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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • I use Threadiverse to mean Lemmy Piefed Kbin and similar part of the Fediverse, nothing to do with Meta. I selected this terminology to differentiate it from microblogging platforms like Mastodon, though they are absolutely welcome to participate by posting to Lemmy and Piefed communities. With character limits and other structural design differences I suppose it is just a harder challenge. If you have suggestions for another name to describe topic-based online socializing I’m all ears.

    Through the 10th proposed category, I’m hoping to make people aware of that connection to the wider Fediverse with links to Masto, PeerTube etc.



  • My first draft of the 10 categories:

    Vibrancy Challenge Categories
    1. (Freebie) Make a shitpost.
    2. Make a post about something other than technology or politics or a shitpost.
    3. Make a post showcasing a thing or topic you find interesting.
    4. Make a post to a community with less than 100 subscribers.
    5. Make a post to a community in a small instance.
    6. Make a post featuring a human-made piece of art.
    7. Make an on-topic comment to a post in a small community.
    8. Make a comment or post sharing news about a location relevant to you.
    9. Make a high-quality long form text post or comment.
    10. Post or comment a link from another part of the Fediverse.

    Feedback welcome.

    Update: Reception seems good. I’ll post something shortly here and on my home instance.




  • The Geneva conventions define torture as the infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, by an agent of the state acting in their official capacity, to obtain intelligence or confession or to intimidate, coerce, or punish a prisoner or detainee.

    The shocks are delivered during brief questioning “and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U. S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States”, which definitely is how all these encounters go, so totally not torture amirite?


  • CNN has some more details.

    As I read it, the US Supreme Court basically told the Trump admin they can finish forming the rule they want to use with the USPS to put restrictions on mail-in ballots, then states can sue for harm, whereas at the point the states were suing and the injunction given the final rule wasn’t ready yet. The USPS finished that Aug 21, 3 days ago, and will officially publish it Aug 26, two days from writing.

    However the same judge in Boston separately prevented any new rule coming into effect for the Nov 2026 elections, so that needs to be overturned. Additionally, after Aug 26, the states can sue again probably and obtain an injunction on the published final rule, to keep the plan being implemented even if the “no new rules before November” injunction is defeated.

    (My editorialization) So the Supremely Corrupt Six are wasting federal and states’ and the court system’s money and time just to go out of their way to give the Trump admin small favours.