Not that I would wish them on the Americans but I hope that more fuck off from this country soon. We’ll all be better off here if every dumb fuck racist meat head that misses the old days would just go away. I’m sick of the second hand embarrassment and being associated with these fucking confederate inbred hillbillies just because of my skin colour. And I’m sick of religious, patriarchal, macho bigots.

So, sorry for the USA that they’ll now be your problem but this is good news to me.

We just need to get clergy on board and telling their congregations that the magic man under the ground is trying to conquer the realm of Earth and expand hell (that’s why it’s getting so hot), and that the magic man in the sky would really appreciate if everyone would stop making the magic man under the ground’s job so easy.

We need to stop using big sciencey words like “climate”, “change”, “global”, “warming”, “weather”, “melting”, “ice” etc. and use words that they understand like “demons”, “hell”, “bad juju” etc.

Huh, in all these years, I thought “web 2.0” was just describing a new design style or monetization method or some shit. Had no idea it was referring to user created content. So thanks for the history lesson!

I definitely heard the term back then but yeah, I just assumed and never actually bothered reading up on it or anything.

Ah, there it is. It’s pretty sad that I just knew from the moment I saw this headline that it would be more about bashing queer people than celebrating straight people. I actually commented about this in another thread earlier saying that I think if people need an excuse to celebrate and be merry that’s great, but I hope it’s not just a bigot parade. But even while I typed that, I knew that it was wishful thinking.

It’s like all these people have is hate. Nothing else. Everything revolves around hatred. Can’t feel good about themselves without tearing someone else down. It’s not a “hetero awesome fest”, it’s just a “gay people must die fest.” How surprising /s

Nice, thanks for the advice. So would Path of Thunder be a good place to pick it up again? That’s more or less two months before Queendom and it looks like all of the shows leading up to it are touring shows like Stardom in Osaka, Stardom in KOBE etc.

So, my big watch of Stardom failed and I’m thinking of actually just jumping in with the latest Queendom now. I find pro wrestling fandom to be a delicate balancing act with all of your other interests because of the sheer volume of it. Even when I was just trying to keep up with all of the WWE shows years ago, it was basically swallowing up all of my other interests and leaving no time for anything else. It’s actually one of the things that attracted me to TNA, that there was only one weekly show and one big event a month.

So I got overwhelmed. And distracted with other things. And now I need to get back into this. Pretty sad to see that a couple of my favourites have left Stardom in the mean time though.

Reads: “rule 5 - systematic downvoting.”

Replies: “Well stop downvoting everything.”

This guy: “Ah well I see that you just can’t read then.”

Gotta love the grumpy defiant toddler thing that Trump has going for him there.

Not sure what we called it to be honest. I didn’t even have a computer yet and mostly accessed from work. I’m talking the days when my haunts were the Mxit app on my dumb java phone, the chatrooms on the Offspring’s website (somewhere around the release of Conspiracy of One), MySpace and a South African alternative scene forum called MakeSomeNoise. I think MySpace was just MySpace and didn’t have a special term.

I used the internet as a kid in the '90s a little bit too, but that was mostly for finding cheat codes for video games back then.

Edit: also not sure I understand how “web 2.0” refers to forum sites and chat rooms in particular.

Me when I was still closeted to myself. I enjoyed / laughed at / guiltily identified with memes from the Reddit version of this community for a couple of years before realising why I enjoyed and identified with these memes so much. At that point, I thought my r/all feed was identical to everyone else’s and that it was just something particularly popular on Reddit for some reason.

Yeah, I’d say, if hetero people need an excuse to have fun and celebrate something, I’m all for it. But I have a sneaky suspicion that this is going just going to be used as a hatefest towards LGBTQ+ people instead. I would love to be proven wrong but I have a feeling that straight cis people who are open minded and accepting and not bigots, aren’t the ones who feel the need to go “what about straight pride / international men’s day?” whenever anyone else gets a bit of attention.

And voting for people that will make everyone’s life hell and ensure that no one else will ever get to experience the quality of life that they did.

Right winger: "Well if you weren’t so mean to me, I wouldn’t support people that want to turn women into property, make queer people’s existence illegal, marry children and send them to work in the mines and hire white social media influencers over brown people with qualifications.

See? I’m actually a good person. But mean words are so much more unforgivable than rampant bigotry and hatred. So you forced me to side with the rampant bigots that hate everyone who isn’t a white straight christian male. It’s YOUR fault!

