Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.

Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!

Is there no balm in Gilead?

Firstly, that’s incorrect in terms of phonics, as seen in so, no, go, hello, etc.

Secondly, “tho” was a common replacement as part of American English spelling reform - see also “thru” and “OK” as survivors of this reform, even if they’re perceived as informal.

I’d love to know if my enormous blocklist of instances and communities is unusual or if most people end up curating their global feeds massively to keep them interesting. Anime, porn, US-specific politics, authoritarian-friendly politics, furries, wojak-style barrel-scraping memes - I don’t want to downvote most of these just because they’re not my bag, but I suspect I end up with a tiny fraction of the total Lemmy+Piefed content.

The news source, Roya, is Jordanian and does not recognize Israel as a state.

Link for mobile accessibility: https://libredirect.github.io/index.html

Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.

If you really don’t want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.