This is so cool. A unique way of remembering, of storing that data. Also a very cute snake. I’m happy I saw this.

Could you crosspost to !snakes@lemmy.world, or !snakes@sh.itjust.works?

This feels a little… topical for nonpoliticalcomics.

I do not know why the cylinder shape in crocheted animals is so appealing, but it just is.

!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk

I swear there were other small web/indie web communities out there that might be interested in linking yours in the sidebar. !smallweb@lemmy.cafe, !retrowebnet@retrofed.com, !indieweb@programming.dev, !smolweb@slrpnk.net, and !webrevival@lemm.ee used to be good for this before lemm.ee went bang.

I know !fedigrow@lemmy.zip (or maybe its old iteration !fedigrow@lemm.ee) has guidelines on trying to consolidate the communities if there is too many of them with not enough recent activity, not sure if it’s worth it or if these communities are sufficiently different.

Also, that banner is cool, what is the source? And I love the custom theme.

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@ladybutterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone curious about your take

Thought this was an !antimeme@sopuli.xyz for a bit until I realized what the joke was

This somehow feels correct for mathematicians as the joke subject.

So is this that the grenade will go off if you open the door to leave, or if you open the door to get in?

The people at !wholesome@reddthat.com and !nicememes@sopuli.xyz and !thelittlethings@lemmy.cafe would probably like to know about this. !thelittlethings seems to overlap in intent too, although it does not seem very active from what I see on my instance, so you might want to message the mod. Thanks, I really appreciate positivity communities.

Birthdays and the like used to feel inherently special as a kid, as an adult no longer and it just feels like another day. But I still like to celebrate because it’s a nice excuse to see people I care about or treat myself to something nice, or to just relax. I don’t believe we should always do things just because that is what is done, but this is one place I’m happy to just do things because the rest of society does and thinks I “should.” We get something nice out of it, and those who are not interested in celebrating are free to opt out (which I’ve done a few times too, and didn’t regret it.)

For example, I don’t think Valentine’s Day itself is all that important, but it’s a good reminder to pay attention to your loved ones and spend time with them, and because it is enough of a societal thing there are things done (think a couples’ dinner special at a restaurant or something) to help you do just that. So a lot of people do celebrate on the day. Some will celebrate on a different day to avoid higher prices on the day of the usual celebration. Some will totally disregard.

But that’s just me. It might be different for others.

!pokemon@sopuli.xyz would like this

Post whatever little thing brought you a bit of happiness, gratitude, good vibes or so. Photos, text, memes, videos etc. are all fine so long as it’s accompanied by at least a short share on what you appreciate about the thing you posted.

Big happy shares are welcome too, but no share is too small.

!thelittlethings@lemmy.cafe

We’re here to help you have a better day! For all wholesome and heartwarming content including memes, news stories, etc.

!wholesome@reddthat.com

In practice !thelittlethings seems to have gotten more people sharing things that specifically made them smile, occurrences in their lives; while !wholesome is Lady Butterfly posting online images/memes/comics and a weekly thread. I can see why you would want to consolidate to get more personal discussion in !wholesome in an existing community already, but I can also see why the community that has people actually sharing from their lives would not want to fuse from what they have to what is in !wholesome.

!thelittlethings definitely should not merge with !casualconversation though.

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Thanks!

I understand what is happening in all panels but I just don’t understand the comic or joke

If you didn’t say “my first” in the title, I would have no idea you did not do this regularly. Looks cute!

People have already written about how in the United States of America, the zone is being flooded, and I happen to live there. I am prone to doomscrolling about the negative things going on to the point of being almost paralyzed, doing nothing but scrolling headlines for the rest of the day, convincing myself it is alright because I am “staying informed” and “maybe it’ll outrage me/make me fearful enough to push me into actually doing something to help.” But I don’t ever actually help anyone as a result of all that scrolling. Or do anything to help myself. Or anything necessary for my own wellbeing. It really is paralyzing for me.

I notice when I aggressively curate that content out successfully and instead my online feed has more positivity and zero headlines about people suffering, I actually do something about others’ suffering, even if it’s just a small, manageable drop in the bucket instead of a large act of martyrdom.

I am prone to rumination and negative thinking and cynicism myself, yet I find people who mostly complain constantly unpleasant to be around, even if I agree with their complaints. In an effort to avoid hypocrisy, to avoid being the very thing I don’t like in others, I am trying to be more positive. And that means trying to find communities that act positive, and trying to contribute positivity myself. Practice towards being who I want to be.

I have the demographics of minority groups many consider oppressed, and recognize how lucky I am that I haven’t faced any of the things I’m “supposed” to have faced. I’d like to have a break from seeing headlines that remind me that my luck is very very likely to forcibly run out within the next three years. They certainly will not invigorate me to do anything about it.

I, like most people, have a brain that can be hijacked by outrage and will click on controversy. I think I’ve gotten to the point where I’d rather have measured conversations with smart people I trust about issues, who can also keep me in check if I go wrong, instead of looking to the latest online fight full of hot takes, bad faith, people acting in good faith but misinterpreting each other, and all the many problems that have happened/been exacerbated with the rise of social media. This means shutting out negativity and running towards positivity.

And yet I still think about the negative bad things often, the headlines I’ll see in public or overhear people talking about. It’s not like I’m oblivious.

I really really think it’s okay to try to stick my head in the sand for now when the air is being filled with proverbial poison gas intentionally trying to make people despair and feel hopeless and paralyzed instead of trying to resist, and I have a known tendency to be vulnerable to that.

The Unhook browser extension for Youtube lets you choose what to block. You can choose to toggle the Shorts off without toggling anything else off.