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.world powermod Flyingsquid harasses News mod Blackbeard off lemmy
  • So who am I supposed to listen to?

    Both of us.

    Well that’s your problem right there. If a user (because in this case FlyingSquid was operating as a user) is misinterpreting the rules according to one moderator, but being encouraged to flag content by another moderator (tacit endorsement), the mod team needs to talk amongst themselves and get on the same page regarding the reports. Offering to leave was a bit dramatic, but the mod’s response of “just read the rules” was a lazy move that did nothing to get at the core problem of inconsistent encouragement/discouragement of reporting and clarification among the mod team.

  • What is the longest you've been awake without sleep? When and why did you do it?
  • Approximately 36 hours. Got on a serious roll with some friends to beat Super Mario World 3, realized when we finished that it was about 4:30am, just went with it. I ended the day after throwing up a shrimp burrito from Taco Del Mar when the guy behind the counter misheard “shredded beef” and I had already got home (I don’t eat seafood, so it was already tough to get down). Never again.

  • Barnes & Noble is making a comeback
  • They don’t even know what goes in the nonfiction/essays section after the fiction books. That shelf is an absolute migraine for those of us who want literary nonfiction. Also the religious literature/philosophy/theory indistinctions. And don’t get me started on the Classics section. Hire a goddamn Lit MA student.

  • How were you able to get over the fear of approaching your crush? And how did it go?
  • You need to take a risk on some level, which probably isn’t what you want to hear, but other commenters have said as much. I think that even worse than a solid “no” is just not doing anything and getting up in your head about the what-ifs, and missing an opportunity entirely.

  • What are you looking forward to on the Thanksgiving menu?
  • Collards. I only recently discovered them as a transplant to the southern part of the country, and I love making them because they’re phenomenally tasty. Plus you can justify that they’re dark leafy greens (never mind the gratuitous pork fat).

  • Segregation Academies Across the South Are Getting Millions in Taxpayer Dollars
  • [Willingham] also said he encourages his constituents to take advantage of the vouchers. If there were any effort to make it more difficult for Black students to attend those schools, “then I would have a big problem,” Willingham said. “I don’t see that.”

    There’s no effort to make it more difficult when it’s already impossible. And of course he’s from Rocky Mount. Go suck a railroad spike.

  • Bruce Bond, "Fable 6"

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    Bruce Bond, "Fable 20"

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    Tony Harrison, "Marked With D."

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    "Dorothy Wordsworth" -- Jennifer Chang

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    Stephen Dobyns, "Arrested Saturday Night"

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    Jean Valentine, "The Second Dream"

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    Meconium Shiver

    Inspired by seeing a nail polish color.

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    ruleface

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