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3 votes
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Tildylongstockings, what’s your morning routine?
Can’t make myself get out of bed and actually go do things (like get ready for work, or leave for work, namely.) What’s the routine you have in the morning that keeps you functioning as an adult?
20 votes -
In 1886, the US Government commissioned 7,500 watercolor paintings of every known fruit in the world
15 votes -
On whose green Earth?
6 votes -
Would the internet be healthier without 'like' counts?
10 votes -
Mental Models: The Best Way to Make Intelligent Decisions (109 Models Explained)
10 votes -
Who is "John Smith" in your country?
In English-speaking countries, the name "John Smith" is often used as a placeholder name because it's boring and common: John is one of the most common first names among English-speaking men, and...
In English-speaking countries, the name "John Smith" is often used as a placeholder name because it's boring and common: John is one of the most common first names among English-speaking men, and Smith is the most common surname/family name among English-descended people. Together, they make a very boring and bland name.
What's the equivalent in your country? What's the most boring, common name? What do people use as a placeholder when they need to use a name that isn't a real person but looks like it could be a real person?
35 votes -
Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia
16 votes -
Is there a way to see what the different colours of comments mean?
Is there a list somewhere with explanations of what every colour means?
6 votes -
Victorian treaty negotiations move closer as voting opens for First People's Assembly
6 votes -
Teddy bear fence along Copper Coast Highway poses safety risk to children, South Australia mayors warn
5 votes -
Teacher sues Christian School over marriage equality beliefs
6 votes -
Oil soars after attack on Saudi plants shuts in 5% of global supply
9 votes -
Purdue Pharma, drugmaker accused of fueling the opioid epidemic, files for bankruptcy
5 votes -
Index shows least-, most-accepting countries for migrants
3 votes -
Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties – sources
9 votes -
The awkward days of the Apple Watch are over
3 votes -
Hubble reveals latest portrait of Saturn
7 votes -
What’s the status on anonymous comments?
A long time ago, there was a discussion about anonymous comment posting. I’d link it if I wasn’t typing at mobile, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find. How did things about anonymous posting...
A long time ago, there was a discussion about anonymous comment posting. I’d link it if I wasn’t typing at mobile, but it shouldn’t be too hard to find.
How did things about anonymous posting evolve, @Deimos? Do you plan to eventually make something like this?
There are plenty of topics such as this one which would IMO strongly benefit from anonymous comments - I can definitely see much higher participation if that was the case.
Regarding the abuse, I won’t reiterate all the points made in the thread [todo: link] and purposed solutions, but what about turning anonymous posting on only in some topics, perhaps where the topic author manually turned them on? We could have them for sensitive topics while holding people accountable for their words in all the political topics.
14 votes -
She took her amputated leg home, and you can too
10 votes -
What can a software developer do about climate change?
22 votes -
"Hello, world" from scratch on a 6502 - Part 1: setting up the CPU
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[Kind Words] moonlight masochist\
I keep on my journey when the world's asleep, searching you out, like a bewildered sheep. If you'll come to my aid when you see me- with my knees bleeding red on these cobblestone streets. It must...
I keep on my journey when the world's asleep,
searching you out, like a bewildered sheep.
If you'll come to my aid when you see me-
with my knees bleeding red on these cobblestone streets.
It must be the price of my earthly sin,
that I've no food or water for nourishment
that I crawl alone, in the dark, hoping.
I am the moonlight masochist.
..
So hear me cry out your name, whoever you are.
Bring me the moon, and make me your star.
Protect me like mountains and be my guard.
Help me sleep sound when the noise is harsh.
Be the hearth for my fire; the warmth for my heart.
Get me into a home, and out of the bars.
Can you hear my infantile, crying heart -
My moonlight masochist matriarch.
..
I cough as I choke on the poisoned air.
No one around who seems to care -
Save for two beady eyes who approach and glare,
a thin coyote with a hungry stare.
I only hear howls in monotone
as two other dogs come sniff my throat
But at least when they carry off my bones,
I can kinda say I never died alone.
..
Hear me cry out your name, whoever you are.
Bring me the moon, and make me your star.
Protect me like mountains and be my guard.
Help me sleep sound when the noise is harsh.
Be the hearth for my fire; the warmth for my heart.
Get me into a home, and out of the bars.
Can you hear my infantile, crying heart -
My moonlight masochist matriarch.
7 votes -
Israel and the decline of the liberal order: The rise of nationalism around the globe may be reflected in the outcome of Israeli elections on Tuesday
7 votes -
Kind Words (Tildes Edition)
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real...
