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> This community appears to have been abandoned by the current moderator. Their account shows no activity for the past 4 months. They have also not responded to a direct message I sent several weeks ago. > > Would anyone like to step up and become the new moderator? We should have an active user in that role. > > @lewosadebu@sh.itjust.works / @lewosadebu@lemmy.world I’m mentioning you here for transparency. If you ever come back to Lemmy you should have a notification directing you to this post.

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The real fantasy element of Dungeons & Dragons is pretending that you have a group of friends who all get along with each other and can manage to meet regularly for four hours at a time.

(Originally published on hachyderm.io: 2024-02-04)

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cross-posted from !tails@lemmon.website - a lemmy community that natively features mastodon posts (and their replies) so we're not using screenshots, and lemmy users have the opportunity to respond to the original author.

edit: I realise now that the cross-link won't show up correctly, 'cos no-one on sh.itjust.works is subbed to tails, but if anyone ever does, I'll try again with a different post.

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Via siderea | The Austrian Grocery Price Comparison Website Story \[tech, law, Austria\]:

> The following is magnificent, and I commend it to you. > > Over on Mastodon, programmer Mario Zechner gives a first person account of how his exasperation with his government's (Austria) corruption and ineptitude led to him preempting a government web development boondoggle, and subsequently unearthing a whole world of anti-competitive illegal grocery pricing and precipitating federal antitrust action. A heartwarming story of screenscraping, data science, and international amity. > > 2023 Sept 15: Mario Zechner [personal profile] badlogic@mastodon.gamedev.place : https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

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#PPOD: Pictured, behind this darker cloud, is a pileus iridescent cloud, a group of water droplets that have a uniformly similar size and so together diffract different colors of sunlight by different amounts. T Also captured were unusual cloud ripples above the pileus cloud. The formation of a rare pileus cloud capping a common cumulus cloud is an indication that the lower cloud is expanding upward and might well develop into a storm. Credit: Jiaqi Sun

#science #scicomm #weather #photography

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Following the German @ZDF and @tagesschau, the BBC is giving Mastodon a go through their own server. You can now follow the official @BBCRadio4 and a few other accounts on social.bbc!

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I don't think it's any secret that there's a bit of a stuffy vibe on Mastodon. Does anyone have recommendations for hashtags they follow that pull more lighthearted content into their feed?

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If you need to be delighted by something this morning, I present the tree goats of Morocco.

I was driving near Essaouira the first time I saw this and literally slammed on my brakes because I thought I was suddenly hallucinating. But then you learn how common it is and after a day or two it's, oh, yeah, more goats in trees.

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> https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/110697119407925681

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God damn it, I never make dad jokes, but the electrician just showed up and it is a husband+wife duo. I could not resist a "ah, power couple" and it fell flat, fam. IT FELL FLAT.

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Right wing influencers are convinced the Instagram Threads logo is the mark of the devil

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I’m releasing the first set of blobbee emojis! There are 30 in here and I’m sure there’ll be more very soon 🐝

https://beehive.gay/blobbee

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Favourite summary of the current situation, from the Guardian and @firstdogonthemoon : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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I'm loving the fediverse 🥰

You're all beautiful and appreciated.

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Attention! I recently learned that the behaviour of lying flat out on the belly with arms and legs spread out that some animals do, often to cool off, by radiating heat into the cooler ground, is called "splooting." I personally have been calling it "going full rug", but I guess splooting is also hilarious. So here's a red panda splooting, in case you need a demonstration. #RedPanda

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Where do the bad rainbows go?

Prism.

They get a light sentence.

It gives them time to reflect.

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Leo @daVinky don't mind me just clearing out the draughts 🙈 [picture of the vitruvian man] ❤️ 50k 🔁 3.4k

Bard of Avon @WhereforeArtThou new folio droppin at midnight 🔥 ❤️ 50k 🔁 3.4k

Makaveli @illPrincipe the ends justify the memes amirite lol [selfie of him in a MAGA hat doing the OK hand and drinking milk] ❤️ 50k 🔁 3.4k

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> I'm looking for accounts posting random an silly stuff similar to twitter accounts > - fuckedupfoods > - There is no cat in this image > - medieval reactions > - crap taxidermy > - ancient memes > - PunHub > > Any kind of light, shitposty, wholesome, meme or pun accounts.

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For hundreds of years philosophers and artists have asked “what is it to be human?”

And about 10 years ago tech bros discovered that it’s actually our ability to tell which pictures contain bridges.

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So lemme get this straight.

1. Lorie Smith, owner of 303 Creative, doesn't actually design websites. Her company doesn't actually provide that service.
2. Stewart (last name withheld) didn't ask for a wedding site for him and his husband from her.
3. Stewart isn't gay. He's married to a woman and they have a kid together.
4. AND what could possibly be the most ironic occupation for Stewart to have? He's a web designer.

You can't make this shit up. Or I guess you can. Because Lorie and the Supreme Court did.

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Sometimes a conversation helps someone grow. Inspires change. Leads to a new idea. Makes the world just a little better.

Usually we never find out, but that’s not the point. It’s enough knowing each of us has the potential to be a spark ✨

So be wildly supportive, encourage curiosity & spread as much kindness as possible. You never know where it will lead.

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I have had Mastodon for a month or so but I only followed one person and never really understood it. Would love if we could share our favorite follows here so I can start to use it to migrate completely off Twitter.

I love weird twitter, and the leftist types like Ken Klippenstein

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>This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

>The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

>In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

>The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

>This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

>Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

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