Google Voice alternatives?
I've been using my GV number as my phone number on FB because there's no way I'm giving them my main number, but the problem is that Facebook now sees what I'm shopping for on my other tablet. Yes, aside from the phone number, FB is on a separate device that shares a WiFi connection, so the leak is cause by Google Voice or my network, and I'm leaning towards GV, which is an easy one to plug... I assume?
At this point the only thing that GV offers that's important to me is the ability to use it through a computer as well as my phone, so I'm thinking some type of VOIP that has an app and a web interface? I don't mind paying a small fee for the latter, though I don't need a full on business VOIP solution, which is where you usually find web interfaces.
#voip
Yeah... Given Trump's threats, Ukraine should shred the mineral deal.
Zelensky doesn't even need to do this. The Parliament can easily do it for him. Plausible deniability...
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Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
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#Health #Media #Death #Statistics #US
Does the news reflect what we die from?
What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
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Ken Paxtonβs Tylenol Lawsuit Is Off To A Terrible Start - Above the Law
Well, as competent as we've come to expect
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There is no legitimate βyes, butβ when it comes to rape.
There is absofuckinglutely no βyes, butβ when you add in the age of a CHILD to the previous statement.
Anyone to remotely suggest otherwise needs to be the subject of a long, arduous investigation.
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I'm convinced Nationalist Christians believeβwithout any actual evidenceβthat immigrants are here to rape, pillage, and steal from them because deep down they know that's exactly what their European colonizer ancestors did to the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
They must be a drive in movie theatre because the projection is wild.
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How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA | heise online
How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA
Nicolas Guillou has been sanctioned by the USA as a judge of the International Criminal Court. He notices the effects primarily in the digital realm.Malte Kirchner (heise online)
When helping people on here there are four links that seem to come up quite a lot. Perhaps these are useful for you too? π
- Non-technical, easy-to-understand guides to using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse: fedi.tips
- How to discover more accounts to follow: fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounβ¦
- How to make your own account more discoverable: fedi.tips/how-do-i-get-more-foβ¦
- How to move your account to another server: fedi.tips/transferring-your-maβ¦
Fedi.Tips β An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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It's a nice idea but I'm not an artist, I can't draw and and I don't have the money to commission an artist for an entire guide. (The artwork at the top of my site is a commission, I didn't draw it.)
The "Quick Start" section on the website Fedi.Tips has guides to the essential stuff.
Maybe this official Mastodon animation from 2018 is similar to what you are suggesting? fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdβ¦
Fedi.Tips β An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
What is Mastodon? (2018) (short animation explaining the Mastodon social network)
Official animation published by the Mastodon development team in 2018, describing the basic principles of how Mastodon and the wider Fediverse work.More info about Mastodon at the JoinMastodon.org website
Animation is by dopatwo
Voiceover is by Nigma
Music is by Kevin MacLeodVideo is used under Creative Commons Attribution licence
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: βTo end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.β
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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β² @huartsound@diasporasocial.net:When the job numbers tank...
politico.com/news/2025/11/19/lβ¦
Remember that one:
#economics #job #numbers #USA
September Arrest, Deportation Of Firefighter Shows The Administration Just Wants Brown People Gone
Iβve expended far too many words stating the obvious: the Trump administrationβs deportation program isnβt interested in removing criminals. Itβs only interested in removingβ¦Techdirt
As a reminder, the notion that people should be able to maintain "a clean, well-organized household" came from the 19th century Western "upper classes" where the wife was expected to stay home and do this full time - and this was used as a status symbol and status marker to distinguish the affluent from the working classes, where women almost always had to work in (poorly paid) jobs in order to keep the household budget afloat.
Therefore, this notion is not only #Sexism but also #ClassWarfare . Thus, when someone presents this kind of "lifestyle" as something you should aspire to (whether a tv show, an Influencer, or a glossy magazine), you should really contemplate what kind of political agenda they are trying to sell to you.
Now, if you _enjoy_ keeping a household in a good, clean order, more power to you! Everyone needs their passion projects, after all! But it should not be the _expected_ thing - particularly for people who are already overwhelmed by the demands this late-stage Capitalist hellscape places on us!
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There are more of us than there are of them.
We protect us.
#antifa, #proudboys, #neverletthemhavethepark, #communityselfdefense, #musicandloveandnachos
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the 22 year old will take offence if they see that!!!!
They just spent a small fortune on some new tapes (for the commodore 64 π)
How can they afford to retire when types are so expensive?
Stupid Things You Hear In A Wheelchair
This cartoon is by me and Becky Hawkins. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has nine panels. In the center of the cartoon is the title: STUPID THINGS YOU HEAR IN A WHEELCHAIR PANEL 1 A woman in a cβ¦Lefty Cartoons
FBI Declared LGBTQ Pride Flag 'Political Signage' in Letter Firing Employee: Lawsuit
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FBI Declared LGBTQ Pride Flag 'Political Signage' in Letter Firing Employee: Lawsuit
An FBI employee has filed a First Amendment civil lawsuit alleging he was fired for displaying an LGBTQ pride flag near his desk. The flag reportedly was presented to him after it was flown outside the Bureauβs field office in Los Angeles.David Badash (The New Civil Rights Movement)
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
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Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI.Em Luetkemeyer (Oklahoma Watch)
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Very noteworthy how most of these professions are typically female-gendered in US culture.