For those that aren't familiar with it, Kind Words is a recently released "game" where players can write a message about a difficulty they're facing or something that's troubling them. Other real people in the game can then respond, letting that person know that they're not alone. Players can also write un-addressed messages of positivity in the game, which are spread to other users via paper airplanes.
I figured we could have a thread on Tildes with our own version of the game via comments.
Here's how I figure it will work. We'll have three post types:
Request: share your situation in order to get kind words in response
Response: offer kind words to other people who have posted here
Airplane: write general thoughts of goodwill for all the readers of the threadPlease begin your post by naming its type in bold font. For those posing Requests, please let people know if you would rather receive public responses or PMs.
Example post:
Request: Sometimes I find myself wondering if there's any point to anything. It feels like I'm working so hard at meaningless stuff, just to get by. Anyone else feel this way?
That isn't my request, just an example of what someone might type.
Remember that the point of the thread is to let people know that they are heard and that they are not alone!
Let's all be kind!
27 votes -
An IPCC report says two-thirds of glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau, the largest ice sheet after the Arctic and Antarctic, are set to disappear in eighty years
7 votes -
Brainstorm - Vietier (Wind) (2005)
3 votes -
Disney+ reportedly will carry all that 90s Marvel animated goodness including ‘X-Men,’ ‘Spider-Man’ and more
5 votes -
Chris Kogos - Sonic & Resonance (HOME Cover) (2019)
3 votes -
Why men love war (1984)
8 votes -
Tinyproxy - if you need a tiny URL blocker/rewriter
5 votes -
This latte artist forms foam into flocks of birds
5 votes -
The US health-care system found a way to make peanuts cost $4,200
8 votes -
Steam free weekend: Deep Rock Galactic
10 votes -
The Grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
18 votes -
Why your inner circle should stay small, and how to shrink it
6 votes -
Character creation and the birthday paradox
Today we had the first session of my first DnD campaign as a player. Myself and another player both showed up with clerics with a hermit background. Not only that but both of us have the deaths of...
Today we had the first session of my first DnD campaign as a player. Myself and another player both showed up with clerics with a hermit background. Not only that but both of us have the deaths of our mothers as key backstory. (We're different races, though.) The birthday paradox is at play here. Get a half a dozen people showing up with independently created characters and you're more likely than not to have two of the same class.
Still, it weirded me out, like we're copycating each other or something. I haven't been this weirded out since I found out another person on the cross country team had the same middle name as me. (I have a unique first and last name, so I'm not used to sharing a name with other people.) I'm
probablydefinitely overthinking this. It doesn't help that this is my first character and I'm self conscious about the whole thing.Have any of you other Tilda Swintons ever had a character that was similar to another player in your party? How did you react? How did they react? Have any of you had a hermit cleric with a dead mother?
8 votes -
Myths in cycling: Wider tires are slower
7 votes -
Is a meat-free diet really as healthy as vegetarians claim?
6 votes -
Kickstarter’s year of turmoil - Multiple employees involved with a "Kickstarter United" effort to unionize have been fired over the past week
13 votes -
Shalt thou eat an Impossible Burger? The definitions of "halal" and "kosher" are being challenged by new food technology
9 votes -
Conspiracy theorists have chilled real fluoride research, researchers say
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In sports, and in life, Europe and the United States see their societies differently—just not in the ways you might expect
6 votes -
Dungeon crawling or lucid dreaming?
9 votes -
Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil
8 votes -
Vinyl is poised to outsell CDs for the first time since 1986
12 votes -
Help me get my head around DNSCrypt and DoH/DoT
I want to adopt these technologies b/c I'm moving to a home w/o WiFi: I'll only use mobile networks in order to save some money. But the general pipeline and setup are hard to digest, and I'm not...
I want to adopt these technologies b/c I'm moving to a home w/o WiFi: I'll only use mobile networks in order to save some money. But the general pipeline and setup are hard to digest, and I'm not sure if I really understand what are the implications for my privacy, except for the fact that DNS queries are encrypted so I don't leak domain names. This is especially important to me because Turkish internet law and the censorship mechanism is really intrusive, with DPI & DNS blocking. My current ISP does not fiddle with my HTTPS traffic, but I won't have that with my mobile network.
I'm also considering a VPN, but major VPNs are blocked here. To what extent do the purposes of VPNs and these DNS solutions overlap? Assuming most of my important traffic is over HTTPS+DoH/T, how safe am I, and most importantly how much can I penetrate the censorship mechanisms?
6 votes -
The real Donald Trump is a character on TV
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Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
10 votes -
TAMBOR! Afro Venezuelan Recordings 1978 - 1986
5 votes