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Nicola
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Owned by a cat, does stuff with needles & thread, writes, and usually covered in ink & cat fur. Chronic pain wrangler
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Matthew Malthouse
@matthiasott Me too, Rick Beato has such a wealth of information and is such a good interviewer. It’s wonderful to hear him chat with bands and producers I’ve loved all my life and see the thought behind the music. I’ve also got into Drumeo recently - never even touched a drum kit, but it is fascinating to see how their process works
solarbirdgoogle’s latest fuckery: if you write online, read this
The Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.
Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.
Oh, it’s not?
If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.
For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:
solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.netYes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.
Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.
(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)
Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.
Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.
@purplepadma No anxiety is particularly brilliant! Hooray for good things
@_psee How did it work for you? I am currently on Week 4 and it is a tough one!
I’m currently working through “The Artist’s Way” and I’ve got to the week where you have to not read anything - so you don’t have distractions filling your brain instead of creative ideas and I’m really struggling with it, especially because I listen to audio books when I am doing my embroidery. Anyone else done #TAW #TheArtistsWay ?
ErrantScienceIs it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit đź“š
I cleaned out my craft shed and came across various spiders increasingly bigger in size until I found one that was so big, I called it sir as it ran at me and the hoover.
Looking forward to what he’s going to make from my supplies - maybe some nice crochet or whip up a cape?
Looking forward to what he’s going to make from my supplies - maybe some nice crochet or whip up a cape?
Sarah BrownBritish middle class: These far right riots were disgusting! Where were the police while all this was going on?
Rage Against The Machine: Was there some lack of clarity on our part?