How many universities will abandon free speech rights for 10% of their budget?
All of them. Of course they’ll frame it like “to enable our storied institution to continue performing our vital work, we are temporarily putting a moratorium on non-pre-approved meetings. Thank you for your understanding.”
Today many of you will learn a new word.
A kynodesmē (Greek: κυνοδέσμη, English translation: “dog tie”) was a cord or string[1] or sometimes a leather strip that was worn primarily by athletes in Ancient Greece and Etruria to prevent the exposure of the glans penis in public (considered to be ill-mannered) and to restrict untethered movement of the penis during sporting competition. It was tied tightly around the akroposthion, the most distal, tubular portion of the foreskin that extends beyond the glans. As depicted in Ancient Greek art the kynodesme was worn by some athletes, actors, poets, symposiasts and komasts. It was worn temporarily while in public and could be taken off and put back on at will. The remaining length of cord could either be attached to a waist band to pull the penis upward and expose the scrotum, or tied around the base of the penis and scrotum so that the penis appeared to curl upwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynodesme (includes photographs)
In the context of the OP joke that would be a: jynodesmē.
On that page you will also see links to learn about Kotekas (penis gourds) where you’ll learn:
Yali men favour long, thin kotekas that help hold up the multiple rattan hoops worn around their waists, whereas Lani men wear double gourds held up with strips of cloth and use the space between the two gourds for carrying small items such as money and tobacco.
and Nambas (penis sheaths):
Two tribes on Malakula, the Big Nambas and the Smol (Small) Nambas, are named for the size of their nambas.
A government’s purpose is never to generate profit. It’s to make use of the common wealth to improve the lives of its citizens.
I bet those DOGE bros could stare at that statement for an hour and it still wouldn’t make sense to them.
You forgor to remove the outliers.
Yeah we’re like waves in an ocean that break, recede, and are re-formed. I do kinda miss my dead family members tho.
many white families also couldn’t afford to move to the suburbs, but that was a downside the rich white racists were willing to accept
I think this was a feature, not a downside. (I agree with the rest of your post tho)
Gaze not into the abyss
iirc the most incarcerated population on the planet by rate is actually El Salvador, due to the recent gang crackdown which involves having masked military units surround a community, perform door-to-door searches, and throw suspects into enormous new prisons. (to be fair, the gang tattoos often make this obvious.) I mention this because some US Republicans think this is a great idea.
Exactly. In the cartoon above, “pulling the trigger” would be “the most important fight”.
“We’re not going to go after every single issue” -Schumer
I use firefox to log into pixelfed, dark mode works on that. (Dark Mode Reader extension fwiw). haven’t tried it on firefox android tho.
I seem to remember Lemmy had a harder crash
iirc during the r$ddit API debacle, Lemmy went from 1000 MAUs (40 MAU for kbin) to a peak of around 70k then down to around 38k MAUs (lemmy + kbin). However I think this was only counting posts and comments as “activity”, I think it was around March 2024 they started counting up/downvotes as well and the MAUs stabilized in the lower 40ks for the rest of the year and is now slowly rising.
Yeah this is looking to be a really good growth period. Pixelfed went from 15K in late December to a peak of 300K plus, and if it levels out at 150K that’s decent. I don’t think you want to suddenly grow too fast on a fediverse platform with a single part-time developer who’s also (singlehandedly?) running the main instance.
One thing I wonder is: how many of those people were already active on other fediverse platforms…
As expected, after growing and plateauing, pixelfed’s number of Monthly Active Users is now ebbing. If I understand the MAU stat correctly, this is because
As far as retention, I’m rooting for 200K+ but it looks like it might be around 150K. If I understand the Monthly Active User stat correctly, the line’s going down because (a) new users have stopped joining as much and (b) people who posted/liked/commented over a month ago haven’t done so since. I’m guessing that people who do this professionally have some kind of data-driven model that compares the ebb rate with the earlier decline growth rate, and has sample curves from previous social media growth periods. Just by eyeballing it, looks like over the last week pixelfed has lost like 10-20k users per day, whereas the month before the growth rate was around 40k per day.
As far as external events, John Oliver briefly flashed the Pixelfed logo on screen this Sunday, maybe that’s why the ebb was only 7k yesterday (a day or two to download and check things out before interacting?) Hey, people like 50501 are promoting boycotts of Amazon, Target, etc. maybe we should suggest boycotts of corporate social media? 50501 is organizing on r$ddit so I doubt they’d go for a complete boycott, but maybe it could be an “explore alternatives” or “bug out plan for social media” day or something.
Wait really? I wanted to be tied to a young tree and have my skeleton be merged with it:
The Moriori people of the Chatham Islands placed their dead in a sitting position … strapped to young trees in the forest. In time, the tree grew into and through the bones, making them one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excarnation
I was kind of hoping my descendents would be able to find the tree and see my skull staring out at them from halfway inside a tree. Are you saying this won’t work?
The text mostly just obstructs the image. You can ignore it.
Really? I interpreted the text in this meme as a rich commentary on the nature of textual interpretation.
They’re a beautiful shade of AI.