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Startrek.website is retaliatory defederating from dbzer0 because db0 put their friend AdmiralPatrick on blast for the Tess shenanigans and then proceeds to remove comments calling them out for it in c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I'm on one of my alts because my main instance (.today) had a hiccup - which rarely happens. Maybe twice in the last year, if I recall correctly.

I've tried five different instances. Lemmy.today doesn't defederate from anyone so you can see the whole lemmyverse and curate your experience from there, instead of having admins decide what you should and shouldn't see. The rules are standard but lax, bigots and abusers still get banned, but it's largely up to the mods to watch over their communities.

Alternatively, if you like a healthy, pre-curated experience at the other end of the spectrum, you could try Beehaw. They're more focused on creating an engaging, well-moderated, welcoming community.

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Fewer Bots, More Ads: The Pentagon’s Evolving Online Influence Campaigns (www.lawfaremedia.org)
 

In August 2022, Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika published “Unheard Voice,” a report analyzing pro-Western influence operations linked to the Pentagon, which involved well over 100 accounts that Twitter and Meta had taken down for violating their rules against manipulation and coordinated inauthentic behavior. I was a co-author on the report.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago

Got it. Unshifting goalposts is shifting the goalposts now.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Why you're asking if I'm eating with nazis, is what I'm trying to get to the bottom of. My quote was about taking up space, not sharing a meal.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is it shifting the goalpost when I'm trying to bring a conversation back to my original point?

Admittedly, it's hard to keep track of every thread in this discussion, which is why I'm trying to stick to reason I posted.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

From all instances, including .world.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I agree with that last quote.

But what I'm noticing is a reducing of the original saying to mean any place with a nazi is a nazi bar, and therefore contaminated. Taking back online and IRL communities from nazis involves sharing space and occasionally having a dialogue.

If someone has a close relationship with a nazi, to the point where they think they can change their mind, it's their duty to try. Otherwise the nazi is only going to hang out with other nazis and become more of a shit head.

In the end I think we all agree there should be fewer nazis, but maybe we disagree on how to do that.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

My statement, the original shower thought, was referencing how the entire saying got turned into a purity test for online spaces, not that I'm against Nazi's getting kicked out of bars.

I'm using this account because I've been seeing, almost daily, someone calling this instance a Nazi Bar. I don't think the saying works for highly segmented online forums like these.

I wonder why so many people disagree with the idea I'm putting forth that leaving a space because of one terrible person allows terrible people to take control of a space.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works -1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

That's not what I said. What I said was:

"If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar."

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

If you went through covid without anyone you knew going down the crazy hole, you must not know many people.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They did try to promote their beliefs online and were fully into Q Anon and Alex jones.

I disagree with the complete lack of nuance, we invited them with the understanding that they weren't allowed to bring up any opinions against any group of people, as sort of soft intervention.

They've since come out as non-binary and seem to have dropped the bullshit. We're not close anymore, though.

In the end, I saw the opportunity to help get rid of a nazi. It's not a contagious disease anymore than not being a nazi.

If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. in c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
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If a nazi walks into a bar and everyone else leaves, it becomes a nazi bar. (sh.itjust.works)
 

I never liked the analogy.

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Felted paintbrush cases (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Icytrees@sh.itjust.works to c/imadethis@lemmy.zip
6 comments fedilink
 

I've been using sushi rollers to transport my brushes since art school, finally decided to make my own brush-roll-up.

Wet felting is the process of using soap, hot water and mechanical agitation to coax wool fibres to knit together. I dyed some burlap and cheesecloth to work into the fibres as well, 'cause I love texture.

Here's a pic of the inside — all criticism for brush care can go to my twelve year old niece.

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Felted paintbrush cases (lemmy.nz)
 

I've been using sushi rollers the transport my brushes since art school and finally decided to make my own brush-roll-up.

Wet felting is the process of using soap, hot water and mechanical agitation to coax wool fibres to knit together. I dyed some burlap and cheesecloth to work into the fibres as well, 'cause I love texture.

Here's a pic of the inside — all criticism for brush care can go to my twelve year old niece.

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A handfull of rock (lemmy.nz)
 

Some kind of quartzy marbly thing? I found it by a hardware store in Northern Ontario.

Fits great in my wooden hand in my fruit bowl.

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I made him. (lemmy.nz)
 

I'm good at a lot of things. Sewing isn't one of them.

This started when I got a pattern to use up the box of felt from my failed wet felting experiments. Since I already mastered The Dryer Ball, my hubris led me to believe I was ready for multi-cellular organisms.

And I was. He's my handsome fox man.

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I made him. (lemmy.nz)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Icytrees@sh.itjust.works to c/Art_Alchemist_Guild@lemmy.today
0 comments fedilink
 

I'm good at a lot of things. Sewing isn't one of them.

This started when I got a pattern to use up the box of felt from my failed wet felting experiments. Since I already mastered The Dryer Ball, my hubris led me to believe I was ready for multi-cellular organisms.

And I was. He's my handsome fox man.

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The Narwhal’s press freedom case against the RCMP, explained (thenarwhal.ca)
 

In November 2021, photojournalist Amber Bracken was on assignment for The Narwhal, reporting from northwestern British Columbia. She was documenting tensions over the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline through Wet’suwet’en territory.

Amber was handcuffed, held in a cell for three nights and had her camera gear and photographs seized — all for doing her job.

We believe this was a clear violation of her Charter rights — and The Narwhal’s. So we sued the RCMP to take a stand for press freedom. Now, our trial is underway.

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Israeli fire kills 11, including journalists and children, Gaza medics say (www.reuters.com)
 

Israeli fire killed 11 Palestinians including two boys and three journalists in separate incidents in Gaza on Wednesday, local medics said, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire in the war-shattered enclave.

Palestinian health officials said an Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian journalists travelling in a car on assignment to film a displaced persons camp in central Gaza.

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7 Weird Old Punctuation Marks We Should Bring Back (www.mentalfloss.com)
 

THE DOG’S BOLLOCKS

When your sentence says, “I’m about to say something,” and then you say that thing, we have a way of separating the two halves of the sentence: a colon. We also have an alternative way of separating the two—a dash. In previous times, people would sometimes combine the two :— they’d use a colon and a dash together.

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China: Population sinks for fourth year in a row (www.dw.com)
 

The continued downturn comes despite numerous measures introduced by the Chinese government to encourage child-rearing a decade on from the end of its notorious, long-time one-child policy.

But incentives including better financial support for parents — the government announced cash subsidies of 3,600 yuan ($500) per child to families in July 2025 and tax breaks for kindergartens, daycares and matchmaking services — have failed to have the desired effect.

Nor has a 13% tax increase on condoms and other contraceptives, with the fertility rate estimated to have flatlined at 1 child per woman in her lifetime, far below the 2.1 rate that would maintain the size of China's population.

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Crochet, Knitting, Nalbinding and Weaving: About Ravelry.com (www.ravelry.com)
 

I'm not a shill and this isn't an advertisement.

I was put off by the fact that you have to make an account on Ravelry to see anything, which is why it took me so long to start using it.

But it really is the best archive of patterns and advice for literally everyone. It's community-driven with I don't even know how many folks sharing patterns for free, with whole active forums to ask any question, and ways to organize favorites.

I know I sound like a shill. I just fucking love ravelry.

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