Also, these librul snowflakes have such thin skins."

Catholics don’t have anything good to look forward to

Well you’ve still got children to prey on. So you’ve got that going for you.

I look back pretty fondly to the days when we didn’t call social media “social media” yet. Seemed a lot easier to make friends back then and it was a lot more uh, social. Although even in the early days of Facebook, I made some interesting friendships that started as poking battles. Looking back now, those days were fulfilling something in me that I didn’t even realise.

In the real world (especially fresh from school where you have to wear uniforms and boys have to have boy haircuts and girls have to have girl haircuts and everyone gets separated and categorised), I would always end up with male friends first. But my online self was making pretty much exclusively female friends. That other decades long friend I mentioned before was someone that I actually met in a chatroom on a South African app called Mxit lol. I honestly miss those days and a lot of the cool people that I was friends with for a while (GothMoth and isawred, if you ever happen to be here and scroll past this, hi it’s me, Zaphod_Beeblebrox).

And apart from longing for the “good old days”, I’m gonna say that ever since I had certain awakenings and started questioning things, from starting out terrified of saying the wrong things or being seen as an imposter or invader, I have found the LGBTQ+ community to be 99% welcoming, open minded, warm and friendly people. From the few communities I interacted with on Reddit to here on Blåhaj. I’ve come across nothing but encouragement and acceptance. And it warms by cold black heart. So to everyone on Blåhaj, even though I haven’t made personal friends with anyone, you rock and you’re all my favourite people. And it makes me kinda sad that I took so long to get here.

And one more positive that happened in recent times. You starting the Women’s Stuff community. I was battling to enjoy Lemmy before that and you brought something that puts a smile on my face daily, even if I mostly just read and lurk. And your acceptance of non-binary people into the community means the world too. Small act, but it’s something that brightened this confused individual that doesn’t know where they belong’s skies a little.

Edit: actually just realised that the moment I stopped making online friends was the moment I ditched everything else for Reddit lol.

Kinscreen - Nifty little app that uses your phone’s sensors to control the backlight and screen locking. So the screen will never dim as long as you’re holding your phone in your hands and will lock itself about 10 seconds after being put onto a flat surface. It cost about as much as a cup of coffee years ago and I feel like smartphones aren’t quite as ‘smart’ without it.

Mixplorer - Great file manager that was free for years on XDA. I didn’t have to but I bought the Play Store version just to support the dev. Highly configurable UI, capability to add network drives, Google drive etc. Its own in built text editor, code editor, pdf / ebook reader, video player etc. It’s like the crown jewel of Android apps in my opinion.

Poweramp - I prefer having my own mp3 collection to using streaming services. Especially when I’m on the move and using mobile data. So this music player app is one of my most used apps of all. I love the absolute sea of options to play with.

Agree to Cooperate on Human Spaceflight - European Spaceflight

Glad to hear that the humans and the Europeans have decided to work together.

The difference is creativity. If a completely uncreative person and an actual artist both used AI to make something, I’m willing to put money down that the actual artist will produce something a lot more interesting and profound than the uncreative person.

Especially when you get down to the kind of people that didn’t even realise which machine was being raged against and who have zero media literacy or reading comprehension. It doesn’t matter how good the AI is, the work they produce is still going to be bottom tier crap.

You’re onto something here. I’m starting to get more and more convinced that the only way to get the majority of Americans voting for reasonable people is if those people are ex reality TV stars and talk show hosts and shit. They need to assemble a team of Oprah Winfrey, Ricki Lake, Judge Judy, Guy Fieri, that asshole from the cooking shows, maybe Simon Cowell is free.

Then these people will forget all about concepts like ‘meritocracy’ and buy endless funny hats, foam fingers and Oprah™ brand bibles and be starstruck all the way to the voting booths.

I’m pretty sure he praised OJ Simpson at some point in the middle of all of that as well. He was also very concerned about offshore wind farms killing whales in record numbers. And there was that one incident where he just stood around on stage saying and doing nothing for an hour while golden oldies played.

The press was too busy printing headlines about Trump calling Biden “sleepy Joe” though. And honestly I’m not sure if an honest and fair press would’ve even helped in this case. It would’ve just been librul deep state propaganda. And they would’ve just gone on with their decorative diapers, foam fingers and Trump bibles regardless.