You know that hippies still wear snoods, right? The rest of her clothes are modern but distinctly hippie-styled, so this is either the world’s laziest renfaire costume, or it’s just a hippie wearing clothes like a hippie does.
We’re being more lax this time around, at least for now, because the community is small.
We had to be stricter in the subreddit because the volume of posts was insane and anytime something didn’t quite “measure up” to peoples’ (absolutely batshit insane) expectations, the comment section demanded mod blood sacrifices.
So if something doesn’t quite “measure up”? Eh, no big deal. We’re not writing down the usernames of the naughty users that post something that’s 20% too baroque.
[ Half a dozen dark-clothed figures stand some distance away from us in the badly damaged, grandiose white and gold marble halls of a Baroque-era church; safety-orange-striped hazard tape marks hazardous areas, and most of the figures wear safety orange or white hard hats, surveying the damage in soft diffused sunlight. To the left, in the distance, Corinthian-style columns tilt at a worrying angle barely able to hold up a heavy-looking interior cupola richly decorated with gold leaf. Figures directly below in orange hard hats survey the damage to the pillars but they are partially obscured by exquisitely delicate-looking low fencing, which hazard tape is pulled across and in front of. In the distance in the center of the image, decorative niches that are twice as tall as the figures in the image are partially destroyed, revealing joists and supports, and whatever they housed has been removed, although a lone white marble cross remains perched delicately above them. A gigantic gold chandelier fitted with electric candles hangs above, having received little damage, though because it is unlit it’s not apparently clear if it managed to remain functional. To the far right, a large square structural support with a small gold electric sconce seems undamaged, but a very large pile of rubble at it’s foot suggests that the roof it supports may no longer be intact. The figure at the center, facing away from us, appears to be wearing a priest’s cassock, helmet-less, his arms hanging limply at his sides as he gazes upon what is left of his church. ]
I should have stayed home with my cats and ordered take-out. The gays are just as transphobic as anyone else. Fuck people. I opened myself up and I'm mad I did.
You may not have had the default feminine childhood that AFAB people like myself had, but I have seen trans women work so much harder and bust their asses just to be called “Ma’am” so in my eyes? You’re absolutely a real woman. You just played the game on hard mode while the rest of us were on easy and normal mode.
Our reward circuits go off when someone mentions taking a rest.
Bee reward circuits go off for things that we would consider work.
Basically, the whole time they are face-first in a flower slurping up nectar and gathering pollen, the thing going through their tiny brains is “Fuck yeah I needed this”.
If you gave a bee the day off the general sentiment would be “What the fuck man, this is bullshit, I demand you let me go and collect nectar right fucking now!”
If someone snaps a photo of a subject in good light, because the photographer instinctively knows what will make a good photo, but the subject is just doing their normal everyday things? We still consider it accidental.
Remember that we’re not looking for photos that were accidentally taken, like the camera was yeeted through the air and this was the last photo it captured before it shattered. That’s not what Accidental means in our context.
It means a situation that was already happening, but the moment that a photographer caught just happened to resemble a painting from the 14th-16th centuries.
We draw the line at people purposely recreating Renaissance vibes with costumes, or people doing a pose that is heavily associated with certain Renaissance paintings, or elaborate lighting rigs used in professional photo studios made specifically to replicate the lighting in Rembrandt’s work (for example).
If the photographer was trying to make the mother and child recreate an exact Renaissance pose, they’re doing a terrible job at it, but the overall effect is Renaissance-like.
Banning vs. not banning are not hallmarks of leftism, rather it’s the difference between communities that are making an effort to be inclusive (a hallmark of leftism, btw) versus communities where the mods are so tired and overworked that it’s easier to ban people than adapt to the disruptions they may cause (a capitalist reflex that prioritizes being palatable to everyone over being fair to everyone because it’s more time-efficient to be blandly palatable and to enforce case-by-case fairness).
So yeah, from a certain point of view, because of the simple fact that you are being tolerated marks Lemmy as a more leftist platform.
Pretty ironic that I gave what I thought was an exhaustive description only for someone to point out that I failed to spot something so obvious in hindsight.
