Age of Wonders 4 has been a surprise and a delight. I was actually so impressed with it I ended up buying my best friend a copy yesterday.

Paternity leave saved my life when I was a young father with an ill wife. Take as much time as you can.

Also, side note, the year I took off of work to care for them when my sons were small (3 and 5) I look back on as one of the best decisions I ever made. Despite the fact we were flirting with homelessness, the bonding and memories made a huge impact on them, and now that they’re adults, we have an amazing relationship that far surpasses the distant bond I have with my own father.

As a practicing Buddist, I do this often. Smoke enough weed, and an empty shack becomes a temple of delight.

Yes. The shit-weasel caved in less than 24 hours.

Or did the cat find you?

Civilized?

Footage of the mouse that made that hole, torturing a cat:

This anti-feline propaganda could have catastrophic consequences. Rodents are food, not friends!

Then that’s 4,416 dozen, give or take a baker.

But all in all, I’d say that lemmings are much more active than Redditors - just based on responses to my posts and comments. I’ve earned 15k karma on this account, far more than any of my vastly older reddit accounts. Take that for what you will, but I’ve personally found the community here much more active, especially as of late.

Content quality is drastically better too.

Thank you sir - I’ve posted an edit with a credit to your astute eye.

TIL Schumer means Shitweasel in Yiddish.

I usually just hyperlink to lemmy with something else in the text to obscure it.

Like this. Come to the dark side already. We’ve got cookies and you need to sweeten the fuck up..

Seems to dodge the automod thus far.

The r/PublicFreakout team suggested that because of this public scrutiny, from both shareholders and government-linked figures like Musk, "Reddit is under serious pressure to get its userbase under control” and imposing whatever haphazard measures it can to accomplish this.

Lmao. This is currently the top post on /r/all. How’s that control working out for you Spez?

Dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens… 112,744 to be inexact…

Lemmy Total Users by Day: 1,352,936 for 3/12/25.

Divided by 12, that’s 112,744 and some change… probably a couple of baker’s dozens in there…

It apparently scrapes everything on the public feed. So when I subscribed to users on Mastodon server A from Wordpress, DMs from Mastodon server A going to Mastodon server B became visible.

I had a separate account on Mastodon server A to confirm that I couldn’t see these DMs as Mastodon user on server A, and that the Wordpress scrape was grabbing messages normally not meant for public view.

This was using the ActivityPub plugin for Wordpress about six months ago.

EDIT: I should be clear that I was as surprised as the other commentators that the DMs weren’t encrypted and that I could see them at all through a 3rd party software. I did NOT see DMs between local users - only cross-instance.

They would have to hack the individual servers to get at the DMs, because they’re encrypted in transit. All the public stuff is trivial to scrape.

Nope, ActivityPub DMs are not encrypted between servers - if it’s on the feed, it’s public- or at least it was as of six months ago. I found this out when I attached a Wordpress site to a Mastodon instance and suddenly found i could read anyone’s DMs to users on other servers. Totally unencrypted. I actually paused development and working with ActivityPub because of it.

This doesn’t mean that messages to users on the same server are necessarily exposed, but the potential is there if you don’t have a filter for local publishing only engaged on your Mastodon instance.

Thanks for the list. Unfortunately, they list “Fediverse” which likely means they’re scraping ActivityPub. They’re also going after your Steam account, Twitch, YouTube, and porn.

In other words, this is so much worse than the headline makes it out to be.

Surprisingly, Reddit is NOT on the list.

EDIT: I was wrong - thanks to Da Cap’n for the correction.

