Damn I’ve always wanted to stop along the highway and get a shot like this. Great pic. Thank you

I live in Chicago near a park and every now and then I’ve seen someone juggling there. I’d say it’s out of the ordinary but not in a bad way; it’s unique. Still a fun hobby and you’re not hurting anyone, so go for it!

• TERF = Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminists (transphobia)
• Tankie = Apologists for outright oppressive, murderous regimes like Putin’s Russia and North Korea

• French language: Objectively one of the sexiest on the planet
• Lemmy shitposter: High probability of clinical brain death

This might be kinda long, not sure if it’s what you’re looking for. But here goes.

For the last 20 years I have been largely in the Apple ecosystem and enjoy paying for good software whether closed or OSS. Started the career I have today thanks to the indie Apple software scene and the iPhone’s launch. I probably have more app licenses and subscriptions than your average person, I suspect largely for closed source apps (Things 3, Ivory for Mastodon, Affinity Photo/Designer suite, Procreate, Pixaki, etc.). I despise ads, so I also pay for things like Apple Music, YouTube Premium, and even Twitch Turbo because I use the hell out of YouTube and Twitch, to a lesser extent.

I’m also a gamer and I’ve moved from Xbox, to PlayStation, and now 100% on PC, Steam, and Steam Deck. Have bought plenty of games, DLCs, and IAPs for stuff like cosmetics. I know, I’m the worst.

Since I got serious on Mastodon in 2019, I have started seeking out OSS for certain things. I donate small amounts monthly to both the main Mastodon project and to the two instances I use (toot.cafe and mstdn.games). I just started donating a couple bucks monthly to the Lemmy.world Ko-Fi, which I believe supports their other projects (which I haven’t started using).

While I have gotten angrier about the state of where tech and even Apple have started going, I’m not sure if a Linux PC and home-brewing my own kernels and writing all my own apps is anywhere in my future (yes, I know Steam Deck is Linux). I might be open to exploring a Linux PC eventually, but I’m also at a tricky point in my life where I need to find a new career path sooner than later, and tossing a full platform shift into the mix would, pragmatically, do more harm than good. But I have definitely started leaning more socialist in my politics and personal preferences for supporting communities and software. I’m donating where I can.

Multiple times he has publicly defended a German political party that has a leader who has stated, and I quote: “Germany was safer under Adolf Hitler.” End quote.

He personally flew out to attend a party from this, uh, ‘party.’

Fuck Elon Musk and every single person who defends him in any way, shape, or form.

Is there a way to support individual Lemmy instances, like mine at .world, and not the main .ml tankie one?

Just like other aspects of commerce, we’ll see what the market does. I hate to say it that way, but that’s simply how it works. Look at what’s happening to McDonalds right now. They’ve been raising prices for years, now tariffs have made things even worse, and people have responded accordingly and go to McDonalds less. Ball is in their court.

Another good example is the recent news about Beyoncé no longer filling major concert venues. I know there’s a lot of factors going on in these situations, but the truth at the core of it is that prices finally went up to a point where a not insignificant portion of her audience noped out of the transaction. Simple commerce.

Get ready for RKF JR to introduce this as a new health policy in 3… 2…

Too bad there’s no one in a position of power to do anything about it

Absolutely fantastic film. Go see it

Zip, then button

Your logic is undeniable

Counterpoint: Not wearing a suit, at least in the first photo

Gilbert Gottfried

As I understand it, the protocol has the ability to decentralize built in. But the technical requirements are prohibitively high to the point only large businesses or corps could afford to do it. I also believe (someone correct me) the company hasn’t switched on the functionality yet.

Wait, so it is a genocide now?

He has a great one in this series for Home Alone. Completely changes the entire film

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction(s). To summarize my request: I’d love to have a way to bundle multiple communities into a single section or feed in order to focus on a specific topic (and take breaks from… others). The obvious parallel from Reddit is a MultiReddit. For examples of how I use them:

• Games: Just games and related topics. A nice place to indulge in a hobby
• HappyPlace: No, not like that. These are cute pics and videos of animals, dogs, art and photography, a place to relax and remember the world can be good

I see this as one of the most useful and even powerful features of a community-based system like Lemmy. Would love to have this option here