A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
I like to think it landed gently in a cabbage field, only lightly singed, wondered what the Hell just happened and it continued on with it’s day doing rabbit stuff.
I do sometimes wonder if some of the weirder UFO encounters, like this, might have a similar explanation.
Liverpool. Contrary to popular belief, there are quite a few thieves about.
Really? I haven’t been to a supermarket without one in years. Perhaps it’s a Liverpool thing.
Explains my lack of Easter eggs this year.
Retail workers aren’t paid enough to deal with some self important asshole who thinks that screaming at people through a megaphone is their right.
That’s what the security guard is there for.
I was going to say it is up to the Mods to define the scope of a community but there aren’t any.
I’d suggest this forum is a different beast to an XFM community but you can definitely discuss his radio show here.
There’s this show that no-one is talking about: Adolescence.
Two episodes into Doctor Who and it is a mixed bag - first episode was bad, second was great.
Daredevil started strongly but Andor starts today, so I’ll be hammering through that.
there are also online tutorials which have prompted amateurs to carry out DIY interventions, with disastrous consequences.
You really can learn anything on YouTube.
I must admit, I was expecting it to be terrible but it is one of the Rock’s best films of recent years. Damning with faint praise but still praise.
Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.
No-one is gaining the moral high ground there.
They really shouldn’t bother, it is really bad.
The SC ruling didn’t even say that trans people had to be excluded from single-sex spaces, only that they could.
This is Lord Sumption’s take on it and he reckons the ruling has been misinterpreted. As a former Supreme Court judge, I’m happy to go along with that as he is an expert on interpreting and writing such judgements.
The speed with which some people have jumped on this and given their own, apparently wrong, reading of the law is worrying. Especially as one of them is Baroness Falkner who is threatening to write up “guidance” based on her misunderstanding of the judgement. Almost seems… opportunistic.
And who is going to police this?
My understanding is that it isn’t illegal for anyone to use any toilet and it is down to the establishment to decide who can go in what toilet. I’ve definitely been to theatres were women take over one of the gents. Also the gents in The Philharmonic pub in the middle of Liverpool is so splendid you can ask to be shown around no matter what you sex. I often lock both sets of toilets in my local if we have a late drink and that involves a quick check to make sure they are empty.
Yep, they do a nice job of wiki integration. We definitely want something similar with Ibis.
My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”.
While I doubt Fediverse wikis will replace Wikipedia, it can definitely take on wikis/fandom but, as mentioned, it can also act as the kind of wikis subs have. So you might have:
“c/community/faqs” “c/community/archive” “c/community/tutorials” “c/community/resources” “c/community/recommendations”
Depending on their needs - meme communities might not need much, while computing, privacy, etc might want quite a few to add in useful information and links that might otherwise get buried.
ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy
So top level might be:
ibis.wiki/threadiverse_categories
Under which you might have:
The latter then might contain:
Then the last one would include:
Very impressive.
This is not finished - not in categories, not in organisation, not in communities, but I’m getting exhausted currently.
It must be collaborative or you’ll burn yourself out.
I wonder if it can be done on [email protected] and then that information gets pulled through to another site where it could be used for filtering. And/or, as Ibis now federates with Lemmy (see [email protected]), it would just appear on here anyway and you could search “political communities” and it would bring up the relevant wiki page inside Lemmy.
This also fits with what I was pondering on Threadiverse community alternatives to subs. There are a few sites that went up with the first Rexxit but they are no longer maintained and it would be better done in a wiki.
My thinking was that Lemmy instances could have their own Ibis instance that would include a page for each community named “c/community”. So we’d have:
And elsewhere you’d have:
wiki.lemmy.world/c/privacy wiki.lemmy.ml/c/privacy
And these could then be linked in from both:
ibis.wiki/sub_alternatives ibis.wiki/threadiverse_privacy
Nail down your naming structure early on and it should go smoothly, with wikis being flexible enough to allow changes to be made if we needed to tweak things.
It is one of the reasons why I asked @[email protected] about being able to log into Iris with your Lemmy account, because you could closely integrate Lemmy and Ibis, especially now it federates (no point in having two accounts).
As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of Sinners would revert to the director.
And they say it like this is A Bad Thing, creators should have more control over the things they make - Hollywood shafting people just makes everything worse. The studios are still going to make plenty of money.
When I used to go to mass, we’d be told we were eating the body of Jesus and drinking his blood. And they were not as delicious as lamb.