Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 - 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state.

I like Koreader. It’s a pain for the first hour of setup, but it runs so much faster than the other ones I’ve tried: Moon+, Aldiko, and a couple of open source ones that bugged out too often.

I’m waiting got hbomberguy to come back.

May be the wrong thread for this, but isn’t it really common for people to not even know that have aphantasia?

I’m imagining the whole community from The Giver, where people didn’t know that they

and they didn’t even realize.

This wins the thread for me. shudders

I support content creators being able to make a living in the fediverse (without enshittifying it).

So… good luck. I hope you find a healthy way to go about it.

Shouldn’t you have talked to them before starting the non-profit?

I do not claim to have any expertise (and defo not an accountant), but that sounds backwards to me.

I’d have skimmed a transcript, but I noped out of Instagram reel.

revenue share or something for content creators

Where’s the revenue coming from? The content creators paying to store their own videos?

I remember someone tried to monetize Mastodon feeds like Substacks or something.

It didn’t last long.

I can’t imagine any way to monetize content other than individual Patreons or collective subscriptions (like Nebula, Curiosity Stream and whatever Linus Tech Tips thing is called Floatplane).

My cat ignores me if I meow or talk to him.

But as soon as I get on the phone with anyone else…

Modern Disney princess:

“I wanna be… where the people aren’t.”

For people in the future who find this post, I found a video that I can think explores this question really well: Who Can Write Whose Story?

Like a middle school Wikipedia book report, I’ve picked out some of his sources as being particularly accessible/helpful:

• Alexander Chee’s How to Unlearn Everything
• Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang. (NYT paywalled) (transcript on rentry)
• Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward (book, so no link, but you can find it online)

For people in the future who find this post, I found a video that I can think explores this question really well: Who Can Write Whose Story?

Like a middle school Wikipedia book report, I’ve picked out some of his sources as being particularly accessible/helpful:

• Alexander Chee’s How to Unlearn Everything
• Who Can Write About What? A Conversation With Roxane Gay and Jay Caspian Kang. (NYT paywalled) (transcript on rentry)
• Writing the Other by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward (book, so no link, but you can find it online)

Ate without table -3

Sometimes what you’re feeling needs so many words to express that a thousand just isn’t enough.

*ahem*

I mean…

On one hand, consumption of pirate IPTV services in Sweden has dropped two points, from 16% of all households in 2024 to 14% in 2025. On the other, 30% of over 15-year-olds consume content illegally every month, a figure that rises to over 50% among men under 35.

I hate when they just throw statistics at you like this.

30% of all Swedish people over 15.
50% of all Swedish men under 35.
14% of all Swedish households.

… I think? Does IPTV = all pirated content?

Edit: formatting

Slowed down

Like pacing? Or literally .75x speed?

Edit: nevermind. Bro literally said .9x speed.

Without knowing more about you, it’s hard to say anything for sure. I can make a bunch of guesses.

One possibility: you didn’t cultivate your relationships as well as you thought. A lot of guys sink all of their “intimate relationship energy” into their partner, instead of spreading some out to friends and family members.

Maybe your ex ran a successful long-term hit campaign on you. That would fit with the cheating and the emotional abuse.

Maybe it’s due to the period of life that your friends are in. If everyone’s in their early 30s, they’re probably dealing with climate change, economic stress, children, etc. Doesn’t leave a lot of emotional bandwidth for someone you don’t already have deep ties with.

Maybe it’s a broader cultural thing. Guys tend to get the short end of the stick in general with breakups. We still don’t teach boys and men to explicitly emotionally support each other. We still don’t, as a society, emotionally support boys and men in general. Single dads get custody far less often, etc etc.

I’m not blaming you or exonerating you. Your situation sucks and knowing all the possible whys and wherefores probably won’t help you as much as figuring out what to do next.