Just made an alias to queet to my GnuSocial instance from bash alias queet='function _queet() { echo -e status="$@" | curl -u user:passwd --data-binary @- https://gnusocial-url/api/statuses/update.xml; }; _queet' posting is now just that simple: peter@peanut:~$ queet Test-Queet via bash Another option is to use the gasher-shellscript. It’s easy to setup…