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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • There are dozens of us!

    I would say my experience on midwest.social aligns with Lemmy’s population as a whole - generally left of (US) center, with a few further left folks. Most of the content is either midwest-specific news or LOTR memes, probably makes sense that the only content that gets widely upvoted by Lemmy at large is the left-leaning memes.

    I haven’t seen anything nearly as extreme as the posts/comments from hexbear/grad/ml, but I wouldn’t be surprised if users from those instances have accounts on multiple instances to push propaganda.


  • I probably did a poor job of summarizing, as I’m not a lawyer; here’s the key quote from the article:

    That doesn’t mean that it will be easy for the Special Counsel to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump had the requisite mental state to violate the law. It means that his actions plausibly violate the law.

    My point was that contrary to the previous commenter’s implication that anyone telling you to watch out for lies is just going to feed you their own propaganda, this article is fairly objective.



  • Replaced one teacher’s desktop background with a screenshot of the desktop, then hid all the icons and minimized the taskbar.

    Got admin access on one of the lab computers to install something needed for a class, and swapped out a bunch of the default Windows sound effects (login etc) with random other sound clips.

    Torrented Flatout 2 onto one of the library computers and found out years later a bunch of kids were still playing it during lunch/recess