Wren

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Clinically depressed, chronically online,
Socialist discordian statist for open science,
Independent journalism and gay crime.

My Communities:

Independent_Media@lemmy.today icon Independent News — Independent world journalism news feed.

indy_news_canada@sh.itjust.works icon Indy News Canada — Independent news from Canada.

wildfeed@sh.itjust.works icon Wild Feed — Trash. Global, diverse news, reports, blogs and listicles.

Art_Alchemist_Guild@lemmy.today icon The Grind & Bind Art Alchemist's Guild — Ask, share, learn and show off with the most DIY of artists.

cool_rocks@lemmy.today icon Cool Rocks — For cool rocks.

Everyday_Socialism@lemmy.ml icon Everyday Socialism — For everyday socialism.

I keep making communities. Please help.

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Wren OP ,

Way to hog the cure for death, god.

The Little Free Fibre Libraries of Vancouver

A local, independently owned yarn store partnered with the Little Free Library Project to create free fibre libraries around the city, providing yarn, needles and other fibre arts supplies to the community.

A screenshot of a map of Vancouver, Canada, featuring about a dozen locations where there are Free Fibre Libraries.
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Wren OP Mod ,

Great link, thank you!

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I have an Ouroboros on my back because Dana Scully is my hero.

How many different alphabets or logographies do you know?

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I'm bad at it, I just love alphabets, symbolism, and the way we extract meaning from visual representation — like with semaphore, sign language, math symbols and greek letters, for examples.

How many new words did you learn this week?

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Yes! This is exactly the kind of post I needed today. Let's bring back tunnelling.

Under GOP Pressure, Federal Agency Pulls Climate Change Chapter From Official Manual for U.S. Judges ( www.propublica.org )

Under pressure from Republican state attorneys general, the agency that advises the U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges on scientific and technical matters has withdrawn the entirety of its content on climate change from a new judicial reference manual. ...

Scientists Gave People 'Smart Underwear' and Found We Fart Way More Than We Admit ( www.vice.com )

Back in 2000, gastroenterologist Dr. Michael Levitt, sometimes dubbed the “King of Farts,” summed up the problem. “It is virtually impossible for the physician to objectively document the existence of excessive gas using currently available tests.” Smart Underwear exists because “currently available tests” weren’t ...

Wren OP Mod ,

I could listen to the tumbler for hours. You're very welcome.

Wren OP Mod ,

I don't know the model, it's very basic though. It came from Vevor for about $80. It handles a pound at a time and works fine. It came with all the grit and a big bag of cool rocks, too.

Wren OP Mod ,

Thanks! I'm excited for the spring runoff to try some home grown rocks.

Moms vs. culture wars: How suburban women flipped school boards ( 19thnews.org )

A recent analysis by Red Wine & Blue, a left-leaning network of over 700,000 suburban women working to influence politics at the grassroots level, found that 62 percent of candidates it labeled as “extremist” lost their elections. Meanwhile, 71 percent of the candidates it characterized as “common sense” won competitive ...

Wren OP Mod ,

Of course he's backed the People's Party. It was a horrible day when I discovered someone I thought a decent human being was running on their platform, radicalized during the first two years of covid.

I know people living in Hamilton/Scarborough, I'll remind them to vote.

Wren OP Mod ,

Bad.

Wren OP Mod ,

No problem.

Five Years of Coup: Burmese Anarchists within and without the Revolution ( crimethinc.com )

This February, the military coup in Burma entered its fifth year. In Yangon, life appears to have returned to a fragile normality. Worn down by a revolution that seemed endlessly prolonged with no clear horizon of victory, many who once left their jobs to join the Civil Disobedience Movement have gradually returned to the system ...

Evasion is not a defense — Vice President Sara Duterte’s response to impeachment complaints ( verafiles.org )

With the filing of new impeachment complaints on Feb. 2, after the one-year constitutional bar expired, that position has been restated without variation. What has not changed, however, is the absence of clear answers to the allegations themselves.

Wren ,

Wednesday is recycling day. I remembered to put out the recycling.

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The mod was right. You innacurately reduced his point of view on a comic and insinuated it was somehow fascist appologia.

That's nuts. That was a nuts thing to say to someone about their take on a comic.

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Oh it does, but it casts a harsher light on you than the person you argued with.

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What would be inappropriate grounds?

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Did anyone else see not a foot in a sandle, but Jesus's weird dick hanging out of his robes?

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts ( www.reuters.com )

In 2021, a unit of healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson announced “a leap forward”: It had added artificial intelligence to a medical device used to treat chronic sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses. Acclarent said the software for its TruDi Navigation System would now use a machine-learning algorithm to assist ear, nose ...

