This wonderful gentleman was quoted over £5,000 for a new boiler installation.
He called Community Plumbing & Heating Support - CPH CIC ( D.E.P.H.E.R ) for a second opinion.
After we assessed his situation and his partners situation we decided to do a #FREE boiler installation for him, his partener was in a care home, being cared for as he was very ill, he had very little left after paying towards the care.
He said to me
" Is it OK if I have a husband "
He thought that we would say no.
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
Filing your taxes could be free starting this year. The IRS is running a direct-file pilot program. The goal is to make companies like TurboTax obsolete through a system where your taxes are filled out for you. But tax prep companies are spending millions to block them....
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This lady is fighting #cancer, her #boiler stopped working, it was totally knackered.
She asked British Gas for a quote, they said just over £6,000 in total.
We attended and installed a #free boiler, taking away the worry of borrowing for a boiler.
News Media Scan, launched by DW in coop with @ooni allows users to check which news websites in their country / region are blocked and which are accessible.
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NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds, becoming the first major news organization to go silent there. NPR cited Twitter's decision to first label the network "state-affiliated media", the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China & other autocratic countries
The gift giving continues! Today I'm giving away 25 free download codes for Tales of Etherspace, my 2022 album. This one is nice and diverse, featuring some of my most musical and accessible pieces next to some Real Weird Shit. And hey, with these codes (in the following threaded post), it's now #free if you want it!
Okay, #Denver area people, today is the final day of my big moving sale. Gotta get rid of most of a household, so come get some #cheap#furniture, books, etc. Tell me you're from Mastodon for the special friends' price , and even if you're broke come put your name on some stuff in case it doesn't sell-- everything must go so if no one buys it you can have it for #free. Getting to the end, so come get free stuff!
For the #PublicDomain, time stopped in 1998, when the #SonnyBonoCopyrightAct froze copyright expirations for 20 years. In 2019, time started again, with a massive crop of works from 1923 returning to the public domain, free for all to use and adapt:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
You are running a #TYPO3 website as a hobby or as a not-funded project & want to use our #DeepL#Translate extensions? Starting May 1st, we are giving away 10 #free tokens for our extensions & add-ons. If more than 10 people apply, we will make a raffle. Follow, RT + DM.
Access for All: Two friends helping change opportunities for blind people with an open-source screen reader for all. Now on Microsoft Unlocked: https://unlocked.microsoft.com/nvda/
If you haven't picked up a free copy of my book, Mastering Object-Oriented PHP, make sure you head over to https://masteringobjectorientedphp.com and get your copy today! Free is my way of giving back to the PHP community.
A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is "a long way out" (privacy.thenexus.today)
When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse "soon"....
OC If you want to save the existing reddit content for future off-reddit use, you should get involved with Archiveteam
Archiveteam's Reddit project is working to save reddit content from the hungry maw of corporate destruction....
[Analysis] This Is How We Finally Kill Turbotax (www.youtube.com)
Filing your taxes could be free starting this year. The IRS is running a direct-file pilot program. The goal is to make companies like TurboTax obsolete through a system where your taxes are filled out for you. But tax prep companies are spending millions to block them....
Project Gutenberg - huge library of free ebooks (www.gutenberg.org)
Probably the best source of non-copyrighted literature on the planet, imho, and a necessary bookmark for any lit addict