Hi! I’m British, I like music (grime, garage, hip-hop, R&B, and more!). I like art, culture, history, politics, & doomscrolling memes.
Also a touch of programming :)
also on /u/Madbrad200@sh.itjust.works
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A list of casual communities on Lemmy (that aren't just tech news or politics)
Searching Lemmyverse is good for finding communities. !trendingcommunities is also a nice tool for finding new places....
Squabbles, another recent reddit alternative, seems to be taking the doomed "free speech" path (i.imgur.com)
AMA with Lemmy creators is live (lemmy.ml)
over at lemmy.ml/post/2920188
TIL a fleet of electric taxi cars was first introduced to London, UK in 1897 (en.wikipedia.org)
We’ve gone full circle
Being asked to switch to American English if I want to edit my playlist details (lemmy.world)
On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it’s a thing
CityFibre Officially Launch 2.5Gbps FTTP Home Broadband Tier (www.ispreview.co.uk)
TIL in 2013, an Italian mafia "Ndrangheta" made more money than McDonald's and Deutsche Bank combined (€53bn / £44bn) (www.theguardian.com)
TIL of COCONUTS-2b, a giant gas planet that takes over 1 million years to orbit around its star (en.wikipedia.org)
PS2’s Two Towers was the coolest way to miss the whole point of the Lord of the Rings (www.polygon.com)
Naming all 4 constituent countries of the UK (lemmy.world)
TIL an ant mega-colony exists across 3 continents and is thought to contain billions of ants, all of which recognise each other to be from the same colony. The largest part of the colony is in Europe (news.bbc.co.uk)
Britpop: What prompted the end of the genre that gave us Blur and Pulp? (BBC News) (www.bbc.com)
cross-posted from: yiffit.net/post/456036...
Northern Ireland’s Unionists Are Fighting for Survival: A sense of betrayal by Westminster and lost status have fueled extremism and weakened commitment to peaceful power-sharing (foreignpolicy.com)
It's the rain (lemmy.world)
Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2073256...
Gandalf vs the Balrog of Morgoth (by Ergo) (lemmy.world)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1551647...
Traditional TV sees biggest fall in viewers since Ofcom records began (news.sky.com)
Full report: www.ofcom.org.uk/…/media-nations-report-2023.pdf
UK battles to reverse EU endorsement of ‘Islas Malvinas’ name (archive.is)
Departure of the Winged Ship by Vladimir Kush (lemmy.world)
The image symbolically conveys to us the feelings of happiness and beauty of the world arousing in everyone bound on a distant voyage. In Japan, the image of the butterfly has inspired the artists for hundreds of years. It is always associated with the best moments in life. Here, traditional celebrations and marches begin with...
What's your best contribution to Wikipedia? (en.wikipedia.org)
personally: I created and wrote 88.1% of the Afrobeats Wiki page and got it nominated as a Good Article status....
Updates announced: Vector + other gun nerfs nerf, assault class gun/armour additions, C4 change, and more (see post body for further updates) (i.imgur.com)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/43dcf11b-8fcc-49e8-aa2e-3a8ed98f511f.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/88295e6f-cc15-475b-bb70-e9963d44d895.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b916a3f9-da76-4f63-9f32-bc6de5eb27b6.png...