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skua<p>1/2<br>An <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elderly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elderly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dementia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dementia</span></a>-inflicted person needed interviews for their bookclub book downloaded onto a thumb drive and played in a long shuffled loop on their older Smart TV.</p><p>Their assistant used yt-dlp, a command line / console program to download Youtube videos of interviews/reviews and, in a Firefox browser, used the extension called Video Download Helper to download radio interviews/reviews.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstadon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeOfTheChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeOfTheChild</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AgedCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgedCare</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FairUse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FairUse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YTDLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YTDLP</span></a></p>
skua<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@tokyo_0" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tokyo_0</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pl.ugh.im/users/gravitas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gravitas</span></a></span> </p><p>It's hilarious that so often the things that I actually spend my time on involve churlish posts. 😅</p><p>Thanks Tokyo for laying out the context on Fedi-Meta.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Churl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Churl</span></a> - medieval term for Irish farm worker. cf <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeOfTheChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeOfTheChild</span></a> and the farmers' attitudes on livestock's right-of-way on market day. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstadon</span></a></p><p>Gravitas - I'd love to read more of your posts once they've got more widely accessible humour in them.</p>
skua<p>2/?<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeOfTheChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeOfTheChild</span></a> <br>Niall doing some short vids &amp; the Arcadia Bookclub on youtube went well.</p><p>Then we touched on Irish storytelling (see below), <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Peig" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Peig</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SeamusHeaney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeamusHeaney</span></a> reading a poem which has me doubting he's ever been married <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scaffolding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scaffolding</span></a>. Or perhaps he aimed to preserve the mystery of the holy union by not revealing all?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaolainn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaolainn</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaeilge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaeilge</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0EteAgnYc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0EteAgnYc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
skua<p>An <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElderlyRelative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElderlyRelative</span></a> and I are studying up on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NiallWilliamson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NiallWilliamson</span></a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimeOfTheChild" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeOfTheChild</span></a>.</p><p>Seeking a scaffold. Starting with short videos of the author.</p><p>... fable is between two raindrops ...</p><p>... a series of novels ...</p><p>cf <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlanMoore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlanMoore</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LongLondon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LongLondon</span></a> series.</p><p> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Audiobook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audiobook</span></a> performed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DermotCrowley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DermotCrowley</span></a>. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstadon</span></a></p>