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anon6789, 6 hours ago

The dream police…they come to me in my head…

anon6789, 6 hours ago

The Flea Market/George Bush episode, they’re handing out flyers.

anon6789, 5 hours ago

Excellent.

anon6789, 9 hours ago

Nice pair of articles, BBC, but what the heck is up with the single sentence paragraph formatting? Yikes!

anon6789, 9 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f37eaca9-4efc-41ac-99bd-75e2cf8a92a5.webp

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/52b411a1-d1d7-439f-b8d5-e7f4d4d6653b.webp

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/37f11cc6-f636-4bbd-becc-ab177026983a.webp

Looks much less intrusive than the old method of chainsawing into the nest!

anon6789, 7 hours ago

That story is hard to forget once you read it!

anon6789, 9 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/95699eed-5abb-4bfb-a836-695c0628b4ea.webp

The actual owls from the story

anon6789, 5 hours ago

I always want to be seen as a source of accurate information, as much as possible for an amateur owl-oligist.

There’s gotta be a good pic to get you to click to see the story, but that grainy one from the article was no good.

The pic of the lady was good, but it was just a lady holding a dead mouse, so I passed on that too.

anon6789, 2 hours ago

It was very nice to find this story.

I hope Pappa Owl is ok. I wish there was an update on him.

anon6789, 8 hours ago

Live Nation said Thursday it doesn’t benefit from monopoly pricing, saying that Ticketmaster service charges “are no higher than elsewhere, and frequently lower.” The company noted its overall net profit margin is at the low end of S&P 500 companies.

How do they not make a killing? What are they spending their money on? I can’t remember how many years ago it’s been since I got a physical ticket besides the ones I had to pay them for to print myself.

anon6789, 5 hours ago

Lol exactly, hence the monopoly accusations. We’re on to you Ticketmaster/LiveNation!

anon6789, 8 hours ago

Down with monoculture! Down with monoculture!

anon6789, 14 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b0cb8a3f-1cb7-4f3e-ba76-58ecab979bd1.webp

anon6789, 14 hours ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8ca3c9b-da43-46fe-8169-edf22a9a9780.webp

anon6789, 12 hours ago

And I am still getting tons more baby pics every day, so they will continue!

anon6789, 12 hours ago

I saw that too, in addition to my article on the Dave happening with the owl nesting boxes. I’m afraid this is a trend we’re going to be seeing more of as our indicator species do their indicating. 😞

anon6789, 10 hours ago

I get why they don’t name all these animals, but it is so much fun to come up with clever names!

anon6789, 11 hours ago

I had such a long and personal post written about Kid Rock and this time period of the late 90s, but I got a Windows forced restart and it killed it.

This is an awesome article and I feel it captures the attitude of a lot of people we currently love to hate. My life was on a very similar trajectory back at that point of time, but while I got off of it, Rock leaned into it and continues to do so, despite the hurt and confusion it gives his friends and former friends. I think everyone could learn something important from reading this story with an open mind.

Even if you hate read it, you will see someone who probably really hates their life despite having talent and success and is welcomed with open arms by a number of US presidents. I feel Rock was someone that was “proto-woke” in the late 90s and instead of embracing that, he bought into his own bit once he got famous and sold himself out to keep what he percieved as love.

The last third of the article where Rock is drunk and struggles to keep the mask on was difficult to not empathize with. He’s challenging the journalist to a fistfight while begging him to not leave, saying he doesn’t care what anyone thinks while asking if the author thinks any of this empire of his is actually cool.

Thinking about this while my computer erased everything I wrote and trying to think of a quicker way to get my point across, this really feels like the classic Simpsons where Marge paints the weak, brittle Mr Burns in the shower and makes him look at his real self. As someone who really felt support for the things Rock used to do but now can’t stand to see his face or hear his voice, this is a great article and a reminder that assholes are people too, and how many of us could have walked similar paths if we didn’t make some of the choices we did.

The views of his friends, current and former, are the way I feel about a lot of people I’ve known who have walked a path through life similar to the one he chose, and it makes me sad knowing I know people that truly are good people deep down, that feel they get something more out of playing a hateful and hurtful role. And at numerous point in the article, you see him acknowledge he is what he hates, but doesn’t know anything else at this point.

So glad you shared this and that I came across it. Thank you so much!

anon6789, 1 day ago

Not just the politics, but the news threads I feel have degenerated into ragebait topics with shallow conversation. I used to find a conversation or 2 a day to participate in, but now I don’t want to touch many news or politics threads.

anon6789, 1 day ago

I’ve been a bit concerned as well. I had gotten to know a fair number of regular commenters, but I haven’t seen probably half of them recently.

New subs are still joining the community, but it’s still low participation. The big communities still seem to be growing steadily, but it’s not necessarily bringing the positive attitude that initially won me over to Lemmy.

anon6789, 14 hours ago

Of course! I’ve got to be the change I want to see after all.