I’ve been listening to the various microbe.tv podcasts for probably 15 years at this point, This Week in Virology and This Week in Parasitism being my favorites (RIP Dickson Despommier). Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe even longer. Some people seem to only be aware of hollywood celebrity podcasts.
They only block some Mullvad servers, if I hit the change location button once or twice I always get through. At least on Swedish servers which I usually use.
Apart from when search engines take me there, I stopped Reddit cold turkey the moment they started giving warnings simply for upvoting comments that are hostile towards billionaires.
Are you sure you weren’t looking at some patron’s profile? As far as I can tell the .world profile pics are just blue and green letters or a lemmy logo.
Haven’t seen a YouTube ad on TV in years. SmartTube works great.
I don’t understand english-speakers’ enduring obsession with the term “scandinavia” anyway. What’s wrong with “the nordic countries” which is what they’re actually called and which isn’t culturally meaningless unlike some peninsula?