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  1. Comment on Browser game recommendations in ~games

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    Haha, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Feel free to add me in-game, I can send you some items to help you get started. Screen name is the same on farmrpg as it is here.

    Haha, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! Feel free to add me in-game, I can send you some items to help you get started. Screen name is the same on farmrpg as it is here.

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  2. Comment on Browser game recommendations in ~games

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    I've been playing FarmRPG for over six months. Love the game, but for me it's the personality and the community that make it stand out from the others incremental/casual games. The development...

    I've been playing FarmRPG for over six months. Love the game, but for me it's the personality and the community that make it stand out from the others incremental/casual games. The development team is active, and it's totally free if you want it to be. I only spent some money on gold coins as a thank you to the team. (The game got me through the boredom while writing my book, that's no small feat with an ADD brain.)

    Enjoy your trip!

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  3. Comment on Need gift ideas for a seven year old girl in ~life

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    A week ago I gifted a pair of walkie talkies with great succes. She likes using them with her sister at home, but the family also started using them for practical reasons, when camping or running...

    A week ago I gifted a pair of walkie talkies with great succes. She likes using them with her sister at home, but the family also started using them for practical reasons, when camping or running errands.

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  4. Comment on How do you organize yourself? in ~life

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    Glad to read someone else who trusts the flow of time (within reason :)! Whereas most people use the metaphor of head-as-a-sieve to criticize their memory, I consider it to be a feature. My head...

    Glad to read someone else who trusts the flow of time (within reason :)! Whereas most people use the metaphor of head-as-a-sieve to criticize their memory, I consider it to be a feature. My head is in fact a sieve: it retains what needs to be retained.

    Oh, I do have a ‘done’ list that helps me to wrap up a task when it’s done.

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  6. Comment on What RSS feeds do you use for tech news? in ~tech

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    Oh, did that happen? I'm still using NetNewsWire on my Mac, downloaded from their website: https://netnewswire.com/

    Oh, did that happen? I'm still using NetNewsWire on my Mac, downloaded from their website: https://netnewswire.com/

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  7. Comment on What do you use for note taking/writing? in ~creative

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    Fellow iA Writer user here! I've used it for todo-lists and I'm using it to write a book. I love the modesty of the app. Just makes me feel like anything I put in there is good enough.

    Fellow iA Writer user here! I've used it for todo-lists and I'm using it to write a book. I love the modesty of the app. Just makes me feel like anything I put in there is good enough.

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  8. Comment on When was the golden age of the internet to you? in ~tech

    atoxje
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    I apologise if this comes over as just a comment to be controversial (it really isn't ment to be) or naive (maybe it is), but to me, this feels like the golden age of the internet. I've been...

    I apologise if this comes over as just a comment to be controversial (it really isn't ment to be) or naive (maybe it is), but to me, this feels like the golden age of the internet.

    I've been online since the mid nineties, living through the irc/geocities/myspace/FB years, so that's a bit my frame of reference. And during these years, never has the abundance of kind human beings and great quality content felt so overwhelming as it does today.

    It probably helps I have managed to build myself a little business on the internet, big enough to make a living for me and my partner, and that would not have been possible without the innovations of the last few years like creator subscriptions & social media.

    Of course, I recognise the downside of all these innovations as well. Aside from Tildes and Reddit, I'm not personally active on other social media platforms anymore because they make me sad. But making that choice I also discovered how much beauty there is to be found outside of these walled gardens. To my eye more than ever before.

    I hope it gets even better. I hope every human manages to find a way to fit the internet in their lives to not make it feel like a drag. I hope beautiful people keep investing in the internet, by letting their voices be heard. And I hope money and/or government won't be able to smother those voices.

    I'm looking outside and the sun is shining. Maybe I'm just having a really good day.

  9. Comment on What are we in the golden age of? in ~talk

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    O wow, I love this question so much it triggers me to stop lurking and type my first ever response on Tildes. Thank you! I would say we're in the golden age of voices. I heard it said by Sonya...
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    O wow, I love this question so much it triggers me to stop lurking and type my first ever response on Tildes. Thank you!

    I would say we're in the golden age of voices. I heard it said by Sonya Renee Taylor on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast: never before have we had access to so many different voices. I looked it up, because she phrases is so beautifully, so here's her exact quote:

    What’s the gift of this moment right now is that we have been born into a time unlike any other time before where we have the tools and mechanisms to at a massive scale dispel the lie. That’s the gift. There is no other point in history where a black queer woman and all y’all wonderful white folks will be on a Zoom, get ready to talk to however many millions of people listen to your podcast to interrupt this story that has gone on for centuries. We are in a moment of gift that hasn’t existed before. So actually I’m like, yes, of course we all got it and something in the ether said this is the perfect time for us to all get off that train.

    Src: https://momastery.com/blog/we-can-do-hard-things-ep-168/

    (Of course, that means a lot of voices I strongly disagree with are also more prevalent, but I love the positive focus of your question so I happily refrain from elaborating on that front.)

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