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Steps Forward in Long-form Text

Some quick news about the Long-form Text project at the Social Web Foundation. After the publication of the draft FEP b2b8 ("Long-form Text"), the Social Web Foundation has been working with implementers to get more support for the Article data type, representing multi-paragraph text on the Fediverse. One of the big pain points has been how subscribers to long-form text from platforms like WordPress, WriteFreely, Plume and Ghost.org see the text in their microblogging platforms like […]

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Social Web Foundation · Steps Forward in Long-form Text
More from Evan Prodromou

7 days into #Covid, slowly #recovering. Still taste odd, snuffly, and sleeping phenomenally (even more than my normal neuro illness). But encouraged. Didn't get #antivirals tho #immunosuppressed cos didn't test positive on #LFT within 5 days (or at all) - my healthy husband who gave me the infection barely tested positive - looks like really low viral load for us, thankfully. But recovering. Honestly grateful to be managing so well in the circumstances. Our first time with Covid.

STOP CRUEL, DANGEROUS TRANSPORT IN SUMATRA’S DOG MEAT TRADE

A new Lady Freethinker (#LFT) investigation into the Sumatran #DogMeatTrade has documented apparently sick and emaciated #dogs with scars being transported 17 hours for #slaughter, getting yanked off a truck with a long snare pole, and then being shoved into burlap sacks that were tied shut.

The terrified dogs – who had been reportedly hauled from #WestSumatra to #NorthSumatra

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Never to be seen alive again.

The investigator also reported there was no evidence of the required quarantine paperwork for any of the #dogs, so there was no way of knowing if the dogs could be carrying rabies or another deadly virus.

Other dogs observed by #LFT languished in rusted metal cages at live markets or were stuffed in sacks with their mouths strapped shut.