Here’s the full list of names:

4chan Archives

Discord Archives

21Buttons

500px

about.me

AllMyLinks

AllTrails

Amazon

Ameba

Amino

AnimePlanet

Apple Music

Artists&Clients

Asciinema

AudioJungle

AudiUSA

BabyCenter

Baidu

BeReal

Bigo Live

Bing

Biolink

BitChute

BlackPlanet

Blogger

Bluesky

Bodybuilding

BookCrossing

Breaches

BuyMeACoffee

Cash App

CastingCall Club

Chaturbate

Chess.com

Cigar Dojo

CityXGuide

CloutHub

Cocolog

Companies House

Cozy.tv

Cracked

Creema

Dailymotion

Danbooru

Dark Web

DeepL

DeviantArt

Disqus

DLive

Dot.cards

Douyin

Drum

DuckDuckGo

Duolingo

E621

eBay

Eporner

Etsy

Facebook

Fansly

FastPeopleSearch

Fediverse (likely ActivityPub - possibly DMs between servers)

FetLife

Fiverr

Flickr

FlightAware

Foursquare

FriendFinder

FurAffinity

Gab

Gaia Online

GameFAQs

Gelbooru

GeneralMotors

Geocaching

GeoEstimation

Gettr

Giphy

GitHub

Glassdoor

GoFundMe

Goo

Google

Goodreads

Gravatar

Guancha

GunBroker

Habbo

Hackaday

Hatena

Honda

Hubski

ILoveGrowingMarijuana

ImageShack

Imgur

IMVU

Indeed

Instagram

Instructables

JudyRecords

Jugem

JustForFans

Keybase

Kick

Kik

Last.fm

LibraryThing

Lichess

Likee

Line

LinkedIn

Linktree

LiveIn

LiveJournal

Lobsters

Mail.ru

Malgari

MapMyTracks

Marshmallow

MarTech

Massage Anywhere

Medium

MeetMe

Mercari Jp

MeWe

Minds

Minecraft

Mix

Mixlr

ModDB

Mughosts

MyFitnessPal

Myspace

MySubaru

Naijapals

Nextdoor

NissanUSA

Odysee

OFAC Sanctions List

OkCupid

OK.ru

OnlyFans

Pandia

Pandora

Passes

Pastebin

Patreon

PayPal

PCGamer

Peloton

PGP

Pinterest

Plurk

Poal

Popl

Pornhub

Poshmark

Product Hunt

ProtonMail

PSNProfiles

Reblogme

Reddit

RedGifs

Replit

ReverbNation

Roblox

Rule34.xxx

Rumble

Rutube

ScoutWiki

Seesaa

Seneporno

Signal

SkipTheGames

Skype

SlideShare

Snapchat

Sogou

SoundCloud

SourceForge

Spiceworks

Spotify

Sprashivai

Steam (fuck off you fucking fucks)

StellantisEU

StellantisUSA

Strava

Stripchat

Substack

TechNet

Telegram

Tellows

Tesseract OCR

Threads

TikTok

Tinder

TinEye

ToyotaUSA

Trakt

Triller

TripAdvisor

TrueCaller

TruthSocial

Tumblr

Twilio

Twitch

Twitter

Untappd

Venmo

VidLii

Vimeo

Vine

VirusTotal

VK

Volkswagen

VSCO

WatchMeMore

Weibo

WhatsApp

Wire

Wordfeud

Xbox

xHamster

XING

XVideos

Yahoo

Yandex

Yappy

YCombinator

Yelp

YouTube

Zhihu

Zillow

ZoneH

WoW spelled backwards is WoW.

So is Bob.

Here you go - from the article (not allow to post full detail in summary due to community rules):

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First, Department of Justice lawyers requested a two-month extension on Monday in a lawsuit seeking to reimpose outdated restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone — changes that would limit access nationwide by ending telemedicine prescriptions. There should be no need for an extension. It’s a case that the Biden DOJ asked a federal judge to dismiss in January after the Supreme Court decided last term that the original plaintiffs weren’t injured by the Food and Drug Administration’s actions on mifepristone and didn’t have legal standing to sue.

But a group of three state attorneys general tried to keep the case alive by joining the lawsuit in the Texas courtroom, a state to which they have no connection. (The AGs are also arguing that the drugs can’t be mailed due to the Comstock Act, an anti-vice law from 1873.) Notorious anti-abortion judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said in January that the case could continue, and last week he granted the extension request, meaning the government’s brief is now due by May 5.

