Aside from that, it’s like reddit with instance drama and an older, weirder demographic.

Yup.

and D E A N, apparently.

1. There’s a piefed NSFW instance. Google it.
2. [email protected]
3. maybe [email protected] ?
4. Again, probably need to go general. Try [email protected]

Check “all” from time to time, search community listings, and be ready to pounce on a community that sounds interesting if someone mentions it in a comment anywhere. There are far too many created communities for the number of users, so aiming a tier more general than you think you need to is often a good idea.Then, frankly, a lot of interesting discussion happens in generalist communities that happen to post something (often a meme) relevant to someone’s interests.

Honestly, I like CTD, but with just a few more songs, Superman’s Song, The Ghosts that Haunt Me, and Afternoons & Coffeespoons, you should probably have enough for a lifetime, LOL. Superman’s Song may even be vaguely familiar if you were reading comics in those days, as it came out not too long before the (in)famous Death of Superman arc.

I’m sure “most hated” has already been covered, so I’ll go farther down the list and pick one that’s a little hated and IMHO more than “not bad”: Crash Test Dummies.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm gets clowned on by people who remember it, but (1) it’s pretty good, and (2) CTD’s first three albums are full of super catchy folk-pop-rock with decent lyrics. Some of the third album, and then subsequent stuff gets deeper and deeper into Brad Roberts’ then-current interests and generally doesn’t grab me, but more power to him.

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm itself was undoubtedly picked to be sonically polarizing and grab more attention than some of the slightly less “Crash Test Dummyish” tracks.

On the afternoon of August 20, I visited the website of a shadowy group called Neighbors for Strong Communities. Days earlier, it had begun spamming Californians’ phones with a bullying warning: Paramount might leave the state, taking thousands of jobs with it, unless Attorney General Rob Bonta settled the lawsuit he and 11 other AGs filed to block the studio’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. The site offered to help me write to Mr. Bonta. It also suggested that I describe a time when I or someone close to me had lost a job or struggled to make ends meet.

I hate using AI for any of my writing, but I think we have to be looking more at the ground-level bad humans here. Seems like there is a background prompt setting the guardrails.

I think you’ll find pretty much all secular historians of the time and place will agree that there was probably an itinerant preacher by the name of Joshua going around in the area who was baptized by John, got in trouble with the local authorities, and got himself executed, but his followers eventually regrouped and built myths around him.

The gospels themselves, including the ones that didn’t make the cut in the Council of Rome, are a form of documentation, and Jesus is independently attested several other times within a century of his death and not always kindly. It’s pretty decent documentation for a non-elite of that era, though.

Anyone who claims much more than that likely is shilling for Christianity, but it’s wishful or even conspiratorial thinking to insist that Jesus was completely made up. Better to attack the notion of his being divine, because that actually is sky-daddy nonsense.

Frankly, it had to be very bad to get these guys to go as far as “non-concur” in writing at all.

Hegseth is literally unqualified to manage a large bureaucracy of any kind, evil or not, much less one with bombs and guns. I am guessing that it’s a day-to-day operational shit-show, on top of being the same type of moral and long-term-strategy shit-show that Iraq was.

Look, if you’re running such a shit-show that the fuckin’ Bezos Post publishes your leak, maybe you look in the mirror once you wake up from your post-workout everclear shots (gotta minimize them empty calories!).

Those flag officers are probably just low-T poindexters.

Just a little after my teen years, but HTF and Bawls (grabbed while in the checkout line at Fry’s Electronics) bring up some memories. And… is that Pixie Stix? If so, the 60s through the 90s would like a word.

C’mon now, sometimes it’s a 21% APR loan Camaro!

Well, keycaps potentially got added to the list of things to design, but otherwise the basics are the same. There would just be an adjustment to the 2-D “plate” files you’d need to use, and you’d run into the complications from a printer build plate sooner (depending on printer and keyboard size). You might not need to go a full 20-25% though. Just 5 or 10 might be enough and then you could maybe still get away with “normal” keycaps. Different shape families of keycaps have different names, and the XDA (sold by every random reseller on Amazon) or ISA (made for one specifix brand, XVX) both have pretty large top surfaces that would help with making your fingertips comfortable and blunting the aesthetic hit of altering a dimension we’re subtly used to.

