I really never should have opened this thread, but hard agree. I’m doing the small bit I can to help out and I only have that energy because I (mostly) stopped clicking on news and aggressively curated my online experience to be free of politics or depressing news. It’s easier to fight the good fight when you are not constantly being shown 28483838 bad things and 28483838 fights to fight. Even without algorithms that want to maximize engagement and that thus maximize outrage, human nature tends to focus on the bad and engage with outraging things (which is why A Bad Thing Happened constantly dominates Technology feeds instead of spiels about this or that tech advancement). If seeing all this paralyzes you into despair and/or doomscrolling like it paralyzes me, you have to actively try to work against that tendency or just try to avoid getting shown outrage in the first place.

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These are so adorable. Good job, brightened my day to see this on my feed.

https://youtu.be/WO23WBji_Z0

I’m not used to amigurumi looking so fuzzy and without obvious stitching. (Neutral statement, not a negative judgment.) This looks cute, good job! I really think snakes could use more cute representations.

I never browsed r/NEET so I figured I’d ask here—and besides, Fediverse communities need not be 1:1 recreations of the ones on Reddit. I just took a look and it seems to be for people suffering from the stigma on Reddit, would I be correct that it’s supposed to be the same thing here?

Genuinely curious. I’m aware the term is often used as a pejorative. Is this for people who feel they fall into that group, or anyone who technically qualifies? For example, someone who was just laid off and is now unemployed, and wasn’t receiving education or training—this person probably does not see themselves as a NEET and they and society have not yet applied that social stigma to themselves. What are the boundaries of NEET for the purposes of this community?

I learned with this:

CABLE Cast on 36 stitches. Row 1: Purl 13 stitches, knit next 2 stitches, purl next 6, knit 2, and purl remaining 13 stitches. Row 2: Knit 13 stitches, purl 2, knit 6, purl 2, and knit 13. Row 3: Repeat Row 1. Row 4: Knit 13 stitches, purl 2. Slip next 3 stitches onto cable needle, hold in back of work. Knit next 3 stitches, then knit the 3 stitches from the cable needle. Purl 2 and knit the remaining 13. Row 5: Repeat Row 1. Row 6: Repeat Row 2. Row 7: Repeat Row 1. Row 8: Repeat Row 2. Repeat these 8 rows until the piece measures 9". Bind off in pattern.

courtesy of https://warmupamerica.org/make/patterns-yarns/

I’d imagine getting all the stitches done would be the most difficult part of this. Very well-done.

why not ani.social? the local feed is just anime and manga

And that’s exactly the ambiguity I was trying to get at with my last paragraph.

I’m kind of surprised I got downvoted while contrarian “source?” comments got lots of upvotes. In all honesty, it feels bad. I am not sure how I said anything anywhere near offensive that deserves disapproval, but being contrarian seems a lot more purposely meant to piss off and still meets lots of peoples’ approval.

But even still, I have gone and assumed bad faith or at best, an attempt to be funny and make people laugh through what is still in the end just contrarianism. I do not think it is possible they are genuinely asking for a source because I think we’re making claims based on general observation of the world, things that do not need to be cited, like “the sky is blue” or “things fall when you drop them”. Just look up and see (or trust the wealth of statements talking about the sky’s blueness if you are (color)blind). Perhaps I’m incorrectly assuming bad faith here based off of a trend of seeing contrarianism, and I’m incorrectly extrapolating that trend here. It is very ambiguous. I really do not think I am wrong, but given that we’re literally talking about the difficulty of determining good vs. bad faith engagement it feels a little arrogant to not acknowledge the possibility that I might be wrong.

I think the key part is whether it’s being done in good faith or bad faith. Sometimes I ask a stupid question on Lemmy, but because I am honestly curious and not trying to get into a fight, and I usually accept the reply to me and don’t take it as an invite to get into a debate, I think people can tell I’m not sealioning.

If I replied “source?” for your comment right now, I’d be trolling. I almost certainly know that it is a bad idea to discourage sourcing information, and that should not be something I need a cited source for. That would probably be sealioning. Someone asking for a source on a meme I posted is probably genuinely curious and not sealioning.

And as per usual, judging intent can be difficult, especially when people (including me) come into a forum with my own sets of biases, pieces of knowledge I have that I incorrectly assume that everyone else knows, and absence of knowledge that others incorrectly assume everyone else knows. So people who are not sealioning might get mistaken for it just because they want a source on something they do not know that most people do. I see where you are coming from.

!pokemon@lemm.ee might appreciate

Sorry! I guess it just did not federate over to me. If you check my instance’s copy of this it says “trash snacks”

You may want to edit the title, it says “trash snacks”

If the world had a population of friendly vampires I wonder how many more people the donor pool would gain…

I have seen one get used, and played in a musical theatre pit that called for a theremin player who could also play trumpet. That’s the only relevant stuff I have to say. Best wishes with the community!

I’m so proud of what I created and know I’ll never see it finished. So I figured I’d share it here! I’m particularly proud of how even my stitches are, especially at the end of the project!

Genuinely, clever solution. As someone who wants to wear shawls more often thanks for posting the pattern!

In my very amateur opinion you have nice tensioning, at least better than mine haha.

I tend to go on long hiatuses from my fiber arts hobbies and I’m back on a crocheting and knitting kick

Nice to know I am not the only one who does that.

You’re absolutely right! I figured I’d glom onto something established first, but I’d rather have an active mod especially since this does not seem to have grown too big. Do I need to sign up for your community? I remember moderation being… iffy between instances, especially if it’s an Mbin/Lemmy jump.

Social sciences are super cool and fascinating, but I ultimately went non-social-science STEM. How about you?