DarthYoshiBoy

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(He/Him) Player of video games, lover of books, Dungeons and Dragons nerd, Techy guy, father, and husband. Also: https://mastodon.social/@DarthYoshiBoy

I don't know if it's a bug, but if it is I hope it sticks around, my Bluesky is working in landscape orientation now and it's amazing. I always hate an app that is locked to vertical orientation. If I want to be locked to vertical, my phone offers the option, that's not an app's place.

One could hope that this will help with the huge issue of data disappearing into Discord silos where it used to exist on the open internet, but the poll in this story already indicates that nearly 90% of people don't want the information from public Discord servers searchable on the web, that's sad.

Some Discord Messages Will Be Searchable on Google in December, Here's How to Opt Out

Over the last decade, Discord has become the de facto community space for gaming, and there are a lot of huge servers out there that you can find by scrolling through its public servers page. But star...

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Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

It should be in the first paragraph that Dan J. is on the ballot without a party designation, and without INCUMBENT next to his name, instead of buried in paragraph 14 well under heinous nonsense. We're well past the point where journalistic malpractice has been the norm, but come on @reuters.com.

US Justice Dept sues to block possible Alaska election of Democrat to Senate

The US Justice Department on Thursday sued to preemptively ​block Alaska from certifying the results of its US Senate race if the Republican incumbent candidate loses by a narrow margin, saying ‌voter...

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This is ultimate evil. If you believe that empathy leads you away from goodness, there's no depth to which you will not sink and you should maybe interrogate that aspect of your being before you try to espouse your beliefs as the guiding principles for any form of government.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2w ago

"A survey released Tuesday (Oct. 20) found that Republicans and evangelicals increasingly see empathy as a danger that can lead society away from God." religionnews.com/2026/10/20/a...

A chart showing how different religious groups responded to a question about empathy on a poll.

White evangelicals stand out, with 54% saying they believe empathy "can become dangerous when it leads people away from building a society guided by God's truth."

What was he supposed to do? It was a horseshit question. Was he supposed to be somber and serious to reassure us all that he’s not a sleeper agent? He very calmly and politely handed that idiot his ass because that idiot was acting in bad faith. We need more of that, not less

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