Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@social.cleverlibre.org

@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop I feel like I should be listening to Lee Greenwood while reading this thread.

@bitprophet

@knittingknots2 I've been saying this for a while. It's insane that the West is allowing #Russia to militarize the Black Sea. It doesn't even have the most #BlackSea coastline: both Turkey and #Ukraine each have far more.

There should be a NATO fleet in there holding Russian ships at a standoff, at least. Certainly the attacks at the mouth of the #Danube show it's fully #NATO's job now.

How do we know these aren't all cover stories and Prigozhin's not setting up operations on the moon?

Hey, anyone else hear this news that a random 60-year-old with Prigozin's spare passport just died in a plane crash?

@openculture The Midnight Special was a huge gift to the future. Never dubbed, original live performances that let us see what our favorite bands and songs were like when they had to nail it on the day. I think you're making too much of it not resembling the recording. How could it, and why should it? We have the recording. This is its own thing, and it's really solid.

@tomlevenson Still, it sounds better than "the rhubarb of the loose skin about my elbow"

@ZGoldenReport Oh look, an entire site of moronic disinformation. I've never had a reason to block a whole instance before!

I have all media obscured by default, so to those posting images and videos without any accompanying text, I'm not bothering to click to view them unless I know you pretty well.

I doubt I'm alone in this: after Twitter's endless "my face when" gifs, the feature is just too attractive to be ignored.

"Hi there, in my incredibly principled way I'm leaving Twitter and moving to Bluesky or Post or Threads on account of I don't want to depend on a VC-funded platform ultimately responsible only to whoever owns the most shares...

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@AlexSanterne @academicchatter And how many of them are moving to a platform which is, irrespective of any declaimed differences of principle, based on the identical model: opaque, VC funded, ultimately responsible only to whoever holds the most shares?

I find it's pretty reliable to judge people inversely by the calibre of their detractors. For example, take a close look at anyone who makes a point of tearing down Megan Rapinoe: they invariably turn out to be Jan 6 and/or police abuse apologists, that sort of thing. I don't know a thing about women's soccer but by that measure, Ms. Rapinoe's surely a damn goddess.

@georgetakei

@georgetakei

@ashmueli It's the "automatically" part I was asking for. Even if I wanted to stay logged in all the time, I don't think "prepend [x] to all my searches" is a personalization option.

(Mostly I was really just indirectlly grousing about how saturated with pinterest results many kinds of searches are. I don't know anyone who uses it for anything ever, and you can't do a thing with the result without signing up.)

It'd be nice if I could persuade google to automatically add

"-pinterest"

to all my searches. The ratio of it coming up in results to anyone wanting it to must be about a trillion to one.

@koboldcurrychef But I thought the last one was our last, best hope for peace. You mean there's ANOTHER last, best hope for peace?

@AnnemarieBridy It makes perfect sense. Only owning the idea of the music you buy, and that music's propensity to vanish when you switch phone platforms or even sometimes when you get a software upgrade, isn't very reassuring to people who really identify with their music collection. I have physical copies of most of the music I have that I actually care about; and that proportion rises to 100% when we're talking about the stuff that's not popular and ubiquitious.

@eliptic@mstdn.social @rifter Very much agreed. Our haste to rush children into potentially irreversible medicalization of what is often a socialization issue is going to bite us --- and more importantly them -- in the ass. Demonizing even basic confirmatory counselling as "conversion therapy" is particularly disturbing. It's like they don't want the child's mental health even contemplated before directing them to hormones and surgery.