. Use them to do your own offsetting.
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Chase the Sun
I've registered for Chase the Sun! Find out about it here:
Take on the WWW.CHASETHESUN.ORG Sunrise-to-Sunset challenge in 2025
Chase the Sun | Cycle 205 miles in a day, sunrise to sunset
Cycle 200+ miles on the longest Saturday of the year, Coast to Coast, East to West, Chase The Sun. Now departing at sunrise's across England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.Chase the Sun
Dirk
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Chase the Sun
I've registered for Chase the Sun! Find out about it here:Take on the WWW.CHASETHESUN.ORG Sunrise-to-Sunset challenge in 2025
Chase the Sun | Cycle 205 miles in a day, sunrise to sunset
Cycle 200+ miles on the longest Saturday of the year, Coast to Coast, East to West, Chase The Sun. Now departing at sunrise's across England, Scotland, Ireland and Italy.Chase the Sun
Roman Britain
That hand-built, stone pavement is amazing. And it's lasted this long!
Why did the Romans call their city Varulamium?
Trail cameras
I'm looking for something like the Facebook group Muldoon Area Trail Photos and Videos on Friendica, or in the Fediverse. (More info here.) I haven't had any success searching, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. Any advice?
Thank you!
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More biking on Arran
Day 1 of bike trip: last 6 miles
Going down the hill into Brodrick, then on to Lamlash.videos.trom.tf
Sharing photos
I took a lot of photos and videos on a bike trip I recently went on. I'd like to share these photos and videos with the other participants of the trip on a platform that also gives them the ability to upload photos and videos for sharing. These participants are not (yet) users of Friendica. I'd also like to be able to limit this group sharing to just the participants of the trip -- in other words, I want to control access to the photos and videos. I've looked at the different kinds of account types (personal, organization, news, community group, etc) but if I understand them correctly, not one of them meets my requirements. Any thoughts?
Thank you!
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@Dirk
The article is now also available in English...
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You must first install the ‘Guest Access’ app and add it to the app menu. This is easy and is explained here:
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Biking on Arran
Timelapse photos taken while biking on Arran
This video is made up of photos taken every 5 seconds while biking on the west-southwestern coast of the Isle of Arran in the UK.videos.trom.tf
Auchagallon Cairn
Auchagallon Cairn
A walk around the Auchagallon Cairn on the Isle of Arran. Kathleen, thank you for the photo!videos.trom.tf
A walk around the Hauptplatz in Linz, Austria
Some video of Braemar
VID_20240907_101511_00_003
A trade-free video hosting platform for science/technology/nature videos in the English language. You do not have to trade your currency, data, attention, freedom or anything else, in order to use it.videos.trom.tf
Day 3 of biking
Biking day 2
This was our biking route yesterday, our first day of biking:
We have two guides, and there are eight of us. Three of us — including Ellen and me — are using regular bikes, and five are using e-bikes.
Ellen was a champ yesterday! She made it up the biggest hill without stopping. 🚴♀️
Here she is when we got back to our hotel:
Here is today’s route, Including two ferry trips, So we didn’t actually bike 63 miles.
I’ll post more about today’s activity later.
I know that e-bikes fill a valuable role, such as in place of cars for commuting, but you and that third guy must feel a real sense of accomplishment at the end of each foot pedal-powered ride.
A little sea bathing will set us up forever
Ellen and I had a goal to take a swim in the ocean before the summer ended. Yesterday that box was ticked when Ellen and I crossed the road in front of our accommodation, the Glenisle Hotel, walked across the rocky, sandy, seaweedy beach and took a dip in Lamlash Bay. The video evidence is here (link).
Bonus points if you recognize the quote 
Starting the bike trip
This morning we took the train from Glasgow Central to Ardrossan Harbour in order to take the ferry to the Isle of Arran. Here's Ellen chatting with the ticket examiner in the train as we left Glasgow (link).
Here's the Ardrossan Harbour ScotRail station (link).
Here's another view of Ardrossan Harbour. Notice the wind turbines in the background:
However the ferry had a mechanical issue. Here's the ferry with its hood up so that it could be serviced:
We took a short bus ride to Troon, where we boarded another ferry:
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Rosy
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in reply to Rosy • • •@lalah
Have you tried moving a group to a list instead so that it doesn't clog up your main timeline?
fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists…
Rosy
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •Sunil
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in reply to Sunil • • •@sunil @lalah
You can only add accounts to lists if you follow them, but you can hide an accounts posts from your main timeline if you add it to a list.
Steveg58
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •WTF is a list?
And the problem with groups is that the owners subscribe the to hashtags scraping your posts and spraying them out to people you have blocked.
Fedi.Tips
in reply to Steveg58 • • •@Steveg58
The link in the post you're replying to explains lists:
fedi.tips/how-to-use-the-lists…