I don't care what anyone says I will always read it as start rek

Don't forget bats and bees!

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I don't know if this is quite the same thing, but @kersploosh was waging a war on bot accounts. Maybe they have some inside or can come up with something in conjunction with the admins.

Edit: that's @kersploosh @sh.itjust.works in case the one here is someone else.

Don't worry, he'll be back

There’s that one guy who thinks that alien civilization sent Oumuamua to us. At least that’s a semi-original take on it.

When I was a kid in the '70s and '80s I can remember the front grill and windshield of our car being absolutely plastered with bugs. I mean like power wash to get them off plastered. Today it's surprising if I have more than a handful of smudges on my windshield.

Same here. I've just noticed this over the last 24 to 48 hours. And it seems to be worse on computer. Right now I've been browsing with Firefox on Android and it seems to be doing fine.

@Arotrios had a really good post about some of the stuff you can do with kbin to follow other communities or even entire instances across the fediverse.

Little gems like this are why I'm on the internet.

That is exactly the thing I homed in on before anything else. You would think that just by statistical probability the guy must have one single good trait somewhere in there, but nope. Garbage from the haircut on down.

I was in the same position. I looked into it a little bit and my TL;DR version is that tankies are people who in general are apologists for the Russian and Chinese governments using fascistic and dictatorial measures. I'm guessing that more broadly speaking this could apply to supporting any government that uses violence against its own people, but it usually comes up in the context of those two countries.

Let's be honest. Most of us have waited our entire lives for this moment. A hairy-breasted man with not one, not two, not three, but four nipples? And leg pigtails? If this is wrong, I don't want to be right.

No shit. It's either complete obliviousness or the most straight-faced trolling ever performed.

Is there a way yet to block an entire instance's posts, or is that beyond what you can do as a user?

Thank you for this! I've been wondering what it was but didn't care enough to look it up.

I don't think there's an app-app yet. I've read on here that kbin is fairly new, while lemmy has been around a lot longer.

You can through kbin! There's a nice discussion of it here.

You can add their name to your kbin url like this: https://kbin.social/d/social.bbc. It should open the page as if it were a kbin magazine and have a subscribe button. After that, you should see it when you browse your subscribed threads (although it seems like it won't appear in your list of magazines).

@SirNuke See if there’s a local bike project near you. There’s one near me that accepts donated bikes and refurbishes and sells them for fairly cheap or uses them for parts. They have all kinds of tools and workspace that you can use to work on your own stuff.

To approach this from a different angle, I would say this is actually an ironically encouraging sign that we are lurching in a good direction. There's always going to be some level of racism, misogyny, homophobia, etc., but those things are mainstream enough that you have to be really hard right to beat the drum for them. It's the kind of thing that might still play in certain areas, and with certain types or demographic, but the mainstream isn't really down with it. Open pro-trans movements and statements are pretty new compared to these other things, so it's just the latest in the succession of what-can-I-hate-up that authoritarian types latched onto. I have a feeling we're lurching -- and pretty quickly -- toward trans becoming more mainstream

Foooook that's awesome