Jesus, that's much more grim than a video of blocking tactics I was expecting.
Ah, I see. I assumed that if I requested my most recent 1,000, deleted them, then made the request again that I'd get the next 1,000 most recent comments and I could loop back through my whole history.
I didn't pay enough attention while executing my script to see if I had that right. I did find the other comments frustrating, recommending other solutions that use the API just like I did.
I've used a GDPR request to request all the data reddit have about me. Hopefully I can parse that when it arrives for all my comment IDs then go through and delete them. My username is unfortunately not searchable so I can't trawl for them using a search engine.
I'm in a fairly similar boat. I like to pay for music and buy any album I like on vinyl. I used to rely on the digital download codes that came with them to build my collection, but few come with download codes nowadays.
I used to mostly use bandcamp for things I wasn't getting on vinyl or that came without a download code, but it's getting harder. I'm somewhat active in my local music scene and managers tell me it's a lot of pain for not much revenue, particularly with so few people buying stuff they make available there.
So I'm back to relying on CDs again. I don't particularly mind — it's still cheap enough that it's worth it to have a lossless rip, and the clutter isn't a huge bother.
I'm certainly not going to ever go back to commercial streaming services though. Staying in control of my own stuff is always going to be my overriding priority.
I agree.
By all accounts she's remarkably competent but faced a wave of unwarranted attacks championed by Tories who resent her for Partygate and by some Labour figures who resent the way she shook the leadership up on their way toward government.
I'm sad to see her step down, noble though it might well be on her part, but I'm also keen to see how McSweeney does in post. As the mastermind behind our campaign he's established his credibility, and I hope that translates well into his new role.
This new age is very strange. Folks railing against liberal-democratic structures and institutions while praising autocrats and theocratic-fascist terror groups.
I'd hope those are the ones who got arrested for supporting a proscribed group. Iirc folks wearing the Hamas logo and dressing up as terrorists at previous protests were arrested for that.
It's okay though, you can be as racist as you like towards Jews and it doesn't matter. It's the only form of racism that's acceptable.
I think we see enough racism toward other groups to accept that that second sentence isn't true, but I agree with the first one. Tons of folks have at least a blind spot toward antisemitism and sometimes an active acceptance of it in a way that seems unique.
I enjoyed Howard Jacobson's piece in today's Observer on one specific form of it that's found a new prevalence. It's difficult to find even limited acknowledgement of it in our discourse at the moment so I'm grateful to those like him daring to write about it.
That's atrocious behaviour if they're really doing that.
I guess a GDPR request is in order then.
I donated to one of those groups who write things on artillery shells asking for, "Wcrain am byth," (Ukraine forever in Welsh) but they never sent me a pic of it.
I like to think it went toward helping them defend their country and their democracy anyway, and so I sleep soundly thinking myself a hero too.
I find these protests distasteful (to say the least) at the best of times, but particularly sour this weekend.
The anti-zionism MEE proudly chose to comment on aside, reporting elsewhere on the tens of thousands who chose to march included this lovely chant supporting the Houthis:
They then gathered outside the British Library, chanting: “Yemen, Yemen make us proud. Turn another ship around,”
The arrests sound delightful too:
Two people were arrested on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation, one of which included a protester wearing what appeared to be a parachute, and there were eight arrests on suspicion of public order offences, four of which were allegedly racially aggravated. Parachutes and paragliders were used by militants from Hamas to launch their aerial assault to enter Israel from Gaza last October.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, three were arrested on suspicion of assault and one person was arrested on suspicion of breaching a Public Order Act condition.
Marking the one-year anniversary of an horrendous massacre by paying homage to the terrorists that committed it and assaulting emergency workers. Wonderful stuff.
One hopes the memorial event in Hyde Park later might be somewhat more graceful.
As a fan of spawning unimaginable horrors of man's twisted minds to be employed in the furtherance of defending democracy against authoritarians and theocratic fascists, I approve of whatever the hell this thing is.
Providing it's us using them. If it's Russia, China, or Iran making them then clearly they're a crime against humanity and we must invade immediately to prevent this evil from being unleashed upon the world.
Tankies will go nuts with glee finally seeing their antisemitism affirmed.
That's one Israeli national acting unlawfully and being tried in a US court. I don't think that's representative of the Israeli government.
Fondly remembering when Russia came out in support of Hamas and that Israeli dude went nuts in a live TV interview shouting that when they were done with Hamas in Gaza they would come for Russia too.
I've been eagerly awaiting since then for the day when we see Merkavas and Abrams tanks roaming the Ukrainian battlefield side by side as brothers hunting Russian orcs.
Sometimes I find the gleeful acceptance of Hamas's monstrous rule and apologia for their heinous crimes we see online almost too much to bear.
I am glad this woman has finally been rescued from what must have been hell for her. I hope in time more and more people in Gaza get the opportunity to be freed from Hamas's cruel grip on power.
I dunno, they seem to be thriving in certain Lemmy communities.
I'm not sure there is one anymore.
Dwarfed though it is by the heartbreaking tragedy being inflicted on Ukraine, it's tragic too to see Putin's militaristic propaganda embed itself so completely, even among the country's youth.
I doubt even a full mobilisation would cause sufficient unrest to end the war now, nor would an even higher rate of Russian casualties cause Putin to cease his tyrannical conquest.