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When someone equates the Fediverse with the Mastodon implementation, fedizens are sure to correct them. The Fediverse is a network of many different implementations that interoperate through the Fediverse protocol stack, although Mastodon is the dominate implementation. When someone equates the Fediverse protocol stack with ActivityPub, they are making the same mistake. The two concepts ... Read more

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My review of the science fiction novel As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers. I read a paperback edition published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2026.

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It was another financial institution’s commercial that motivated me to create something different.  Two busy white, apparently nondisabled, suburban parents were standing on their carefully manicured lawn talking about how they needed to go to the bank to plan for the future of their adult son with Down syndrome. They weren’t asking him about his […]

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Quantum Bang: A big bang multifandom challenge for fix-it fics BUT they archive old stories for the challenge so th...

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ao3.life was scraping and repackaging fanfiction’ works and turning them into audiobooks for sale without the original authors’ permission.

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