I’m really happy to be reading multiple times per week after years of just brainrot passive entertainment. It’s a joy to learn new things and I’m really into history. I happened to read a book because it had an interesting title and a character in a tv show was reading it for a few seconds in one scene. I happened upon a phenomenal topic and have been reading about early christianity for the past eighteen months. As an atheist, I never would have thought I’d be into this but it’s great!

As someone who genuinely is fascinated by language, this is my favorite post of the day.

Name all your files *.

The best time to stop the genocide was a year and a half ago. The next best time is now.

Block communities you don’t want to see. Browse and look for communities that aren’t currently hitting your front page and subscribe. Yesterday, I discovered one that was right up my alley that I hadn’t seen after nearly two years on Lemmy.

Unlikely.

I knew there was a reason I still download it and store it locally. I just needed to wait until the moment I discovered why.

Interesting point. This would further harm our economy. Not that they’ll care about that.

Your logic and reason won’t work with the GOP.

Correct.

It’s the latter one. They want to destroy all government.

It’s the latter one. They want to destroy all government.

Yeah, her mane is like a lion if we clipped the fur on her body.

I’m in Oakland and have a trans flag hanging in my office window. Gotta support my friends.

I came from a midwest city of ~400k people that was surrounded by small towns. It was a culture shock when I came to the Bay Area and all the servers at a cafe had tattoos and piercings (this was 20 years ago; the midwest has caught up with this). When I lived in the midwest, they made me take my earrings out to deliver pizza.

Big cities are absolutely more accepting of diversity. You said yourself that the Pride parade is pretty large. Go get a feel for things. You don’t have to have some transformational sense of acceptance. It might happen slowly due to the years of repression (but maybe it’s right away, which would be awesome). I’m happy that you’re looking for where you fit well because there are definitely those spaces. Good luck!

I try to live my life happily while causing the least negative impact for others.

That hair and facial hair makes him look like an old insane manchild.

I support this.

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I hated myself and my life for a very long time. It was bleak and hopeless many times. I want you to know that it can turn around. Never in my life would I have thought I could be were I am today in terms of mental health and self-love (as in, I love myself – something I thought was impossible).

Please keep trying to find your way to the other side, whatever that looks like for you. I believe in you. Good luck!