Ah well, that’s the price of trying to be specific with descriptions, I could have just said “It’s a white horse and lots of people 's hands are up”.
I’ll append your observation to the text description.
The average person has shaved one ant, but only because Dr. Ant-Shaver Willot has shaved 7 Billion ants and therefore he should be dismissed as a statistical outlier.
We got over a thousand subscribers overnight, and it’s still rising. I’m not going to complain because yay numbers go brrrrrrr, but our most popular post only has 370 upvotes so is it a glitch?
[ A young shirtless brown-skinned man in his 20s with a faced etched with concentration, tousled brown hair and a short, tidy beard is dramatically caught mid-action, his left arm raised and his biceps flexed in the moment before the snap of the wrist that will send the projectile inside the military-green rock sling hurling forwards towards its target, but for this instant that we see him, the olive-colored rock sling is suspended, taught, in the air above him at a rakish angle. In his right hand he holds the pole of a roughly 3’ by 5" flag that unfurls above and behind him. The flag is a red right-facing triangle on the left edge overlaid over a horizontally-striped black, white, and green tricolor: The flag of Palestine. He is garbed only in black athletic shorts (a small white Adidas logo is visible) and a long-sleeved t-shirt that used to be red but has long ago faded to a rust color is tied around his waist giving the appearance of a loincloth. Behind him are two men in black tactical gear: Bulky stab-proof vests over their civilian t-shirts, their black military-grade gas masks pulled below their chin or above their face, their riot helmets secured at their sides-- They look bewildered and lost compared to the mostly naked youth in the foreground armed by little more than what the biblical David carried when he faced Goliath. Smaller figures, far away and out of focus on the far right are turned towards us, towards the youth, their attention seemingly fixed on him. Dark grey smoke billows in the background, suggesting that this battle has been raging for a while, though a bit of blue-grey sky can be faintly seen above the smoke. ]
Actually, we did have a small contingent of visually impaired people who enjoyed the subreddit, even if they had to zoom way in to see the details. Most people who are legally blind still have some vision and they still love pleasing arrangements of pixels.
That’s why we’re trying to make the Lemmy and kbin instances more accessible by adding image transcriptions where possible, a paragraph description explaining the details in the photo so mostly-blind people can enjoy them more.
Also, like, half the mod team is some flavor of disabled, and us cripples gotta stick together.
We’d wondered where the nearly 1.9k subscribers came from completely out of nowhere!
So, yeah, a lot of people are hating on us for creating one of Kbin and one on Lemmy, but we had our reasons: Basically, neither handled images very well and we saw that these two services did basically the same thing and that typically leads to the weaker project getting cancelled down the line, so we decided our safest bet was just to make one of each, just in case it all ended in bad blood, de-federation, and a total loss of data. Better safe than sorry.
We might consolidate them later, but for now just pick whichever you like best. :)
It wasn’t the way images uploaded, it was more that kbin’s image previews absolutely skullfucked the aspect ratio of anything that wasn’t roughly in a 3:4 aspect ratio, making a bunch of deeply touching photos look like goofy funhouse mirrors.
We were like, “Shit… Is… Is this on purpose? Are the people behind kbin some kind of weirdos who believe in 3:4 aspect ratio supremacy??” so we thought, “Eh… Maybe we’d better make a Lemmy too, in case kbin doesn’t figure their shit out”.
Because, honestly? Our faith in humanity was at an all-time low and we were running out of time before people began leaving reddit for new platforms. Throw everything against the wall and see what sticks, right?
That’s big talk from the generation that unironically said “RAWR :3” to each other.
I was there.
Livejournal? Emo? “Lol I’m so Random”? Leet speak?? And we took it SO seriously. Peak “No mom it’s not a phase”.
We were criiiiiiinge.
I just remembered that brief trend where teenage boys were wetting their pants in order to look more vulnerable and soft, took selfies of themselves looking vaguely ashamed with a giant wet spot, and a lot of girls really seemed to like it??
And even if you weren’t peak emo, Elder Millennials were wearing flannel and pretending to be just as jaded as Kurt Cobain because they were sad no one was playing POGs anymore, while Younger Millennials had skunk hair and that “greasy sk8r” look.
