other_cat

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[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Even that amount of interaction can be exhausting/taxing after a while. Hell, even passively observing hateful remarks, even if you never respond to them (which, generally, you shouldn't. Don't feed the trolls) is emotionally exhausting. My recommendation is to just curate your community. Make a private space wherever you want, invite your friends and the most positive fans (people who you would like to be friends with perhaps) and that's it, close the door. YOU decide who gets to come into your house and speak to you.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago

Epstein's brother sent email about Trump 'blowing' someone named 'Bubba'

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-bubba-trump-blowing/

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh man, VGCats. I remember those days.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Epstein Files that got released have a bit where someone says Trump blew "Bubba" and Putin has pictures.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-bubba-trump-blowing/

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It wasn't THIS bad, but I remember recently a massive lifted truck revving its engines in our small town, flying massive trump flags on it went by while I was out for a walk with my husband. I commented, "Now there's a guy who really wants you to know he's an asshole" and this dude turned around and gave me the UGLIEST look and shook his head at me lmfao.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 7 points 1 week ago

Is the reason this has 350+ upvotes and not comments because everyone's going "Yeah no shit"?

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It's not as easy to find good, living blogs/sites off major platforms but if you can a lot of them do this. Book Notification has a weekly list that you can opt into, for example. The Indie RPG Newsletter has tons of TTRPG recommendations.

I think we're back to the point where things need to spread by word of mouth though, because discoverability is so difficult for little indie blogs.

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Got curious and tried to find any papers on it. The ones I could scrounge up seem to be very (SHRUG) about it so hey, it can't hurt probably!

[–] other_cat@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I try to shy away from extremely hateful, violent thoughts but I genuinely think that great suffering needs to be visited upon the demon that came up with putting advertisements in gas pumps.

 

Customer service support company 5CA has released a statement contradicting claims by Discord that it was the victim of a hack last month.
...
5CA says that a preliminary investigation showed that the incident may have been the result of "human error," though it offers no details as to what exactly that implies.

I believe folks have mentioned ZenDesk was involved and this is probably the true source, but the waters have been getting kind of muddy. I think it's important to keep putting pressure on this situation until the truth falls out, if it ever does.

 

Going forward, it will group any text ads on the Search page into a "Sponsored results" section that will appear at the top of the screen. ... Once you scroll past the section with ads, you can click a button to hide all sponsored results.

Source: engadget

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Permanent Debuff (piefed.zip)
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Sometimes when I'm randomly hit with an unexplainable negative emotion, I think of it in terms of having a permanent curse that just randomly debuffs me.

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