Oh! I had a super cute dress that would have looked PERFECT with those boots. It was a short navy blue dress with an open lace on the top half of the back and a cute braided belt of the same color as those boots. Then I’d wear my denim jacket with it.

I wore something similar to a friend's 50th birthday party that had a country western theme. So much fun!!

You’re correct, my bad. It was Mastodon but I don’t doubt it can happen here eventually.

Absolutely! I wish more male users of these comms would call out their fellow men’s misogyny and not rely on others to do it for them. It would make the spaces more welcoming to a lot more people and create a more positive atmosphere.

I also love seeing 2 of my fave lemmings in other spaces 🥰

I literally just read an article here an hour ago about how LLM bots are starting to get through signup protocols on Lemmy and mods are becoming overburdened. They even mentioned a brigade of Russian bots that have been shit stirring and spreading propaganda.

I would not be surprised if you are close to the truth here. Especially because this is supposed to be a good off my chest comm lol

Edit: found it

This problem is not only spam in the ‘click-here-for-free-dogecoin’ sense, IFTAS reports that the fediverse has been targeted by the Russian botnet Portal Kombat for misinformation and propaganda.

https://piefed.social/post/2165924

Heck yeah and welcome! The support I’ve seen on that thread is wonderful 💚

Even when we don’t agree, folks here are so kind about it.

Nice plants!

I just moved 8 freebie hydros to soil in the last few days and I’m hoping they don’t die or bud up early. Hope mine look as good as yours!

I don’t have much to say, I just want to say I fucking love every single one of you ladies, trans, and enby friends in this community. The amount of support I see going on here is fucking phenomenal and I love you all for that!

Special shout out to velma, banana, sharkweek, and a few others I’ve replied to or had replies from recently. And of course the lovely LadyButterfly who gets so many convos started with your posts. Too many wonderful people here to type out all y'alls names.

I fucking love all of you so much and I hope you are all having a wonderful year 💚

I have to disagree with The Expanse as a popcorn book. I’ve read all the books 2-3 times, all the novellas, all the graphic novels, played the Tell Tale game, waiting on the next game, I own the tv series, and have Detective Miller as my desktop background. It’s a universe that, if you really want to, you can get obsessed with it. That’s one of my all time favorite science fiction series, but I do agree they are fairly easy reads.

Yeah, RP1 was definitely not groundbreaking scifi at all, it was way too hyped up. It was alright and even when I recommend it to someone I think would like it, I always include caveats of the cringe and other weird stuff. Like, I know Watts is a younger guy but some parts are just 🤢 And don’t even get me started on RP2, just ugh! Bad bad bad!!

Snow Crash was far better and I’m glad I didn’t read it as a vacation book. I absorbed more of it reading it at home rather than while traveling. I remember way more of Snow Crash than I remember Ready Player One. We absolutely deserve a Snow Crash show!

Men who use "girl" like this make it clear they're using it as a put down.

Exactly! And that’s why he has a “misogynist whines misandry” tag now.

Also, you’re a badass mom!

The fact that he said “girls like you people” when asked politely to leave a space for women is all you need to know.

Bro is not one of the good ones. He gets the “misogynist whines misandry” tag!

🤣 right! I don’t mind if my lady friends refer to me as a girl in a phrase like girl’s night or something, but even then we typically use lady instead.

I just love when these types of dudes get called out for misogyny and whine misandry, they show their true colors pretty fucking quick lol

It’s super appreciated. I did that in my 20s, broke myself out of my shell and started going out doing stuff with random folks. But I stopped that after I was out of commission for a year (fuck drunk drivers), then Covid hit and I am now 40 trying to break out of my shell again lol

War of the Spark: Ravnica by Greg Weisman

This book took everything that was decent about the Magic the Gathering universe and threw it directly into the trash. Poor writing, poor characters, lacks development.

The gross comments from Chandra about Gideon’s rippling muscles and sexiness were just completely not worth the read (and I actually love romance novels). The changes of making Chandra more straight than she actually is, does a complete disservice to the love story between her and Nissa. Very disrespectful to the characters and community from an otherwise decent author. Just no!

If you still want to read a Magic book, check out Children of the Nameless by Brandon Sanderson. It’s a far more compelling story about the spark of a new planeswalker.

What’s funny is I 100% agree with both of you and I still enjoyed that book. I read it as a vacation book a few years back. I refer to it as a popcorn book; quick, easy to read, mostly forgettable once done. But when it cringes, it cringed so hard.

And Snow Crash was definitely better

Right? I love Velma, she helps bring out the whiners so I can tag them to ignore later :)

So many “misandry whiner” tags in this thread lol

To me, a man I've never met approaching me saying "I think you are hot" reads to me like "I saw you and I covet you, and I don't care much about your substance."

This is it exactly. A man I’ve never met saying that is way different than someone you know saying it. Like, I replied to one of Velma’s comments that an outfit she described looked hot, but I’ve also interacted with her multiple times and I’m not some strange dude walking up out of the blue to say that.

Holy shit! That’s that guy?

Just curious, do y’all not see this account tagged as a bot account? It might just be the app I’m using or maybe a Piefed feature, but I see a little purple robot head that tags accounts as bots.

In any social group I look for the people being left out and try to ensure they have an invite into joining things. (If they really don't want to I back off, natch.)

As an introvert who likes being around people, I just want to say thank you for doing this type of thing. I enjoy hanging out with people but breaking the ice and talking can be hard.

Oh goodness, this is me. I enjoy going out and I can go out without spending any money other than gas. I’ll walk around a park with friends, hang out with them at their homes, go on hikes etc. But man…that hurdle of actually going is so massive.