I don't know what the world may need, but I'm sure as hell that it starts with me, and that's a wisdom I have laughed at

I don't know what the world may want
But a good stiff drink it surely don't
So I think I'll go and fix myself a tall one

'Cause what the world needs now is a new kind of tension
'Cause the old one just bores me to death
'Cause what the world needs now is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
But a V-8 engine's a good start for me
I think I'll drive and find a place to be surly

I don't know what the world may want
But some words of wisdom could comfort us
Think I'll leave that up to someone wiser

'Cause what the world needs now are some true words of wisdom
Like la la la la la la la la la
'Cause what the world needs now is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

I don't know what the world may need
And I'l

Making your way in the world today
Takes everything you've got
Taking a break from all your worries
Sure would help a lot
Wouldn't you like to get away?
All those nights when you've got no lights
The check is in the mail
And your little angel
Hung the cat up by it's tail
And your third fiance didn't show
Sometimes you wanna go
Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came
You wanna be where you can see (ah-ah)
Our troubles are all the same (ah-ah)
You wanna be where everybody knows your name
Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's dead
The morning's looking bright (the morning's looking bright)
And your shrink ran off to Europe
And didn't even write
And your husband wants to be a girl
Be glad there's one place in the world
Where everybody knows your name
And they're always glad you came
You wanna go where people know
People are all the same
You wanna go where everybody

Kpop gets all the press. Meanwhile, Spop is all the rage in the Ukrainian underground...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZALtzTmPz-E

@momo

music

@sindastra Per your request:

Oh....my... God.
Becky, look at her butt,uh! it's so big.
She looks like one of those rap guy's girlfriends.
But, uh, y'know,
Who understands those rap guys?
They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute, okay.
I mean, her butt! It is just so.. Big.
I cannot believe it is just so.. Round.
It is, like, out there. I mean, gross.
Look! She has just so... Black!

I like big butts an' I can not lie.
You otha brothas can't deny.
That when a girl walks in wit' a itty bitty waist an'
A round thing in yo' face. You get SPRUNG.
Want to pull up tough, cuz you notice that butt was STUFFED.
Deep in the jeans she has wearin'.
I am hooked an' I cannot stop starin'.
Oh baby, I want to get wit' ya,
An' take yo' picta.
My homeboys tried to warn me.
But that butt you got makes me so horny.

Nearly five months after thousands of film and TV writers went on strike over more equitable pay and working conditions in the streaming era, effectively shutting down the entertainment industry, Hollywood studio and streaming executives at long last have reached a tentative deal with the Writers Guild of America, East and West.

In an email to members late Sunday, the union said it had reached “an agreement in principle on all deal points, subject to drafting final contract language.”

The union said it will share details about what the union negotiators and studio executives agreed to once union leadership reviews the final language in the agreement.

“What we have won in this contract—most particularly, everything we have gained since May 2nd—is due to the willingness of this membership to exercise its power, to demonstrate its solidarity, to walk side-by-side, to endure the pain and uncertainty of the past 146 days. It is the leverage generated by your st

@jeaton Your profile pic absolutely demanded I send this to you, but that might just be the soup talking.

movies

The Afrofuturism movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability.

One task of science fiction is to knock us off-kilter — to transport us to altered times and places, the better to question our own world. But sci-fi has renewed competition in that department from reality itself. The quickening storm of events in America in the last half-decade, culminating in 2020 in the Covid-19 pandemic and the uprisings against systemic racism, has unmoored us from old norms and expectations with a suddenness that societies witness perhaps once or twice per century. The future is upon us in its full uncontrolled ferocity, and it takes all our resilience just to adapt from week to week and keep steering toward hope.

But at least one movement within sci-fi may be equal to this moment, in part because it grows out of a history of displacement, atrocity, and instability. It’s Afrofuturism, the

In my long experience working with artists across all media, one of the things that I've found the most rewarding is discovering their inspirations, which often lead to new creative ideas of my own.

So I thought I'd ask Kbin, what inspires you? Is it a piece of music? A novel? A poem? A picture? A philosophy? A spiritual text? What lifts your soul to song? A software? A science? A symphony?

What gets your creative juices flowing?

Full disclosure - I am the mod of @13thFloor, which is dedicated to engaging the creative spirit. Your inspirations and creativity are more than welcome there as well.

This is a great track by Inkjetski - Home to You - dig the guitar work:

https://inkjetski.bandcamp.com/track/home-to-you

@exchgr thanks for your music - you've got real talent - looking forward to hearing more!

music

We created https://urusai.social as a safe, cozy, English-first home for happy weebs and all of our varied interests - URUSAI! Social: All the otaku content. None of the toxicity. Come join us in our mission to be wholesome!

Transferring servers is a simple 2-step process and all your stuff comes with you, even your followers! #anime #manga #mastodon #instance #server #otaku #nerds #geek Boosts appreciated! #BoostMe

This is a bit of test post to see if it helps federate urusai.social with kbin's domain tracking. @neatchee is the admin, and they're running a nice stack over there - otaku fans should go check t

Sarsina is a sleepy, rural town of barely 3,000 residents straddling the pristine Apennine mountains in Italy’s Emilia Romagna region, surrounded by stunning views and grazing sheep.

