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IMPROVING POST PROMOTION: Move 'promoted' posts to a vertical sidebar - so that they get more views.

I have just experimented with spending $20SBD on promoting a post that had previously quickly reached over $100SBD through organic voting. I looked on STEEMVIZ ...

How getting my heart broken may have saved my life – 亀

Wrote this some time around October/November '16, but felt it was too personal and awkward to share. However, it is part of the explanation for the hiatus, so h...

Why I had to leave.

I had a lot of "jobs" in my life. Made websites before it was cool to download free templates. Served in a hospital, tending to the sick and helping the nurses....

Hab sechs Monate Pause von Steemit gemacht. Was hab ich verpasst?

Ahoy, liebe Freunde und Follower! Die Gründe für die Pause werde ich in einem anderen Beitrag darlegen, soviel schulde ich Euch. Letzte Woche diskutierten zwei ...

Took a 6-month hiatus. What did I miss?

Ahoy, dear friends, followers and newbie Steemians! I will explain the reasons for the hiatus in a different post, I owe you that much. Last week, a discussion ...

Abalone - a minute to learn, a lifetime to master

One of the many books I devoured as a kid was Erwin Glonnegger's Das Spiele-Buch: Brett- und Legespiele aus aller Welt. Herkunft, Regeln und Geschichte (The Boo...

What to expect when a plane hits a building. MiG 21 vs. "Plattenbau", Cottbus, E. Germany, 1975

On January 14th, 1975, Major Peter Makowicka, 33, is on a training mission with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 21 SPS „849“. During approach on the military airbase C...

I find your lack of argument disturbing

It has been opined that, through the application of the scientific method, sound reasoning, logical argument and a little love, our world can become a better pl...

How to start a rucksack orchestra nanobit jam session

you'll need loudspeakers and an amp I got what originally was the foot of a computer monitor with built-in speakers for one or two Euros at a garage sale. It ex...

How to start a Commodore 64 retrogaming party

first step Always have your old breadbox ready for battle, connected to a TV, with both Competition Pro joysticks in clear view. Don't lock it away in the basem...

SorgenFreu - Papilia (Vaney's Song)

some more SorgenFreu tunes with German lyrics - enjoy anyway, whatever your language! :) https://soundcloud.com/sorgenfreu/papilia --- Disclaimer: this is recyc...

SorgenFreu - Freuvolution [Spectrum ZX Beeper 1-Bit Engine r.a.p. Deutsch]

yo this is some Spectrum ZX Beeper 1-Bit Engine rhythm and poetry in German, enjoy whatever your language! :) https://soundcloud.com/sorgenfreu/freuvolution ---...

My Steemit Mental Model (proclaiming the Initiative for a Sustainable and Innovative Steemit)

In last week's What's your Steemit Mental Model?, @razvanelulmarin rightfully asked how to make a model, a picture of Steemit, how to grasp it. No matter how of...

"Matrix Multiplication..." [deutsch/english] - We're all amplifiers.

A long time ago, in the age of the Occupy (Wall Street NY) and Blockupy (ECB Frankfurt) movements, Facebook and Blogs erupted with wonderful ideas of decentrali...

The Closing Down of Care Homes: An Inevitability (a reply to @lloydy, sorta)

In Ten facts everyone needs to know about Care Homes (Before They All Close Down!)., @lloydy calls for a fight against the closing of care homes in the UK. I wa...

Better Communication and Target-Aimed Debates Through Ism-Free Thinking (and a completely unrelated question about downflagging @dots)

a long, long, long time ago, I considered and identified myself a Feminist, an Anarchist, a Pacifist, an Utopist and Atheist (all before it was cool), but then ...

How to refute a claim of evidence for a conspiracy theory. Case study: a perspective on flat earth

If you're still stuck with the riddle from the last post, here comes the solution. But first the riddle again: --- View 1 http://i.imgur.com/LykutIs.jpg Earthri...

Some of the lenses and filters I sometimes look through

personal note I have tried, for the 16 years of using this pseudonym, to build a reputation of consistency: of being consistently random and unpredictable, advo...

The Case For an Independent and International Investigation Into The Terrorist Attacks of September 11th, 2001 [introducing #investigate911]

Conspiracy theories are BS, we all know that. http://i.imgur.com/HDrlgH2.jpg tinfoil hat with style Only gullible fools and emotionally unhinged attention-seeke...

Build a Tower, Drop Top 1/4 on the Rest, Observe, Report, Repeat: introducing #towerchallenge!

Laypeople and experts of Steemit: WELCOME! The category towerchallenge shall henceforth be dedicated to civil, scientific, objective and agnostic debate and dis...