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Does anyone here know of any apps which gives user-definable flashcards which they can use to disclose access needs like "I've become non-verbal, please type with me" etc? A friend used to have one but can't find it now.

We know of Stickman Communication cards, but this friend is looking for an app. Any genuine ideas welcomed.

Just catching up with #LongLostFamily and something that struck me is that everyone talks about siblings.
Never really hear people talk about brothers and sisters.
I know siblings is correct terminology, but it sounds/seems so impersonal!
Don't know where I'm going with this just thoughts after a couple of glasses of wine!
Have a good weekend everybody.
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Scarborough beach getting some banksy inspired sand art.
By Fred Brown.
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And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.

#noQuotes #MastodonCulture #JoanMastodon #IAndTHou

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i've had a while to think about this. here's my personal policy:
* i will quoot to add a CW (already doing this)
* I won't be adding any other "context" when I quoot.
* I will block anyone who uses quooting to do a "look at this idiot" (edit: probably even if they are an idiot)
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@Fish Id Wardrobe @the roamer
The word 'quoot' is very coot.
I find it useful in two other ways: translating when the original is in another language - this might include adding context where necessary, actually. And sharing beyond what can be federated (Friendica federates with Diaspora and Mastodon, but they don't federate with each other).

On my walk around the local nature reserve this morning, I saw a lot of wind fallen pears, I was going to call them crab pears, but apparently crab pears are very similar in looks to crab apples.
I didn't pick any of the windfalls up, as they are very hard and bitter to taste (tried this a couple of years ago!)

#LongtonBrickcroft
#NatureReserve
#Pears
#Windfalls

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I'm confused.

Is it M & Ms or Ms & Ms?

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Out of the mouth of a man-baby.

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Okay since the Fedi guppy groups are gone and the new groups are still very small, I'm doing a new #introduction

I'm Mar, a future SFF and #historicalfiction indie author who reads Arabic, Chinese, English and French. I post a lot about #medieval #history and the books that I'm writing.

I also have a blog that I sometimes post on for longer historical musings.

I know about @histodons and @militaryhistory and am looking to #follow more historical and writer accounts.

Boosts are appreciated.

A leading Lancashire Reform UK councillor calls on a council to make flags on roundabouts official.

Or as I think, he says it is OK to drive roughshod over the flag!

BBC News - Lancashire Reform councillor calls for 'official' roundabout St George's flags - BBC News

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpq521…

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People who keep saying "We can't put the toothpaste back in the tube" in regards to AI - Why? Because of economics? Slavery and child labour were both incredibly good for the people who used them, and we put BOTH OF THOSE back in the tube. Non-greed based decisions are possible.

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Zealots gather round
and get your political
hyperbole on

Today's game
is pin the blame
not on the murderous
psycho terrorist
but instead we deflect
toward the extreme elements
from the other side
who like us
anointed influencers
use flammable
hateful rhetoric
for wealth and fame
to skewer
our pissed off opposition

Just like the poor bastard
who got wasted
for nothing more
than angry words
that killer social outcasts
who roll unhinged
take literally

Sticks and stones my ass

#poetry #poem #amwriting

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Everyone should be held to the same standards.
in reply to George Takei 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Alternatives to MSNBC:
The BBC
Deutsche Welle
Euronews
Die Ziet
Aljazeera
NL Times
The Economist
Jacobin
The International Herald Tribune
The Christian Science Monitor

If you don’t like sensationalistic, one-sided news, don’t sell your eyeballs and personal information to their advertisers.

It’s like that game older siblings play, “why are you hitting yourself?” Change the effin channel

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Cost Defective

stgreenie.wordpress.com/2025/0…

#poetry #poem #amwriting

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Rather surprised to continually learn from online headlines that Charlie Kirk was killed ", age 31."

How many headline writers found this noteworthy? And how many of them quoted, in the headlines they crafted, their ages at death of innumerable schoolchildren murdered in mass shootings at U.S. schools - human sacrifices on the altar of the #NRA's shibboleth, the #2A?

#Trump #GOP #MAGA #USpol

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This is indeed true but there is such pressure these days to shift orthodoxy ever more to the Right, indeed to build a House extension in which to re-site the Overton Window that I find it useful to listen occasionally to the quiet voice of the young lad pointing out the Emperor's naturist tendencies...

#NoKings

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RIP Melissa and Mark Hortman, assassinated on June 14, along with their beloved dog Gilbert.
Gilbert was trained to be a service dog but was let go from the program because he was “too friendly.”

Where was the outrage then? Were was the outrage for the Minneapolis shooting? Were was the outrage for the Colorado shooting? Why is Charlie Kirk's murder a "political assassination" but no one is saying that about the Hortmans?

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Kombucha


I'm trying to make my own Kombucha.
This is the second attempt as the first was trying to make my own scoby, and it didn't work out!
I then bought a proper scoby and have just started the process, hopefully in a week or so I will have my first batch, 🤞!

#Kombucha
#KombuchaTea
#Scoby