Ian Betteridge

Blogger, veteran tech journalist, used to edit the UK magazine MacUser and is well known for accidentally coining Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: If a news headline poses a question then the answer is almost always “no”.

Fediverse address:
@ianb@well.com

Magic Aye

Bot that posts automatically generated autostereograms (aka “Magic Eye”), where you have to focus your eyes behind the 2D image to see the 3D image. It can take a while to do this if you aren’t used to the technique, but once it succeeds you will definitely know it has worked.

Fediverse address:
@magic_aye@mastodon.social

FediMeteo British Columbia

Weather forecast accounts for British Columbia, Canada. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses (in English & French):
@abbotsford__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@burnaby__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@chilliwack__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@courtenay__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@cranbrook__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@dawson_creek__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@fort_st_john__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@kamloops__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@kelowna__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@nanaimo__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@powell_river__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@prince_george__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@quesnel__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@surrey__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@terrace__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@vancouver__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com
@victoria__british_columbia@ca.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo New Zealand / Aotearoa

Weather forecast accounts for New Zealand / Aotearoa. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses (in English & Māori):
@ashburton@nz.fedimeteo.com
@auckland@nz.fedimeteo.com
@blenheim@nz.fedimeteo.com
@christchurch@nz.fedimeteo.com
@dunedin@nz.fedimeteo.com
@gisborne@nz.fedimeteo.com
@greymouth@nz.fedimeteo.com
@hamilton@nz.fedimeteo.com
@hastings@nz.fedimeteo.com
@invercargill@nz.fedimeteo.com
@napier@nz.fedimeteo.com
@nelson@nz.fedimeteo.com
@new_plymouth@nz.fedimeteo.com
@oamaru@nz.fedimeteo.com
@palmerston_north@nz.fedimeteo.com
@queenstown@nz.fedimeteo.com
@rotorua@nz.fedimeteo.com
@tauranga@nz.fedimeteo.com
@timaru@nz.fedimeteo.com
@wellington@nz.fedimeteo.com
@westport@nz.fedimeteo.com
@whanganui@nz.fedimeteo.com
@whangarei@nz.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo England

Weather forecast accounts for cities in England, using data from Open-Meteo.

Fediverse addresses (organised by city):
@berwick@uk.fedimeteo.com
@birmingham@uk.fedimeteo.com
@blackpool@uk.fedimeteo.com
@bradford@uk.fedimeteo.com
@brighton@uk.fedimeteo.com
@bristol@uk.fedimeteo.com
@cambridge@uk.fedimeteo.com
@canterbury@uk.fedimeteo.com
@carlisle@uk.fedimeteo.com
@chelmsford@uk.fedimeteo.com
@colchester@uk.fedimeteo.com
@coventry@uk.fedimeteo.com
@derby@uk.fedimeteo.com
@exeter@uk.fedimeteo.com
@hugh_town@uk.fedimeteo.com
@hull@uk.fedimeteo.com
@ipswich@uk.fedimeteo.com
@leeds@uk.fedimeteo.com
@leicester@uk.fedimeteo.com
@liverpool@uk.fedimeteo.com
@london@uk.fedimeteo.com
@manchester@uk.fedimeteo.com
@newcastle@uk.fedimeteo.com
@norwich@uk.fedimeteo.com
@nottingham@uk.fedimeteo.com
@oxford@uk.fedimeteo.com
@plymouth@uk.fedimeteo.com
@portsmouth@uk.fedimeteo.com
@reading@uk.fedimeteo.com
@shanklin@uk.fedimeteo.com
@sheffield@uk.fedimeteo.com
@southampton@uk.fedimeteo.com
@stoke_on_trent@uk.fedimeteo.com
@sunderland@uk.fedimeteo.com
@truro@uk.fedimeteo.com
@wakefield@uk.fedimeteo.com
@wolverhampton@uk.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Germany

Weather accounts for cities and towns in Germany. Follow an account to see its forecasts in German.

