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  1. New blog post.

    Local-first iOS apps respecting privacy and not treating users and their data as a commodity are rare and few. I have been cataloging such apps, and here’s a list.

    If you know of other similar mobile apps, please share them. Thanks!

    jsynowiec.github.io/posts/apps

    #DataPortability #PrivacyFirst #NoTracking #iOS #iPadOS #app #LocaFirst #PrivacyMatters #mobileApp #recommendations

  2. Anyone here who has signed up for a Cambridge (or similar institution) online course before? Are they fun? I need to learn something new. #recommendations welcome up to max 150£ #brainrot #remotelearning #remote #course #immatriculations #krankenbett #langweilig #literature #arthistory #marinebiology #FollowerPower

  3. Anyone here who has signed up for a Cambridge (or similar institution) online course before? Are they fun? I need to learn something new. #recommendations welcome up to max 150£ #brainrot #remotelearning #remote #course #immatriculations #krankenbett #langweilig #literature #arthistory #marinebiology #FollowerPower

  4. Anyone here who has signed up for a Cambridge (or similar institution) online course before? Are they fun? I need to learn something new. #recommendations welcome up to max 150£ #brainrot #remotelearning #remote #course #immatriculations #krankenbett #langweilig #literature #arthistory #marinebiology #FollowerPower

  5. Anyone here who has signed up for a Cambridge (or similar institution) online course before? Are they fun? I need to learn something new. #recommendations welcome up to max 150£ #brainrot #remotelearning #remote #course #immatriculations #krankenbett #langweilig #literature #arthistory #marinebiology #FollowerPower

  6. Looking for #recommendations for #usb #wideband #radio #receiver please. Interested in #VLF up to a few #GHz, mostly want to hear #sferics, #hamradio, #shortwave, #solar, #jovian and any curiosities besides.

    Would one single #SDR receiver span all that comfortably? Could it be used with some sort of computer visualisation software to watch the passband go by over time?

    Got my #RSGB M-class callsign over 20 years ago, now curious about RF again :)

    TYVM

  7. @gimulnautti @lisamelton I know its swimming upstream around here, but this smacks of privilege.
    Whether its contacts or tech knowledge, not everyone can find what they want for their feed so easily. *most* of the people I've invited to Mastodon have bounced off because they can't find anyone to follow easily and there's no algorithm to feed them starter accounts.
    We all need to not harass people for wanting something that makes their lives easier.
    #socialMedia #recommendations #onboarding

  8. When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

    Hello beautiful people! Welcome to a new review! For this review, I get into horror writer Nat Cassidy’s creepy and hard-to-put-down book, When the Wolf Comes Home. While not the first of his reads I have picked up, I really enjoyed this one and found it to be unique, scary, and riveting. It made me really look forward to checking out more of his books in the future.

    Main Characters

    Jess: Our main girl and, honestly, one of my favourite parts of this book, she’s messy, flawed, and emotional. Her empathy drives a lot of her decisions, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. When Jess meets the boy, she is brought into a horror scene she never expected. In an attempt to save him, she is pushed to intense limits and is forced to put herself in danger to try and help save the day.

    The boy: Running away from a monster, the boy crosses paths with Jess, and is forced to face his fears in no way a child ever should, but he also has much more control than we may suspect.

    Cookie: Jess’s mother, who, while maybe not always the best mom, pulls through for her daughter when it’s needed the most.

    The man:  The boy’s father, who follows Jess and him in an attempt to get him back, however, follows at a distance due to the danger that follows his son.

    My Review

    As mentioned before, I’ve checked out some of Nat Cassidy’s other books and found them to be scary, but extremely enjoyable. When the Wolf Comes Home is an action-filled, thrilling novel, filled with horror and some people’s worst nightmares. The characters are enjoyable (and sometimes aggravating), but the plot itself is unique, and unlike anything I’ve ever dived into before. I gave it an 8/10 rating overall and am looking forward to diving into more of Cassidy’s spooky tales in the future.

