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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Hot damn it is! I'm from the Reddit API protest migration. Can't believe that was three years ago...

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Just gonna drop in here to verify that I haven't changed the picture (I did tweak the image description text shortly after posting for improved clarity, but that's the only edit I've made).

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

To be clear, that was just a description I quickly made up for the post. I've been trying to make more of an effort to caption my image posts with text, in order to make them more disability-friendly and accessible.

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Thoughts? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
 

Image description:


Text: Amazon's electric cargo bikes have arrived in DC.

Image: A four-wheeled vehicle that appears to be a cross between a bicycle, a go-cart, and a mini-truck

Response text from high t alpha shemale @gluetaster: that's not a cargo bike man that's a loopholemobile

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Actually it went swimmingly, but dealing with the EPA regarding the Cambrian radiation was a real pain in the bilateral butt. By the end, it was quite the Ordeal-vician.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sure, but did you loathe Bush?

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Oh wow, turns out politicians are fallible human beings, just like every other person.

If you follow the philosophy that humans are inherently evil, that's fine, but don't make out like every US president ever has been somehow unique in this regard.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this why Sisko decided to reverse his hair and beard? Because he was sick of schoolchildren coming up to him and asking if he was the guy in their textbook?

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Things is, you're totally within your rights to loathe someone who was "before your time," such as Reagan or Thatcher or Jackson or Jefferson or... But to use "hated" in the past tense means either you used to hate this individual but no longer do, or that you hated them back when they were relevant. Since this individual clearly has not had a change of heart re: Obama, we must assume the latter, that this individual had strong emotional opinions about politics before they even hit puberty, which as anyone who has even met a child before can attest is utter nonsense.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Finally, some good fucking ~~food~~ statistics

Way too many articles nowadays that assert that "over half of Americans blah blah blah" and then provide no additional numbers.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I used to live in a city with a very progressive Episcopalian Church (lesbian pastor, Philadelphia pride flag, "protect our immigrants", actively helped the homeless, the whole shebang) but they were struggling (in terms of congregation numbers and I think finances too) because even though their messaging aligned with the political attitudes of many in this left-leaning city, most of those folks had abandoned religion in disgust altogether. I saw the same with a progressive Catholic chapter in another deep-blue city: their congregation was shrinking because Christianity as a whole had become so tainted in the public eye that the people who would have been most aligned with their message was turned off entirely.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If anyone is wondering which of the Christian denominations popular in the United States are less shitty, know that Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister...

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You don't even need an extension; desktop site mode will also do the trick on mobile.

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me_irl (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by fireweed@lemmy.world to c/me_irl@lemmy.world
 

Comic by Roz Chast, published in The New Yorker

 

(For instances that allow downvotes, obviously.)

I ask because if I see a post with more than a handful of downvotes assigned to what otherwise seems like decent content, I consider it a yellow flag, and I'll often go to the comments section to try and discover why the post is controversial.

Sometimes I'll find it's truly a matter of personal disagreement (such as on a hot-button topic like veganism), however I'll often discover the downvotes are there for a more objective reason, such as misleading or outdated info in the post. On many occasions this additional digging has led me to change what would have been an upvote from me to no vote or even a downvote. On the flip side, if I see a post that I like but that looks a bit fishy, if it has hardly any downvotes relative to the upvotes, I'll assume that it has passed Lemmy approval (a kind of Cunningham's Law I guess) and is therefore probably okay (e.g. I see a reference in a ScienceMemes or HistoryMemes post that seems too bonkers to be true).

So what about you all? Do you use the upvote: downvote ratio to guide how you interact with posts?

 

I haven't been able to keep up with recent releases this year, so 2026's question is:

What are the gayest/queerest/transiest(???) titles in animation/comics currently being released?

I'm talking any anime/manga/animation/comics that dropped this side of June 1, 2025 (continuing series are OK). Did 2025-26 have anything that could top (heh) this cover of Gay Comix #12 from 1988?

 

Stolen from Reddit. Original description:

There's a construction site opposite my apartment and the workers kept walking up the grass patch instead of using the stairs.

 

From The Greatest Estate Developer

 

I'm wondering what of the oldest films are still watched on a regular basis by a relatively mainstream audience purely for entertainment purposes (as in, not for a film studies class or for the explicit intention of "going through the classics").

The oldest examples I can think of are Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). I think the fact that they're both in color and are children's/family films has helped them age well, even compared to movies several decades younger.

 
 

どく・どく・もり・もり

Doku Doku Mori Mori

Poison Poison Forest Forest

by Segawa Noboru


An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.

Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.

 

どく・どく・もり・もり

Doku Doku Mori Mori

Poison Poison Forest Forest

by Segawa Noboru


An English scanlation is available on Mangadex.

Warning: despite the cute character designs, this is a gruesome, violent series. Read at your own discretion.

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