So what if Zoomers are embracing “Coastal Grandma” looks and TikTok dances? We can’t really point fingers.
[ a man faces away from the viewer, hands on his hips, while in the foreground burlap bags full of onions are heaped high, the interior looks very old and is made primarily of wood ]
[ A landscape photo featuring tall mountains jutting out from a rolling landscape under a darkly-lit sky, save for one shock of sunlight in the upper right corner where dark clouds have parted. The rolling hills and the foot of the mountains are richly hued, a deep green in some areas, a dull greenish brown in other areas, all...
[ An unkempt individual with messy hair sitting on a park bench embraces two pigeons with their eyes closed and wings stretched out, two additional pigeons on either side seem startled and confused ]
[ A young woman with striking features gazes directly at the viewer, she is wearing a white gauzy broad-brimmed hat topped with starched eyelet lace, and her dress is made entirely of more eyelet lace gathered into chaotic-looking ruffles of all sizes and arranged asymmetrically. Her dark blonde hair cascades down one shoulder...
Woman lit by candle light (lemmy.world)
Source: pixdaus.
oh no, what happened to this sublemmy?
Are people flocking back to reddit? Is the revolt over already?
Disciple of Saint Francis (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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The Essayist (i.imgur.com)
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The Latte Maker (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Let me guess: When you want to be forgiven, you tighten all the jar lids in the house so she has to talk to you? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The King's Cook (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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The Ruins (lemmy.ml)
From nafo.uk/, this is especially poignant.
The last words I had with someone at Pride tonight, someone who I thought was maybe a new friend was - "well, you're not a real woman anyways".
I should have stayed home with my cats and ordered take-out. The gays are just as transphobic as anyone else. Fuck people. I opened myself up and I'm mad I did.
Today I realized bees don't get the weekend off 😔 (lemmy.ca)
We need to fight for beequality!
Madonna and Child (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course)
I can’t really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by “both” sides of the spectrum. It’s just something I find interesting.
Portrait of a Dutch Man (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Alehouse Proprietor (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Feline Teatime (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Accidental Renaissance - AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings
lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/accidentalrenaissance...
Adulation of A Pale Horse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Ok but really, how do you shave an ant? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
I'm not sure my subscriber numbers add up (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
We got over a thousand subscribers overnight, and it’s still rising. I’m not going to complain because yay numbers go brrrrrrr, but our most popular post only has 370 upvotes so is it a glitch?
Well-aimed sling shots can topple giants (lemmy.world)
Picture of A’ed Abu Ameo, captured by Mustafa Hassouna in October 2018, during a protest to lift the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
/r/AccidentalRenaissance moderators have all resigned. The subreddit has permanently shut down and moved to Lemmy. (lemmy.nz)
AccidentalRenaissance has no active moderators due to Reddit’s unprecedented API changes, and has thus been privated to prevent vandalism....
Millennial rule (lemm.ee)
Man with a Green Shroud (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Pomme d'Amour (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Onion Warehouse (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
[ a man faces away from the viewer, hands on his hips, while in the foreground burlap bags full of onions are heaped high, the interior looks very old and is made primarily of wood ]
The Peaks of Italy (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
[ A landscape photo featuring tall mountains jutting out from a rolling landscape under a darkly-lit sky, save for one shock of sunlight in the upper right corner where dark clouds have parted. The rolling hills and the foot of the mountains are richly hued, a deep green in some areas, a dull greenish brown in other areas, all...
Cupid of the Doves (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
[ An unkempt individual with messy hair sitting on a park bench embraces two pigeons with their eyes closed and wings stretched out, two additional pigeons on either side seem startled and confused ]
Tibetan woman holding Bitcoin mining PSUs (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Woman with a White Anthurium (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
[ A young woman with striking features gazes directly at the viewer, she is wearing a white gauzy broad-brimmed hat topped with starched eyelet lace, and her dress is made entirely of more eyelet lace gathered into chaotic-looking ruffles of all sizes and arranged asymmetrically. Her dark blonde hair cascades down one shoulder...
Tibetan woman holding Bitcoin mining PSUs (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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