[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Talking post-Sesame Street/Mister Rogers/Electric Co. tunes

Circa 1983 on my first plane ride alone, aged about 10, from CA to GA, headphones plugged into the armrest with the ashtray inside: 'The Tide Is High' by Blondie was the first 'grown-up' song I recall that grabbed me.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

How can I tell which print edition of the New Yorker has the online article? Do all online articles appear in the print edition?

I read the online Interview with Justin Torres, loved it, I want the print edition to frame. The online edition says it was published 12/31/2023, I just can't find it in print.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

"He had the handsomest wop kisser I ever saw" -Jean Genet "Thief's Journal" p.185

What does wop kisser mean?

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I'm in the US.

I haven't discerned a pattern, by the media, in the titling of the horror currently underway.

I've seen Al Jazeera use both phrasings. I haven't determined that other media sites are hardlining their terminology either, but I notice the difference as I browse.

Maybe it doesn't mean anything, but these days people seem extra sensitive about names.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ian Curtis (Joy Division), though that would probably screw up the timeline for New Order and all of 80's music (not a dealbreaker).

Prince (obvs)

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

David Wojnarowicz was born this day (9/14/1954). Artist in a variety of media, and hero to at least one freaked-out fa%%ot in the closet back in the late 80s/early 90s. Whether he wanted to or not, he gave voice and form to the absolute RAGE felt by a population that was dying so those that survived could create a better world for LGBT people. More. More. And this latest book of letters!

[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

I've never heard of an archaeologist too scared of a new endeavor. (I have no friends and fewer archeologist friends.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Congratulations! Please, do a TedTalk or something!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Does anyone have experience/thoughts about Mojeek?

I just recently learned about it and haven't really explored it, but curious.

Thanks!

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Recently started using Alexandrite and am really enjoying the experience, but have questions.

I'm thinking of Alexandrite as the chocolate shell over my lemmy.world ice cream cone. Alexandrite is not an instance, correct?

I have not found a place on Alexandrite where my subscriptions (joined communities) are listed. Is this not yet available?

I assume that if I join a community in one (either Alexandrite or Lemmy.world) it will sync with the other. True?

I've joined communities in Alexandrite, but they don't show in the list of subscribed communities in lemmy.world. That just may take more time. Yes?

Thanks!

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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Title.

Newbie, recently joined, 7/1/23.

Right now, I'm on three: Lemmy.world (my 'main' or 'home'), kbin, and Blahaj Lemmy. I'm looking at Reddthat and sh.itjust.works as well.

Just curious. I know most of the content will overlap, but there are differences in philosophy/moderator style, etc.

Do you like having ONE instance?

I'm loving Alexandrite as the Dove dark chocolate enrobing my lemmy.world ice cream bar!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I wouldn't be so quick to donate to CCDH.

Mike Masnick over at Techdirt has thoughts I found interesting. (and here)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Countdown to a certain segment of white Americans saying they are the oppressed minority, need their guns to fend off the 'colored majority,' and need food stamps.... (I think this is already happening with some religious groups) (I'm white - but I do not hold these beliefs!)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It sucks migrating between instances right now. I've found no way to port my subscriptions from one instance to another. All of your subscriptions are saved on your current instance as websites, but to subscribe on you new instance they need to be formatted ![name]@instance Lots of work needs to be done

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

From https://kottke.org/:

Elstob is a variable font for medievalists that based on types used by the Oxford University Press in the 17th and 18th centuries. Try the specimens page to play around with features like ligatures and the long s.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Can you recommend an appropriate community to post questions to about this? I have all the CSV files from Reddit, just not sure how to proceed/request deletion of my posts from Reddit.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have accounts on Lemmy.world and Blahaj Lemmy and kbin. I would like to delete my account from Lemmy.world as they are not defederating from Meta/Threads. Plus, Lemmy.world is huge and spreading things across the fediverse makes sense.

When I go to Settings and try to delete my account in Lemmy.world, I'm asked to enter my password, I do, the response is a 'Saved' message, but the account is still there.

I want to keep my instance on Blahaj Lemmy, just not my instance on Lemmy.world

There must be an answer that I'm just not seeing. Thoughts?

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello,

I randomly downloaded Connect for Lemmy, but I've never used apps on my phone for social.

When I try to view comments I get the error message "couldnt_get_comments"

I'm not sure what could be causing the problem. It makes the app worthless, but I don't want to give up on it if I'm doing something wrong.

Has anyone else had the error message and resolved it?

Thanks

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I agree with you, but What action(s) are you taking? I'm not an admin/moderator. I don't want Meta (or Twitter or Tik-Tok) influencing this new space, as it grows, to the degree possible. I'll keep exploring, just not sure what controls I have over the situation.

First week here at Lemmy and kbin; still figuring things out. I DO NOT want a relationship with Meta and hope to minimize, if not eliminate, the amount of data they have on me.

Never joined Facebook, Insta, Twitter, Tik-Tok, any of it, as they each were creepy. Reddit was my only thing and then this year happened.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks for asking this!

I set up accounts on both in the hysteria of leaving reddit.

I think I get how the various lemmys work/interact, I just don't know how Kbin fits into the picture.

I am just using my laptop, not on mobile devices yet.

Third day here, so still learning and giving lots of time and patience for the dust to settle

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Is there an option/setting to turn on infinite scroll on lemmy.world?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

He'll probably get some total write-off when it fails and get $44B returned to him (from the tax payers, of course)

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