so true. we also have a bird bath and on days where i get busy with work calls & forget to top it off, i’m gutted to see the birdies standing around looking for a drink only to be disappointed.

gotta fixture out goes to automate topping it off without flooding the rest of the yard

thank you all very much - we’ll check out the resources and recommit to doing this!

another one for the trying to learn japanese - my problem is i start and then stop. rinse & repeat so i never get very far 🤣

i had this question a couple of days ago and today fell totally down the fuck spez rabbithole.

found myself on the main discord where the coordinators were talking to uruguay about doing the “u” after columbia (?) declined. guess hearing that, both uruguay and equador wanted in.

there was discussion of not stepping over the swiss flag in one of the letter because they were part of the coalition.

these folks are dedicated - many commented they hadn’t really slept since it went live. kudos to all of them for the passion they showed today.

tbh it was impressive and one of the best executed operations i’ve seen in a long time. very fun to see up close.

working for a global multinational company i only wish we were this efficient internally ❤️

💯i was in strong anger last week.

good god i remember that comment!

hopefully whatever you were making with that sour cream will survive the beef rawhide replacement 🤣

welcome to you and everyone else coming over! looking forward to great shenanigans.

spez fucking with 3rd party developers, mods and fucking down on lies to the community.

awesome- very exciting and thank you 😊

here’s a question, wouldn’t it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

assuming they’re doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

thoughts?

doing the same as we speak. My replacement text is “Moved to Lemmy because Reddit has become greedy with data generated by their community”

all attention to this mess is good imho. also remember chat gpt was trained on reddit data i until fall 2021 so should be able to pull on archived zeitgeist for a quick and dirty answer

i just broke my own rule and posted to reddit modcoord using a burner account. will react and burn it in 24 hrs.

my message to them was this: unfortunately human mods will be the next to go - they’ve shown their power to reddit and once this ipo happens they move from becoming a thorn in spez’ side to a risk to shareholder value that needs to be “mitigated.”

spez wants control. control of the apis. control of the app. control over the platform . he can get there first two but then mods prevent the last. he needs control if the ad revenue is to happen so he can exit with his golden parachute. health of the communities or platforms be damned.

i suspect at some point he’ll not only demod all of the human mods in favor of botmod + ftes but may also go the extra step to delete the mod accounts entirely – he’ll justify the killing of their handlers with some bs policy.

this will leave mods demodded; powerless with no voice or identity - consider… how can u/newname prove they’re really u/ex-mod without revealing personal info that might doxx themselves?

recommended they establish an alternate means of communication with their community here or on discord.

we should also consider standing up an mod coord here so they have a place they can freely speak and plan without sock puppet spez accounts or bots courting the conversation.

wonder if regular carpet bombing the open subs with a black “Reddit is killing third-party app (and itself)” might be effective? gives the mods an “out” because it’s not against TOS - and if it were widespread enough eventually a few of them will hit front page

not my drama but a friends… her mom has uncontrolled diabetes along with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

a couple of months ago she got and at home manicure from some shady outfit. ended up with an fungus which when asked to recount how this could have happened she kept lying and saying she didn’t know.

she didn’t keep up with the care on it so it became infected and they needed to do surgery to remove her nail. during the surgery they discovered it had infected the bone and the tip of the finger needed to be amputated.

they do this and send her home. my friend settles her in after surgery, went i guess to use the bathroom before leaving only to find her mom gathering her purse with keys in hand.

as you might expect my friend was appalled and asked her where she was going. mom replies…" well your aunt asked me to drive her to the airport today "

friend looks out the window and yes, there’s auntie “waiting on the street with her purple suitcase” 🤣

apparently mom knew this and said nothing to aunt or my friend.

so when you’re dealing with your drama, send thanks into the electrons that it could be much worse ☺️

I’m not a doctor but did study anatomy for yoga teacher training -

Do you sit a lot? if so it sounds like maybe the psoas or hip flexor which wraps from the back around to hip may be tight or irritated. If the hip is out of whack that might take the knee with it.

Have you tried gentle stretches to see if it helps?

There’s great beginner youtuber called Yoga with Adrienne who has a bunch of these kinds of stretches. When i say gentle stretches, please be kind to yourself and be super gentle 😉

There’s a big difference between pain and discomfort. If you feel any sharp pain, needless, numbness stop the stretching immediately. If it’s just achy just stay there for a bit and see if it loosens up.

Finally as someone who had had back issues - i was told if you ever experience any sudden weakness, numbness or have trouble urinating get to the ER asap. That might be a nerve problem which is serious and needs attention.

Please let us posted on how you get on if you’re comfortable sharing. Sending all good thoughts through the electrons for a speedy recovery ❤️

after all the rain we had socal is riddled with mosquitoes that don’t seem to mind the weather. watching this thread to see if someone’s got something to help us

unfortunately yes the blackout will eventually pass … right now i think the only question is at what cost to reddit?

curious what the zeitgeist would be if the vc or fidelity made soez step down, which replaces him and to what net effect?

seeing his credibility is completely shot publicly, is this at all worthy of putting on the table?

Catharsis. think that’s all it is and will die down in due time.