MemeCollector @kbin.social Looks like I've finally found a use for my extensive but mostly out of date meme collection lol. Will try my best to add image descriptions where I can!
Have started my own magazine as to not spam others: @my\_mouldy\_memes See @my\_mouldy\_memes on blahaj for backup
Hasn't the pig suffered enough? lol
And another meme I never thought would see the light of day again
Photo of Gordon Ramsey shouting at a contestants on his show Top text: THIS PORK IS SO UNDERCOOKED Bottom text: DAVID CAMERON HAS TRIED TO SHAG IT
Tfw the news cycle and shit government make even the most niche memes relevant again
Photo of a pig plush toy Top text: Show us where he touched you. Bottom text: Show us on the doll.
Enjoy the fireworks 🎆 fuck parliament and the monarchy💥
Image of Doge wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, bottom text: such remember. so gunpowder. much plot. very treason. WOW.
🎃 Happy Halloween 🎃
A vintage style picture of a dad and two kids carving pumpkins
One child says "CUT HIS FUCKING SOUL OUT DAD!", and the other "HAIL SATAN!"
Stepping back for a bit
tweet by The Wokest Bae @splendidrainco:
White people are always screaming about how we want to live in an "echochamber" because we won't hear out people who disagree with us like yes Karen, I want to scream into the void that black people deserve to live unbothered and that's the only sentiment I want to hear in return
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So turns out there is an ongoing bug on the fediverse where moderation doesn't federate properly, meaning that some removed comments stay up and active, and some banned users remain not-banned and free to continue interacting on their own instances that aren't federating (so out of my sight and control), mainly lemmy.world.
This is a problem, especially for a space like this which I intended to be safe and free of the bigoted/bad faith/reactionary noise that exists everywhere else, where we validate each others existences and experiences instead of having to justify and defend them.
Moderating already takes more time and mental focus than I was expecting, and if it actually was effective I really wouldn't mind, but it obviously isn't, and I don't like wasting those on a futile task.
So for now, and until this is hopefully fixed, I will be taking a big step back. I probably will still post once in a while just to keep the magazine alive, but nothing that would require any heavy modding (which excludes a lot of what I have to share lol), but rest assured, if and when the bug is fixed, I will be back in full force!
Thanks everyone for your support so far, I hope you stick around to wait this out. 💙
prevent microblogs from federating to a magazine
I didn't even know this was a thing, but definitely sounds like it needs looking in to as well.
Thanks for this info, I guess it's good to know it's on the to do list, but I completely agree, since realising this my motivation to post, knowing my moderation doesn't have any effect on a large chunk of users, has dropped significantly..
Is there a place to check for updates on this, is the post you shared it?
Thanks for explaining, but wow, that's really unfortunate and seems like something that needs addressing, especially since they're the biggest instance.
I thought the whole point was to have the freedom to associate and disassociate with the content of our choosing?
Is there a way to know if/when this is fixed? Because I honestly don't feel comfortable posting the content I do to my target audience if I can't properly keep the trash out.
Same here, I hate it so much.
Magazine bans not federating with lemmy.world (and potentially others)
I've just discovered that lemmy.world (and potentially other) users I've banned from my magazine are still able to comment, comments I can't see on kbin but that do show up on lemmy.world. (E: I already knew removed comments still show up on other instances, but assumed that sorts itself out in time, but now I'm not so sure)
This makes modding futile.
I want to make sure my space is safe and not hostile to those of us who already deal with bullshit everywhere else, and I can't do that when this is the case.
How do we fix this?
Appreciate the sentiment but it's definitely not you who needs to be apologising 💜
Take yourself ("victim") out, and now we're talking, though they never would...
A truly superb owl 🦉
top panel is a photo of an owl with a speech bubble: "Yo Leo, you stole my face"
middle panel is still from Inception of Leonardo DiCaprio as Dom Cobb, squinting with his head slightly tilted to the left, his text bubble: "You Sure?"
bottom panel is a photo of an owl squinting with their head slightly tilted to the left, their speech bubble: "Damn sure."
🤔🤔🤔
image of Sailor Mercury from Sailor Moon, surrounding text: "you were told communism is bad by people who said segregation was good"
Conservatives have defunded the NHS to the point where even here people are now falling for the private insurance con, it's ridiculous and depressing
tweet by Top Shelf Sweetie @InternetHippo: "Medicare For All? No thanks, I don't want to pay for other people's health care. I like private insurance, where I pay for other people's health care AND for the salaries of bloodsucking middlemen whose entire purpose is telling me No when I need medicine"
Facts
post by Kayla O'Brian: If you can't afford to pay a living wage, you can't afford to be in business. Asking people to work below poverty wages so you can own a business is entitlement at it's finest. You are asking human beings to use their lives to subsidize your desire to own a business. If a job is worth being done, it's worth being paid enough to live..
🎃🎃🎃
photo of 3 pumpkins set up a bit like a snowman, the middle pumpkin is all scratched up, and the top one has an angry face carved out. On the ground in front of it is a smashed pumpkin, in one of the creature's stick hands is a "skull" of the smashed pumpkin, carved out of the white layer of skin, in the other stick hand are some pumpkin innards hanging off
bottom text: "COME AT ME BRO"
They provide enough material to work with, it shouldn't be hard to do
post by Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas: "When you quit using ableist language to describe politicians etc your critiques of them automatically become more accurate and useful."
