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ये दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी? ہم دیکھیں گے۔
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Joined November 17, 2022

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ये दुनिया है या आलम-ए-बदहवासी?:

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 2mo ago

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@JillsJoy@NerdJoy.social The Year Without a Summer is a common plot point in many Regency stories. The better authors use it to analyse the economic and sociopolitical impacts, even in romances. On a related note, the last time there was an El Niño as severe as this one was apparently in the 1860s, and was known in India as "The Year the Monsoons Never Came" - global death toll estimates at 50 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 7: Revenge Drama #MarryMyHusbandJPN I didn't even CONSIDER this one until someone selected it for this day on bsky, but of course it is a revenge Drama. But so much MORE than a revenge Drama. NOT strictly a remake of the #kDrama version - because both were in varying stages of production at the same time, this one ended up a co-production. And a VERY different beast by all accounts. A journey from revenge to personal growth.

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 4: Drama friendship When I thought about Dramas that were really all ABOUT friendship, these two came to mind first, and both are easily the highest scoring Dramas that I've listed as having "friendship" as their primary theme #cDrama #DearEnemy #kDrama #DivorceAttorneyShin Friendship is absolutely at the core of both these very different Dramas and what elevated them both.

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

My first introduction to Chinese actor Wang Zi Wen was back when I had a Weibo account and was searching for my #kDrama bias Wang Ji Won there. I've only seen WZW in one #cDrama and it did not impress me, but she's WOWing me in #Beloved A tight, tense thriller/mystery her character is always on the edge, and she's doing a great job. In my not-at-all humble opinion, at only 16 40-minute eps, this Drama would be well worth a free trial of YouTube Premium to see a smart, twisty thriller

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 8: Enemies to lovers The Song Joong Ki #kDrama #InnocentMan qualifies, as does the #twDrama #BehindYourSmile but since this is about favourites, the 9.9/10 I gave to #LoveToHateYou makes it a clear winner: A FUN romcom with just about everything right - including lots of on point social commentary, and the complete absence of serial killers

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 25: Favourite Drama A big reason I did this here & at bsky was to share less well-known Dramas ESPECIALLY as a reminder that East Asia is so much more than JUST #kDrama. #jDrama & #cDrama have SO MUCH to offer If this one is available, I REALLY hope some try it out. I'm into my SIXTH watch, most of the 5 rewatches have been slump-breakers to get me back into the joy of Drama-watching #OkitegamiKyōkoNoBibōroku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuZW2N-lHTs

Ships in the Night | Yakusuke & Kyoko (Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku)

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 19: Comfort/therapy - a field dominated for me by #jDrama - #ShinyaShokudo S1-3 (especially s2) #NekoZamurai S1-2 (SO cute!) #Alice-sanChiNoIroribata #HannariGiroriNoYorikoSan (a love song to Kyotro) BUT the clear winner is a #kDrama #OneDayOff It seems to fit the very definition of what (afaict) Koreans call "healing" - NOTHING happens and it's MAGIC 😍 (Also, imo the English title is better than the original, cf. #Doubt )

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

9.75/10 #cDrama #Beloved one of the best murder mystery dramas I've seen with credible competent police investigation shown. The acting was top notch, with no duds & the 3 leads - Luo Jin in a dual role, Wang Zi Wen as the victim/catalyst and You Nan as the single-minded intelligent lead detective, all shone.
The drama was very downbeat, but realistically so. That realism showed in the color palette, the cinematography, and even the makeup. No chance of a Foundation General scandal here.😁

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 5: Villain S1 of #ForestOfSecrets WAS my fave but I learned years later the actor was ALREADY a convicted sex offender then. SO, onto happier stuff Day 6: Family The first #kDrama I ever felt moved to blog about, in a post longer than any of my current Drama blog posts. #YeahThatsHowItIs Everything about this family Drama was near-perfect Good luck finding it though: When I watched it, Kocowa had it, last I looked, no one did

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 24: Love Story. This one was surprisingly easy. Many great romances in 13 years of 600+ East Asian Dramas, but this one came to mind first. #cDrama #TheTaleOfRose is 38 eps long, time enough to fully develop a rare 30+ love story love story between the FL's brother and her boss. An arc as much about their individual personal growth as their romance And in a Mastodon-only exclusive, the full clip of imo the most swoonworthy part

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@drnya91 For me, the best #kDrama romcom of the 2020s so far and almost the only REAL romcom, without serial killer baggage 😍

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama Day 14: Favourite trope This one was really tough. I have several tropes that really push my buttons, but thinking of a trope I really like was tough. I love it when tropes are flipped/inverted, but the closest I could come to a trope happens so seldom I'm not even sure it counts as a trope. That said, I love it every time I see it and perhaps because it's not that common, the scene is often really well done Asking consent for a first kiss

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

The first day after the end of Daylight Saving always leaves me out of whack: It's 23:30 but feels like 22:30
BUT, since tomorrow is a holiday, I can squeezin one more episode of #kDrama #NiceToNotMeetYou to hit 4/16 AND then start #cDrama #LegendOfTheMagnate - woohoo!