Fediverse addresses (in German):
@aachen@de.fedimeteo.com
@asendorf@de.fedimeteo.com
@attendorn@de.fedimeteo.com
@augsburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@aurich@de.fedimeteo.com
@bad_homburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@bad_kreuznach@de.fedimeteo.com
@bayreuth@de.fedimeteo.com
@bedburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@bensheim@de.fedimeteo.com
@bergisch_gladbach@de.fedimeteo.com
@berlin@de.fedimeteo.com
@bielefeld@de.fedimeteo.com
@bochum@de.fedimeteo.com
@bonn@de.fedimeteo.com
@bottrop@de.fedimeteo.com
@braunschweig@de.fedimeteo.com
@bremen@de.fedimeteo.com
@bremerhaven@de.fedimeteo.com
@buchholz@de.fedimeteo.com
@buchholz_saxony@de.fedimeteo.com
@celle@de.fedimeteo.com
@chemnitz@de.fedimeteo.com
@cottbus@de.fedimeteo.com
@darmstadt@de.fedimeteo.com
@dessau@de.fedimeteo.com
@dortmund@de.fedimeteo.com
@dresden@de.fedimeteo.com
@duisburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@dusseldorf@de.fedimeteo.com
@ebersberg@de.fedimeteo.com
@emden@de.fedimeteo.com
@erfurt@de.fedimeteo.com
@essen@de.fedimeteo.com
@flensburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@frankfurt@de.fedimeteo.com
@freiburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@freising@de.fedimeteo.com
@furth@de.fedimeteo.com
@garmisch_partenkirchen@de.fedimeteo.com
@gelsenkirchen@de.fedimeteo.com
@gladbeck@de.fedimeteo.com
@goslar@de.fedimeteo.com
@gottingen@de.fedimeteo.com
@greifswald@de.fedimeteo.com
@greiz@de.fedimeteo.com
@gutersloh@de.fedimeteo.com
@hagen@de.fedimeteo.com
@halle@de.fedimeteo.com
@hamburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@hamm@de.fedimeteo.com
@hannover@de.fedimeteo.com
@hanstedt@de.fedimeteo.com
@heidelberg@de.fedimeteo.com
@heilbronn@de.fedimeteo.com
@herne@de.fedimeteo.com
@hildesheim@de.fedimeteo.com
@hof@de.fedimeteo.com
@ingolstadt@de.fedimeteo.com
@jena@de.fedimeteo.com
@jesteburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@karlsruhe@de.fedimeteo.com
@kassel@de.fedimeteo.com
@kiel@de.fedimeteo.com
@koblenz@de.fedimeteo.com
@koln@de.fedimeteo.com
@krefeld@de.fedimeteo.com
@landshut_bavaria@de.fedimeteo.com
@leipzig@de.fedimeteo.com
@leverkusen@de.fedimeteo.com
@lubeck@de.fedimeteo.com
@ludwigshafen@de.fedimeteo.com
@magdeburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@mainz@de.fedimeteo.com
@mannheim@de.fedimeteo.com
@memmingen@de.fedimeteo.com
@moers@de.fedimeteo.com
@monchengladbach@de.fedimeteo.com
@muhlheim@de.fedimeteo.com
@munchen@de.fedimeteo.com
@munster@de.fedimeteo.com
@naumburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@neubrandenburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@neumunster@de.fedimeteo.com
@neuss@de.fedimeteo.com
@nurnberg@de.fedimeteo.com
@oberhausen@de.fedimeteo.com
@offenbach@de.fedimeteo.com
@oldenburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@osnabruck@de.fedimeteo.com
@paderborn@de.fedimeteo.com
@passau@de.fedimeteo.com
@pforzheim@de.fedimeteo.com
@potsdam@de.fedimeteo.com
@recklinghausen@de.fedimeteo.com
@regensburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@reutlingen@de.fedimeteo.com
@rostock@de.fedimeteo.com
@saarbrucken@de.fedimeteo.com
@salzgitter@de.fedimeteo.com
@schwabisch_hall@de.fedimeteo.com
@schwarzenbek@de.fedimeteo.com
@siegen@de.fedimeteo.com
@solingen@de.fedimeteo.com
@speyer@de.fedimeteo.com
@stralsund@de.fedimeteo.com
@straubing@de.fedimeteo.com
@stuttgart@de.fedimeteo.com
@suhl@de.fedimeteo.com
@trier@de.fedimeteo.com
@ulm@de.fedimeteo.com
@villingen_schwenningen@de.fedimeteo.com
@weimar@de.fedimeteo.com
@wiesbaden@de.fedimeteo.com
@winsen@de.fedimeteo.com
@witten@de.fedimeteo.com
@wolfsburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@worms@de.fedimeteo.com
@wuppertal@de.fedimeteo.com
@wurzburg@de.fedimeteo.com
@zweibrucken@de.fedimeteo.com
@zwickau@de.fedimeteo.com

Postcard Past – Present Photo

History site taking old postcards of particular places in cities and putting them beside photos of the same locations today, with the site’s articles discussing what has changed socially and economically in that area (or not) since the postcard was made.

