That’s sad to hear, especially when it involves good people … from what I saw and experienced Squid is good people. But I do know what being online too much does to a person’s mental health. When I first jumped on the Reddit bandwagon years ago, I got hooked to the anonymous nature of being able to connect, chat and engage with people on a regular basis. The whole system is also designed around negativity, anger, fear and anxiety … so if you stay online and engaged long and often enough, you’ll eventually get fished into conversations and discussions about so many stupid inconsequential things that it will drive you into a black hole. You also get attached to people and personalities over time and you also begin to attract bad actors … but it is all by design to keep everyone engaged, commenting, posting, reposting, attacking, defending, reattacking, double dealing, back stabbing and egging people on to send one more message, one more stab, one more point, one more comment. On corporate social media, the negativity is designed to keep everyone engaged … I find on the Fediverse that the negativity is designed to just drive people away.

I take my time with this stuff now … I engage but I don’t engage with bad actors … ever … and when I do find good people, I do my best to treat everyone kindly, openly as possible. I trend lightly because some people are moving so fast and so much that it’s hard to see where anyone is coming from or going.

It’s a warning and a caution for the rest of us. We have to take time for ourselves from this digital world. It isn’t healthy to beat off trolls all day long or to try to find the next meme to share all the time. I enjoy all the work you and the mods do and I appreciate everything you do but at the same time, I’d rather see everyone manage their mental health first than to see another digital friend fall into the abyss.

Take care my friend and all the best to you and mods …

and all the best to @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world - may that wild cephalopod keep flying high - they’re good people and wherever they are I hope they are happy and well.

That is a great film that I should watch again … and so should everyone

Owning guns to defend yourself against tyrannical government made sense a hundred years ago … it wouldn’t make a difference in modern times.

What the hell happened? … I thought FlyingSquid was OK … I had lots of run-ins with them and every time I saw them as being pretty OK … opinionated and prolific but also pretty liberal and open minded on many things. I know that not everyone will agree with everything all the time, that is just human nature … we can’t all be OK with one another on everything on all issues, all the time.

I also know they had moved to the UK from the US a while ago and that caused a lot of stress and strain … I also notice that many people everywhere are under a lot of stress and strain because of world politics and the way the world is leaning these days, it’s not good and it shows in the personalities and presentations of everyone everywhere. The only saving grace to all that is in being in small communities like this where people are free to talk and share their thoughts and feelings in the spirit of openness, inclusion and equality for everyone no matter their background or situation.

So what happened? … it’s upsetting because when vague posts like this appear, it’s hard on us who are not fully clued into the community of mods and heavy posters who are plugged in with one another.

• Are they still part of Tenforward?
• Are they OK?
• Is TenForward OK?
• Are the remaining mods OK?

Modern day equivalent of throwing the baby out with the bathwater

Jesus is next to God sitting on a throne? … I thought Jesus was God and God was Jesus in one in the same trinity-what-ever-you-want-to-call-it

Don’t show this to Australians

I like Woody Guthrie because he has a machine that kills fascists

There’s invitation for new hikers … no one ever talks about the ones who never returned or were heard from again

Protesters in swimsuits and bikinis splash him with water and water balloons in public … Drinkwater is still undeterred.

Not surprised … it’s corporations reporting on corporations … the same corporations that own and manage the egg producers also own or partly own the news corporations that are reporting on all this

The other big question that starts to be considered in these situations is … it’s cheaper and more economical if certain people cease to exist. The worse this situation becomes, the more prohibitively expensive it gets and the higher the risks go … the more likely that people will suddenly and conveniently drop off.

There is a lot of money and control in blackmailing people, but at a certain point those being blackmailed will start to use their money and power in other methods to remove risks.

Beautiful … it also makes me happy when I see a big arrangement of saddlebags and ƙit attached to the bike, it’s always a sign that you’re going somewhere. Thanks for this.

Confucius say … you ain’t got game

Organic life 4 billions after: … I’m bored … we only have seven streaming services and high speed internet

Turnip: … I’ll give you my Dalek and my T-Rex for your Queen

Poutine: … nyet

Turnip: … Ok … I’ll throw in my Darth Vader

Poutine: … nyet

Turnip: … how about all that for your bishop?

Poutine: … nyet

Turnip: … OK … how about your rook?

Poutine: … nyet

Turnip: … Ok final offer … everything I just offered … PLUS!, my beloved Mr Potatohead (he’s a great guy, really great) … all that for one of your pawns?

Poutine: … dah

Turnip: … art of the deal

Lead is often a good barrier against VOCs

That’s the spirit … just start cutting things up

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