Unironically this.

Just so you know - you inspired me. While I was doing my nightly read-up on my RSS feeds, I made the deliberate choice to pull mostly positive climate stories, and put them in my posting queue.

They won’t pop up right away (I try to space things out), but now >50% of my queue for the week is highlighting positive news. That may shift as the week evolves and news breaks, but this is looking to be a more positive week from me :)

A+ silly affirmation! Spread those around like they come with measles!

I post climate articles I find interesting rather indiscriminately probably 70/30 downer/upper, but the engagement I see in terms of upvotes/comments is probably 90/10 downer/upper.

I’m saying this because I dont think there’s a dirth of positive content, it’s just not being encouraged to flourish.

Be the change you want to see in the world and upvote/comment on positive content. Even silly affirmations help things float up the algowall.

If you want to take things further, post positive and organic content! Adopt a community and make it your goal to add something to it every week - start growing the positive culture you want. It’ll feel rough to start because you likely won’t get any engagement, but keep at it so folks know its okay for them to share as well.

Why bother when slop already exists in the zeitgeist?

Adding some thought to this, it would be great to be able to view scheduled posts on the “me” page with a button right next to “Posts” and “Comments” that says “Scheduled”, replacing “Account Age” and taking you right to a page like this: https://piefed.zip/scheduled_posts (replace .zip with your PieFed instance)

Additionally, when scheduling a post through the post workflow, it would be amazing to display the time of the “Next” and “Last” (non–recurring) scheduled post for those with several posts in the queue

188k likes? I don’t Twitter. Is the echo chamber really that bad or does he just have it set to automatically give him like 150k likes on every post through the backend?

LITERALLY

Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?

Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.

It’s also why I’m excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.

If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it’ll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.

The numbering is weird, there aren’t actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.

Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete “for” and “against” arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the “for” and “against” campaigns.

On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide “Voter guides” like the above, that you can independently research.

The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I’d wager most folks just read the official “for” and “against” blurbs and form an opinion.

ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.

To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.

Docker helps with software compatibility, SBCs with hardware.

Communities are not legal institutions. The rules are suggestions to keep the community organized and on subject.

Just because a rule doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean mods are powerless to react to content that breaks the social order.

Not everything needs a rule unless it’s a significant problem or common misunderstanding.

The advantage of SBCs aren’t just the price, it’s the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn’t work was either:

“Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad”

Or

“Your system sucks, just buy better hardware”

Now there’s a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a “how-to” community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.

Please let Hegseth be the GOP nominee, dude is practically radioactive for abusing troops and being a key player of the economic nightmare we find ourselves in.

That endorsement from the Michael J Fox Foundation carried a lot of weight, it seems.

https://www.californiadsa.org/voterguide#propositions

https://www.californiadsa.org/voterguide#propositions

Test them for lead.

IDK why OP used it, but if I recall Pepe lore, the original creator was not happy about it being coopted by racist trash humans, so they probably(?) would approve of this post.

I could also have made all of that up.