Flick

New Spinsters: I’m not going to follow back until you post a bit.

Wider Fedi: I’m not going to follow back if you post too much and don’t actually interact.

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flick_at_spinster.club@momostr.pink

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2026-09-10 19:17:07 UTC

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Oh, right. Very rarely, I have no strong opinions either way, sorry.

2026-09-09 21:11:53 UTC

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you should go and visit!

2026-09-09 21:05:58 UTC

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I assume so. I’m not familiar with “mapper”, are you still in Scotland?

2026-09-09 21:02:13 UTC

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They were called out to illuminate the beach/sea to make sure the protesters in the water didn’t get into trouble. they had nothing to do with the actual boat crossing.

2026-09-09 21:01:00 UTC

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Spin used to get a bit… wild on a Friday night, but I don’t remember that either!

2026-09-09 20:59:58 UTC

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Head, as in “don’t bang it” on this low lintel.

2026-09-09 20:09:27 UTC

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Good job you spotted it!
> Would have had to do that soon anyway since old one was expiring in less than two months.
You still have to do that?? Idk how it happens, but here it just gets magically updated with the new date/CVV.

2026-09-09 07:36:49 UTC

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/08/britain-should-not-pay-a-penny-in-slavery-reparations/
> Let’s do what reparations advocates don’t do: be fair and put British involvement in proportion. In 1804, there were an estimated 45million chattel slaves around the world, of which the British share in the West Indies was just over one per cent. Of a total of at least 41million African slaves bought and transported across the Atlantic, the Sahara and the Indian Ocean, British merchants bought just under eight per cent, whereas Arabs were responsible for 37 per cent. But the original enslavers and traders of almost 100 per cent were other Africans. In the 1850s, the Fulani people of what is now northern Nigeria ran vast plantations employing four million slaves at any one time – more than the total transported to the Americas by the British in over 140 years.
> What’s more, unlike any African nation, the British repented of their involvement in slave-trading and slavery, and in the early 1800s were among the first peoples in the history of the world to abolish them. They then used their imperial dominance to suppress the slave trade, not least in Africa itself. The Beninese historian, Abiola Félix Iroko, has written that, ‘When the slave trade was abolished [by the British], Africans were against abolition’. Indeed, according to Plaut, many of them are still against it. Today, the trade and the institution are alive and well in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Sudan and Libya.

2026-09-08 21:55:29 UTC

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try a different browser? Is working for me RN.
https://spinster.club/media/34/a3/82/34a3828c721f97e0bef6cd1126fab7fe47bce68fa42078689376642fadd3434a.jpeg

2026-09-08 21:53:29 UTC

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As I told you before, Alex cocked up: if you click on the search button on xyz, you get the Fedi timeline.

2026-09-08 21:49:17 UTC

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Nothing to do with me, I’m afraid. That is why I set up club.

2026-09-08 21:35:52 UTC

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It takes five minutes to copy your follows over.
Whether it is worth it is entirely up to you.

2026-09-08 21:27:24 UTC

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“Shadow banning” in the sense you mean does not exist on Fedi.
Club is blocked by a few instances, far fewer than xyz.
@Sherri_Ingrey@spinster.xyz @Yonic @Maud_Gonner@spinster.xyz

2026-09-08 21:23:57 UTC

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What? No. Wherever did you get that from?
You can absolutely follow and interact with xyz from club, and visa versa.

2026-09-08 21:22:20 UTC

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Nothing, at all, has been erased or lost. It is all still there on xyz. I have repeatedly explained this.
@Yonic @Maud_Gonner@spinster.xyz

2026-09-08 21:13:39 UTC

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As I’ve said before, you absolutely can search by hashtag. I’m very sorry that your old posts are not federating fast enough for your preferences, but your posts on xyz are still there, and I cannot make them visible to club any faster. It is not a bug, it is the way that Fedi works. If you want a permanent archive of your posts, you need to set one up yourself.
Fedi is, by design, ephemeral.

2026-09-08 21:09:54 UTC

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There’s a bug, I think in the new xyz front end that Alex pushed recently, that means follower-only posts are not working correctly, both within and beyond xyz. There may also be a wider federation bug, but it seems that the only way to guarantee that users (on either) will see a follower-only post is to @ them in it.

