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Tzintzuntzan

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@jarrod That’s great that they gave you the space and freedom to not carry on the business

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@jarrod Congrats to him. What did he do? And you didn’t join the business? ☺️

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@amerpie Wow! 🤩

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@amerpie Somehow I remember it being $8/mo but yeah, at $4, it’s a no brainer. Plus I get to add my edu discount. That’s a steal.

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@amerpie Yup. I'm just getting started on Obsidian. It's great on the desktop but limiting on mobile, so I'm hoping the native Sync will help with that.

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@bryan toot.cat doesn’t have any limits, I think

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@amerpie This is great. Never knew this existed for Obsidian.

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@bryan Sssshhhh

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@bryan holy shit! And I thought property taxes in Austin were high. What's the property size?

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@matthew Can we tweak the newsletter template in Tiny to only show summary/excerpt of the post i.e., the part before the `<!—more—>` tag? I tried replacing `Content` with `summary` but it didn't work.

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@cygnoir Sigh! I feel ya. It’s the online friends’ loss

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@bryan I’ve seen this in Austin. It’s as weird as it sounds.

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@bryan Abandon books freely if they don't catch your interest. It's very freeing. Although you don't have to, I even choose to display the books that I abandon; some of which are praised and loved by others. Scroll to the bottom of the page - https://microblog.pratikmhatre.com/bookshelf/

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@bryan It's austinpratik. It logs. in just fine and says it's connected, but the three dots in the last screen keep bouncing without going to the “Connected\" screen. @openvibe

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@bryan I am not seeing it. Are you on a beta?

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@seth I don't git it either.

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@chi Thanks.I was hoping to start small ☺️

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@chi Hey, I wanted to commission a text-based logo for my new consulting business. What's a good email to reach you?

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@aeryn Very Wimbledon too.

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This is an excellent Drafts Action to review highlights from Readwise and import to Drafts either the one you are reviewing or all of them from the same book. I worked with the author to test it out, and it works great. https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2Lb

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This is an excellent Drafts Action to review highlights from Readwise and import to Drafts either the one you are reviewing or all of them from the same book. I worked with the author to test it out, and it works great. https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2Lb

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This is an excellent Drafts Action to review highlights from Readwise and import to Drafts either the one you are reviewing or all of them from the same book. I worked with the author to test it out, and it works great. https://directory.getdrafts.com/a/2Lb

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I’m now measuring my sneezes in decibels now, thanks to my Apple Watch. I hit 100 today 🙌🏽 My dog is not a fan.

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I'm Pratik (he/him) and trying to get into structured/formal writing. I have been writing for as long as I remember but mostly informal journaling, blogging, and academic writing for work. I hope to write outside the box here. Genre agnostic #introduction

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A second Mastodon home (first one shall remain unnamed here) thanks to @cheribaker letting me know that this place was open once again. For now, more reading and less writing on here.

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