FYI many federal employees are part of unions (with some exceptions)

Love a Shel Silverstein reference.

Bonkers. I guess if you can dream it you can build it.Still this really is a waste of resources.

This can’t be a real park. How would you even get to the waterslides, what stair system would work with this?

Browning the butter for the win.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2009/11/salted-brown-butter-crispy-treats/

Gangs of New York.

I love Scorsese and I usually don’t mind how long his films are, case in point Killers of the Flower Moon. But Gangs of New York is not only too long and weirdly self indulgent, but whatever Cameron Diaz is doing in her role is… Not great and makes me sad every time.

Edit: I realize I inverted flowers and killer in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Seconded. I joined .ml because they were the first to have a formula 1 community.

I prefer to follow the news on other instances like beehaw and .world to avoid your experience.

There are normal/non-radical communities that exist that would be lost via defederation.

The majority population in DC proper are people of colour. And the types of white Folx in the city are way more progressive than your average American.

Black or African American (non-hispanic) (43.9%) White (non-hispanic) (36.7%) Other (Hispanic) (4.23%) Asian (non-hispanic) (4.03%) White (Hispanic) (3.8%)

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/washington-dc/

Of the top five groups, whites only make up like 40%.

So this turn out is exactly right.

I think you’ve discovered most of them. I wish the meta communities were more active. I find them very valuable.

Then again I should try harder to be the change I want to see in the world.

I also support WAMU and use DCist to follow local news. I wonder where most of the staff will go. This city doesn’t have enough local journalists as is.

Is it just this location that was a problem or should the whole chain be inspected?

Lemmy.ml didn’t appear down for me today… But I’m not great at noticing these types of things so you should get a second opinion.

Solid, I will.

This is such a useful comment that I’m bookmarking this. I know that NFTs are flawed tech but I struggle to explain it well.

If they allow city flags, the flag for Cuzco is a rainbow flag I believe.

I know that Steiner is a beloved meme, but I figure this may be the right move. They really struggled last year so something needs to change.

What I took away from this is that the Exploding Heads people never truly left, they just migrated to different instances and some are still lurking on Lemmy.

Good to know.

This is such a thorough post. I really appreciate that you took the time to compile this.

I’d recommend https://lemmy.world/c/general it’s a community for general discussion and people seem to post whatever with no problem.

I use Boost because it has a tagging feature. So instead of blocking people with smoking hot trash takes I tag them so I can read their posts and comments with scepticism in the future.

I only block people who troll and do nothing else.

It’s really helpful for not shrinking the pool of comments or posts I can read.