Oh, this is something that just happened! That’s sad – the ability to minimise Twitter traffic was valuable. I won’t link directly to their site instead.

It was a bullfrog tadpole with a probable hormone imbalance. Its name was Goliath.

I kind of hope they make a Sims 5 that has limits on what female characters can aspire to, no LGBT+ relationships, etc, purely for the backlash that would ensue. It’s a big ecosystem that they could really screw up.

Coin return is further down on the right.

The hole to the right of the selection buttons, in the center of the machine.

It’s also in the hands of Saber Interactive.

I’ve struck the KOTOR remake off my wishlist, and I was thinking of buying Road Redemption and now absolutely will not. It’s a shame, but I’m not giving them a cent.

The article says a stabbing. I struggle to imagine it too, but maybe a fall while it was still protruding, like you say.

A 44-year-old male, otherwise healthy, presented with a right chest wall sinus discharging pus, 8 years after sustaining multiple stab wounds treated with primary first aid only.

The CT scan and its reconstruction are wild.

From the surgery image, which I won’t repost, I wonder if the handle broke off before/during the attack, or if it was broken down in the thoracic cavity?

Guessing from the hostile tone of your response that my own tone was badly conveyed. I was just making a general observation that we seem to automatically treat relatively distant ancestors with the same significance as grandparents. I do the same.

doesn’t work if you force desktop site on mobile from my teats

We’ll have to take your word on this.

i.e. one of his sixteen (but possibly fewer) second great grandparents is James Garfield. I think it’s easy to have a little tunnel vision when talking about more distant ancestors.

It also says that coffee drinking is a means to socialize, but not with any context around fortunes or a backchannel to avoid patriarchy – maybe a misunderstanding?

An invitation for coffee among friends provides an opportunity for intimate talk and the sharing of daily concerns.

And that full text, also to avoid extra visits:

You crazies won and proved me wrong. The fediverse isn’t worth saving after all.

Over the course of the last several days, I have received a constant stream of harassing messages, death threats, and threats of doxxing over DM, Matrix, Github, and Codeberg. All of it instigated and eggged on by another instance’s top admin. This is unacceptable for all of the reasons in the world, and while I won’t give you the personal satisfaction of having won, you’ve definitely proven me wrong about the fediverse being something that even can be saved from itself.

Even people around here I’d interacted with positively for years and had grown to respect because they seemed level headed and above the immature and sociopathic bullshit that dominates this platform showed their true selves. That completely shattered any and all illusions I had that this place has a hidden core of users that I should try to make more visible amongst all the rage, rage baiting, propaganda, harassment, rumor mongering, trolls, conspiracies, purity testing, witch hunts, and violent rhetoric.

Like many of the rational people before me who called this place home, I’m done with this place.

I tried to carve out a space where those people and other rougher edges were not drowning out niche communities and hobbies and where people who choose to use the platform to harass others were also out of sight, out of mind. Apparently only three people who aren’t me actually want a place that’s not just a circle-jerk of rage and hate. Thus sayeth the mob.

Then you have entire instances whose admins call for the death of others, harass other users, and lead harassment, brigading, and DARVO campaigns against those who dare call out their bullshit or decide to disassociate themselves and their work from them.

Lemmy.World was so close to doing the right thing after instance-that-will-not-be named’s admins were calling for the death of LW’s admins while spreading rumours and labeling others in such a way that painted them as targets for murder. All of that, mind you, with absoultey no evidence other than specuation and their own cooked-up conspiracies about modlog actions or taking and twisting things wildly out of context to fit their made-up narratives so they had someone to say they ‘caught’ and should be killed.

.world was on the precipice of doing the right thing and disaccociating themselves from that psychotic shit show, but silently dropped the issue and carried on as usual after wringing their hands for maybe two weeks.

“We have to worry about the optics or the politics of it.” they probably said.

Bullshit.

I’m one person and have held my fucking ground, mostly with dignity and grace, in the heat of my own shitstorm of trying to disaccociate from the extremist elements of the fediverse. If I can stand up for what’s right and deal with the blowback, so can you.

Fuck lemmy world’s admin team for condoning that behavior and letting the human skidmark db0 DARVO his way out of the situation while brigading with his army of malcontents whom he wields like a cult leader. He knows exactly what he is doing, and you all continue to allow him to get away with it.

Nah, fuck this whole place. I’ve let too many things fall by the wayside IRL because of dealing with all this fediverse bullshit and trying to give it the slightest bit of polish both visually and atmospherically. Mythbusters may have proven that you can, in fact, polish a turd, but at the end of the day, it’s still a shiny ball of shit.

For the few people left who didn’t turn out to be psychotic, I’ll think of you from time to time when recalling something you’ve posted or commented that genuinely made me laugh, made me think, or otherwise put a smile on my face or in my heart.

Everyone else, though, enjoy your toxic, xenophobic, knee-jerk-to-violence, purity-testing, and harassing-anyone-who-doesn’t-fall-in-line cess pit. One day you, too, will do or say something that doesn’t toe the line and you’ll be right where I am.

P.S. Rimu, you owe me a beer. No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.

Who’s going to maintain an independent fork? It’s a crazy amount of work.

Additionally, a lot of them borrowed from heraldry or livery, hence the popularity of the Red Lion, the White Hart, the Crown, the Kings Arms, etc.

They absolutely are, in that the species from America got shortened from “opossum” to “possum” (with both versions still in use), and then the similar-looking Australasian animals were given the same abbreviated name.

The rental cars I’ve used in Europe in the last few years are absolutely relentless with their warnings; it just becomes noise that you ignore.

It thinks you’re not watching the road, it thinks the speed limit is 30kph when the signs say 80, it doesn’t like that you’ve crossed into another lane to pass a cyclist, it’s warm outside, it’s cold outside, the person who just got into the car hasn’t finished putting their seatbelt on, the bag on the back seat hasn’t put its seatbelt on, your parking spot is within a meter of another car, the tires are 32 PSI instead of 33.

Alarm fatigue sets in really fast.

Tidal pay artists more than most platforms, and over four times as much per stream as Spotify. That’s not to say it’s not still part of a broken system, but most other platforms are worse.

I don’t know about elsewhere, but in the UK they’re normally a bit more expensive and marketed as “takeaway style”. They’re generally superior, but they need a stone or tray, a hotter oven, and more time to cook.