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7 votes
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The "Proud Boys" hashtag on Twitter has been taken over by photos of gay men celebrating their lives and their love
31 votes -
What do you daydream about?
Whether it's thinking about a videogame, fantasizing your future, a new workout, pondering existence, etc. What do you spend your free time thinking about? I like to spend a lot of my free time...
Whether it's thinking about a videogame, fantasizing your future, a new workout, pondering existence, etc. What do you spend your free time thinking about?
I like to spend a lot of my free time defining what a human is and what it means to be one, and I always enjoy watching as my ideas progress over time. So what is something you muse about in your free time? What do you like to sporadically think about and what questions do you often return to?14 votes -
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody (1965)
4 votes -
What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at...
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
15 votes -
13MW GE-built Haliade-X turbines confirmed for the world's largest wind farms off the UK coast—the 3.6GW Dogger Bank project
6 votes -
Nvidia replaced video codecs with a neural network
18 votes -
Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders
10 votes -
Silly set up; creative response
I've been re-watching Avatar: Legend of Korra, and I've always thought Bumi's crazy stories would be super interesting to go into more depth on how they actually happened (if his descriptions were...
I've been re-watching Avatar: Legend of Korra, and I've always thought Bumi's crazy stories would be super interesting to go into more depth on how they actually happened (if his descriptions were indeed true to life).
Then I thought it would be fun to have a sort of creative thinking exercise where the set up is provided and you have to come up with the details of how the characters got to it. Can you make it work?
Top level submissions will be the end state. You should reply to those top level submissions with how the subjects / characters got to that point while using the information provided in the set up.
Example:
"Yo Johnny, you remember that time we talked our way out of getting arrested using my pet rabbit and a dead cell phone?"
Reply:
"Yea dude, that was wild. I was shitting bricks when he walked up to my window with all that weed we had in the trunk. If Fluffy Jorge hadn't been in the back and your allergy pills hadn't wore off that you wouldn't have been all glassy eyed and looking like you were crying. I don't think he would have bought my fake ass story about your family being in a tragic car accident earlier that day."
I'll provide a couple to get y'all started with, but if you have any good one's feel free to submit those as top level entries!
7 votes -
Thoughts on feeling like you're posting too many links when there is not enough content
It seems like there are not that many new topics posted on Tildes, and that we could post a lot more. But I sometimes find myself reluctant to do so. Don't I post too much already? Recently there...
It seems like there are not that many new topics posted on Tildes, and that we could post a lot more. But I sometimes find myself reluctant to do so. Don't I post too much already?
Recently there was a survey and apparently many people think Tildes is too tech-oriented. I don't think it's all that tech oriented, not like Hacker News or lobste.rs, but that makes me a little more reluctant to post tech links. (Though, really, other people should post more of the kind of links they want to see.)
I suspect it's not just me. Periodic topics sometimes get a lot of comments. Periodic topics have been started specifically to avoid having too many top-level topics on one subject.
But, why are we avoiding this? What's wrong with posting more links? If this were a social bookmarking site, I'd be saving more links. Maybe I'd save a bunch of accordion links, without any regard for whether people are interested?
It seems like we need something like folders. When new links are posted in a folder, they don't get listed individually at top-level. You could drop a bunch of links in a folder if you felt like it, without feeling like you're monopolizing conversation, because people would have to open the folder to see what's there. Or maybe instead of folders it would be something like creating a playlist. You could start a topic that's basically a list of links, and then anyone can add links to it if they want.
It seems like groups don't really do this, somehow? They feel a bit too open and exposed. Everything shows up on the front page regardless of group. (I mean, you can filter or unsubscribe from groups, but many of us don't. Partly because they're too broad. Who's going to unsubscribe from music just because they aren't interested in some music?)
So instead we use topics and post links as comments. It sort of works, but it's given me a lot of practice at writing markdown-formatted links on a mobile keyboard, and they appear differently in search and aren't tagged.
It seems like links posted within a topic and posted top-level should be more similar in the UI. Maybe if there's some conversation about a link within a topic, a moderator could promote it to top-level? Maybe a lot of topics would start that way, and then the site would feel a bit more full.