    The story follows Jess as she gets pulled into a deeply unsettling and increasingly terrifying situation involving a young boy and something not quite right. What starts as concern quickly turns into something much darker, with reality bending in ways that feel both surreal and way too real at the same time. As things escalate, the book leans hard into fear, what it does to us, how it changes us, and the choices we make when we’re pushed to our limits. Jess is forced to fight her greatest fears to protect the boy, but she also questions if she can really protect him from himself, or the realities of his world. The boy must question if he can fight off the monsters that haunt him, or crumble to the fear of his reality and what is chasing him.

    As mentioned before, I’ve checked out other books of Cassidy’s, and when When the Wolf Comes Home came across my way, I knew I had to check it out. I saw lots of positive reviews and felt like it lived up to the hype for sure. This book is so unique. Like, genuinely nothing I’ve read before. The plot is wild in a way that somehow still works and makes sense, and I was completely locked in watching it unfold. The creativity here is insane, and the way everything comes together? So satisfying. It’s heartbreaking at different points, intense in others, but also loving and sweet in others. It has its gory parts, and some areas are a bit harder to stomach, but if you read lots of horror like I do, it’s really nothing crazy.

    It’s fast-paced, emotional, and straight-up creepy. Not just surface-level scary, either, it gets under your skin. The kind of book where you feel uneasy even when nothing is technically happening because you are just waiting for that other shoe to drop. What really stood out to me is how much it focuses on fear. Not just the classic there’s something scary chasing you theme, but how fear actually changes people. The decisions, the reactions, the spiral, it all felt very intentional and honestly a little too real at times.

    Jess carried this book for me. I loved her. She’s not perfect, and that’s exactly why she works so well. Her empathy, even when it complicates things, made everything hit harder emotionally. And yeah, the kid can be annoying, but in a way that makes sense. He’s a child dealing with trauma, and the book doesn’t shy away from that. If anything, it adds to the emotional weight.

    This is not a feel-good book. Like, at all. My heart hurt more than once. But it’s a damn good one.

    I had such a good time with this, and it definitely solidified that I need to keep reading more from Nat Cassidy.

    Has anyone else checked out When the Wolf Comes Home, or any other of Nat Cassidy’s reads? What did you think, and what others would you recommend?

    Thank you for checking out this review! I hope you enjoyed! Feel free to subscribe to the page on the bottom of the site to be one of the first to know when I post a new review.

    #bookReview #horrorBookReview #thrillerBookReview #bookBlogger #books #bookLover #fictionBooks #fictionBookReview #Fiction #BookBlog #ThrillerBooks #HorrorBook #BookReviewPage #HorrorBooks #HorrorBookReader #ThrillerBook #BookBlogs #BookReviews #Review #Reading #BookReader #BookPosts #BookRecommendations #HorrorBookReviews #HorrorNovels #Reader #Book #Recommendations #BookPost #Horror #BookOpinion #BookBlogging #WhenTheWolfComesHome #NatCassidy #WhenTheWolfComesHomeByNatCassidy #NatCassidyReview #WhenTheWolfComesHomeReview
  9. When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy

    Hello beautiful people! Welcome to a new review! For this review, I get into horror writer Nat Cassidy’s creepy and hard-to-put-down book, When the Wolf Comes Home. While not the first of his reads I have picked up, I really enjoyed this one and found it to be unique, scary, and riveting. It made me really look forward to checking out more of his books in the future.

    Main Characters

    Jess: Our main girl and, honestly, one of my favourite parts of this book, she’s messy, flawed, and emotional. Her empathy drives a lot of her decisions, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. When Jess meets the boy, she is brought into a horror scene she never expected. In an attempt to save him, she is pushed to intense limits and is forced to put herself in danger to try and help save the day.

    The boy: Running away from a monster, the boy crosses paths with Jess, and is forced to face his fears in no way a child ever should, but he also has much more control than we may suspect.

