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Got dinner. Cut finger. No longer cooking.

Polluting the atmosphere to own the cons.

Absolutely sucks, but the right choice, simply not worth the harm.

Kind of perpendicular to the point, but this album sounds like it's going to be cool as fuck. Larsen transitioned during the recording of the album, first recording it with his original vocal range before beginning hormone treatments and harmonizing against the original vocals with his new, deeper voice. This allows him to duet with himself in a way that I've never heard before.

Quoting the linked article:

Larsen’s confessional songwriting takes cues from Elliott Smith, who used multi-tracking vocals to create layers of harmony. He counts Joni Mitchell, Nick Drake and Sufjan Stevens as major influences, and calls Adrianne Lenker, who fronts the folk-rock band Big Thief, “one of the best songwriters since forever”.

If none of those artists mean anything to you, it speaks to a gentle, melancholy acoustic sound, often comprised of just vocals and guitar.

The original tweet (XCancel) is from 2019, when Greta Thunberg was 16.

There is a common factor in all of my problems in life and ultimately I have to admit, it is Jared Leto.

It's a very weird case. ABC Australia had an article on her hospital stay as it was ongoing which raised some questions without definitively answering them.

While Giuffre had posted about going into kidney failure, ABC reported:

The family of Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, says she remains in a "serious condition while receiving medical care" after a bus crash in Western Australia.

But the Perth hospital where she's staying denies that characterisation, as police maintain the crash was "minor".

Giuffre was later discharged from hospital after treatment. Reading between the lines, it seems that she wasn't going into kidney failure when she posted to Instagram about it.

Whether that means she was incorrectly informed that she was dying, or was confused due to sedation, or was suffering from poor mental health, etc. is not reported.

If she has now committed suicide, that would seem to make it more likely that mental health had a role in the initial post about her physical health.

In addition to any ongoing trauma relating to her abuse at the hands of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew, Giuffre no doubt had additional strain due to her recent separation from her husband and estrangement from their three teenage children.

He plans to run for governor of Florida (against Ron DeSantis). The article also quotes Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried, who gave her reading of the reason he left:

“Jason’s failure to build support within our party for a gubernatorial run has led to this final embarrassing temper tantrum. I’d be lying if I said I’m sad to see him go, but I wish him the best of luck in the political wilderness he’s created for himself,” Fried said. “The Florida Democratic Party is more united without him."

I don't know these people, no idea whether either of them is trustworthy. Funny burn, though.

"All right, everybody. I know there's been a sexism problem here at Discord, and I'm here to change that. If we really work hard and power through, I truly believe that we can work our way up to the kinds of numbers I was able to achieve back at Activision Blizzard."

Nice, I'll look forward to reading that, thanks!

Your point re: the illusion of privacy makes sense. Most Lemmy/other threadiverse users are probably used to platforms where that data is not public and I don't think any of the softwares really highlight that it's different here. It's easy to get a false impression of privacy.

Now, this is interesting. As far as I know, all of the public threadiverse softwares specifically hide this info (especially downvotes), while acknowledging that the way ActivityPub works, the information is public anyway and you're really just making it slightly less accessible. An open service like this essentially removes all of the supposed barriers (e.g. "Most users don't know how to set up their own instance in order to see downvotes.") which are claimed to keep this info private.

What kind of effect does knowing exactly which people downvoted you have on a platform? Is there a chilling effect on downvotes, is there revenge downvoting? I guess we'll find out. It's less easy to see the upsides of knowing this info, beyond being able to confirm whether or not you're being stalked by persistent downvoters.

@[email protected] Did you have any particular thoughts around the ethics of this tool when you decided to make and share it? Not trying to call you out in any way, just interested to hear how you feel about it. Ultimately, if it wasn't you it would be somebody else, so the direct impact is probably negligible.

Good news but also butterfly meme.

Sometimes I think about how shitting is one of the few things that unites everybody, across class lines. There's plenty of unpleasant things that the rich can pay somebody to do for them, but world leaders, movie stars, crown royalty, they all have to go into a room and shit in some kind of hole.