Fediverse address (blog):
@index@postcard-past.com

Dr Robert Minchin

Astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the United States, and previously at (amongst others) the famous Arecibo in Puerto Rico, and the flying telescope SOFIA.

Fediverse address:
@Robminchin@mastodon.online

Dr Gregory B. Sadler

Adjunct Professor at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in the USA. Perhaps best known for running a popular video channel about philosophy, which aims to make complex classical philosophical ideas more accessible.

Fediverse address:
@GregSadler@metalhead.club

Wikimedia LGBT+

Global intersectional wikimedia user group aiming to improve quality and breadth of LGBTQIA+ history on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

Fediverse address:
@wmlgbt@tech.lgbt

FediMeteo Kansas

Weather forecast accounts for the state of Kansas, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@colby__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@derby__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@dodge_city__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@emporia__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@garden_city__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@hays__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@hutchinson__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@junction_city__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@kansas_city__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@lawrence__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@leavenworth__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@lenexa__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@manhattan__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@mcpherson__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@olathe__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@ottawa__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@overland_park__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@parsons__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@pittsburg__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@pratt__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@salina__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@shawnee__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@topeka__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com
@wichita__kansas@us.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Australia

Weather forecast accounts for Australia. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@adelaide@au.fedimeteo.com
@albany@au.fedimeteo.com
@albury@au.fedimeteo.com
@alice_springs@au.fedimeteo.com
@armidale@au.fedimeteo.com
@ballarat@au.fedimeteo.com
@bathurst@au.fedimeteo.com
@bendigo@au.fedimeteo.com
@brisbane@au.fedimeteo.com
@broome@au.fedimeteo.com
@bunbury@au.fedimeteo.com
@bundaberg@au.fedimeteo.com
@burnie@au.fedimeteo.com
@cairns@au.fedimeteo.com
@canberra@au.fedimeteo.com
@central_coast@au.fedimeteo.com
@coffs_harbour@au.fedimeteo.com
@darwin@au.fedimeteo.com
@devonport@au.fedimeteo.com
@dubbo@au.fedimeteo.com
@gawler@au.fedimeteo.com
@geelong@au.fedimeteo.com
@geraldton@au.fedimeteo.com
@gladstone@au.fedimeteo.com
@gold_coast@au.fedimeteo.com
@gympie@au.fedimeteo.com
@heathcote@au.fedimeteo.com
@hervey_bay@au.fedimeteo.com
@hobart@au.fedimeteo.com
@horsham@au.fedimeteo.com
@kalgoorlie@au.fedimeteo.com
@karratha@au.fedimeteo.com
@katherine@au.fedimeteo.com
@kununurra@au.fedimeteo.com
@launceston@au.fedimeteo.com
@lismore@au.fedimeteo.com
@mackay@au.fedimeteo.com
@maitland@au.fedimeteo.com
@melbourne@au.fedimeteo.com
@mildura@au.fedimeteo.com
@moree@au.fedimeteo.com
@mount_gambier@au.fedimeteo.com
@mount_isa@au.fedimeteo.com
@murray_bridge@au.fedimeteo.com
@newcastle@au.fedimeteo.com
@orange@au.fedimeteo.com
@palmerston@au.fedimeteo.com
@paramatta@au.fedimeteo.com
@penrith@au.fedimeteo.com
@perth@au.fedimeteo.com
@port_augusta@au.fedimeteo.com
@port_hedland@au.fedimeteo.com
@port_macquarie@au.fedimeteo.com
@port_pirie@au.fedimeteo.com
@rockhampton@au.fedimeteo.com
@sale@au.fedimeteo.com
@shepparton@au.fedimeteo.com
@sunshine_coast@au.fedimeteo.com
@sydney@au.fedimeteo.com
@tamworth@au.fedimeteo.com
@toowoomba@au.fedimeteo.com
@townsville@au.fedimeteo.com
@traralgon@au.fedimeteo.com
@ulverstone@au.fedimeteo.com
@warrnambool@au.fedimeteo.com
@whyalla@au.fedimeteo.com
@wodonga@au.fedimeteo.com
@wollongong@au.fedimeteo.com

Radio Prague International News Feed

News feed from the official Czech international news service, available in multiple languages. Founded in 1936.

Fediverse address (in English):
@english.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in Czech):
@cesky.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in French):
@francais.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in German):
@deutsch.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in Russian):
@ruski.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in Spanish):
@espanol.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Fediverse address (in Ukrainian):
@ukraina.radio.cz@rss-parrot.net

Tusky

Free open source Mastodon app for Android phones, available through F-Droid and Google Play. Can also be used by other Fediverse platforms that use the Mastodon API such as PixelFed and GoToSocial. One of the very earliest apps for Mastodon, first released in 2017.

