This strategy sounds perfect: ensuring Threads isn't the destination of choice for serious discussion. Thanks for sentencing your new product to death, Adam.

Squash the fediverse before it reaches critical mass.

It's astounding how so many will invite the thief at the door inside and offer him supper.

There are people in this community that are happy about the arrival of the new Meta app. Some instances will block it, but others will let the snake right through their front door.

Gross. Wouldn’t use it if they paid me.

I wouldn't be stunned if illicit substances have perennially been in the White House for a century or more. It's a hostile, high-stress work environment. Of course people are going to medicate.

In the Olympic Hills neighborhood of Seattle, officials fought a fire Saturday on a second-floor balcony that extended into one townhome and spread to others.

SEATTLE — Two drag performers and roommates are removing their damaged items from their North Seattle townhome after it went up in flames Saturday due to somebody else’s illegal fireworks.

"This isn’t just our home, it’s also our place of work. We get ready here," said Sreya, who preferred to go by their drag name. "And I design for other performers.”

No injuries were reported, but residents of three townhomes were displaced. Investigators ruled the fire was accidental and likely caused by fireworks. They estimated the loss to be $100,000.

At 12:38 a.m., more than an hour after the fire was first reported to 911, the fire was fully extinguished by Seattle firefighters.

"This whole stairway was like full of glass," said Sreya, showing the devastation left behind.

Sadly, the damage was due to no fault of their own.

"The resident of the home did not light the firework," said David Cuerpo, a spokesperson for Seattle Fire Department.

Sreya was home with a pet dog, and they were minding their own business in their bedroom.

"I could hear fireworks outside," he said.

Firefighters believe an ember from somebody else’s fireworks landed on his balcony.

"Where it ignited furniture that was on that balcony," explained Cuerpo.

Sreya said, "And [it] started spreading through the floor and to the attic.”

At the first sight of smoke, he grabbed his dog and ran.

"I was just like, 'Get out, get out, get out, get out, get out.'"

But not without a couple of cuts on his feet from hot glass.

"That’s when the window blew up," said Sreya. "And then I just had to keep going.”

Sreya survived, and thankfully, his roommate wasn’t home.

Now displaced, they’re moving what's left and are staying with loved ones in the interim.

While they figure out their next step, Sreya said he’s open for hire as a drag performer.

"You can book me at ‘That’s So Sreya,'" he said, laughing.

Sreya and his roommate Victoria are now facing thousands in replacement bills, and Victoria said she regrets that her renter's insurance was set only to $10,000 in damages. Sreya said some people in Seattle's LGBTQIA+ community, among others, have kindly supported them financially on their Venmo, and he hopes others will do the same. Their handles, he said, are @thatssosreya and @vicky-amore.

In the meantime this holiday, if you would like to report illegal fireworks in the City of Seattle, you’re asked to call the non-emergency reporting line at (206) 625-5011. Cuerpo said law enforcement will consider patrolling the area. Do not call 911 to report illegal fireworks.

"Destroying twitter at the behest of the Saudis"... you wouldn't happen to have a reference for a statement like that?

I am of the very strong opinion that both sides in this drama are comical.

Poor guy. It's all he has going for him, I bet. That and kombucha tea.

"It's okay if I'm not nice to you, but it's not okay if you aren't nice to me."

Whinging about whinging. The spirit of Reddit lives on.