Oh, bullshit. 🙄 Stop letting people manipulate you into believing things that aren't true. You're being the perfect tool for the people who are trying to undermine education in this country by spreading their lies and propaganda. Is that who you want to be? A gullible tool?

I'm not a dude, but I think guys should embrace the purse( or manbag if you prefer). I love carrying all my shit with me.

YES, please god oh yes. :( Also doorbells in TV ads. I have 3 dogs and it always sets them off. I don't even know how the fuck they know what a doorbell is because almost no one uses ours, lol.

And all of the rage bait posts too (including in those subs).

Upvoted for visibility! 🤪

It's basically a mirror of his campaign.

I just quit (and so did my partner) PoGo a couple of months ago when they killed remote raids. They'd been removing the changes they made during Covid that really improved the game for rural and homebound players, and the remote raid changes were the last straw for me (doubling the price to $2 a raid... wtf?). We played at launch for a few months and came back in 2018 and were daily, paying players with a weekly remote raid group. Never missed a community day, both own Gotchas, both level 42+, but we deleted the app and haven't been back.

So I wish them all the best with their renewed focus on PoGo, but we won't be back.

Won't anyone think of the Nazis? 😢

I started a community to track the H5N1 global outbreak but I do NOT want to moderate it long term; if it picks up, the anti-vax/Plandemic people are going to start showing up (they already do sometimes in the subreddit for it). I feel like opening the doors to Threads is going to hasten that.

Same. It's just growing pains, but totally worth it.

TONS of rage bait, but people ate it up. 🤦‍♀️

Me either, so I started a community for a subject I'm interested in and follow on reddit and I'm populating it with new content as the news comes in so new people can catch up. Be the change you want to see. Interact with that content and post more of it. Don't just complain that it's not being fed to you.

ETA: I might add that I have no intention whatsoever of moderating that community in the long term. If/when Lemmy grows, if that community picks up, I'll be looking for someone to take it over.

It makes you an awesome ally. 👍

Apollo. Everyone in my house did. Two have stopped using reddit entirely, I'm still checking on a couple of communities until their counterparts take off here. I'm using Dystopia there now because I'll never, ever download their shitty app.

I bet the gravel is warmer than the grass in the sun. :)

Oh for sure. I always enjoy hearing how awful California is. 😂 Total lawless hellhole here, I tell you, with a tyrannical governor who's going to force you to buy an EV that you can't drive once the sun goes down because solar doesn't work!

Seconding the Calibre recommendation!

Christian closed the sub for a while until everyone's emotions settle down. The sub will be back at some point, even if the app isn't. :)

ETA his post about it in case you can't see it:

Hey all,

Almost a week since Apollo closed and it's been such a weird adjustment, I really miss coming here and talking to you folks about feedback and cool ideas for Apollo going forward, and scribbling down ideas on how I could make them happen. I thought Friday would mean things would calm down, and they have a fair bit, but it was surprising and nice to get almost a second wave of really nice comments from people saying how much Apollo meant to them over the years.

(I started on app development because the thought of being able to jump on the bus and one day hopefully see someone using something I built felt like the coolest thing imaginable, and the idea that so many people used and loved Apollo really really makes me smile.)

I'm not really looking to come onto Reddit at the moment, and a few friends have indicated the subreddit at times can skew a bit over the top with anger about Reddit's actions at times. Trust me, I totally get the frustration, but we've had a "no dumping on other apps" rule in this subreddit forever for a reason: we want to be nice people, and in the case where others are maybe disappointing us, be the bigger people.

That being said, I don't really want to have to keep a keen eye over this subreddit, nor do I expect the other moderators here to, so I think for the time being – until maybe emotions settle a bit more and this place can turn into a nice flowering meadow of memes and reminiscing – I'm going to set the subreddit to restricted so no further posts can be made, you can still talk in existing posts or here if you so please. Heck, tell me something fun you've done over the past week, or give me a game recommendation to play (I should be finishing ToTK soon).

(Hopefully this is the one subreddit Reddit is okay with the moderators changing things, at least for a bit. :p)

Anyway, that's it from me. If you want to hear more of my musings or keep in touch outside of Reddit, I'm on Mastodon, and Twitter. Per request, I also added a bunch more designs to Apollo's merch store, and the promo code "RIPAPOLLO" will still work for a few more days.

- Christian

I'm not really into beans and shitposting, but I don't mind my feed flooded (yet) because it's always good to see people being active and having fun.

That's my biggest concern, too. People are fuckin' weird and you never know what will set them off. Some people just can't stand any sort of disagreement or pushback and might want to retaliate. I really think the source should remain invisible to other users.

Get fucked, Lin. 🖕

"We laugh so we do not cry."

Same. :|

That's the issue I have with blocking NSFW too. I don't want to see porn, but there is NSFW stuff I do want to see. You're forced to throw the blanket over everything, regardless of what it is.

I love living in L.A. because while we do have our right-wingers, seeing a Trump flag even in my semi-conservative pocket of the city is rare.

Are you really trying to draw an equivalence between Obama and Trump? Bruh.

Between him and Spez, they've done a great job. 😂

Thoughts and prayers.

I've long suspected that some of the "radical left" accounts were fake and their only purpose was to rile up the conservatives. This article is really validating. It's just going to get worse, though, because none of the platforms care as long as they're getting engagement.

(And yes, that goes for some of the over-the-top accounts on the right too.)

I have 3 young-and-not-so-young adult children (big gap between them) and I have found myself wanting to apologize to them so many times for bringing them into this shit show. I really didn't know it was going to get this bad. As a child of the 70's I was promised a world of ecologically and socially conscious people by now. Welp...

Boy howdy, am I glad I live in the really really real America and not whatever shithole America this lunatic is foaming about.

Wait, I have to pick one? No way! So:

Loom (PC) It Came From The Desert (Amiga) Wings (Amiga) Amber: Journeys Beyond (PC and the first game to truly scare the shit out of me) I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (PC)

Off the top of my head :)

bOTh siDeS

Yeah, the unisex bag is fine. Timbuk2 messenger bags have been my go-to for years. I'm not sure I even own an actual purse! 😂

I've been following H5N1 pretty closely for several months and one of the first things I did on Lemmy was set up a community to post news stories to. !h5n1_avianflu@lemmy.sdf.org

5 more of the deceased cats in Poland were confirmed today to have died of H5N1 for a total of 34 now. There was a report that one of the owners provided a sample of raw chicken that had been fed to the cats, and it tested positive for H5N1. This was almost immediately followed up by a very defensive press conference with the Polish government insisting it wasn't true; Poland supplies about 20% of the European market for chicken. Make of that what you will.

That none of the owners got sick is great news, but no one should be breathing easy about what's happening globally. :|

He's a maltese for sure, but possibly some shih tzu too (he was a rescue so I'm not positive). He's snow white from head to toe but in his younger days he loved to get as filthy as possible. 🤪

Doesn't it already exist? I see scores on both of the apps I use on both of the instances I'm on.

Intercepted? That's a shame.

Thanks for the reminder! I signed up at sdf.org because I saw that r/bbs had moved over. As soon as I saw SDF's website, which hasn't had its look updated since the mid 90's by my eye, I knew it was the one for me. I can tell they've been struggling a bit under the load but I appreciate so much that they're hosting an instance and I have confidence they'll get it all running smoothly. They're a non-profit and I'll be donating as soon as I'm able.

I do worry, though, that as the fediverse grows many of the instances won't be able to scale up and will drop out. I'm not an admin or sysop and know nothing of how this works on the back end, so hopefully those fears are groundless.

Hopefully someone will come along and answer. Thanks. :)