Need Austen or Bronte entertainment this holiday season? I present you a list of over 100 movies and TV series (with links). Need Pride and Prejudice 1995? It's on several streaming services. Want to feel cozy with Bridget Jones? All three movies are on Max. Have Hallmark+? We've got you covered. Enjoy! exitpursuedbyabear.net/streami…
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You might use Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse through your server's website or through an app, but there is also a third option that many people prefer: web apps.
Web apps are special kinds of websites that can also be installed like apps. They appear as app icons, keep you signed in, work separately from your browser and provide notifications just like any app does.
Web apps are extremely easy to install, there's a complete beginner's guide at:
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How is it December already!? Jane’s birthday is coming up!
“Miss Austen” is coming to PBS/Masterpiece May 4, 2025. It’s a four episode series based on the book by the same name by Gill Hornby. More details, and first look photos, are in the article!
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At first glance, it could easily be mistaken for a Viking relic. But it’s actually a coin from the Himyarite Kingdom, showcasing the ancient Musnad script—one of the earliest forms of Arabic writing.
The resemblance between Musnad and Viking runes is astonishing, sparking curiosity about the potential visual and cultural parallels between these two distinct civilizations.
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is that actual currency? It's incredibly elaborate.
I'm using a search engine, and the only image I find of it has been deleted (on Reddit), and the only very similar coin is related to a video game 🤔. All other currency related to "himyanite kingdom musnad coin" look much less elaborate, more crude.
I'd love a pointer to more info!
A funerary stele from Vári, Greece (420 BC), portrays a poignant scene: a young woman holding a bird toward her infant brother, who reaches up to grasp it. The accompanying epigram reveals their tragic story—they were siblings who perished together. Their grieving parents commissioned the stele in their memory.
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Credits: Licence, ESA, Gaia, DPAC
#nature #space #astrophotography
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Vanishingly rare & beautiful 15th c Norwich dead Christ. Such stained glasses were the first target of the puritan iconoclasts & so next to none survive. Behind the halo the sun is in eclipse .(Mark 15 v 33) "When the 6th hour came darkness fell over the whole land.."
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John Singer Sargent showed his talent early. Here are watercolour sketches he made during his family’s trip to Switzerland, when he was only 14
#art #painting #watercolour #JohnSingerSargent
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Scientists say the Ethiopian wolf, the world’s rarest wild dog, might be the first known large carnivore to pollinate, as the canines lick red hot poker flowers to get their sweet fix.
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/… #wolves #wolf #pollination
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This unbelievable piece of magnificent craftsmanship makes me rethink the lifestyle of the ancient Roman era.
It's mind-boggling to think that a Roman glass work from 300 AD can survive intact. This one is at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, an archaeological museum in Trier, Germany.
© Marcelo Pelayo @Dr_TheHistories #Roman #glass #museums
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It tips slightly forwards as if offering its contents!
Made around 5,500 years ago in Predynastic Egypt, Naqada period.
At the Met: metmuseum.org/art/collection/s… 📷 by @AlisonFisk
#Archaeology
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in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •sam
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •"However, some websites are specially written to function pretty much like apps"
that's funny, because I've always thought a lot of apps behave pretty much like a website and the app is unnecessary.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to sam • • •@sam
A lot of app store apps are actually just web apps packaged to be downloadable from app stores!
But web apps don't give Apple or Google any money or control, so they tend to get downplayed. It's also harder to access a user's data from a web app than an app store app, so companies who want to spy on their users do it through app store apps.
Melroy van den Berg
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •which is something Apple (iOS) is trying to kill! Dammit Apple.
Don't buy iOS.
Georgiana Brummell
in reply to Fedi.Tips 🎄 • • •Fedi.Tips 🎄
in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •There's a section about this in the guide, the part marked "Isn’t this just a bookmark? What’s the point of this?":
fedi.tips/how-to-install-web-a…
tl:dr - They let you use the website without the browser interface getting in the way, you don't have to open or close the browser as it runs separately, and web apps provide notifications like app store apps do.
EDIT: I've rewritten it a bit to make clearer what the differences are between bookmarks and web apps.
JWSGeek
in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •@dandylover1 it gets rid of the browser 'chroming' (the tabs, the headers, all the extension toolbar stuff) so you JUST have your app, acting like an app. It can be separately sized (without impacting what a new browser window will open as), separately iconified.
Take a music player - it isn't a web page. It is an app. It just happens to use web-tech. By installing it as a PWA, I can control where it goes, give it its own icon, and more, and THINK of it as an app, not a web page.
Here are two views of my own music player (a client for #Subsonic). One is a self-contained app interface. The other is...an annoying tab in my browser. Buried when I am in another tab, distracted by all the 'stuff' around it. Just...meh. If you want to keep to the tab, fine. But I find having an app be separate is more aesthetically pleasing.
Fedi.Tips 🎄
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The player looks really nice by the way, very calm 👍
Georgiana Brummell
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •@dandylover1 @jwsgeek
I'm sorry, I didn't realise. Screen reader users would indeed have a totally different perspective on this, thank you for sharing it!
Georgiana Brummell
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in reply to Georgiana Brummell • • •@dandylover1
As a Fediverse tech support account, it's really useful to hear the screen reader perspective, because I should be keeping that in mind when offering support.
One of the best things about joining the Fediverse has been discovering more about accessing the internet via audio tools like screen readers. It's a totally different approach.
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Yay, great to hear! 🥳 Have fun with BookWyrm!