Wren
@Wren@lemmy.today
Chronically depressed, chronically online.
Socialist discordian statist for open science, independent journalism and gay crime.
Other accounts:
Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world
Icytrees@sh.itjust.works
Icytrees@lemmy.today
- Comment on WHO STOLE MY FUCKING BARS? 1 day ago:
Can’t talk now, waxing my legs one hair at a time.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
But I wanted to tell everyone about irish-atlantis and its magic rabbits.
- Comment on fine dining 5 days ago:
Former street trash hitchhiker here, Flying J is the absolute bomb. They’re old-school nice for their trucker clientele with some of fhe fastest, cheapest, flavoriest, deep-friedest food around.
- Comment on Venezuela Condemns US 'Piracy' as Trump White House Signals It Will Seize More Oil Vessels 5 days ago:
On the other hand, the age of piracy is back! I have a fleet of kayaks a wide assortment of kitchen utensils at the ready.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
Runs into a lamp-post, signs aggressively “Come at me bro!”
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I disagree. I do not enjoy wearing cheap earplugs. After years of aching ears, trying every size and method, custom fitted were a pleasure to wear. Mine were paid for through an employment program.
That said, there are much cheaper shaped earplugs for specific decible ranges you can get for about $15-30 in Canada, made for concerts and shows.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I don’t know specifics. He went to the doctor, they sent him to a hearing specialist, who said he’d be fine but to mind loud environmentsn for the next while (which he told me at a loud bar that night.) He mentioned ADHD and forgetting/not feeling like grabbing his ears on site when he wasn’t around tools, so they figured earbuds he could wear all day long were the best way to protect his dumbass from himself.
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
I bet they don’t wear ear pro at the range because they’re already deaf. Even at the most red-necking shooting parties, hurling skeets in the quarry, we’re stringent on safety and covering our damn ears. One friend of a friend refused and I was like “You either put on the ears or I will lovingly hold your head while you shoot, you pick.”
- Comment on Always wear protection, folks 1 week ago:
Jokes aside, I’m gonna ruin the fun here.
This is real. I had a buddy temporarily loose partial hearing in one ear when scaffolding shifted next to him, the crack was so loud it hurt. He left work to get it checked out, extremely anxious because he was only 25 and a musician - and good thing he did.
My dad, who worked on airplanes his whole life —one of those man’s men who doesn’t need things like gloves and goggles, well, he’s mostly deaf now and it took three years for the military to clear his doctor’s appointments and get him hearing aids. We can’t talk on the phone anymore.
You can get custom fitted earplugs for specific decibel ranges now, which is what my construction buddy got. I have a pair myself for raves and concerts, and I can hear people next to me just fine.
Protect your hearing, you won’t get it back.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
Enjoy.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
There’s some realistic pikachu porn if you’re into nostalgic terror boners.
- Comment on Alright you fucking degenerates. It's time to get your edumacation on about corn smut. 1 week ago:
I thought we were gonna talk about PornHub’s greatest day. Instead I got science’d all over my face.
spoiler
- Comment on The Grind & Bind Art Alchemist's Guild 1 week ago:
All good. Thanks for being helpful :)
- Comment on The Grind & Bind Art Alchemist's Guild 1 week ago:
Was there something wrong with the alt link?
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- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 1 week ago:
My best guess is SEO. Journalism that mentions ChatGPT gets more hits. It might be they did use a specialist or specialized software and the editor was like “Say it was ChatGPT, otherwise people get confused, and we get more views. No one’s going to fact check whether or not someone used ChatGPT.”
That’s just my wild, somewhat informed speculation.
- Comment on US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' 2 weeks ago:
The overton window’s been hauled so far into the red sea, facts are now liberal.
If one were to check left-leaning publications’ fact checking records, they’d find a fuck ton of media labelled “Heavily biased” with spotless reports for authetic journalism. Take one tippy-toe step to the right of neutral and it gets awful hard to find the truth.
- Comment on Stretch marks 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. I butchered a line from this poem: poetryfoundation.org/…/a-valediction-forbidding-m…
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Unless he said it was Shamu the orca he doesn’t know shit about the antichrist.
- Comment on Relationship Goals 2 weeks ago:
Oh, to be a sexy, polygamist bonobo.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
Wait, THIS is what people are talking about when they say the devs are transphobic?
The dev admitting he said stupid shit in private, supports human rights for everyone, and his personal views should have nothing to do with his work?
Consider the first rule of the Lemmy code of Conduct is:
We are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
Let’s examine that.
The points on Who’s Line don’t matter, as a rule - but they do matter because they give the rankings at the end of the show. If the points really didn’t matter, we wouldn’t know about them. “Points” wouldn’t be be a subject of the show and yet they come up at the end of every skit. One person even tallied them up. The points mattered to them, a lot.
Anyway, do you have information or were you just itching to make that quip?
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
As are the rules of most instances.
- Comment on True and real. 3 weeks ago:
They airdrop babie parts that grow into genitals to have sex with themselves to make themselves, if I recall correctly.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
Last I checked .today was defederated from one instance, don’t know why. I’m open to more info.
The description and the rules are boilerplate, no bigotry or transphobia kind of thing. The admins have been helpful and responsive. I can see why conservatives would join an instance like this, but there’s nothing inherently conservative about it.
When I joined the most-visited local community was conservative, but they’re pretty tame by right wing standards. A couple of the mods posted left-leaning articles to my community, too.
I don’t pay attention to a lot of Lemmy drama unless it crosses my feed, so I could be wrong. I came here to start a community posting independent media, this seemed like the most unbiased instance at the time.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 3 weeks ago:
I joined Lemmy.today to see what it’s like to see all the instances, they don’t block anyone. I expected chaos, but it’s just richer. To be fair, I rarely browse 'All, instead sticking to subscribed coms where the backwards-speaking wanderers from hexbear are more of a feature than a bug.
Now it’s my main account.
- Comment on Getting in on the library craze with the Reading Rainbow guy 3 weeks ago:
search.worldcat.org to search library inventory and have books brought to your city/area.
lithub.com/category/fictionandpoetry/ for reviews on good, new reads.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 3 weeks ago:
Got ready to read some bullshit,
Vitalik Buterin
nevermind. But damn, what a great read. I haven’t given much thought to on-chain ID in years and he lays it out pretty well. Still sounds like encrypted tokens are the way to go, but we all need to have multiple forms for it to protect anonymity.
- Comment on Stretch marks 3 weeks ago:
The liver. Gets high as fuck without dying (much,) can Terminator 2 regenerate itself — like if you gave someone half your liver (in their body) you’d both end up with whole livers, and it’s the most delicious of the organs.
- Comment on Stretch marks 3 weeks ago:
I, too, have lost myself in the changing currents of the scrotal expanse.