2026-09-08 18:18:07 UTC

This is really quite frightening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy6n0l4rdo
> The latest Pisa report, which is published every three years, also warned of a worldwide decline in teenagers' reading skills.
> Teenagers were losing the skills that "matter most in the age of AI", such as being able to critically evaluate information from different sources, it said.
> The share of "hasty readers", who rush through texts to give quick, incorrect answers, has almost doubled between 2018 and 2025. The report warned the fall was greatest in those from "relatively well off" families.
https://spinster.club/media/61/fc/76/61fc768e813823ab808f3dc9dc781923c549f5ff63b8950b3326f4408fd29354.jpeg
https://spinster.club/media/76/8c/31/768c31953a4a1bc133e4027f14d98e47a8a68d91df909fcbcee3360e5e39519f.jpeg

2026-09-05 13:22:16 UTC

I’m going to enjoy this fabric collection.
By complete chance, the pattern repeat on my grey background fabric is exactly twice the width of my cutting template.
https://spinster.club/media/cf/01/1f/cf011ff80cd9486f5ecc209cd5c0defdfa97b5c3d55faa9ab1c40c9cfcd5a00c.jpeg

2026-09-04 08:54:33 UTC

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/03/the-historical-facts-the-slave-reparation-lobby/
> On the face of it, why would we not welcome the report’s demands for “accurate, unbiased accounts”, “thorough research” and clear acknowledgement of “the wrongs of those who supported or benefited from historical atrocities”? Perhaps I am unduly cynical, but I suspect that what is really intended is the very opposite of what these honeyed words announce. But let us assume the authors of the report are sincere. In that case, what would the outcome of their demands be?
> First, public recognition, perhaps through the United Nations, that slavery has been a constant feature of human societies over the millennia, and that it still exists on a large scale in many parts of the world, including Africa.
> Second, a collective expression of contrition by the successors of all those states involved in 18th- and 19th-century slavery, including nearly all of Africa, all the Middle East, the whole of the Americas (except Canada and parts of the Caribbean), nearly all of Europe, China and India (most 18th-century slaves were in Asia). In short, everybody would be apologising to everybody – a heart-warming festival of sentimental humbug.
> Third, a universal vote of thanks to the anti-slavery pioneers, of which Britain was a leading member, for their epoch-making realisation that enslavement was not merely a necessary element of international business, but a moral outrage – a new and strange idea. There would be public commemoration (with statues and monuments in West Africa, East Africa, Egypt, Brazil, the Caribbean and the United States) of the British sailors, politicians, missionaries, diplomats and colonial officials who struggled for decades, at the risk of their health and often their lives, to put an end to enslavement.
https://archive.ph/fiGWd

2026-09-03 13:29:01 UTC

https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/09/03/hijabs-have-no-place-in-a-primary-school/
> Let’s be clear about the purpose of the veil. Islamic clergy argue that women and girls should wear hijabs and cover themselves to avoid attracting sexual attention from men. Generally, Islam asserts that women who do not wear hijabs are wholly responsible for being preyed on by men. Clearly, this is an alarming perspective when applied to seven-year-olds.
> In Islam, children and young girls are not required to wear a hijab, burqa or niqab. Nevertheless, many girls are pressured into wearing these garments at a young age if they have the misfortune of belonging to a hardline or fundamentalist sect. The real question here is not what Islam says or doesn’t. The question is whether this is compatible with British values. Surely, we should all agree that pre-pubescent girls should not be required to express ‘sexual modesty’ by covering themselves.

2026-09-03 09:23:42 UTC

FedEx: Here is the link to the tracking information for your parcel: [tracking page opens]
Also FedEx, in the same email: If you won’t be in to sign for your parcel, click here to add a digital signature: [error message saying the tracking number is wrong]
Also also FedEx, on the tracking page: You can also sign a FedEx door tag. (No mention of how to acquire such a thing, no option on that page to do a digital signature.)
I guess I’ll be taping a piece of paper to the door saying “FedEx, please leave my parcel, love Flick”.

2026-09-03 07:00:18 UTC

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But, honestly, if you are that bothered by retaining access to your old posts then you should definitely download a local copy, and think about posting them somewhere that you control, rather than somewhere that could be deleted tomorrow on the whim of another person.

2026-09-03 06:55:25 UTC

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Ah! Right, that’s just that it takes a while for the new instance to fully federate. It will come in with time.

2026-09-03 06:53:51 UTC

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I’m sorry, I am trying but I really don’t understand the problem here. Your posts on .xyz are there, they are viewable and searchable. That will continue to be the case until/unless you delete your account or Alex takes the site down (even then, they may well be visible from a different instance).
If you choose to, or choose not to, start using .club as your main account, that will not change.

2026-09-03 06:45:34 UTC

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Yes there is. Go to search, go to hashtag, enter the hashtag.
I just tried it with a hashtag from your pinned post, got lots of your posts.

2026-09-03 06:39:28 UTC

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We were not affected, and we have been patched to stop anything happening. S2 has been up and working throughout.
@npub14yx…nxhr @npub1maf…dvpy

2026-09-03 06:34:42 UTC

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I’m not sure what the actual issue is here, sorry.
If it’s that you can no longer search by hashtag on OGSpin, you’d have to ask Alex.
If it’s that you want to keep your posts from OGSpin, you’d can download them but it’s not a terribly readable format.
If it’s that you want your old posts on OGSpin to magically be on here, it’s not possible.

2026-09-02 19:31:00 UTC

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That was my first assumption, but I couldn’t parse the sentence.

2026-09-02 19:10:39 UTC

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DL?

2026-09-01 20:00:38 UTC

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Those are for weight *loss*. I need to get more calories into him, not fewer!

2026-09-01 19:40:27 UTC

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Holy cow.
> As a rule of thumb, dogs ought to consume 1 oz. of water for each pound of body weight.
Google tells me this is nearly 3 pints! He has *never* drunk that much, more like one pint a day, maybe one and a half.

2026-09-01 19:26:06 UTC

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When he’s on paracetamol, the amount of water he drinks roughly doubles. Weirdly, the last few days it’s gone back to his normal amount, or maybe a bit less. That worries me, too. I might start having a third bowl with weak bone broth I it, as well.

2026-09-01 19:02:25 UTC

Dog didn’t touch his breakfast today, until I tipped it out onto my gravy-smeared dinner plate.
At this point, I’m more worried by calories than perfect nutritional balance, so I’m thinking I’ll cook some chicken mince and give him that 30:70 with his biscuits.
He has to have a very low fat diet, or he gets diarrhoea (which rather defeats the object). Anyone have any other suggestions?

2026-08-29 21:14:05 UTC

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Alas, if you had only asked sooner….

2026-08-29 21:11:38 UTC

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No, thus far they are all very calm and measured, as if I might not have noticed the evil that has invaded the instance.

2026-08-29 21:05:51 UTC

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(By which I am NOT encouraging you to go out and pick fights. Automatic five point penalty for doing so.)

2026-08-29 20:58:39 UTC

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You’re in the lead, btw!
You know… I may need to make a league table!

2026-08-29 20:56:40 UTC

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I’m really not very Stuff orientated, the sewing kit appealed to me for practical reasons. I do have a beautiful wooden hand-turned container that my step-uncle made for her that I fortunately got in there in time to request.
When my mother goes, I’ll insist on one of her Lalique ballet dancers for remembrance, but my sister can have everything else.

2026-08-29 20:42:38 UTC

OMG these reports are fucking hilarious.
Still only one actual server block.
@FemaleIsNotAFeeling
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2026-08-29 20:11:48 UTC

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I was ever so annoyed that my mother threw out her mother’s sewing stuff before I had a chance to stake a claim. There was an entire biscuit tin just of buttons!

2026-08-29 13:22:06 UTC

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Just saying…
https://spinster.club/media/52/ec/ea/52ecea3448f6cace11046e1093798e4c478d5e1b496fdde71bed13a9201cc841.jpeg

2026-08-29 09:03:43 UTC

Incredibly deep and comprehensive dive into the Jason Arday story:
https://cartrarian.substack.com/p/jason-arday-lied-about-being-autistic

2026-08-29 08:40:16 UTC

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And so it begins….
https://spinster.club/media/06/52/16/06521631d234e9017e999527f8c89f14d55e194b8bc5edc0891de400340abdfc.jpeg

2026-08-29 08:37:46 UTC

I don’t think I am going to approve this account request, but David has made me laugh today.
https://spinster.club/media/ee/c4/2e/eec42e45b4d2b537970d65dee56c2e6518b9de106063ec28fd98f8ab920bde09.jpeg

2026-08-28 19:35:04 UTC

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OTOH, if it’s a high-risk cancer, it might be worth the gamble.

2026-08-27 18:58:17 UTC

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It might be, but you managed to get on a few days ago to register. It’s weird.

2026-08-27 18:53:24 UTC

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Yes, me! is it still not working for you?

2026-08-27 09:59:18 UTC

Some sad news.
I emailed Holla a few days ago to let her know about Club, and asked her to tell Polar as well, because I know they were in contact elsewhere. She replied:
> I fear Polarisera may not be alive; she always said she was "very old," and I cannot find her very particular brand of manic obscenity where I think it would exist.

