Larry Staples
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Larry Staples
@lstaples.sdf.org
Came to Japan in 1984 to study 日本語 @ ICU. Been working in Japan IT and telecommunications since then. Likes are not endorsements.

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Wow. Your post got labeled by Bluesky Moderation!
November 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I found it, but too bad that we can’t upload higher-resolution photos!
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Just curious, where is China on this list?
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Maybe you could raise one corner up high enough for him to crawl under…
November 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Reposted by Larry Staples
I tried using the new automatic photo description feature in @MonaApp for this post. I wish it had mentioned the lanterns making up a dragon and not said “foreign text” regarding the signage. I didn’t see a way to check it before sending.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Wow! Thanks for sharing this.
October 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I’m so sorry but also happy to be able to enjoy your creativity and humor! Thank you for being here and contributing so much to this virtual society.
October 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
My sympathies. Hope you recover quickly!
September 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by Larry Staples
@bsky.app And this is why real decentralization matters. There is nobody that can decide for the fediverse to block Mississippi.
August 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Reposted by Larry Staples
For Mastodon API developers: there is no documentation (yet) for the APIs around composing quote posts, but this will come soon.

We added documentation for displaying quote posts (https://docs.joinmastodon.org/entities/Status/#quote), which is already supported in Mastodon 4.4 and we encourage […]
Original post on oisaur.com
oisaur.com
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Reposted by Larry Staples
And now thanks to @chaosexanima I can show you how the retractation works:
- you get a notification when someone quotes you
- on their post, you have a new menu to remove their quote of your post
- you confirm, and your quote is removed and shown as having been […]

[Original post on oisaur.com]
August 21, 2025 at 9:12 PM