25 votes -
Friends and loss
If applicable: how & why have your lost friends? I'll start. One: I was terrible and certainly deserved some alienation. Though, I mostly self-pariahed. Beyond that, though... I worked with...
If applicable: how & why have your lost friends?
I'll start. One: I was terrible and certainly deserved some alienation. Though, I mostly self-pariahed. Beyond that, though... I worked with friends and they sucked so bad it was hard to continue liking them.
Well, how 'bout you??
13 votes -
Joe Biden can end the drama on election night. All he has to do is win Texas.
13 votes -
Come back with a warrant for my virtual house
8 votes -
Aesop Rock & TOBACCO are Malibu Ken - Corn Maze (2018)
7 votes -
Find air quality near your exact location
7 votes -
One man's COVID-19 death raises the worst fears of many people with disabilities
6 votes -
The New York City Ballet is releasing its fall season performances online for free this year; this week's performance is available to view until Tuesday
13 votes -
Ja Rule (feat. Lil' Mo & Vita) - Put It On Me (2000)
8 votes -
Planning is GREAT: Britain was supposed to be the most prepared country in the world. Then an unexpected enemy arrived
6 votes -
A new cosmic tension: The universe might be too thin
5 votes -
Bill O'Dwyer - Maia's Lullaby II (2020)
6 votes -
Conserving a painting by Sir Winston Churchill
6 votes -
Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (2020)
6 votes -
John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and is facing extradition
22 votes -
Sweden has the highest proportion of drug-related deaths in the European Union, with eighty-one cases per one million citizens – nearly four times higher than the EU average
11 votes -
Venice holds back the water for first time in 1,200 years
15 votes -
EPA grants Oklahoma control over tribal lands
14 votes -
What are your favorite third-party controllers?
What are the best controllers for console and PC that you've used that aren't just official console controllers? I'm a nerd when it comes to getting a million different input methods for games,...
What are the best controllers for console and PC that you've used that aren't just official console controllers? I'm a nerd when it comes to getting a million different input methods for games, and I'm always looking for new ones to play with.
Glad we'll never go back to the hellish days before Valve and various FOSS projects fixed the nightmare that controllers on PC used to be.
15 votes -
A crisis of meaning: Can we agree on anything anymore?
15 votes -
How James Beard invented American cooking
5 votes -
HBO's 'The Wire' inspired a fake turtle egg that spies on poachers
7 votes -
Why is academic writing terrible?
13 votes -
Smokey Robinson - Sara Smile + Ooo Baby Baby [Live from Daryl's House]
4 votes -
Helicron propeller driven car (1932)
3 votes -
Reviving Ozark cuisine through seeds
6 votes -
Orbital Junction - Egos and Instincts (2020)
4 votes -
Phil Ochs - Lou Marsh (1964)
3 votes -
Gorillaz - The Pink Phantom ft. Elton John & 6LACK (2020)
6 votes -
Weekly coronavirus-related chat, questions, and minor updates - week of September 28
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the...
This thread is posted weekly, and is intended as a place for more-casual discussion of the coronavirus and questions/updates that may not warrant their own dedicated topics. Tell us about what the situation is like where you live!
8 votes -
How Dagny's luminous pop battles Norway's endless nights – Strangers/Lovers emerges as one of 2020's most assured debuts
5 votes -
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania have tested positive for coronavirus
85 votes -
Work, float, eat, dream: Life on the International Space Station
6 votes -
The case for establishing a SETI radio observatory on the far side of the moon
12 votes -
Fat Joe interviews Dr Fauci
4 votes -
Why you should play fighting games - and how
8 votes -
Lengthy era of rock-bottom interest rates leaving its mark on US economy
10 votes -
Depth-aware video frame interpolation
6 votes -
Should we use a megathread for US election news as we get closer to Nov 3?
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be...
I was thinking about how much the quantity of election news is likely to increase as we get closer to Nov 3. And more specifically the likelihood that this election will not be clear cut, will be contested, lawsuits filed, etc in the days and weeks after Nov 3.
With that in mind, do we want to proactively put up a weekly (maybe daily for the actual week of) megathread to consolidate some of it?
18 votes -
Allison Leyton-Brown - How I Roll (full album, co-produced by me) (2016)
12 votes -
163 veteran Seattle bus drivers are retiring, taking 4,400 combined years of memories
7 votes