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Please take care of yourself. We seriously appreciate you and everything you've done, same goes for all other staff. This past week has immensely stressful across the lemmyverse and no one blames you at all for needing to tap out from all this. A lot of people are expecting lemmy and lemmy instances to be like reddit 2.0, but that's just not humanly possible. It also feels like lemmy as a software has had it personally out for beehaw... kind of like a murphy's law situation.

Hermetic Kabbalah - Introduction in c/occult@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Not gonna lie, this makes me deeply uncomfortable. Kabbalah is just a word for Jewish mysticism. It is closed practice and non-Jews aren't supposed to delve deep into it, not because Jews have this weird sinister desire to hide this hidden knowledge but because it has gotten us murdered in the past. The word cabal is specifically in reference to Kabbalah. Alongside that, most resources on Kabbalah you find online is deeply inaccurate or completely misinterpreted outside of the specific Jewish context. Within the religious context of Judaism though, there is a commonly held opinion that non-Jews who attempt to study Kabbalah will be driven to madness by it.

Meta's Threads twitter competitor is now live... what do you think? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I installed it, looked around, and deleted it.

Another reason to leave Reddit: I forgot how hostile it can be in c/chat@beehaw.org

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It depends on the instance in my experience. Beehaw is a good one though, I feel.

Apps saying goodbye to Reddit and immediately becoming fediverse apps instead in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Which apps are specifically turning into fediverse apps? Very curious.

Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest | PC Gamer in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] gabuwu@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Here's to hoping microsoft decides to allow them to move on over to lemmy.

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Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites (archive.ph)

submitted 1 year ago by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/usnews@beehaw.org

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Apologies if this is the wrong community for this! Feel free to delete if it is.

Also, this is a big blow to lgbt anti discrimination but it also is a blow to a lot of others as well The way this decision is going to backfire and the fact it will be able to applied against not just lgbt people has not been thought through, at all.

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Colleen Ballinger's apology just dropped, and the worst influencer apology ever has been finally achieved I think (yewtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/entertainment@beehaw.org

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This is unreal. She's been accused of years of grooming minors for those unaware. The allegations she's facing as well as those around her is intense, with potential legal consequences in the making. Major content warning to those who seek out articles on the matter, of course. She's had a pretty successful Netflix show, and I believe a Broadway show as well? She's a pretty early OG youtuber.

So... she decided to whip out a ukelele and start playing a song for an apology after days of increasingly being under fire. I never thought that a worse Influencer apology would ever be made, but she did it.

Apologies if this isn't a good community to post by the way, I just haven't seen any discussion of this on here yet and I just need to bask in just how baffling it is.

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Making my grandma a christmas scarf/shawl (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/crochet@lemmy.ca

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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/550147

Decided to try my hand at color work for the first time in crochet. Dreading weaving it all in at the very end, but it looks so pretty so far. I'm excited to give it to my grandma when it's done, I know she's gonna love it! I plan on doing a fancy white border around once its done.

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Making my grandma a christmas scarf/shawl (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/creative@beehaw.org

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Decided to try my hand at color work for the first time in crochet. Dreading weaving it all in at the very end, but it looks so pretty so far. I'm excited to give it to my grandma when it's done, I know she's gonna love it! I plan on doing a fancy white border around once its done.

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Cormac McCarthy has died at 89 (www.nprillinois.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/literature@beehaw.org

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Man... :( (Also for transparency, I chose npr illinois bc it has the least intrusive ads and layoutof all sources I found.)

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Is there any good alternative to imgur for uploading screenshots? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gabuwu@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I mainly use imgur to upload screenshots using sharex, would appreciate being pointed in the direction of any alternative.