One of the links in the article was interesting, I didn’t know that Nancy Pelosi visited Tianenman Square in 1991:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Z8-Woj1eA

If you’re in her district, you should let her know what you think of the bill

Yeah, I can kind of see the argument of “the state messed this place up and now needs to fix it”, but that doesn’t seem sufficient in this case.

Send interesting Lemmy links to people you know. That’s how they get interested, and check it out. You won’t convince many people by extolling the benefits of the Fediverse, you just have to show them that they’ll be entertained, and maybe they’ll be somewhat more likely to switch if they know it won’t enshittify. I’d say you should send links from instances that don’t federate with some of the weirder places like Hexbear though, that’s likely to turn people off until they realize how the Fediverse works.

One thing that we could use more of that draws people in is posts about relationship issues. Entertaining for almost everyone, and pretty much anyone can create them from their own experience.

Rare animated SMBC. Comments over on the blog have an example of one other one too: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2005-09-11

Ah yes, the three genders, boy, girl, and dog.

Best version of this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es

Great accelerationist pick, appreciated by both nazis and tankies

I switched from Tuta to Fastmail. Tuta was mostly fine, but being restricted to only their client was really annoying. I can use Fastmail with Thunderbird/FairEmail/etc just fine.

I get what Tuta is trying to do with encrypted email, but IMO they’re better off joining up with Fastmail on better specs that allow for the things they want to do, instead of limiting what email clients you can use.

The comments section on the blog felt just like a Lemmy flamewar:

Of course, in practice, the question is more realistic, like “How many Palestinians would you kill for lower egg prices?”

Oh, was Harris not going to kill Palestinians now? How quickly we forget what we were shilling for just yesterday.

Taken from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side

Some background on this comic:

Some background on this comic:

Also, the strip on the right was adopted for the name for those spikes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Hopefully they’ll make digital copies at some point, though I doubt I’ll remember to check back. We need a RemindMe bot/feature on Lemmy

Charlie Brown, but it turns out the “coffee as a kid stunts your growth” thing is a myth. Judging based on the past strips though, he does actually seem like he’s been drawn a little bit too short in this strip.

Too much coffee

Note that The Basilisk Collection is fiction written by the creator of the iceberg. The rest should be real

Different than the ones I’ve been posting or different than the ones you probably remember? These look different than the later ones just because there’s 50 years of evolution in Schulz’s drawing style

The best description I’ve seen of hotel art is what happens when you go to the store and say “One Art, please”

I have not, thanks for the link! I love how happy they are, reminds me of seeing sleepmakeswaves in person. Another band that just exudes happy energy.