Sheesh. Ontario, New York is right there, and Wayne County in which it’s located went bright red in 2024. Some people in Washington really need to learn how to manage a stupid narcissist without creating a bunch of work for everybody.

I mean, they already figured out that fig leafs work in the other direction.

I arrived when the API protest hit (rip kbin.social). I think I’m one of the few active Lemmings who’s also still somewhat active on Reddit. However, I was always pretty mindful of how I set up Reddit, only browsed my subscribed subs, and unsubscribed from almost all the big defaults. I have since unsubscribed from (I think) all of the defaults, but I still go there to see AskHistorians, keyboard, sports, and local subs.

None of those things have a really active flow of news and discussion here, and by and large I think I’m still mostly reading comments from real redditors. To be quite honest it’s not bad. However, the bigger communities there are well and truly cooked, and the vibe here for general interest and shitposts is much more my speed. It’s not as easy to find people whose interests exactly align, but people here are cool and interesting.

Ultimately, I accept that even “Small-Reddit” like I’m using is on borrowed time and will likely be dead internet before disappearing completely. When that happens, I’ll be a little sad but I won’t be surprised. I don’t feel like it’s quite there yet, however, and until I’m ready to cut all the toxic tech-bro owned companies out of my life, singling out Reddit when I still find some value in it felt like cutting off my nose to spite my face.

They’ve changed their tactics to draw less media attention, but Mullin has the same marching orders as Noem, with a huge and utterly arbitrary quota because Trump is both cruel and stupid.

Universe offering a limp apology for taking Dolly and Tim on the same day.

For handwiring, Joe Scotto’s videos on Youtube are excellent. For something a little more old school, but maybe more accessible theoretically, Matt3o’s walkthrough from the before-COVID times is still viable.

If you want to design a PCB, KiCAD is quite usable now, and there are plugins for keyboard switch footprints and to take Keyboard Layout Editor data and place them perfectly. For me, with no EE background whatsoever, the biggest mental hurdle was understanding the design paradigm “electrical schematic first, physical layout next”. I’ve been content to leave my PCB level at the point of making the entire keyboard PCB dumb and leaving the brains of the thing to a cheap and replaceable Raspberry Pi Pico (I like the clones that use USB-C). Physically, they’re basically larger versions of this tutorial from adafruit, though I use more standard keyboard firmwares. The other benefit of a PCB is that the minimum order most places is five, so with a couple of design choices (e.g. include mounting holes and rounded corners) and some PCB standoffs, you can have two usable builds with no case at all, and a spare PCB.

We have enema bottles full of mineral oil that I use to grease hinges and wheels.

Also the preferred food-safe finish for wooden cutting boards and butcher blocks!

Electronics wise, this is absolutely an intro project if you do the PCBs how I did and leave a space to mount a Raspberry Pi Pico or similar. Then your PCB is basically structural support for some wiring and diodes, and all the actual electrical engineering is contained in a $5 dev board.

Generally the skills you need are a bit broad, but not deep at all, which suits my flighty mindset perfectly. A bit of investigating keyboard design rabbit holes (there are a surprising number of robust web tools for getting the alignment stuff for the keys), a bit of 3D printing, including assembling builds that are bigger than a build plate, a bit of CAD, a bit of PCB design (but again, ONLY a bit… there are pre-designed layout footprints for the microcontroller boards and for keyboard switches), and a bit of soldering, but generally of big and robust through-hole contacts that are hard to completely destroy.

I’m curious as to which part would be oversized? The number of keys? The spacing between them? The keycaps themselves? Any one of them would complicate things in its own way, but not ridiculously so, and potentially pretty trivially. If you’re interested in following it up, making a macro-pad or numpad is a common first project, since the concepts are identical and the end result is still useful, but the investment and commitment are low if you screw it up or decide not to move on to anything bigger.