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If you have a knee jerk reaction to defend yourself and/or the use of ableist language, don't.
Educate yourself instead.
> > > Conflating harmful actions with lack of intelligence does everyone a disservice. To suggest that “stupidity” that is what makes people act badly undermines any real accountability. The causes of problematic behavior rarely have anything to do with mental acuity, and we can’t properly address harmful behavior while being so reductive about its causes. Carelessness, bias, hatred, greed, closed-mindedness, indifference – these are the traits that lead to oppression. Our intelligence is not the issue so much as our sense of compassion and justice. > A person can be "unintelligent" and still know right from wrong. There are people with cognitive disabilities who I respect a thousand times more than those who are supposedly more abled. They have stronger principles, seek to better themselves, and are committed to being good people. They are just capable of being sensitive and caring as everyone else. To imply that they aren’t is outrageous. > >
10 Questions About Why Ableist Language Matters, Answered 40 Alternatives to Ableist and Oppressive Words Words and Offense
And I think they were just making irrelevant excuses for marginalisation and exclusion, you know, the side of nuance you typs never seem concerned with.. 🤔
Tell me you have nothing to contribute to the conversation without saying you have nothing to contribute to the conversation (and also that you're happy to excuse poor and disabled people being marginalised and excluded)
Yeah, which is one reason poor and disabled people are still marginalised and excluded, funny how that works, eh?
Disabled people, too
photo of a large sign that has been stuck on a wall, it says: "If it's inaccessible to the poor it's neither radical nor revolutionary."
Spooky rule
drawing of a swarm of black bats with red eyes flying over a field, the sky is only dimly lit with an orange hue. At the forefront, one bat has ended up lower down, closer to the wheat growing bellow, around the bat 3 black cats have pounced up from all different directions, we see them mid air, claws out, about to catch the bat.
credit: Maggie Vandewalle
Always keeping those goal posts on the move
post by theconcealedweapon:
Conservatives: I hate Muslim people. Look at what that Muslim person did at that Orlando LGBT bar.
LGBT people: So, does that mean you care about LGBT people?
Conservatives: No! Gay people are pedophiles, and transgender women are just men who want to invade women's restrooms and harass women! WE NEED TO PROTECT WOMEN!
Women: So, does that mean you care about women?
Conservatives: Shut up, feminazi! Women in the United States are not oppressed! If you want to talk about women's oppression, you should be focusing on how women in other countries are treated!
Refugees: So, does that mean you care about people from other countries?
Conservatives: Stay out of our country! Why should we care about refugees when we have people here who need help?
Homeless People: So, does that mean you care about people who need help?
Conservatives: No! Get a job, freeloader!
Words matter
top text: I am not "wheelchair bound."
bellow on the left is a photo of a person sitting in their wheelchair, on them are heavy metal chains, they look distressed
on the right is a photo of the same person, out on a nature path that is surrounded with trees, along with their medical assistance dog, both look happy
bottom text: Wheelchairs give people mobility. So please stop saying "wheelchair bound" or "confined to a wheelchair." I "use a wheelchair" and I am free!
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still of Disney's Sleeping Beauty having just woken up, she says: "No exchange under capitalism is voluntary when faced with a choice of work for a wage or poverty and starvation."
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯
tweet by Planned Parenthood @PPIndKentucky:
Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus. Some men have a uterus.
I’m more inclined to think they don’t admit it mostly to avoid consequences, legal or otherwise.
To others - probably, I was thinking more to themselves.
Anyway, hope you have nice day/night wherever you are, I'm off to have a very late supper.
knowing exactly what one is and seeing it as right or wrong aren’t always a pair.
I think that's a good summation of the point I was trying to make, and I agree with the rest too (as for the reasons they won't admit it - probably good ol conative dissonance, so back to the difference between knowing something is wrong, and acknowledging it), though I try to avoid naming any disorders since I'm not qulified to.
And thank you, too, it's a really interesing topic that I'm not sure even the experts know the whole answers to (if they did, you'd hope we wouldn't still be dealing with such abusers and exploiters), the human brain is a hell of a drug lol
We'll never know I guess, you do give them more credit for seeing what they do as wrong, than I do though..
Not saying any of that is ok in any way, or that they're right, but none of it means that they would ever acknowledge themselves as evil. You and I seeing them for what they are doesn't mean they ever will (mostly because they don't see the people they oppress as fellow humans).
Do you really think Hubbard or the pope would ever hang a quote that condemns them and their respective churches to hell for their exploits on their wall?
I honestly don't know that they are, not to the point where they would consider themselves evil, or even as causing misery to anyone, these kinds of people get high on the smell of their own farts, and almost certainly see themselves as redeemers of some sort, it's all about feeding their ego.
Angry tumblr post..
post by batteredshoes:
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are cor- roded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.- James 5:1-6
arythusa replies:
At first I thought this was an angry Tumblr post but then it turned out to be the Literal Bible and it got 1000x better
So we're doing them a favour?
an instructional drawing showing how to carve a pumpkin, the mouth is already cut out and we see a pair of hands with a knife cutting in to what is marked out to be the eyes. top text: "ahhh yess carve out my eyeballs i don't want to see this wretched world anymore"
source: wik! How to Get Rich Quick if You're a Kid