Fediverse address:
@Tusky@mastodon.social

FediMeteo Rhode Island

Weather forecast accounts for Rhode Island, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses:
@barrington__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@bristol__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@central_falls__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@coventry__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@cranston__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@cumberland__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@east_providence__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@johnston__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@lincoln__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@middletown__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@narragansett__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@newport__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@north_providence__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@pawtucket__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@portsmouth__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@providence__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@scituate__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@smithfield__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@south_kingstown__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@tiverton__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@warwick__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@west_warwick__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@westerly__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com
@woonsocket__rhode_island@us.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Vermont

Weather accounts for Vermont, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses:
@barre__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@bennington__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@brattleboro__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@burlington__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@essex_junction__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@hartford__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@middlebury__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@milton__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@montpelier__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@morristown__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@newport__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@northfield__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@rutland__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@south_burlington__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@springfield__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@st_albans__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@st_johnsbury__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@waterbury__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@williston__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com
@winooski__vermont@us.fedimeteo.com

National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada

Canada’s public film producer and distributor, founded in 1939. Its massive archive is available to view online, and it continues to produce documentaries, animations, web programmes and alternative dramas.

Fediverse address (in English):
@NFB@socel.net

Fediverse address (in French):
@onf@socel.net

FediMeteo Maine

Weather forecast accounts for Maine, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses:
@auburn__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@augusta__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@bangor__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@bar_harbor__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@bath__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@biddeford__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@brunswick__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@caribou__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@ellsworth__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@farmington__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@gardiner__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@lewiston__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@old_orchard_beach__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@orono__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@portland__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@presque_isle__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@rockland__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@saco__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@sanford__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@scarborough__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@skowhegan__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@south_portland__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@waterville__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@westbrook__maine@us.fedimeteo.com
@york__maine@us.fedimeteo.com

Joey Deruy

Self-taught, exhibited artist with a distinctive abstract style using colourful shapes on pale backgrounds, sometimes with figurative and other non-abstract elements mixed in. Deruy was partly raised in Kenya, and there are African influences on his art too.

Fediverse address:
@JoeyDeruy@mastodon.art

The Browser

Human-curated articles covering all sorts of topics around the internet, as chosen by a team of professional journalists.

Fediverse address (blog):
@index@thebrowser.com

Court of Justice of the EU / Cour de justice de l’UE

The judicial branch of the European Union. The court mainly deals with application and interpretation of EU law, resolves cases between national governments and EU institutions, and may take action against EU institutions on behalf of individuals, companies or organisations.

NOTE: This is not connected in any way with the European Court of Human Rights. The ECHR is part of the Council of Europe, not the European Union. These are totally separate organisations.

Fediverse address (in English):
@Curia@curia.social-network.europa.eu

Fediverse address (in French):
@Curia_fr@curia.social-network.europa.eu

FediMeteo Belgium

Weather forecast accounts for cities in Belgium. Follow your city to receive weather forecasts in Dutch and French in your timeline.

Fediverse addresses (in Dutch & French):
@antwerpen@be.fedimeteo.com
@arlon@be.fedimeteo.com
@brugge@be.fedimeteo.com
@bruxelles@be.fedimeteo.com
@charleroi@be.fedimeteo.com
@dinant@be.fedimeteo.com
@doornik@be.fedimeteo.com
@gent@be.fedimeteo.com
@hasselt@be.fedimeteo.com
@ieper@be.fedimeteo.com
@leuven@be.fedimeteo.com
@liege@be.fedimeteo.com
@mons@be.fedimeteo.com
@namur@be.fedimeteo.com
@ottignies_louvain_la_neuve@be.fedimeteo.com

FediMeteo Texas

Weather forecast accounts for Texas, USA. Follow an account to see forecasts for that town or city.

Fediverse addresses:
@abilene__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@amarillo__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@arlington__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@austin__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@beaumont__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@brownsville__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@carrollton__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@cedar_park__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@college_station__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@corpus_christi__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@dallas__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@denton__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@el_paso__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@fort_worth__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@frisco__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@garland__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@grand_prairie__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@harlingen__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@houston__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@irving__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@killeen__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@laredo__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@lewisville__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@lubbock__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@mcallen__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@mckinney__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@mesquite__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@midland__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
@new_braunfels__texas@us.fedimeteo.com
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