Also, it completely misses the point that a profession is an occupation REGULATED BY A STATUTORY BODY with specific privileges and responsibilities defined by law."Professional" has been devalued in recent decades by overuse, but do you really want to be treated by an unregulated doctor?
Whatever idiot drafted this guideline is clearly not a member of a regulated profession.
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If you werenβt avoiding visiting the US alreadyβ¦
I am confused by βengineeringβ being listed by itself there. Engineering is not just one field. And the term βengineerβ is already widely abused by unregulated workers, including faux βsoftware engineersβ (it depends where you are).
I suspect this doesnβt include all the usual specific engineers, i.e. civil, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, computer, etc. But if it does, and they simply let anyone cosplay as any kind of technical engineer, the US will disintegrate pretty rapidly, and literally.
As for education, home schooling is already ubiquitous.
Could it be that they want to leave this kind of thing to states? I mean, still a stupid idea, but perhaps this is part of a program to reduce internal migration? If your professional degree is only recognized at the state level, in one state, you canβt work anywhere else.
Gaza is the blueprint.. drones swarming over our heads cameras everywhere recording our every movement. The police scanning peopleβs faces whenever they feel like. (Thank you proposition E voters for stripping our sovereignty over our lives in San Francisco and giving the billionaire funded police force the right to do whatever they feel like or more importantly, or told to do by guys like Larsen (Ripple Labs) and Benioff.
Their charity is nothing but a tax break and a power grab
BREAKING: U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. Now they're merely βpotentially divisive.β
White supremacy is structural in the United States, and every day under this fascist Trump regime it becomes more embedded in public policy.
Genocide isn't "potentially divisive," it is horrific violence and must be condemned without exception. And MAGAs wonder why they're referred to as Nazis. smh
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There's no bottom for these fascistbigots
Why so many of us are voting with our wallets on #BlackFriday - buying nothing all weekend thru #CyberMonday
Corporations that support this regime don't understand any other language
#50501movement #BoycottCyberMonday #BlackOutFriday @50501movement @EvergreenResistanceTacoma @indivisibleteam
In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship - Democracy Docket
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In a Win for Voters, Wisconsin Judge Withdraws Anti-Voting Order on Proof of Citizenship - Democracy Docket
In a win for Wisconsin voters, a state judge vacated a ruling that would have forced election officials to conduct mass citizenship checks β a move voting rights advocates warned could have wrongly purged some citizens from the rolls.Democracy Docket
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Busy day
Started out with being told I was making over $200 doing 105 packages. Thankfully they reduced my work, giving part of my route to someone else, frankly I don't want to work that hard. Plus considering that I wound up getting the car about ΒΎ full only to realize I'd have to more or less start over because it wasn't going to all fit, it was a good thing. Interesting part is that it was supposed to be 45cu ft of packages, but a Bolt is supposed to have just over 54cu ft of space, so I think someone's calculations were off. So in the end, about 60 stops or so, and about 64 packages, nice amount of work.
But I could never leave it at that, could I?
So, we stopped at the bank to deposit the check from selling my car yesterday. I wound up getting only $4700 for my 2020 Bolt, about half what they initially offered, but it is a lemon, so the price got cut way down, but I kinda expected that since Carvana had offered $4600 and CarMax wouldn't even make an offer until I brought it in. Sure, I might've been able to get more, but considering what I paid, and the fact that this was inline with the only offer, I decided to take it. Besides, did I really lose? The car was $14,800 when I got it last year, however I got $4500 EV credit from the government, and $8200 for my trade in, so the out of pocket was only around $2200... Should've seen the chaos it caused when I pulled that out of my pocket cash. Any how, yeah, $2200 out of my pocket to buy it, and $4700 sale, so I guess I came out ahead?
Any how, since their was a branch of my credit union, First Community, a credit union I highly, highly recommend, I deposited the check, then got back to work. And then later I was passing a DMV office, one that had only one other customer and around five clerks, so in and out in about five minutes with a plate transfer. Yep, my current Bolt, formerly my husband's, is carrying the BOXEN plates now. Hopefully I'll have to visit the DMV soon to collect the new version of that plate, MIssouri Bee Keeper Association specialty plate, looking forward to that.
Oh, and I also changed my insurance around via email, removed the old Bolt from my commercial, and moved this Bolt from personal to commercial, thankfully the DMV didn't ask for any documentation as I hadn't been home to print a new insurance card yet.
So yeah, that was my #today Tomorrow morning will be spent trying to get all my gig apps updated, car change, insurance update (did I mention that it expired yesterday on all of them?), and possibly other settings, then it'll be off to work. Prolly do a speed breakfast, homemade microwavable breakfast sandwich and K-cup of coffee while I work.
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Friends don't let friends buy from Amazon!
"Bookshop.org began as an idea to help support bookstores and their communities as more and more people are buying their books online. We saw an opportunity to create an alternative to Amazon for socially-conscious online shoppers. Amazon sells over 60% of all books in the US and is growing. That shift threatens the future of bookstores and will hurt readers, authors, and publishers who rely on a diverse, healthy ecosystem for books. We had a better ideaβgive readers the convenience of online shopping while supporting independent bookstores at the same time."
"78% of our customers said they regularly bought books from Amazon before they made the switch."
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Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to stop court challenges of transgender laws | Globalnews.ca
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Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause to stop court challenges of transgender laws
The clause relates to laws that put restrictions on student pronoun changes at school, on girls' sports, and on medical therapies for young people looking to transition.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
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