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I got a pair of Xero shoes. ⬅️follow the link to learn more from their (EU)site. (US store here.) Xero shoes are designed to be as little 'there' as possible, offering your feet to go outside as if you're walking barefoot, yet with some protection. I walked on them a few times and I really feel the difference. The longest, until this morning, was 3km / 2 miles. I could feel my feet after that,…

English text further down, please scroll a bit! De EU wil een enorme inbreuk op de privacy van burgers plegen. Ik ben het hier volstrekt niet mee eens. Wil je dit ook niet, stuur dan een mail aan BRE@minbuza.nl. Wil je meer doen? Verder naar beneden staat een Engelse tekst die gestuurd kan worden naar de waarnemers van de EU zelf. Beste lezer, Ik wil mijn grote zorgen uitspreken over de ideeën van de EU…

In the fediverse, of which Mastodon is a large part, it is very much appreciated when you add alt-text to an image. You know, the additional work you do for the vision impaired people who can't see the image, but who can form an idea based on your added (alt) text. Thank you for adding it. Sometimes, though, an image contains a lot of text, or the image is quite complex, and typing all that…

Today I closed my oldest twitter account. Over 12 years worth of time there, gone. And it's good. Twitter was and is getting more radical, hate-prone and right-wing by the day. I spent less and less time there, as it was a waste of time, energy and emotional well-being. It's a strange feeling, after all that time, but also liberating. Reason to pull that plug now is Musk's announcement to take twitter out of the…

Please join atheists who have chosen the date of May 5th to remember our nine million sisters of the burning times; the 500 year period also referred to as the Holocaust of Women. Women were burned alive along with their children after being sexually assaulted and tortured by the Catholic Church. - Julia Bruno and Karen Ruth Jungwirth

A new post on the Mastodon tag. Ilja was very quick to respond, and soon I had my own instance up and running. It involved a few technical steps: deciding on the subdomain of a domain I already own (I have several, so that was a bit of a dice game), and adding a "CNAME" DNS record to that domain. That was basically all. Well, that, and making sure Ilja gets reimbursed for the cost…

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the bible.

This site doesn't uses trackers like Google Analytics etc. The only tracking might come from the Disqus add-on. It's up to you to use that or not - I can't switch their tracking off.

Keeping Mastodon friendly for others There are many vision-impaired people on Mastodon / the Fediverse. Just like in the real world out there. For those, there are special screenreaders that read out the posts and toots, which is great. For that reason, Mastodon instances offer the option to add text to images, and everyone's encouraged to do so. If a screenreader only says "image" or not even that when going over your post, that takes…

I've discovered a few wonderful search engines. Most of the world goes to Google or Bing, but for those who don't like the tracking: Displays good results and each search lets you help in planting trees. Find them at https://ecosia.org Family-friendly results, fast responses. SwissCows also has an add-on for Firefox, and other browsers. They also offer email, VPN and a phone protection system (didn't go into that). About the 'family friendly results': Swisscows doesn't…