celeste

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[–] celeste@kbin.earth 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I did get jumpscared by the Weiner name. He was such a disappointment.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This post was incomprehensible until I went back through your profile. Which felt rude, honestly. Maybe link to the conversation you're referencing, if you want to have an expanded conversation about it?

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I get reminded of this quote from their studio exec:

“You can say, ‘Okay, we are exploiting, you know, child labor,’ right? Or you can say: we are offering people anywhere in the world the capability to get a job, and even like an income,” Corazza said. “So I can be like, 15 years old, in Indonesia, living in a slum, and then now with just a laptop, I can create something, make money, and then sustain my life.”

When I read that quote a few weeks ago, I thought about how that's the kind of argument people who travel abroad to rape kids use to justify themselves.

It feels related to this, somehow. Maybe something about how children are treated like a disposable resource or an object to be used unless the person who owns them (parents?) are powerful, well to do, white, etc, etc. And that's because their owner is those things, so they're valuable property. I'm not sure if I'm articulating myself well. Too much sun.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't think it's possible yet. Maybe just manually move your subs and then do a full delete, for your peace of mind? If it's an immediate worry for you, it'd be better to do it before they add the transfer option, right? I wonder if the error you got is related to the federation issues the site had yesterday. He ended up reverting some changes and maybe you got caught in it.

(as an aside, the interstellar creator and the kbin.earth admin are the same guy, which is probably why the dev is fond of this instance haha)

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

nooo colds suck

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 3 points 1 week ago

Those "i'm with ->" shirts except it says whatever you call each other.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Visible rainbows? I think that's a symbol even straight people know.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 2 points 1 week ago

I wonder if the girl was prepared to break taboos in a positive way because she practiced with shoplifting.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's just seen the messages and is looking into it!

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I noticed it! I was going to mention it in the matrix chat after work if it was still having problems

 
 

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Yotor and his countrymen are among 260 people, most of them human-trafficking victims, who were sent from Myanmar to Thailand last week as a multinational crackdown on scam centers along the border between the two countries gathers pace.

For years, according to the United Nations, criminal gangs have trafficked hundreds of thousands of people to scam compounds across Southeast Asia, including along the Thai-Myanmar frontier, where victims have been forced to work in illegal online operations.

 

Sorta looking for inspiration, but I mostly like to see cool/weird websites.

 
 

Since November 2023, when Russia’s Supreme Court designated the non-existent “international LGBT social movement” as an “extremist organization,” police departments across the country have executed a full-scale crackdown on the queer community. Officers have raided clubs and parties and placed LGBTQ+ people under surveillance while bigots harass queer community members and try to expose them to employers and parents. Wherever the authorities go, they collect evidence that facilitates monitoring, from video footage and business records to fingerprints and even mouth swabs. Meduza special correspondent Lilia Yapparova has learned that Russian officials are also discussing overhauling the country’s data-collection practices to create a single electronic registry for monitoring LGBTQ+ individuals — a database that would make blackmailing and persecuting queer people vastly easier.

 

Gay Gen-Z New York City Council member Chi Ossé has successfully done something that has failed in past attempts — ending the longtime practices of having apartment-seekers pay expensive brokers’ fees… and he did it, in part, by using social media videos.

 
 

My poor cat scratched his head by accident and won't leave the cut alone, so it's cone time. Unfortunately, every cone we've tried had been incredibly disruptive to his life. The newest one is at least lighter and he eats okay wearing it, but he's still miserable.

I'm willing to even make one if someone has a pattern they've used. I tried a hat, but he gets it off right away. I clip his claws shorter already, and it's not quite enough to keep him from reinjuring himself.

Any suggestions? He has allergies, so this is going to be an occasional problem.

 
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Game #271
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Primer invites both newcomers and crate diggers alike to find their next favorite album and learn more about the music they already love.

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