The fact that Trump administration lawyers said they need time to “familiarize themselves” with the case is alarming in and of itself. The three states do not have standing to sue and, as a procedural matter, it should have been dead once the Supreme Court said the original plaintiffs couldn’t move forward. While this lawsuit should be tossed in a shredder, it could be a vehicle for the administration to try to roll back access to mifepristone via the courts should the FDA decline to take action itself. Project 2025 calls on the FDA to revoke its approval of mifepristone and, short of that, revert to 2016 regulations requiring in-person dispensing and limiting use to the first seven weeks of pregnancy, not 10. The lawsuit is asking courts to do basically the same thing.

Next, the administration asked on Tuesday to participate in Supreme Court arguments alongside South Carolina in a case about whether states can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs, even for non-abortion services. South Carolina seeks to disqualify any abortion provider from Medicaid because it claims that “payment of taxpayer funds to abortion clinics, for any purpose, results in the subsidy of abortion.” Arguments are on April 2. If the Supreme Court sides with the state, it would mean people with Medicaid can’t use their insurance at Planned Parenthood or other abortion providers, which would decimate people’s access to affordable birth control, cancer screenings, STI testing and more.

The moves are all steps toward achieving the Project 2025 goals of banning abortion and restricting access to birth control nationwide.

The Trump administration asking to join the oral argument is an ominous sign that it will allow even more Republican-controlled states to copy the move, which abortion opponents refer to as “defunding” Planned Parenthood. It’s a longtime goal of the conservative movement and it’s also an action item in Project 2025. The playbook not only calls for the Department of Health and Human Services to encourage states to exclude abortion providers from Medicaid, but it also urges HHS to go even further and propose a federal rule that would disqualify abortion providers from Medicaid nationwide. If the administration took that maximalist step, it would be yet another data point that “leaving abortion to the states” was a campaign trail lie.

Finally, the administration dismissed a lawsuit on Wednesday that Biden’s DOJ had filed against Idaho because its abortion ban violates a federal law regarding care in emergency rooms. The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) requires any hospital that receives federal funds, which is most of them, to provide stabilizing care to patients. For pregnant women facing complications like their water breaking too early, that care can include abortion. But Idaho’s abortion ban prohibits terminating a pregnancy unless someone’s life is at risk — threats to their health aren’t enough.

During the three months that Idaho could fully enforce its law, hospitals airlifted six pregnant patients out of state because of the possibility that they’d need abortions prohibited under state law. (An Idaho hospital system anticipated that the Trump administration would change course so it sued the state in a separate case and a judge temporarily blocked the state from enforcing the law as litigation continues.)

Project 2025 calls for HHS to rescind the Biden administration’s 2022 guidance that EMTALA protects people’s ability to have emergency abortions, even in states where the procedure is banned. It also urges HHS to drop any EMTALA enforcement lawsuits and end any investigations into hospitals allegedly refusing to perform abortions in emergency situations. The Trump administration is following the Project 2025 playbook: Dropping the lawsuit is a precursor to rewriting federal guidance, which would chill care nationwide. These three actions on abortion and reproductive freedom aren’t exactly quiet to lawyers, advocacy groups and reporters, but you’d be hard pressed to find a non-news-obsessed voter who knows about them. The moves are all steps toward achieving the Project 2025 goals of banning abortion and restricting access to birth control nationwide and, sadly, there’s much more to come on this front. It was all written down before the election

Is it a boycott if I was never going to buy that piece of crap in the first place?

Welcome to the Fediverse! If you’ve been on Reddit for 14 years, you were attracted to what it once was. Lemmy is that, but a whole lot better, and your skills as a moderator will be highly valued here. In fact, if you are looking to start up any new communities hmu and I’ll see about giving you a hand.

Also, here’s your obligatory Saint Luigi blessing for the banned:

remember kids:

A place in heaven is reserved for those who speak truth to power