The Internet continues to get a bit more fragmented and less accessible every week. Within the past seven days, Reddit finished its purge of third-party clients, Twitter required accounts to view tweets (temporarily or not), and Google News started pulling news articles from its Canadian results.
Now there's one more to add: Gfycat, a place where users uploaded, created, and distributed GIFs of all sorts, is shutting down as of September 1, according to a message on its homepage.
Users of the Snap-owned service are asked to "Please save or delete your Gfycat content." "After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com."
โฆ already in early April. In UDโs garden.
If itโs UDโs Garrett Park, it means that yesterday morning thereโs a knock at the door by a man identifying himself as โthe town arborist.โ Of course UD knows Phil Normandy, who leads regular town walks where he updates GPers on newly planted trees, dead and dying trees, rare and exotic finds, etc.
โMargaret, letting you know the townโs planting two trees in front of your house.โ The town right of way extends fifteen feet into what you might call our front yard. Itโs up to the town what it does with it, and what itโs doing with it is planting โ free of charge to Les UDs, of course โ two very beautiful trees for us to gaze at from our front windows:
โฆ appears in UDโs frigid garden as she takes her first walk in a month โ since (almost) recovering from bronchitis.