I think designing good social media is largely about identifying and removing possible abuse vectors. So if think it’s relevant to point it out when I see potential for one. My comment was not really about myself, whatever the hell I do is not very important.

This should probably be clear in the UX - right now it looks like I can downvote and emoji you at the same time, even though that’s probably not the case behind the scenes. In a way that risks people accidentally upvoting and giving attention to bad content - I guess I’d personally (in a moment of weakness) throw the 🤡 at leninists or trumpists, voiced I wouldn’t want to amplify.

Also - I was confused about some emojis not working, and then I realized they were tabs and that only the buttons below are emojis. Guess it proves how no UX is idiot proof. Also thumbs up is not under the tab illustrated with a thumbs up, which is confusing. :)

I’ll try to resist myself, but I think expecting people to behave themselves is a pretty tall order for social media. :/

I feel like there’s a risk of abuse though - I could totally see myself replying to certain things with a 🤡 rather than engaging in a debate, and I’m not sure that’s healthy for online culture.

There are people whose concerns it is worth listening to. I’m sure they will show up eventually.

Happy holidays!

Yes, exactly; it’s a like with an "emoji": "string" attribute. It’s described in the post announcing the feature. :)

I really like giving with Liberapay! Puts me in full control, gives me a great overview over what I give to different causes, and never bothers me.

All my monthly or weekly donations are actually yearly or in some cases even biannual, in order to minimize transaction costs. But that’s of course a matter of preference.

Also adding :catjam: might be a good idea—it seems to be the ruling emoji of the fediverse.

Edit: I might have just missed it on account of the disco theme.

Congratulations to Putin for launching 635 drones and 38 missiles to kill some completely arbitrary 4-year-old and two random people in their 70s right before Christmas. He has brought the Russian empire to its absolute peak, no doubt.

Your personal opinion, or that of the person posting. That way if people see it differently it could also be a more interesting/relevant discussion. Doesn’t need to be a lot, and of course it’s not an exact science, but I think discussions on what is typical European in comics and how it is emulated could be really interesting.

As much as I appreciate the effort the DoJ made to spare us from seeing Trump’s ugly face, I wish they’d make a more holistic effort for the cause. Why not put him away for good.

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

This article was written with AI in mind, but it could might as well have been about blockchain. When it first arrived people were so amazed there had been a new software invention that they wanted to apply it to everything, desperately looking for problems for their brand new solution.

If it’s not obvious which problem blockchain solves in a given context, chances are it doesn’t solve any problems at all.

It’s a fun technological showcase though.

Because it’s a system consisting pretty much exclusively of career politicians, even though it was originally designed to consist of representative peers.

I guess that isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but whatever the US has been doing is clearly not working.

There are movies to be made where it makes sense to strive for historical accuracy, bit I’m not sure the Odyssey is one of them. It was always a spectacular tale.

You’re running the show here and you’re providing us with a huge service. It’s easy to split hairs and to get argumentative about details, and that often happens with little regards for who one is talking to or how much they have contributed. That’s unfortunately just how things are on anonymous forums.

It’s totally understandable that some times it’s not easy to take criticism when you’re really just spending time offering something truly great for no reason other than your own interest. Don’t beat yourself up over it.

But yeah, it’s also not worth spending time arguing - especially not over the interpretation of the rules you yourself make!

Thank you so much for what you’re doing here - enjoy taking a break, and I really hope you’ll come back freshly motivated. :)

Edit: maybe a compromise solution could be to ask for some sort of reflection on why content not made in Europe nevertheless seems relevant to the community, based on the nature of the content? It would certainly add value for me, as it would be interesting to hear reflections on how foreign comics draw inspiration from European ones and why any specific comic seemed relevant for the community. In a way then it becomes a discussion about European comics even though the content itself is not. But I don’t want to add a burden of course!

The most generic looking Greek armour *with dangling golden spines attached

Yeah, fair point about the horse hairs at least. But I also can’t help but feel like people might have had all kinds of strange ideas about how they want things to look in the past, and a lot of it would probably surprise us if we had the chance to go back and check. So I still struggle to see things like this as genuinely upsetting. Had it been a proper blunder like imitating a roman armour or something I would have agreed much more, but taking some creative license with what ancient Greece looked like I feel should be expected.

I’m not a historian of ancient Greek armature, but if I were to fasten a bunch of horse hair to stand up like a Mohawk on top of a helmet chances are I would drill a bunch of holes of roughly .5 cm diameter systematically throughout hardwood base and stuff each hole as full of hairs as I possibly could. It would probably come out looking something like a shoe brush.

Of course, I have no idea how they were made; again, I’m not a historian. I just don’t see what is so obviously machine made here. On the contrary, I would be surprised if this helmet wasn’t in fact custom made by hand by the costume department. It would be very unlike Nolan to buy a mass produced Halloween costume from China.

I feel like it would be pretty bland and uninteresting without it. The golden spine makes it interesting. Presumably it might make sense after watching the movie.

I can’t wait for people to freak out about the lack of historical accuracy, as they always do whenever they see anything at all in a movie set before 1850.

This aged well.