If you're having trouble with phones breaking, or you just want a good case for your phone, get a Spigen "tough armor" case. I've dropped my Pixel 3 XL like at least a 100 times in the past 5 years I've had it, and haven't broken the screen once. Maybe it is anecdotal and I've just gotten wildly lucky. Or maybe this phone case is actually really fucking good.

OK lovely internet ppl, what’s your #rec for domain name registrars these days? I mainly need .com & .net (& I only have a handful left these days)

I’d prefer somewhere privacy-focused, in a not-terrible jurisdiction, & I’m def not looking for super-cheapy bottom-feeders with dark patterns - I’m happy to pay a fair price

I’ve mostly been using Gandi but can’t justify their prices any more

I won’t use GoDaddy

#boost4reach pls

OK folks, I’m on the hunt for a better #mastodon #iOS client yet again so would appreciate your #recs…

#boost4reach pls

apps I’ve previously tried & rejected / annoy me for various reasons:

• Ice Cubes: my current “least bad” option but parts of the UX are unfathomable to me (e.g. a special “select text” mode that allows you to select text from a toot rather than just letting you… select the text that’s already visible) no option to display toots in the notification list the same way they are in any other feed view, they’re always tiny w/ tiny images (this is common across most apps, but I use post notifications as my primary “seeing what ppl I find most interesting are up to” feed so it’s a real grinch for me), supports markdown when displaying toots, but strips all markdown if you need to edit a toot…  
• web app on mobile browser: lots of reasons, some of which are to do with my browser security choices (I will not be taking any questions on this choice)  
• Toot! I love this app for its whimsy & cute UI, but it hasn’t been updated in ~2 years & is ∴ missing support for some recent features & likely riddled w/ security vulns, no markdown support one of the very few apps that display toots in the notification list the same way they are in any other feed view (if you know the Toot! dev, pls tell them I will happily throw $$ & contributions / effort at them to help get it up-to-date & maintained)  
• Ivory: buggy since a recent update (doesn’t fetch older mentions nor cache the recent mentions it does fetch ), plus a long-standing annoyance at the way they implement in-app filtering w/ no ability to edit the built-in masto filters, and I find the options they offer for notification filtering / dispos display to be too inflexible, no markdown support no option to display toots in the notification list the same way they are in any other feed view  
• Mona: can’t recall why, but it never clicked w/ me during the trial & the non-paid version is too feature-limited for me to work out if it’s worth paying the $20 / $30 paid options, no markdown support (if this is your strong #rec, pls let me know what the “killer features” are for you ) 
• Mastodon: pretty basic, probably an acceptable option if it offered a bit more customisation, no markdown support

so… is there anything left (that’s good)?

#boost4reach pls

https://www.cyclingeu.com/582665/moldova-newbike-mtb-fyp%e3%82%b7%e3%82%9aviral-bikelife-rec-cooking/ #moldova #newbike #mtb #fypシ゚viral #bikelife #rec #cooking #Bicycling #Biking #Cycling #CyclingMoldova #Moldova

“Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159…”?

#Doom / #games #rec #programer / #NonEuclidean / #compiler / #software / #mch2022 <https://youtube.com/watch?v=_ZSFRWJCUY4>

#Rec #FicRec #SVSSS #BingQiu

Poll: would you read the peerless cucumber transmigration romance?
by envyenvy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59957209

➤ it's an outside pov fic consisting of a chat between pidw friends in a discord specifically for discussing Peerless Cucumber

➤ Peerless Cucumber has reappeared after being absent from the internet for a year, and he wants to commission art of himself and his husband in sqq x lbh cosplay

➤ cue the chat going wild

➤ it's SO FUNNY and so much fun, I love this fic both in premise and execution, chef's kiss

➤ 2.4k words

#Rec #StoryRec #ShortStory #Novelette

We Shall Drink Wine
By Andrew K Hoe

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/we-shall-drink-wine/

➤ a fantasy novelette set in a historical china, and holy shit it is SO SO SO GOOD

➤ about two sword-brothers, meeting again after decades apart

➤ the way the story circles around itself over and over again, uncovering new layers each time, new complexities, new details about what happened and what is happening -- it's so beautifully constructed and leads the reader on so compellingly

➤ and the story it's telling.....one about love, and trust, and classism, and imperialism, and the threat of monstrous creatures inflitrating......about, at its heart, the relationship between these two men, their importance to each other, and the fractures at the heart of their relationship, and the wide-reaching consequences

➤ I love it so much, it's brilliantly and beautifully done and with such fascinating explorations of its themes!

➤ 10k words

#Rec #FicRec #MDZS #WangXian

Inquiet, by acernor

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56807872

➤ flashfic about lwj successfully summoning wwx's spirit after death to ask questions

➤ OUCHHHHHHH YES IT'S SO GOOD

➤ 350 words in length

I don't see the #recReq #tag used, so I'm going to describe it: recommendation request.
IE a #recommendation could be tagged #rec, and a request could be tagged #req, so a recommendation request is a "rec req". #hashtags #meta

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#TGCFReadAlong
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A nuanced video about #HazbinHotel's Angel Dust and depictions of sex workers in the media, i.e. the trope of the "dead hooker" or "abused sex worker" by Youtuber and sex worker Council of Geeks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQPf5W_IW3s

@smutstodon
#sexwork #writingcommunity #rec #adult

#Rec #Poetry #PoetryRec

My Last Duke, by Jess Nevins

http://strangehorizons.com/poetry/my-last-duke/

- narrative poetry from the pov of a dead woman to her terrible husband's new wife

- really fun and compelling to read on in a vacuum, but also it is clearly written in response to Browning's famous poem "My Last Duchess" and is from the pov of the dead woman that poem is about!

- also seems to be an alternate history narrative? again you don't need to know this to appreciate the poem but after reading it I had to look up the characters involved. POV character is Lucrezia de' Medici, her terrible husband is Alfonso II d'Este, but as far as I can tell the new wife is someone who in irl history died in infancy: Isabella, daughter of Charles III of Savoy.

- and now I really want to know more about the history of the time period and the ways that this would have affected things and why the author made these choices for the story of the poem!

- anyway. I like the poem. it's good.

- 1k words in length

I just read this paper on traditional indigo dyeing methods in Southeast Asia & China and it's so INTERESTING.

- did you know: humans have been dying textiles with indigo dyes for at LEAST 6,000 years? despite it being a very complex multi-stage process? I am so impressed. (I'm also impressed we manage to have evidence of this! archeological research into the history of fibre arts is always a trial, for obvious reasons)

- an indigo dye vat needs to be an alkaline environment that has been fermented to grow anaerobic bacteria

- the dye vat will need various ingredients included to promote the fermentation and the correct type of bacterial growth, as well as to create the alkaline environment, and is monitored and maintained over time to make sure it goes right

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OMG OMG @linda_sejic just joined the chat, this is not a drill!

Follow her for beautiful and comedic art, emotional storytelling, and puns. Lots of puns

@mythology @bookstodon
#indie #indieArtist #indieComic #mythology #GreekMythology #madscience #sliceoflife #reading #rec

Does anyone have a #rec for a 5VDC dimmer suitable to drive a small LED sign (available in #Australia)?

#Recfiles (https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/) are an interesting option for human-readable data formats that remain machine-usable.

Similarly for simply 'write-ing alists or readable structure definitions to files.

Anyone knows where to find plus size (like 4XL) #goth clothes? Like, only Killstar seems to have more than 3 pieces of plus size goth clothes and that only goes so far so i'd like recs.
Bonus points if it's a small business! Also I'm in Europe.