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#Amidon (#Amiga #Mastodon client WIP): If I replace the HTMLview class with a simple TextView one, I can at least get the content in there. And I do have some basic text formatting (Bold, Italic, Underline and color). I still need to strip out the HTML of course, but this is just a test anyway:

Sorry I put aviator sunglasses on the baby Jesus in your nativity scene and started singing highway to the manger zone.

Alan Rickman smokes like a European, with cigarette between thumb and index finger, not between index and middle. This is what gives him away.
Our boy McClane is not fooled by him being tricky with the accent, which is great cos the German and the American accents are both put on by Rickman.
Such a great actor. RIP, Alan Rickman. This beer is dedicated to your memory, specifically to you telling Karl to shoot the glass in German and then having to translate it to English for his and our benefit

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This deeply emotional moment between Sgt Al Powell and "Roy Rogers" is brought to you by George's rendition of Achy Breaky Heart, and that doesn't blunt its heartfelt impact at all.
However, Hans is about to shoot Ellis, which is an act so justified that they ought to let him off from stealing all the bearer bonds in the first place, so it's all OK

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Government argues that they aren't breaking end-to-end encryption with the bill. Many privacy experts disagree thenextweb.com/news/privacy-ad. In fact @WhatsApp
have said they might pull out of UK such is the damage to our human right to privacy. #OnlineSafetyBill

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I like making terrible puns on the Internet.

And, at approaching 40, that’s normal.

I am a groan man.

Artists Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell kicked off a project to make their suburban London street energy self-sufficient with solar, each roof a 'power station'. So far most homes on the street are onboard Great read on how they did that, their challenges along the way. theguardian.com/environment/20

How books get scanned.

My dumbass always pictured an old librarian with gloves at the copy/scanning machining having to redo it over and over because it scanned crooked.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last 15 years of software development it’s that “obvious” is always better than “clever”

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