And here we can see why one simply doesn’t walk into Mordor.

One must decide which way to go, or they’ll bump their nose on a door frame.

I kind of love it when they do this

My one likes to put her paws on my jugular, and I think that’s too much power over my life for one cat.

This had better not awaken anything in me.

Which of the Pickwick triplets did it?

Who of the crew would commit this crime?

Might a little brat make a mommy go splat?

It’s a story pretty gory for a nursery rhyme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Piv19tK4lH4

That’s good to hear. It’s always my honest thoughts, never just fluff.

Especially in the fediverse where it’s a little quiet sometimes I try to leave comments on posts from artists I like or to at least upvote them.

I hope my little compliments make someone’s day and encourage them.

I’m pretty sure landlords paint by putting fireworks inside a can of paint, a la Mr bean.

https://youtu.be/T9MAmWnOznI (skip to 2:43, I don’t know how to do that on mobile)

I just never update the machine clock so the cats don’t know, except now we’re sleeping an hour later than they’re used to.

The capitalize on the extra snuggle time though.

I think they call it an overworked TA nap?

Why is this the first I’m hearing of this?

Good for her, and also damn I’m jealous.

She makes what an average person makes in their life each year on that.

Which is quite different than a social medium, where you die and they still try talking to you.

She must make a killing on the residuals from that one song

It’s a good song but it’s so overplayed that I don’t enjoy it anymore.

That second link is actually great

It’s really easy, on the left and just in politics generally, to think of things as being zero-sum. So there’s this fear that if we start helping men, then we’ll just have forgotten about women and there won’t be space or time for women anymore. I think that’s a mistake. We should be able to do two things at once. We can recognize that both women and men are members of our society and we should want to help everyone.

100% this is how I see it.

There’s also the fact that because progressives in the mainstream have not really taken up the masculinity question, the people who have taken it up tend to be on the right and often they tend to be problematic figures. You see incels and men’s rights activists and Ben Shapiro burning Barbies, and there’s a fear that if you speak up for men, everyone’s going to be like, You seem too interested in this. Are you one of them? It’s a branding problem.

I really hate that “men’s rights activist” is automatically a bad thing, and is even written here as bad. When you push that it’s sexist to put forward men’s issues, it feels inevitable it will turn men away. We have issues, we suck at building community lately, but we need to be able to talk about them without being shamed or chastised or branded. To the point above, it does not take away from women, at all, to let men have a space too.

We kind of created this space where the good men were too scared to talk, and the ones who did are Andrew Tate types pushing the most vapid interpretation of masculinity.

i.e. Tate exists because he’s such a piece of shit he wasn’t worried about speaking out. Tate thinks his counter culture is good and truthfully it’s why he’s been successful. He’s effectively a voice in an empty space which gets him lots of ears.

With Tate, unlike Peterson, there’s no pretension to anything virtuous. It’s just, Hey, the world hates you. The world wants to make you weak, wants to make you soft, so take what you can get, crush your enemies, abuse women, double down on everything they hate about you. It’s the weak person’s vision of a strong person. It’s the 19-year-old Nietzsche reader who didn’t make it past the preface.

That’s exactly how I feel. It’s empty junk food masculinity.

Masculinity to me is to build and mold yourself, to care about the right things and people, to be confident in your own inner strength, and to be supportive to those around me. It’s a perspective rooted in archetypes yes, and also Augustan stoic philosophy.

It’s okay to want fast cars and hot girls, but I think it’s pretty weak to make those outward rewards the core of yourself.

I also call myself an egalitarian for the reason that I believe all people are created equal, and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

I was in high school when things like making boys take anti-rape pledges and saying “not all men” would get you in trouble. It really felt like I was reduced by my gender to a rapist and an abuser by default.

There were also men’s rights groups that got massively shutdown and harassed, which upset me as a man who has issues. It felt like there wasn’t and still isn’t a place to discuss things like men’s mental health, suicide rates, declining male education rates, societal double standards, and how family law can be biased and where it can be improved. Specifically issues like how men get punished for taking parental leave to a much higher degree than women, or that my single-father brother wasn’t able to take his son to curricular activities because they were run by “mommy groups”, and being a single dad isn’t being a mom (sure there’s a place for mom focused groups, but they were the default).

The people pushing the “kill all men” aren’t feminists, they’re just sexists/supremacists. If they were in the position of men for the last X hundred years they’d be exactly like the patriarchy.

My cat is so confusing.

He lets my wife rub his belly and loves it, but he doesn’t let me. He then follows me around everywhere all day every day, and he always wants to sleep near me.

I play with him a lot, so I think sometimes it’s a “come play with me” and sometimes he thinks I’m going to play with him if I pet his belly, so he gets bitey.

We’ve got some strong Star Trek nonsense brewing in !tenforward@lemmy.world

I don’t care if it catches on, I’m enjoying it here where the people are still awesome.

I certainly hope so. It’s been great seeing PopOS and Linux Mint pushing the bar on what a good linux desktop experience can be.

I’d love to see Linux become a stronger competitor to macos (which is what I’ve used for almost 20 years).

Adium was awesome, that was the golden age of computing and the internet in my opinion.