leraje

@leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon thinks the French are posers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Normans were Vikings - the then Frankish King, Charles, gave them land in north France if they agreed to shut the fuck up and stop murdering everyone in sight. They become known as ‘Northmen’ which contracted to ‘Norsemen’ which contracted to ‘Norman’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to Help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.

  (Seriously, it’s a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Support local bands⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I unplugged the bassist but noone noticed cared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's because of Gerald's Game, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for The Terror. That and Carrion Comfort are my two favourite Dan Simmons novels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reddit cat subs be like:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he quite a big cat, sort of a burnt orange colour, white underbelly with a very, very bushy tail?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is God⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Specsaviours

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We do tell people. For example, when you get off the train at Reading station it clearly says “Welcome to Reading”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weevil time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A is definitely the lesser of two weevils.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dear Earth, apart from the many terrible things we have done historically, we, the British, are most recently sorry for David Icke, Andrew Wakefield and now Graham Hancock. We have tried to balance this out but one David Attenborough only goes so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We lost Keanu⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swifties wasted no time...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But inciting violence politically is, judging by recent events, absolutely fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not yet, but they’re certainly in our thinking for next year :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock Against Racism is reborn as gigs planned in riot towns across Britain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great news :) but without wanting to be spammy the org I am a member of !globalorderofsatan@lemmy.blahaj.zone have been running a very similar campaign but for non-mainstream music e.g. metal/punk/indie/alt/industrial/goth that we call “Satan Not Hatin’”

  It currently has over 140 opt-in participants of bands, individual artists, venues, festivals, record labels and other orgs from all over the world, including the UK and has been so successful that a well known (within metal circles) documentarian and music video director is currently making a Documentary about the campaign. You can visit the campaign website where we list all the participants and provide more detail - there’s also a link to a YouTube playlist of all the participating bands which also works fine in Invidious!

  I have contacted the Graun about Satan Not Hatin’ but mainstream news has little love for alternative music so we’ll carry on with our DIY approach!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anyway to have your subscribed communities on the side so I do not have to type them in the search bar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If an instance has alt front ends they’re usually listed in the sidebar of that instances home page :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anyway to have your subscribed communities on the side so I do not have to type them in the search bar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only other one available on your instance is: oldsh.itjust.works but you could login to your instance using the alexandrite installation on the project page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being old does the trick for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what the heck is a pensioner in the UK and why are they the butt of so many jokes ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pensioner is short for OAP (Old Age Pensioner), so called because they are retired and eligible for the state pension.

  Can’t recall them being the butt of a lot of jokes though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When asked a question, what is your first reaction, to answer the question or to defend yourself?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re linked aren’t they? If someone asks you a question they’re asking for why you hold a particular opinion, therefore simply by providing detail you’re defending yourself, or at least the opinion you hold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus (2024, dir Fede Álvarez)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Don’t Breathe was better than his Evil Dead reboot but he’s very good at creating tension which is vital for this franchise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien: Romulus (2024, dir Fede Álvarez)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks pretty good. Glad to see Ridley Scott is still involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewish theatregoers felt 'unsafe' at comedy show - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely the fact some audience members are ethnically and/or religiously Jewish is irrelevant. According to the article, they weren’t targeted because of their ethnicity or religion but because they refused to support the idea of a ceasefire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky signups are now open to the public⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Step one: i’ll take a look

  Step two: “Please give us your phone number”

  Step three: close tab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why has the world gone to shit?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalist governments are pro-finance, not pro-people. Totalitarian gvmts (China etc) are pro-system, not pro-people. They’re just different ways of maintaining classes of people who control the power/finances.

  There’s always been an uber-rich elite, all the way from the first tribal chieftain or Pharaoh or whatever until now and there’s always been a huge underclass of the rest of us. The first law of any hierarchy is to protect the people at the top.

  What we see today (in Westernised countries) is the natural, logical progression of economics driven democracy. Economic theorists say wealthy people create wealth by purposefully distributing it via jobs etc but in reality they do everything possible to minimise the loss of what they see as their money by abusing labour laws, privatising everything, trying to kill unions, creating convoluted laws to protect their fortunes, avoiding taxes and hiking prices up to the point most of us are just about surviving with enough carrot to ignore or pretend we don’t see the stick.

  And we’re willing participants in that system. We know this is happening but we’re dazzled by lotteries holding out the chance to join the rich, promises of work making us rich and a media which lionises the elite as some kind of fabulous aspirational status to the point we have people on social media faking a rich lifestyle for internet points.

  The uber rich believe they’re better than us and our acquiescence with this system really means we agree with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community Context pointing out fake news once again 🫡⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly incorrect as no one would be sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how can I develop a thick skin?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If she’s a good therapist she’ll be feeling awful she couldn’t make it. I’d wait to hear her out before making any judgement on either her no-show or her as a therapist/person. It’s highly unlikely to be a personal slight, whatever it is, and if it’s not personal then there’s no need to develop a thick skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did Adobe open source Magento?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Magento was open source before Adobe bought it, Flash wasn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in a milk float driven by a priest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bit weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss some of the communities I used on reddit that are still either quiet or very quiet over here, but I also recognise that unless I ramp up my participation in them, I haven’t really got grounds to feel negative about that. Besides, using social media less is a plus to me.

  I love there’s no ads, tracking and ‘suggestions’ - in short, no algorithm. The apps are (mostly) open source and the community are appreciative of that.

  I used to get news from reddit and can get it here too, there’s no difference in quality or quantity. Politically, I appreciate the de-emphasis on hateful content and it helps I’m on an instance where the Admin is on top of their game in that respect. It is noticeably more left-wing on here but since I am too I guess that’s not an issue for me. It’s certainly way better than Reddit in that respect where I’d stumble across fairly extreme right-wing opinions in (supposedly) non political subs every day.

  People seem, by and large, much calmer and more reasonable here and less inclined to attack en masse. I’ve noticed a distinct improvement in my overall mental health but I think that might have more to do with not being on reddit than being on here.

  Lemmy is what we make it. For those of us who came over in the Summer, Lemmy/KBin is less than 6 months old. Let’s not paint it into being one thing or another just yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think ignorant might be more accurate than stupid. That crosses into stupidity if the ignorance is wilful eg they refuse to accept facts or refuse to even investigate if someone tries to present evidence.

  People these days seem exhausted and angry and for some there’s comfort in the ‘certainty’ of their wrong beliefs. I read a piece recently about an ex qanon guy who said a large part of the appeal was being part of a community and encouraged to be angry about everything.