Everything We Know About the Butterfly Scientists Just Grew in Space ( www.vice.com )

According to People’s Daily, the butterfly arrived aboard a Kuaizhou 11Y8 cargo mission in December, sealed inside a 14.2-liter capsule designed to function as a tiny, self-contained ecosystem. The chamber was kept at about 86 degrees Fahrenheit and included plants and microorganisms that supported the insect through ...

Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) ( en.wikipedia.org )

Shrove Tuesday (also known as Pancake Tuesday or Pancake Day) is the final day of Shrovetide, which marks the end of the pre-Lenten season. Lent begins the following day with Ash Wednesday. Shrove Tuesday is observed in many Christian countries through participating in confession, the ritual burning of the previous year's Holy ...

Dozens Arrested After Throwing Dildos at ICE Outside Whipple Federal Building ( unicornriot.ninja )

The mass arrest was in response to protesters throwing rubber dildos over chainlink fences at passing vehicles suspected of being driven by ICE agents. The arrests follow a recent trend of various law enforcement agencies in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area mass arresting protesters following demonstrations against Operation ...

Hack linked to gun licensing program was biggest federal data breach in last 5 years ( theijf.org )

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner explained to the IJF that the figure of 2.2 million affected individuals was “a preliminary estimate,” although that number was recorded following reports from three federal institutions and six months after the breach initially occurred. The watchdog itself did not investigate the ...

Wren OP Mod ,

I have some insight into this. I've taken harm reduction classes, attended a harm reduction convention in Vancouver, and lived on the downtown east side.

First, we know that incarceration increases recidivism even when combined with a drug treatment program.

Why? A major lack of cohesion between different social programs. Like, housing may depend on someone being clean, but even if they stop using they have to apply for housing and wait, meanwhile they're back on the street, rinse and repeat.

Another reason — the cops continually raiding and shutting down safe drug sites on the downtown eastside even after decriminalization. Then, the mayor straight up raided downtown, attacked the unhoused and threw out their stuff.

So, while decriminalization was supposed to ease pressure on people to help them reach out for treatment, that treatment wasn't any easier to get, cops were still raiding supposedly legal safe drug sites, putting increased pressure on the unhoused, and arrested at least one guy who tried to start a safe drug supply business in the middle of a fentanyl crisis.

If they didn't see the numbers they wanted, maybe they should have stopped harassing drug users, integrated drug treatment and housing programs, and stopped making it harder to safely use.

Wren ,

I love it when someone asks which slurs they would like to say.

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Yeah, I saw that. I say good luck, I'm positive as fuck.

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On the other hand — the more we talk about piefed's features, the more we'll know about the kind of people who join piefed.

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Lots of people just don't look at the features anyway.

I joined piefed to check it out, left because I didn't like it. I was neutral-cold about it until I read about how the code functions.

We can make more posts about how it actually works to make sure more people see it.

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Well that's a crazy thing to do. But you can still see them even if they're blocked?

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I didn't tell you to stop users from attacking each other, I said you should moderate your community to prevent unfounded insults and brigading. The people in the screenshot didn't do anything wrong.

I do tell users to stop attacking others, often, especially in the communities I made.

Hexbear is just one instance. And... weird? I've downvoted and seen downvotes on hexbear communities I engage in. As far as I know, you should be able to see them, too, if your instance allows downvotes. So, yes, I do know what I'm talking about. Do you?

But, come on. This is circular logic and you know it. You first argued that seventeen upvotes was indicative of a community's values, didn't agree that the most upvoted comments in a thread would better represent a community, and continue to say your community represents "tankie behavior."

Now you're telling me to check the modlog for some ambiguous priviledge? How exactly do I... check their priviledge?

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What. Lol, why?

edit: How is that any different from what I'm saying here?

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I don't need to do any of those things to argue in good faith. That wouldn't prove or disprove anything I've said, and if so, I'd like to know how.

Furthermore, we're talking about this post and this thread. Why do you keep changing the subject and putting the onus on me?

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I wouldn't expect anyone who runs a community like this to be a healthy, balanced individual in the first place. I've said my piece and now I plan to move on.

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You mean I spent about a minute, total, responding to this fine user — because I'm polite. Now you're jumping in after I said I was moving on.

Sounds like you're a little miffed.

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Um, no? You're not that important, my friend.

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Yes, I know. Why don't you point out where I circle-jerked? I think you're not linking to my comments directly because two users engaged me on a comment unrelated to you, and I was dismissive.