This magazine is for news and news-like content, not for journal articles or special reports from agencies/courts.

I’m going to leave this up, but this is stretching thin the premise of this magazine.

Crooks and Liars has an average reliability score of 26 on the Media Bias Chart (see our side bar for details), so I am removing this post.

This looks so great!! I’m glad you went for the blocking and can now confidently give it to your Godchild. They’ll love it!

Blocking can only help (a bit), if you used natural fibers like wool or cotton. I can’t tell from your photo or post if you used acrylic yarn, which will not block.

I echo the advice about a border to make the outside edge more uniform.

Good luck with it! It’s a gorgeous pattern!

Yeah, it’s a 100% self-imposed moratorium just because I don’t want to appear to have a modding bias. There was a period where I was trying to enliven the community by posting a few articles each day, especially from sources not submitted to our mirror community on lemmyworld, but then my real life job was draining my soul for 3 straight months, so that endeavor fell by the wayside. Also, unless it’s an article dumping on one key player, our user base doesn’t tend to comment on news articles. It’s a weird phenomenon I’ve observed.

I will add though that my hobby communities that I belong to never make it to my feed, which seems to imply that those communities are stagnant, too. I would probably comment more in those spaces, but it’s rare that new threads are created, I guess.

Ah - yikes. I was really not anticipating you seeing my mini pity party here, ernest. I know you and the team have been really working hard on kbin and I’ve seen massive changes with the modding panel and functions as a result of the latest instance update. I have a ton of respect for what you all are accomplishing on the fediverse and I was originally a very vocal early adopter after the first reddit migration in June. I trust that you all are shouldering a major responsibility with this instance, and I’m grateful for the fediverse at the very least. I hope when you read this you didn’t get the sense that I had any criticisms of kbin as the particular user interface I use for the fediverse - just that even across the federated instances (mostly lemmyworld), my ability to doom scroll for hours a day outpaces the userbase.

I think I feel a personal sense of failure(?) or disappointment(?) that I wasn’t able to usher in a similar sense of community and activity to the sub I moderate compared to reddit. I think moving over here, it felt like my sub would be the natural beneficiary of inheriting the volume of users and content that existed on reddit, but our mirror community on lemmyworld got the lion’s share and it isn’t even scratching former reddit heyday numbers. Also, the people in their community are… suspect. I don’t care for the comments section.

I hope you didn’t take umbrage to my comment. I’m eager to see what new features the kbin dev team will roll out.

Haven’t even directed my browser to reddit since migrating to kbin in June, but it’s never fulfilled the same dopamine hit for me. I’ve supplanted my online addiction with YouTube now, which because of what I flit past and what I actually pay attention to has been extremely educational because of the algorithm!

Pretty early on, I ended up becoming the head moderator for a magazine on kbin, which then made me feel an ethical sort of guilt about commenting there anymore, so really the only place I wanted to be part of the dialogue is now gone for me here on kbin. Our magazine has a much larger mirror community on lemmyworld, so our magazine is barely holding on by a thread even after an initial burst of new subscribers. Discussion is almost non-existent in the magazine, and I’m not sure if it’s because we tried to instate common-sense community guidelines early, or if because we missed the momentum of growing userbase after the rexxit since most people migrated to lemmyworld instead of kbin.

I’m not even sure why I keep my account. (I know I sound like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh in this post.)

You need to post this as a link to an article, not as a discussion thread in which you link to the article. Removed, but you’re encouraged to repost. Article title must be the title of thread.

I saw an ADHD influencer recommend wearing ear plugs in public to block out environmental noise to keep conversation directed at you still audible.

I get distracted in public when my ears pick up conversation around me - especially people who are fighting or gossiping and I find it very entertaining compared to the discussion I’m in - so this is something I’d like to try the next time I have a dinner out at a busy restaurant with others.

Editing to add: I just listened to about a minute of the femtanyl song you linked and I realized that I also get in the zone productive with some types of music in which I can’t understand the lyrics. I listen to a Pandora station built around Sigur Ros because I can’t understand the language lol

By virtue of the fact that up until just a few months ago, you could even go there and casually peruse security sensitive and classified information if only you found the right bathroom, I guess you could say it was priceless.

This makes me wonder if team Trump isn’t preemptively muddying the waters for pending news of Trump’s inevitable death. I wonder if Trump got a prognosis recently and this is just a type of staw poll taken about how ready and willing the GOP would accept a replacement name on the ticket.

I guess you missed it when the story was broken that apparently Nancy Reagan used to give epic jobbers.

Fun fact on kbin.social: you can add mods without their consent or notification.

Not ethical to do so, but you can do what you’ve described in your question.

I echo what others have said about this sounding like a control issue, but I want to check in with you about some relationship dynamics before jumping too firmly to that conclusion. You phrased your partner’s side as:

He’d like to know what I’m up to when not at work

Is he an introverted person who has a small social circle? Does he have a clingy attachment style in your relationship? Does he have this expectation for a check in when he isn’t traveling? Have you talked with him about your own communication style and/or how your ADHD manifests as time blindness, as you put it?

Is this true even if it is pinned?

I think we may need to stipulate and employ the use of badges (similar to submission flair from reddit) so that users can use kbin QoL userscripts to filter out content they don’t want.

Other discussions in this thread have highlighted reputable sources of content. This can include NYT opinions and news, but would never permit content from OANN.

I hope this addresses the concern about opinion/editorial content.

As we collectively discuss this and come to a conclusion that most of us feel a sense of ownership over, I just want to state point blank that I do not want to see duplicate posts with the same link just because two users have opposite viewpoints on the ramifications of the news.

However, I’m fine with one poster giving CNN’s article on a newsworthy event and another user posting the Associated Press’s article of the same event. Those two news sources (among others) will have different perspectives, voices, and information. That lends itself to robust community engagement, to me.

This looks like you purled that first row with the black yarn instead of knit it.

If you feel brave you can ladder down and use a crochet hook to reknit that singular column of stitches. It is relatively easy to do but very intimidating at first, especially with colorwork like this.

I really like tutorials by Roxanne Richardson, who I believe is a master knitter. Here is how she explains the ladder down method.

Otherwise you already know … Frog it.