2026-08-26 19:00:47 UTC

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2026-08-26 18:13:57 UTC

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Ah, I was nearly right!

2026-08-25 21:18:15 UTC

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I think the only thing I regret is the complete absence of On Your Farm. the delay in other stuff I can live with. They had a brief phase of killing RSS feeds a few years ago, but nothing that I really cared about.

2026-08-25 21:10:52 UTC

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Ah: Sounds. It was a piece of shit when it launched, so I never used it.
Most of what I listen to is WS anyway, so I just stick with my podcast app. There are a couple of things I miss out on, but not enough to use Sounds and make an account.
I’ll be interested to hear if you start getting them, though.

2026-08-25 18:34:31 UTC

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It’s just come in in the last week or so. Doubly annoying when driving.

2026-08-25 16:00:46 UTC

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Ah, got you. I too am an omnibus listener. Bloody annoyed they’ve started sticking adverts in the middle.

2026-08-25 13:44:29 UTC

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I’m pretty sure the dad used it last week, I forget the context. Presumably the son getting over the dog, before they found out about the sheep, or maybe after the conversation at Brookfield?

2026-08-25 12:37:31 UTC

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Poor Farah!

2026-08-25 11:14:27 UTC

https://spectator.com/article/cambridge-professor-study-engineering-to-produce-weaponry-for-jihad/
> Cambridge University’s education faculty – former home of Jason Arday – has appointed as assistant research professor a woman who wrote that Muslims should study engineering and computers ‘to produce advanced weaponry for Jihad in order that the deen [Islam] may dominate over all other deens.’
https://archive.ph/UtsAy

2026-08-25 09:49:15 UTC

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Can you try a difference device/browser?

2026-08-25 09:46:50 UTC

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Ok, that’s worrying. Do you mean you’re getting a 404 or something?

2026-08-25 09:35:48 UTC

Other than not being able to change the colours of the site, is anyone having any bugs or weird behaviours?

2026-08-24 22:27:53 UTC

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I heard there were bad fires near Reno NV.

2026-08-24 22:19:00 UTC

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shit, hope you are ok. you near Reno?

2026-08-24 15:18:35 UTC

Nice lunch out with my mum, and have cemented her view that I am a technological genius (I am not) by reinstalling a calendar app on her very elderly tablet: it mysteriously vanished a few weeks ago, and I took a successful punt on the actual data still being stored locally and accessible to the newer version in the app store.
(My assumption is that there was a security issue with the years-old version she had and it was force-deleted.)
As an added bonus, I showed her how to actually create new entries in it, so she is delighted to be able to put appointments in it as well as use it to see which recurring bank charges are coming up soon (my father set them up before he died).

2026-08-23 21:21:07 UTC

Night, dearies. Going to crack open a book and chill. Tomorrow is my birthday and my mum is coming to take me out for lunch, but I will be in and out to do account authorisations.

2026-08-23 21:18:15 UTC

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Yeah, I’m going offline in a minute.

2026-08-23 21:04:00 UTC

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I have approved your account. If you still can’t log in, let me know.

2026-08-23 20:59:22 UTC

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Both approved. Sorry, but poast is all excited so I’m limiting signups.

2026-08-23 20:49:47 UTC

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Export your follows in Spinster (settings/preferences, down at the bottom). you will get a CSV file.
Go to spinster.club, create an account. Wait while i approve it (if you message me, that will happen slightly quicker). Log in. Reverse paragraph one. If you go to my profile and look at my follows, you’ll see who’s already moved and be able to quickly follow them.
@FemaleIsNotAFeeling @npub13kc…9t0m

2026-08-23 20:44:17 UTC

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Shit, sorry Anung: I assumed you’d seen at least some of my posts. Come on over!

2026-08-23 11:04:53 UTC

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It's the same as my old one...?
Oh, it's probably not federated over there yet. Yeah, it will be for a bit.

2026-08-23 11:02:41 UTC

Spinsters, come on over to spinster.club and sign up. I've got accounts set to require approval, so it will take a little while. If you struggle, let me know and I can do an invite instead.
In theory you can then migrate your account by scrolling down to the bottom of preferences / settings and clicking through. It failed when I tried just now, whether that is a bug in Spinster 1 or what IDK. However, all that really does is copy your profile and follows, so instead just import that file you downloaded the other day and re-do your profile.
BUT right now the TL is absolutely nuts with posts from 2021 and stuff, as this instance is only just federating, so you might want to leave it a few days to actually start using the new instance.
Huh: and adding a Subject here results in a CW on Spinster1. Weird.
Oh wow, so many emote reacts….