    Cookie: Jess’s mother, who, while maybe not always the best mom, pulls through for her daughter when it’s needed the most.

    The man:  The boy’s father, who follows Jess and him in an attempt to get him back, however, follows at a distance due to the danger that follows his son.

    My Review

    As mentioned before, I’ve checked out some of Nat Cassidy’s other books and found them to be scary, but extremely enjoyable. When the Wolf Comes Home is an action-filled, thrilling novel, filled with horror and some people’s worst nightmares. The characters are enjoyable (and sometimes aggravating), but the plot itself is unique, and unlike anything I’ve ever dived into before. I gave it an 8/10 rating overall and am looking forward to diving into more of Cassidy’s spooky tales in the future.

    The story follows Jess as she gets pulled into a deeply unsettling and increasingly terrifying situation involving a young boy and something not quite right. What starts as concern quickly turns into something much darker, with reality bending in ways that feel both surreal and way too real at the same time. As things escalate, the book leans hard into fear, what it does to us, how it changes us, and the choices we make when we’re pushed to our limits. Jess is forced to fight her greatest fears to protect the boy, but she also questions if she can really protect him from himself, or the realities of his world. The boy must question if he can fight off the monsters that haunt him, or crumble to the fear of his reality and what is chasing him.

    As mentioned before, I’ve checked out other books of Cassidy’s, and when When the Wolf Comes Home came across my way, I knew I had to check it out. I saw lots of positive reviews and felt like it lived up to the hype for sure. This book is so unique. Like, genuinely nothing I’ve read before. The plot is wild in a way that somehow still works and makes sense, and I was completely locked in watching it unfold. The creativity here is insane, and the way everything comes together? So satisfying. It’s heartbreaking at different points, intense in others, but also loving and sweet in others. It has its gory parts, and some areas are a bit harder to stomach, but if you read lots of horror like I do, it’s really nothing crazy.

    It’s fast-paced, emotional, and straight-up creepy. Not just surface-level scary, either, it gets under your skin. The kind of book where you feel uneasy even when nothing is technically happening because you are just waiting for that other shoe to drop. What really stood out to me is how much it focuses on fear. Not just the classic there’s something scary chasing you theme, but how fear actually changes people. The decisions, the reactions, the spiral, it all felt very intentional and honestly a little too real at times.

    Jess carried this book for me. I loved her. She’s not perfect, and that’s exactly why she works so well. Her empathy, even when it complicates things, made everything hit harder emotionally. And yeah, the kid can be annoying, but in a way that makes sense. He’s a child dealing with trauma, and the book doesn’t shy away from that. If anything, it adds to the emotional weight.

    This is not a feel-good book. Like, at all. My heart hurt more than once. But it’s a damn good one.

    I had such a good time with this, and it definitely solidified that I need to keep reading more from Nat Cassidy.

    Has anyone else checked out When the Wolf Comes Home, or any other of Nat Cassidy’s reads? What did you think, and what others would you recommend?

    Thank you for checking out this review! I hope you enjoyed! Feel free to subscribe to the page on the bottom of the site to be one of the first to know when I post a new review.

    #Book #BookBlog #bookBlogger #BookBlogging #BookBlogs #bookLover #BookOpinion #BookPost #BookPosts #BookReader #BookRecommendations #bookReview #BookReviewPage #BookReviews #books #Fiction #fictionBookReview #fictionBooks #Horror #HorrorBook #HorrorBookReader #horrorBookReview #HorrorBookReviews #HorrorBooks #HorrorNovels #NatCassidy #NatCassidyReview #Reader #Reading #Recommendations #Review #ThrillerBook #thrillerBookReview #ThrillerBooks #WhenTheWolfComesHome #WhenTheWolfComesHomeByNatCassidy #WhenTheWolfComesHomeReview
  10. The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:

    Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming

    by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff

    The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.

    The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.

    Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"

    🔗 doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420

    3/3 🧵

    #recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ

  11. The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:

    Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming

    by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff

    The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.

    The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.

    Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"

    🔗 doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420

    3/3 🧵

    #recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ

  12. The second one is an academic article with an incredible title:

    Enacting the Anti-fascist Body: Somaterapia as Collective Liberatory Becoming

    by a philosopher with an incredible name: Aragorn Eloff

    The article is about somaterapia, a Brazilian anti-fascist body practice aimed at healing the effects of fascism. The idea is that fascism in its cultural form manifests in the body in the form of micro-fascisms: muscular armour, stooped shoulders, fear of intimacy, et cetera. Somaterapia is a practical and radical way of dealing with not just these symptoms, but of rooting fascism out from the source by creating healthier ways of worlding.

    The article explores all of this through the lens of the enactive approach to cognition, and I love the way it introduces and explains the various facets of enactivism necessary for understanding someterapia. It is truly a dialogue between two seemingly disparate practices, done in such a way as to enrich both sides.

    Favourite quote: "joyful senses are not created if there is no revolt and insurgency in the face of what makes us mediocre"

    🔗 doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0420

    3/3 🧵

    #recommendations #recommendation #philosophy #AcademicPhilosophy #somaterapia #fascism #antifascism #enactivism #microfascism #EmbodiedActivism #activism #worlding #SenseMaking #tesaõ

  13. Now that I’ve had an excellent RSS reader recommendation (commafeed.com) from @meljoann, what are some #blogs folks would recommend around retro design, kitschy stuff, niche collecting (beer mats, menus, that kind of thing) and photography (into William Eggleston, Martin Parr and Cindy Sherman)?

    #Blog #RSS #Niche #Weird #Kitsch #RetroDesign #Photography #Collecting #Oddities #Recommendations

  14. They say you shouldn't fall in love with three people at the same time but I listened to 'The Record' from #Boygenius and it was out of my hands.

    #Album #Music #Recommendations

  15. They say you shouldn't fall in love with three people at the same time but I listened to 'The Record' from #Boygenius and it was out of my hands.

    #Album #Music #Recommendations

  16. They say you shouldn't fall in love with three people at the same time but I listened to 'The Record' from #Boygenius and it was out of my hands.

    #Album #Music #Recommendations

  17. They say you shouldn't fall in love with three people at the same time but I listened to 'The Record' from and it was out of my hands.

  18. They say you shouldn't fall in love with three people at the same time but I listened to 'The Record' from #Boygenius and it was out of my hands.

    #Album #Music #Recommendations

  19. Salut les expert⋅es de Mastodon ! Avez-vous des #reco #recommendations pour utiliser #dolibarr en SaaS ? Quelle entreprise de confiance proposerait ce service ? @dolibarr

  20. Salut les expert⋅es de Mastodon ! Avez-vous des #reco #recommendations pour utiliser #dolibarr en SaaS ? Quelle entreprise de confiance proposerait ce service ? @dolibarr

  21. Salut les expert⋅es de Mastodon ! Avez-vous des #reco #recommendations pour utiliser #dolibarr en SaaS ? Quelle entreprise de confiance proposerait ce service ? @dolibarr

  22. Salut les expert⋅es de Mastodon ! Avez-vous des #reco #recommendations pour utiliser #dolibarr en SaaS ? Quelle entreprise de confiance proposerait ce service ? @dolibarr

  23. Salut les expert⋅es de Mastodon ! Avez-vous des #reco #recommendations pour utiliser #dolibarr en SaaS ? Quelle entreprise de confiance proposerait ce service ? @dolibarr

  24. When Gracie Met The Grump “It hurts my feelings that I’m right here, that you’re right there, and you still think that you’re ever going to be alone again.” Sale: $5.99 to FREE by Mariana Zapata Rating: 4.5/5 (14,011 Reviews) #SlowBurn #Romance #Superhero #Books #Recommendations #Grump #BookSky