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

Into ep 5/16 of #cDrama #Beloved and REALLY struggling with its bizarre differences from #kDrama cop shows. in #kDrama cop shows the combined IQ of the police team never breaks double figures so it's always "the person wot found the body did it" arrest in 30 seconds. Then 16 eps of "oh merde we was wrong"

To see a whole team of fully sentient humans ACTUALLY INVESTIGATING, deducing, reasoning, arguing , working through differences and working together- what kind of heresy is this?

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 22: Character Picking A favourite character is absurdly impossible so here are 5 leads #kDrama Go Eun Chan #CoffeePrince #jDrama Moriyama Mikuri #NigeruWaHaji #cDrama 2= Zhong Qing Cheng #DearEnemy Chang Yu'Er #LegendOfTheMagnate #twDrama Li Da Ren #inTimeWithYou All real faves, memorable and in many cases now iconoic. And now the Mastodon-only bonus #CDrama #TaleOfRose a truly memorable support character with an awesome arc

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@jcurries @drnya91 Yes, Midnight Diner is great. I stick with #jDrama title because there was also a #kDrama remake and, I think, a #cDrama version as well, I've seen neither. The J original featured some REALLY big names in J acting talent as guests, a which added to its appeal to me :)

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@EllenInEdmonton@yeg.bike When I started #DivorceAttorneyShin it took me nearly 3 episodes to RECOGNISE the lead. A testament to what a great job he did in #ForestofSecrets, especially since he really IS that musical IRL

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 3mo ago

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Diary of A Prosecutor episode 13 (spoiler)

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 12: Comedy Possibly the MOST subjective genre. The first Drama that comes to mind whenever I see this even after 12 years, is the 2014 #jDrama #Date - whoever wrote it shared MY sense of humour almost perfectly. BUT, hooray for the extra characters here, because #kDrama #TheDivorceInsurance surprised me by how FUNNY it was. I already knew Giraffe as a great comic actor but the whole core cast made me laugh, a lot.

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

I'm not a fan of colorisation, but this colorised version of the legendary and phenomenal Nicholas Brothers Jumpin' Jive routine from Stormy Weather actually does give it the clarity and lift it deserves. No matter how many times I watch this I am still staggered that they (a) did it at all and (b) did it in ONE TAKE
#Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoMbeDhG9fU

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 23: kiss Another impossible category, so here's one of my earliest faves. That they were an IRL pair at the time likely helped make this so real #KDrama #QueenInHyunsMan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0AWek_4qwY

Queen In-Hyun's Man : tiptoe kiss eng. sub

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

Jamāl al-Din `Abd al-Rahīm ibn `Umar ibn Abī Bakr al-Dimashqī, known as al-Jawbarī

I've read read plenty of long books in my life but the book I'm currently #Reading wins the 'longest author's name' prize by at least 12 parsecs
#Bookstodon

Right from the start it made me think with dates like "the third/ninth century" - it took me a moment to realise it was AH/CE in that order. Fascinating stuff
#History
@bookstodon@fedigroups.social

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama Day 17: Mystery So MANY great options here, #kDrama #ForestOfSecrets #Doubt #TheVillageAchiarasSecret but my favourite mystery is #jDrama #OkitegamiKyōkoNoBibōroku - that I've watched 5 times in the last 12 years kinda proves that 😀 A case of the week mystery series, with a sweet slow/no burn romance (and the greenest of green flag MLs) , the REAL mystery of the series is "who is she, and how did she end up as she is? NEVER answered. 😢

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@JillsJoy @bougiewonderland Exactly. They are literally forbidden by PRC broadcast rules. Actual time travel #cDrama heavily frowned on, the rare examples must end with no altered timeline. Transmigration dramas are the common way to skirt the "no time travel" rule, but almost without exception they too end with 'reality' unchanged. "It was all a dream” a common ending. I ain't investing my time watching an OTP grow together only to be destroyed by bureaucracy

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama Day 15: Favourite time travel Drama time-travel #cDrama are literally not allowed HEAs, so they're a nope My fave is the 2017 #twDrama #LoveTimeless I've watched 5 times, 4 times focused ONLY on the arc of the 2nd pair. Elements of the OTP relationship remained problematic to the end for me, but the Groundhog Day time travel gave real growth to the STP. Good luck finding it though, so a good runner-up is #kDrama #QueenInHyunsMan

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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#chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama Day 13: Found family Glad of the extra characters here as #cDrama #jDrama & #kDrama have all produced great examples. the first 3 that came to mind for me are #jDrama In 1 'found family' is a BIG spoiler. So it's #KotaroLivesAlone for a stunning performance from the then 7yo lead, who had to really ACT. AND #GiboToMusumeNoBlues - a #JDrama I dropped after 2-3 eps then went back to MANY years later and scored 9.5/10

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@drnya91 sounds interesting, thanks!

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 20: Realiity show. A genre I like even less than I like anything spewed out by the Hong Sisters, so I'm going with a variety show that changed reality for my bias. #SwanClub featured Wang Ji Won as the only one of the core cast who had ballet experience. The episode where she met up again with her senior from the KNB was SO moving. This show started her migration from acting back to ballet. 😍 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMbjpT0NIdm8p4L13d0F9YnX-k3L6LBmf

The Swan Club all episodes

The Swan Club all episodes

Kim Koya

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@JillsJoy He does all his own music in elevator scenes?

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@dnkboston@apobangpo.space @drnya91@piaille.fr @EllenInEdmonton@yeg.bike Phantom Lawyer?

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@bougiewonderland I'll put it on my "Second chance" list. for when my PTW gets a bit short 🙂

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@bougiewonderland I started it for Shin Dong Mi😀 The first time I saw Bae Da Bin in something she said one word in English and I thought "that's Kiwi!" and sure enough, she spent nearly 10 years of her childhood here. 😍

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@bougiewonderland I made it 8 out of 50 before the sheer nonstop unlikeableness of all the characters overwhelmed me. And that despite the fact that one of the main female actors had a pronounced Kiwi accent when speaking English 😀

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

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@JillsJoy VERY glad you liked it! When I rave about a Drama, I worry if anyone ends up disliking it, having led them to waste their time. 🙂

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 6mo ago

I have absolutely NO IDEA where I saw and saved this image, nor the faintest clue why I INSTANTLY thought of @s1m0n4@ohai.social when I saw it just now 🤣

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

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@EllenInEdmonton I saw a great interview with Gregory Hines in which he said that when he and his brother were kids, people who knew them said, oh, you're going to be the next Nicholas brothers. He said that at the time he heard of but hadn't seen the Nicholas brothers dance. And so he said, he thought, wow, they must be excellent, because we're pretty good. And then when he finally saw the Nicholas brothers, he said, *no one* is going to be the next Nicholas brothers. 👏

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

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@EllenInEdmonton one commenter mentioned the set design - everything they danced on held up well, and another praised the trumpeters who just kept on playing right in the middle of those flying feet. 😀

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

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@jcurries It's a 50-foot high flashing neon sign "TELEGRAPH ALERT!"

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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chinguchallenge #cDrama #kDrama #jDrama #twDrama Day 21: Rewatch Both the Dramas I've rewatched most often feature the same female lead actor, so having already featured silver-haired Gakki in my list (5.5 watches total), this time I'm going with dark-haired Gakki in #FullTimeWifeEscapist (4 watches total) Of course, those 4 watches don't include all the times I've watched THIS 😍

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 7mo ago

An interesting article on the semantics of suffrage after Canuck Carney's Aussie claim
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360947181/canadian-pm-mark-carney-said-australia-was-first-give-women-election-rights-was-he-right

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@KDramaQn@ottawa.place Thanks for the reminder about Kanopy, I need to check it more often

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 35mo ago

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@ancientsounds@mastodonapp.uk Thank you! It makes it easier to follow the development of each word without having to go back (or remeber to right click) LOVE the page, a really rabbit hole to fall down. Finding out that Hindi word for thumb is related to ankle was fascinating. As was learning about Siraiki, thank you!

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@drnya91 ooh, what was the #jDrama you watched in 2026 and loved?

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@kagihq@mastodon.social Yep, keep rubbing that salt into the wounds of all your non iOS customers 😭

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 5mo ago

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@64bithero@mstdn.games @kagihq@mastodon.social Thanks. I am currently using Waterfox, but as a satisfied customer of Kagi Search if their browser was available outside Apple's walled garden I'd love to try it out

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Ronsboy67 @ronsboy67@mas.to

· 35mo ago

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@ancientsounds@mastodonapp.uk This is FASCINATING! So much so, I wonder if it might be helpful to have the links defult to opening in a new tab, rather than taking one away from the page?

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