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Hopeless nerd. She/her. I was LovelyDumpling @ cohost Sorry I post so much politics its kind of all consuming :(

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · Sep 24

we should def call em flutters instead of skeets
flutter is pretty and cute and uses the butterfly iconography and most importantly isn't trying to rip on Twitter by portmanteau-ing "sky" and "tweet". Is "skeet" the sound a sky makes??? nah these are flutters.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 1d

did any of y'all used to have an edgy humor phase before having a "wait you guys were serious?" moment

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't know you were working on this! I've been waiting for a patch for this for so long. Literally the first Tales game ; ;

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 4d

yknow awful shit would happen under democrats too but it at least felt like they could be pressured with enough of a movement, on certain things

hard to do that when those in power don't even pretend to have empathy or morality

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 4d

"brown people scary"

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 5d

at this point it feels like most conservatives would think the holocaust justified if the Jews weren't citizens

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 6d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 5d

that's cause that's just your normal :v

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 6d

dude i am getting so much slop recommended to me by youtube lately it is

remarkably awful

they must have changed its recommendation algorithm to some ai bullshit or something because it has no fucking idea what its doing
it never used to just load my feed with shit I'm diametrically opposed to

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 6d

it took me a while to realize the guy on the right was opposing the pastor because I forgot "defending the *rights* of illegal immigrants" is wrong to them

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, well that's fun.
Reddit is using AI to generate summaries of your activity on the platform that is hidden from normal users but mods of any subreddit you post on can view.
Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool. /s

An AI summary of a reddit user, with identifying information redacted for this Bluesky post.
"User contributes to [redacted] and [redacted] subreddits. Posts about [redacted] and [redacted] projects are informative. Comments are generally helpful and collaborative."

An AI summary of a reddit user, with identifying information redacted for this Bluesky post.
"User expresses strong interest in [redacted] and [redacted]. Contributions range from seeking [redacted] advice to discussing [redacted]. Some comments are humorous/sarcastic."

An AI summary of a reddit user, with identifying information redacted for this Bluesky post.
"User frequently posts and comments about [redacted] and [redacted], particularly within r/[redacted]. Contributions are generally positive and insightful."

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 7d

I feel like wiimote aiming was the obvious idea/improvement, but I imagine because similar games were common on the wii they didn't want to do it

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 9d

its so bizarre to me that Star Fox never got a Wii game
like you'd think it'd be the one game suited well to the wiimote from the onset

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 11d

(despite saying this I don't mean to root against the fediverse. I've been meaning to give it another shot as things get worse here.)

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 11d

sure, but I doubt they see fedi as a threat. If it was, people would be using it already, especially since it's been around longer than bluesky and the entire time bluesky was private, while twitter was still having its exodus, and still bluesky "won"

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 12d

That's actually a huge part of what makes conservatives effective recruiters. Often times, people join these local gatherings for that sense of community, and then adopt their viewpoints to maintain that community.

I feel like liberals and leftists have fallen very short on these incentives.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 12d

the moment it became socially acceptable to hate trans people they just fucking jumped on that shit so fast

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 13d

Hm, maybe they're on stairs

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 16d

this is a really funny headline

tragic consequences but the headline reads like a meme

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 16d

Could they make it to where you have to watch the video in its entirety to have a download? Or at the least, that it'd take as long as the video's runtime to download it?

You did say they could make it more annoying, and I think if it gets annoying enough for the *end user* they'll have still won.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 16d

oh huh
just got a sample ballot in the mail
for the california special election about the redistricting
the proposition actually has it set to be temporary, until 2030, with the independent districting board resuming its work in 2031
so its actually not a permanent end to independent redistricting

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 20d

I feel like it's not talked about enough so I'm here to remind you that this absolutely insane rendition of Aerith's Theme is exclusive to Super Smash Brothers

Aerith's Theme - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

YouTube video by RipperaVGM

www.youtube.com

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 20d

Something annoying about drama farmers like Karl and Muta is that since its the core of their content, they can make a dozen videos about the same topic going on about it for hours, while nobody else has the time to defend themselves forever from their attacks. So they'll always get the last word.

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Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 20d

Jirard was way over his head in a situation he did not have full control over. I think it was a very human predicament to fail at.

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 20d

at least a little longer until they reached the million dollar donation goal his family had set and it was no longer a lie.

Dumpling~ @lovelydumpling.bsky.social · 20d

and the only way he can open up about that is to throw his family under the boss and destroy everything the charity has worked for to fight the illness he really does care about that took his mom's life...
I can see why someone in that situation might feel the need to continue the lie he inherited,