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@mancavgeek As an Admin of I'd like to speak on the record here.

As we make clear in out ToS we dont block other instances but we DO censor. We believe in free speech in the sense that you wont get blocked for simply holding an unpopular opinion. But anyone who attacks others, insults them, or acts aggressive towards others are, and have been banned. We do NOT tolerate racism.

As others have pointed out, none of our users are hateful or racist. On the few cases that happened it resulted in a ban.

I generally suggest people ban instances based on what they do or do not tolerate from their users, rather than some ideological response to some key words in a description.

If anyone in this thread actually knows of an example of any user on QOTO not living up to what I described please let me know, we will take care of them.

@union

Love Books? Find best deal. longish post. 

You can reproduce that search result with this link: bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&s

...and from there, can even change the Currency or destination if you like.

Good luck, happy shopping, get your books before the Christmas rush and clogged mail systems!

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Love Books? Find best deal. longish post. 

Once you have selected the search terms hit enter and wait. A numer of editions might popup - unless you used the ISBN of the one you really want, not necessary in most cases.

From the few possible edition results, pick one, the system will display a screen full of results.

Including price with Shipping included, if you enabled that, in your currency choice, for new and Used books alike.

A screnshot, I cropped it to half width to keep size manageable - and I am usually looking for more affordable used copies too.

Prices show are in Canadian dollars, shipped to Canada, for a Hardcover edition.

Used books normally have some kind of condition description on their listing.

Almost new. Good Condition. Acceptable, etc, with the price going down for less desirable copies.

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Love Books? Find best deal. longish post. 

Like Books? Want a nice one for a Good Price, shipped to your home, maybe even from overseas?

bookfinder.com is the place I go to, search and find the best deal. New or used, paperback or hardcover. Price with or without shipping, in your own currency.

Lovely site, clean and has Advanced Search if you want to tune down to a specidfic type, maybe an author signed copy even!

Some examples of a search and results follow. I am using the wonderful "Cryptonomicon" novel by Neal Stephenson as a search item. (I do have it, discovered the talent of the author and have been a fan for years)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptono

Frist step, head to BookFinder, fill in title, author or ISBN, select your country as destination, what currency.

In my screenshot -- I used an Advanced search (not required) since I wanted a Hardcover edition, check marked on pic.

Search results on the next post!

ManyBooks.net has many nice FREE ebooks. Classic, public domain and newer CC licensed ones too.

Including a good selection of modern Sci-Fi books, Cory Doctorow’s titles and others.

Cory Doctorow’s titles on file there: manybooks.net/search-book?sear

Nice site, recommended.

manybooks.net

(this test thread proving that MOA can handle replies to tweet thread with aplomb. Neat)

Moa crossposter is at moa.party/

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Because of its popularity in Chinese communities (including Chinatowns in the United States)[5] the maneki-neko is frequently mistaken for being Chinese in origin rather than Japanese, and is incorrectly referred to as a "Chinese lucky cat" [5] or jīnmāo ("golden cat").

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In popular culture
Chinese maneki-neko with a battery-powered moving arm

Modern Japanese superstition suggests that keeping a talisman of good fortune, such as the maneki-neko, in bedrooms and places of study will bring about favorable results and life successes.

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Oooooh. ☹️
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RT @avast_antivirus
A jumbo data leak—complete with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles includes more than 50 million unique phone numbers and 622 million email addresses. From the perspective of an attacker, that's a lot of information to get you started.

ava.st/35qBvSA
twitter.com/avast_antivirus/st

Because I am getting to know and experimenting with a new tool (Crossposter for Twitter and Mastodon - crossposter.masto.donte.com.br), I missed a configuration option, and my post above did not include the proper OP linky.

It's here, and has been very popular there too. twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1198

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ReToot of a ReTweet, so fellow QOTO folks don't miss it.
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Amazing, wonderful. 👍 sending over to @design_RG

RT @Gurdur@twitter.com

An aerial view of a sheepdog as it demonstrates fluid mechanics, and it also shows a sheep is a particle, while a flock is a wave.

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