Dennis Eckersley staying fit in the off-season…

I hope they finally release the iPhone 9—I’ve been holding off on upgrading from my iPhone 8…

Those birds have more of right to be up in the sky than that tube full of primates.

Don’t tell them that

Oh man, when French Jesus turns water into wine, you know it’s good…

Next stop, West 47th Street…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Punks_Fuck_Off

Rare texts are kinda my jam, a few highlights in my collection:

• A signed first edition of the Necronomicon (it still screams and bleeds)

• An early draft of the 10 commandments (before it got narrowed down to just 10)

• The treatise between cats and dogs that lead to cats getting litter boxes and dogs getting walks

Ok, so the graph shows us how police killings have gone since George Floyd, but can we see a graph of police killings since George Floyd?

Burning boy had the bean borscht for breakfast before boating beneath big boom bombs.

She thought it was a Harry Potter spell to turn the government into a literal corporation.

It’s their safe word.

The concept of the app store was always a walled garden—anyone using it could expect a guarantee the content was reviewed to exclude malware and the payment system was directed through a single party with an expectation for security.

Now that the store has lost control of one of those elements, I would expect a notice like this.

If it were a grocery store, and a farmer won the right to operate inside a grocery store but charge separately from the registers at the front of the store, wouldn’t it be confusing if the store didn’t communicate that to the customers who thought they were just buying from a single store?

14 pregnant nurses and one glistening “Fertility Doctor” who just roams around the halls in an open bathrobe chugging orange juice straight out of the container.

Never mind, I figured it out:

Now stage a diorama depicting the last supper using marshmallow Peeps, and then set that Kenmore to “Betray Jesus”…

Nah, it would never happen.

We would end up with comprehensive gun control reform before we ran out of our precious billionaires.

On Hitler’s birthday, no less…

One can make useful items out of wood.

Guillotines, for example…

While the communities you view may differ from my own experience, I would say that political and news themed communities have had an uptick in aggression.

My sense is that it is less about the overall population on Lemmy, but more about the polarization of news and political topics in our society. If there were truly a force actively trying to promote a culture war to prevent a class war, I’d say they are doing an effective job.

Outside of news/politics communities, postings, and (directly or indirectly) related comments (or commenters), I have not experienced an increase in outright negativity and rudeness.

Just like in any written dialogue, I think some expressions of humor can be written or received poorly, lending to a received sense of rudeness—and those moments sometimes serve as reinforcement of actual offensive aggression observed elsewhere, you dick /s.

Jokes aside, I do appreciate you drawing attention to it, as a reminder for each of us to do our part to express ourselves more clearly—allowing for discussion, disagreement, sarcasm, and humor while maintaining respect and civility.

And, of course, continue to block users and communities you find objectionable; though, I would challenge anyone to ask themselves if they are blocking to avoid offensive content, or are they blocking to avoid content which does not align with their views. Silencing different points of view, ultimately, only expedites the original problem.