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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • What's something that you discovered about yourself only after going to therapy?

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  • Not really about myself but in general: "Not dwelling" on things doesn't mean ignoring them.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • +1 for reading more. I took a break a few weeks ago, but I've been deep into the Star Trek books since last summer.

  • Dukatstive system

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  • Do Klingons have two Gul bladders, and is the second one just a statue of the first one?

  • Walking in fresh snow before the snowblower arrives creates inverse footprints

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  • My dogs always leave footprints paw prints on the sidewalk before I sweep off the snow. They're cute until they freeze into ice and I nearly make a cartoon sound effect as I slip on them lol.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • I only say there needs to be less because that's all that seems to get pushed to the top. Ever since I saw the few posts asking how to get new users here, I've been trying to put myself in their shoes and look at things raw and unfiltered like a brand new user would see. Sadly, now that I've looked, I can't un-see.

    The rest of us just need to get on their level with all our other hobbies and interests.

    100% agree :) But those don't seem to get the rage clicks like all the bad news stuff and get buried even on scaled sort.

    there aren’t other NWSL/MLS fans out here, but could you please stop doing drive-bys and downvoting all my articles?

    I don't know what either of those are, but I just went and threw some upvotes to some of your stuff because it was non-political / non-news. And one of them was highly downvoted for reasons I cannot possibly fathom.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • I do! Though I'm fully a lurker there and only passively contribute with my upvotes since I haven't biked or even e-biked in ages.

  • What were you doing in 2010 instead of getting free bitcoins from the Bitcoin Faucet?

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  • I've long since declared it lost forever, but there is still the slim possibility that one of my backup drives has my old Bitcoin wallet that was full of whole bitcoins I got from these faucets ages ago.

    If I ever find that, you or my employer will never see or hear from me again. 😆

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • Love me some dad jokes lol. They're about the only kind I'm good at.

  • Fediverse Challenge: Prove there's still good in the world

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  • Item #10: Don't be this person.☝️

    Like, wow. None of what I said has anything to do with that. This is the kind of jumping to insane conclusions, putting words in peoples' mouths shit that turns people away.

  • What do cows call their tabloid magazines? Fake moos.

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  • Us shit.

  • [meta] pls stop banning people

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  • [meta] pls stop banning people

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  • What exactly is the issue with self-destructing accounts other than losing the comments, discussions, etc. associated with the posts? Because if that's the only thing, I don't see the severity.

    It's unfair to anyone and everyone who participates. It's a PITA to save a post to have it just disappear later. Or remember a post and want to go back to it only to find it self-nuked. Yeah, some stuff may get modded but at least there's a usually correct and valid reason attached. The people doing this and self-destructing are basically unmarked spambots. I fucking hate bots.

    The disposable troll account elsewhere in the comments here said "Content is king" which is the only thing in their statement I agree with. Well, when that content is ephemeral, then it's not really "content".

  • [meta] pls stop banning people

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  • They are probably new people here trying out the fediverse because a friend recommended it to them

    Yet every one of those "new people" beelines straight to this community and starts posting like a power user right out of the gate. Yeah, that seems legit 🙄. The chances of that happening organically and without some interaction elsewhere is slim to none. The accounts that are finally getting banned are ones that have been posting and self-deleting for months or more.

    could you link an example? also maybe there should be a lemmy-built-in feature to restrict new posts to maybe 10 per day or sth.

    1. Literally no because it just comes up as "Error" and the users don't come up in search because they delete themselves.
    2. I've stopped interacting with accounts less than a month old because they just up and delete themselves taking any of my contributions with them. Like, what's the point? That's to say I can't just go into my history and pull up a dead post link for you.
    3. This has been going on for months if not longer
    4. Such a Lemmy feature does not exist and does not appear to be on the horizon
    5. Even if the number of posts is limited, it doesn't do anything to stop the self-destructing accounts.

    I had saved several comic posts that just up and disappeared. One of them I remembered who posted, so I checked their history and "Error: person_not_found". Or I'll recall a comic from a few days ago and try to find it, and it's long gone along with the account that posted it. Not modded, not banned, but self-deleted.

    Until there are built-in tools to assist with this and some major change to how Lemmy handles user deletions, I'm 100% in favor of the mods taking whatever measures necessary to keep the community fair to everyone else. These self-destructing accounts have a pattern, and the mods seem like they've caught on.

