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 Fascinating. I was driving my daughter to an appointment right now and heard an ad on a *commerci... 
 @9b033548 That is funny. 
 @9b033548 And did they say what time zone? I assume if it's local radio, it's obvious, but if national, you wouldn't be sure; 
 If you have a good list of accounts in an area of interest to you (say, music, for example) it would be wonderful to make an importable file for new users. It would help new arivals a lot if there were files available. I know there are academics lists and journaiist lists. Can we find a way to put all these together somewhere for download?

Academics:
https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon 
 I've been monitoring five social networks and none have the features and the diverse population of Mastodon.

I wish there was a way to assemble the "news pulse" posters, journalists, officials, cities, scientists that the other site had in 2014 when it had real utility.

Although many of the above are here, they don't represent the density they did there back in the day and are not investing as much time, which is understandable. 
 nostr:npub1q9xpvu32rgv84y6y7vtxhwvzf2y5kx624tknjfeuts66vgmmlvxslu66sh ooh yes that style looks ve... 
 @c53d74b8 Blushing. 😊 
 nostr:npub1q9xpvu32rgv84y6y7vtxhwvzf2y5kx624tknjfeuts66vgmmlvxslu66sh not too late at all!

What ... 
 @c53d74b8 Like this  one only white. These hats are usually made of paper and sell for about 15€  on the street.

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/135/626/660/127/069/original/6b679fefee18e61b.jpeg 
 I see from the lack of responses to my question that y’all are also probably not good about rec... 
 @c53d74b8 Is it too late?
A woman walked up to me on the street a few days ago, said hello and then said "That's a lovely white hat you are wearing." 
 nostr:npub1q9xpvu32rgv84y6y7vtxhwvzf2y5kx624tknjfeuts66vgmmlvxslu66sh this article seems to say t... 
 @b870d4c8 Sorry, I didn't see your link. The Medium post says at the bottom that it was first published on the other link. 
 This came as quite a shock to me, not because I'm a fan. I'm not familiar with the work of this kind of group.
But to deny that AIDS and HIV are not dangerous... it's amazing that no one ever walked this back to reality:

https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/martin-mckenzie-murray/2021/19/2021/1613697287/celebrity-misinformation 
 nostr:npub1q9xpvu32rgv84y6y7vtxhwvzf2y5kx624tknjfeuts66vgmmlvxslu66sh thank you 😊 
 @b870d4c8 The even cooler thing to do is to MAKE lists of people you follow for interests that you share with others. You can then publish these or give them to friends to import.

You may already know that such importable lists are in the form of CSV files. 
 nostr:npub1q9xpvu32rgv84y6y7vtxhwvzf2y5kx624tknjfeuts66vgmmlvxslu66sh you can import them and so ... 
 @b870d4c8 If that is what you want. I imported a list of over 1,000 journalists. Not all of them are active. Some are local, so when I saw local news from 5,000 miles away, I unfollowed that account. Everything you do on Mastodon is your choice (within what is available on the platform). I also followed lists of climatologists, other sciences, and a few hundred musicians. 
 The Import/Export feature of Mastodon is incredibly useful and I don't know of any other (non-fed) social platform that has it.
Lists can be compiled and shared for import. You'll find some here, but there are many, many others.

https://github.com/nathanlesage/academics-on-mastodon 
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 @28c4bd15 "An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path." 

There's a trailer that explains.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042176/