    When Gracie Met The Grump

  25. What is some HEAVY heavy metal with crispy/clean guitar vs grungy/sludgy; any vocals but maybe not full screamo, and not-super-dark lyrics? (Asking for my little sister who is even more... nerdy and introverted... than I am! lol)

    #heavymetal #music #musicrecs #boostsOK #recommendations

  26. #flashlights crud - i lost my #edc flashlight last night, a sofirn SP10 that is no longer stocked at Amazon. What’s comparable and in stock in the us? I liked being able to swap the rechargeable battery with a standard AA, small form factor, and Advanced settings. USB-c charging, no proprietary dongle chargers. Non-tacticool black exterior so I can find it in my bag easier is a plus. #askfedi #recommendations

  27. CW: Recommendations, grooming appliances

    Hello people who shave their face
    Do you have an electric shaving thingy for your face
    Is it good?
    Would you recommend it?

    I have never shaved my face so I have no idea what's good beyond those weird meat grinder-looking shiny chrome tech ads from the 90s

    Thanks 👍
    #shaving #groomingtips #shavers #recommendations #shopping #giftsformen #masc #manscaping

  28. Any more pillow recs around..?
    Think I'll be buying this week. Another two-day headache... May be nothing to do with it but.
    #recommendations #sleep #bedding #pillows
    med-mastodon.com/@noodlemaz/11

  29. My best friend is at a nursing home with a brain tumor. His family asked me to turn his TV into a picture frame when it is not in use. I'v set up an old Intel NUC with #opensuse and #Syncthing to maintain a folder with pictures to be displayed. Can anyone suggest a good #slideshow program?
    It must support smooth transitions and automatic startup, and be able to detect if new content is added or removed from the folder. #linux #photography #recommendations

  30. Read a lovely story in @clarkesworld just now: "We Begin Where Infinity Ends," by Somto Ihezue.

    It's about children saving fireflies ... and navigating the tricky waters of friendship, rivalry, misunderstanding, and love:

    #ssf #ShortStories #recommendations

    clarkesworldmagazine.com/ihezu

  31. Okay, last doubler for the #31DaysOfHorror #recommendations for you @horror fans.

    First up, The Gate. A classic ‘80s horror that is fairly child-friendly, but also nightmare fuel.

    Second, Head Count, which is a teen horror that keeps things creepy and tense, instead of outright horrifying, but really deserves more eyes on it.

    #film #filmastodon #TheGate #HeadCount

  32. Okay, last doubler for the #31DaysOfHorror #recommendations for you @horror fans.

    First up, The Gate. A classic ‘80s horror that is fairly child-friendly, but also nightmare fuel.

    Second, Head Count, which is a teen horror that keeps things creepy and tense, instead of outright horrifying, but really deserves more eyes on it.

    #film #filmastodon #TheGate #HeadCount

  33. Okay, last doubler for the #31DaysOfHorror #recommendations for you @horror fans.

    First up, The Gate. A classic ‘80s horror that is fairly child-friendly, but also nightmare fuel.

    Second, Head Count, which is a teen horror that keeps things creepy and tense, instead of outright horrifying, but really deserves more eyes on it.

    #film #filmastodon #TheGate #HeadCount

  34. Okay, last doubler for the #31DaysOfHorror #recommendations for you @horror fans.

    First up, The Gate. A classic ‘80s horror that is fairly child-friendly, but also nightmare fuel.

    Second, Head Count, which is a teen horror that keeps things creepy and tense, instead of outright horrifying, but really deserves more eyes on it.

    #film #filmastodon #TheGate #HeadCount

  35. Okay, last doubler for the #31DaysOfHorror #recommendations for you @horror fans.

    First up, The Gate. A classic ‘80s horror that is fairly child-friendly, but also nightmare fuel.

    Second, Head Count, which is a teen horror that keeps things creepy and tense, instead of outright horrifying, but really deserves more eyes on it.

    #film #filmastodon #TheGate #HeadCount