    These self-destructing jerks are the ones you should be upset with, not the mods. Like I said, I've completely stopped interacting with any new accounts because of this hit-and-run, self-deleting bullshit. The only ones working against legit new users are the people who keep doing that.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • That is what subscriptions and the local timeline are for. The "all" should show whatever is getting the most attention.

    "All" is what new users typically see. Or see immediately after clicking from "Local" if that's what the instance is set to default to. New users do not have any subscriptions, and if they're just browsing as guest, they literally can't subscribe or do any kind of curation.

    First impressions are important. Someone comes here brand new and the first impression is typically that of an angry mob.

    So to get a bigger userbase, the "default, guest experience" needs to provide a good first impression. This....preachy/angry/politics/news flood is highly likely to just turn them away and not even bother trying to curate to find the good bits.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Ooh, nice. +1 for your admin team. Maybe my instance would consider doing something similar. It is a topic-based instance after all.

  • What should we be doing, individually, to increase Lemmy's userbase?

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  • Less politics, less news, less "I'm mad about this so you should be mad about it too" rage posting/armchair activism, less "ist's and ism's". Less preachy shit about capitalism bad, communism good (or maybe .ml should just be blocked by default?). Less bitching about Reddit (I swear, I've heard less about friends' exes than some people bitch about Reddit here). Less "hurr durr power tripping mods" circlejerking.

    More content about cool stuff, hobbies, amazing feats, movies, books, TV shows, etc.

    This place has much of the latter but it's completely overshadowed by the former to the point you have to almost dig for it. Even blocking the overt news, politics, and political "humor" communities, it still seeps in to comics and memes and unrelated communities.

    There's still plenty of good in this world, but you'd never know it from looking at what's always topping the feed here.

    And a new user checking this place out is going to be immediately hit in the face with all of the former and probably not even see the latter.

  • What next, power supply shortages?

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  • That's why I'm planning on investing in a solar+battery system for my home this spring. Well, that, and because my electric rate keeps rising.

  • What next, power supply shortages?

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  • This is her when she was younger (about 7 y/o). Don't have any recent ones I can post right now where I wouldn't have to blur out the background, etc. Blame the AI tools that let you feed pictures in and return a location. Grr...lol

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    I wanna go back to the 90s before people shouting endless streams of opinions into microphones was glamorized

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Will LW PLEASE do something (ANYTHING!) about that obnoxious hit-and-run account?

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What do you have after eating a big bowl of alphabet soup? A vowel movement.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Seeing shitposts about corn and beans and moths makes me wonder if I'm an AI

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    Statistically Speaking, Six out of Seven Dwarves Are Not Happy

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    If you receive an email from me talking about canned meat, don't open it. It's SPAM.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?

  • Hardware @lemmy.world
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    HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2025/11/hp-and-dell-disable-hevc-support-built-into-their-laptops-cpus/
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Bluetooth headsets were probably a godsend for people who talk to themselves

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    When they get the bill too

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Shut up and take my money: A working Bluetooth TNG Combadge

  • Funny @sh.itjust.works
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    She Gets Us

  • iiiiiiitttttttttttt @programming.dev
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    The authors of this vulnerability analysis get it

  • Mild Curses @piefed.social
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    Mild Curse: Every time you crescendo while making love, you yell "Hey, Macarena!"

  • 90s Music @lemmy.world
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    Bush - Comedown

    song.link /y/PvYa5dmuq2I
  • 80s Music @lemmy.world
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    AC⚡ DC - Shoot To Thrill (1980)

    song.link /y/LIzPbnIp2QM
  • 90s Music @lemmy.world
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    Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino (1999)

    song.link /y/XgoKfHg1JsU
  • Television @piefed.social
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    'Poker Face' Is Dead, but Rian Johnson Has a Wild Plan to Revive It

    gizmodo.com /poker-face-season-3-peacock-peter-dinklage-2000685525
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I think I figured out what's going on in Pluribus

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Why Does So Much New Technology Feel Inspired by Dystopian Sci-Fi Movies?

    www.nytimes.com /2025/11/05/magazine/ai-tech-industry-sora-science-fiction.html