Artist. Formally /u/1831942.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I can feel the bong water shooting into my mouth. That’s a design choice. The down stem is attached to the mouthpiece instead of the bowl. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that. I guess it makes sense if you’re making the glass. Sorry, I had to rant about that. A sesh by the fire pit is always awesome, though.








  • Do you want to test it with me? I can make a few different accounts on a few different instances if you’re willing. I’ll make a few comments on a few posts and delete them.

    I had one specific time someone quoted me like you did in a comment, but it was something I had deleted a long time ago. The time stamp on their comment was too recent to have seen my comment. I tested it a few times after that. If I can find the comment chain(s), I’ll link them. I comment a lot on lemmy, so I’d have to dig a bit.



  • It’s a series of self hosted, inter connected, social (mostly) media platforms sharing similar names/ templates. Lemmy is like reddit, but even more decentralized than something like mastadon, which is like twitter.Twitter. Most social media apps have/ used to have a specific purpose. Honestly, I should have this compiled in a clean and easy to share format.


  • Learn about the fediverse as much as possible! Learn about instances and check our their about bar/ page. Download a mobile application and explore the many options you have. Try to figure out why you want to be here. Check out the list of popular instances (a lot of the instances have esoteric names) and see if there’s an instance that reflects your interests. Check what they’re federated to, and decide if those are the kind of people you want to talk to/ share your interests. There are general instances like ".ml and .world. " These instances can become overburdened. The account you have on their instance is your access to the rest of the fediverse/ lemmy.

    Our active user base is somewhat small. The biggest thing is to explore, read side bar rules, and post!

    It’s a lot of information, and when I first got into it, I felt over my head.

    ALSO YOU CAN’T DELETE YOUR COMMENTS OUTSIDE OF YOUR INSTANCE.

    Posting to 196 would be a good example.






  • I randomly applied to become a deputy once in SD. I just wanted to see what was happening. The first thing they sent people home for was for wearing JEANS (that was 1/4 of the applicants). They also had a rotating piece of propaganda, “when you’re not working out, they are.”; it was a picture of inmates working out with that text overlaid. You had to either be a jail guard or court guard for 2 years before you could be an LEO. They also would not stop saying,“they’re going to take your gun,”, “they’re going to take your gun and shoot you,”, “they’re going to take your gun and commit a mass shooting,”. That and SUPER racist conversations about demographics. The sheriff has his office above the entrance of the building and brags about watching the new hires. I have NO idea how people work for them. I’ve never really seen the SD police outside of downtown. Mostly, I’ve seen sheriff’s deputies, which is what I applied for. It felt so odd being able to walk into that place just because I filled out an application. It was honestly eye-opening. They really need to get paid more while simultaneously being held to a WAY higher standard. Also, security guards have a better understanding of de-escalation than cops. I did that for a bit. Racist as fuck. They had Facebook for security, and it was just people guessing races based on shitty security images. That was at Target, a company that sells their security systems. This country is fucked. I’m not trying to shill for the police at all, I just thought that might be a relevant piece of info you guys would find interesting.

    Edit: I just caught the instance, lmao

    Edit 2: random tangent: The only thing I ever did as a security guard that felt good was preventing gift card scams. That was the only instance where I felt like I was actually protecting people and not property. I lasted about 2 weeks at that job.

    Edit 3: I found the poster. I was a little off with the quote: