Retail stores ending physical media sales is disastrous for everybody. Even if you don't use physical media, you should see why the move to all digital content is bad precedent.

Remember when Google closed Inbox by Gmail and promised that the features would be migrated into Gmail within the year?

I'll say it. Original Google+ was one of the most wholesome social media platforms ever.

For those who are interested, @potus is now sharing to the Fediverse #uspoli

I'm don't always watch as many podcasts as I would like to, but I try to stay subscribed to Club Twit when it's feasible to do so because I first saw The Screensavers in college, and I've loved it since. I remember when Revenge of the Screen Savers first dropped, and I was hooked. I'm just one person in Massachusetts but the network has been a lot to me. :) #clubtwit #thisweekintech

Humble has a really good knitting bundle for sale for the next week. https://www.humblebundle.com/books/knitting-and-mochimochi-open-road-media-books #knitting

Absolutely loving the Threadiverse sharing but what I'm loving even more is seeing all the Threads developers being so excited about ActivityPub. Hopefully Bluesky will implement some sort of native AT/ActivityPub bridge too so Threads users can be followed in BSky too.

If you look on Google Maps, you can get a street view walking tour of the Iraqi National Museum, which is pretty fascinating. https://www.google.com/maps/place/33%C2%B019'41.1%22N+44%C2%B023'06.6%22E/@33.3280779,44.3844126,18z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d33.3280766!4d44.3851781?entry=ttu
#museums #history #streetview