While it has a glorious past, as a strategic defensive outpost for the Roman Empire and the birthplace of the famed playwright Plautus, today there’s not much to do beyond hiking and birdwatching.

And though both locals and holidaymakers would agree that a rustic, slow-paced lifestyle is part of Sarsina’s charm, its residents were nonetheless excitedly awaiting the construction of a development including a new supermarket, fitness center and playground. But it was not meant to be — at least, not as originally planned.

That’s because workers at the site on the outskirts of town in December 2022 unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman temple — or ‘capitolium’ — dating back to the first century BC.

In early July, a first look at the underground treasure came to light: a s

EDIT: thanks to @Destragras, who pointed out after I posted that kbin does have a raw RSS feed at the bottom of the page for your reader. Example:

https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=kbinMeta

Leaving the post up in case anyone wants to use OpenRss.

Open RSS is a volunteer non-profit that provides free RSS feeds. They've indexed kbin.social, which means that any magazine on the instance has an RSS feed available through their site, using the following syntax:

https://openrss.org/kbin.social/m/[your magazine here]

Some examples (link on post goes to kbinMeta):

• https://openrss.org/kbin.social/m/politics
• https://openrss.org/kbin.social/m/worldwithoutus
• https://openrss.org/kbin.social/m/13thFloor

Now what's doubly cool, is that if you're a magazine o

Angband is a dungeon-crawling roguelike video game derived from Umoria. It is based on the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien, in which Angband is the fortress of Morgoth. The current version of Angband is available for all major operating systems, including Unix, Windows, Mac OS X, and Android. It is identified as one of the "major roguelikes" by John Harris. Angband is free and open source game under the GNU GPLv2 or the angband license.

Wikipedia

This method only works within your magazine, and will remove downvotes or upvotes on comments as well as posts.

To implement it, go to Magazine Panel - Appearance, and enter the following in your CSS box to remove downvotes:

{span style="color:#323232;"}.vote__down { display: none !important; } {/span}

and/or for upvotes:

{span style="color:#323232;"}.vote__up { display: none !important; } {/span}

Example with downvotes removed : @13thFloor

Many thanks to @Anafroj for writing the original CSS code, and suggesting it as a way to combat trolls. Note this test shows that standard CSS works in Kbin, but you do have to replace with {} to get it to parse properly.

This isn't a perfect solution, but it should mitigate the amount of users that try to sink communities through downvote spam.

Thanks to @someguy and @cre0 for posing for the pi

A demonstration on posting, liking and commenting on Lemmy and Kbin from a Mastodon instance

OP note: Testing of the method above shows that posting:

@[magazine name here]@[kbin.instance name]

will tag the post directly into the Microblog section of the magazine.

This is useful, as hashtag publication in the Microblogs is currently inconsistent, and only partially grabs posts with your magazine hashtags.

Other good notes in the video show how to access magazines in mastodon:

https://mastodon.social/@[magazine name here]@[kbin.instance name]

is the format of the direct link to pull it up.

We care a lot
We care a lot
A-ha
about disasters, fires, floods and killer bees
(We care a lot) about Los Angeles falling in the sea
(We care a lot) about starvation and the food that Live Aid bought
(We care a lot) about disease, baby Rock, Hudson, rock, yeah!
We care a lot!
We care a lot!
about the gamblers and the pushers and the freaks
(We care a lot) about the people who live up the streets
(We care a lot) about the welfare of all you boys and girls
(We care a lot) about you people cause we're out to save the world
Yeah!
It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it
And it's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
Well, it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
about the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines

The Salvation Army has applied for a permit to build an eight-story drug rehabilitation center in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood for people who are recovering from drug addiction.

The charity aims to demolish its property at 850 Harrison St. and replace it with a high-rise that would serve up to 220 people who have completed the first step of drug treatment.

Currently, the lot houses a one-story commercial kitchen and parking lot where the Salvation Army trains homeless people in the culinary arts.

Part of the nonprofit’s the Way Out program, a fundraising initiative and treatment apparatus with the goal of expanding drug treatment access in San Francisco, the planned treatment program in SoMa is geared toward providing job assistance and eventually transitioning clients into independent living.

The charity is lobbying the city to help fund the programs and others that it believes can help people recover from addiction.

Darren Norton, a

Hi all,

I'm posting this to see if there's any interest in a Moderators Union magazine / community here on kbin. The purpose of this community would be to create a support network between moderators. Ideally this community would be a place to network, generate cross-community support, identify the best techniques for helping communities grow, and identify improvements in the Kbin software to help the mod teams thrive.

As constant users of the software, we have a view, particularly on a Quality Assurance level, that could be very helpful to @ernest and the development team - one that most standard users don't. As such, it's my hope that a community for moderators would help strengthen both the kbin community as well as its technological capability.

From what I can tell, there are communities for kbinDesign and kbinDevLog, but nothing yet for mods.

That being said, I wanted to gauge interest here on kbinMeta before creating such a magazine, and to see

So this has happened on a couple of my posts, but when I saw it affecting @gabe's recent intro post, I thought I'd call it out here.

Here's a screenshot - first image is of how the post looks when you're not logged in, the second is with login:

https://imgur.com/a/lRMP9yf

You can see even though there's two comments listed as being present on the 2nd shot, no comments appear.

So to determine whether this was client side or server side, I tested it out on multiple browsers and got the same result, indicating it's not a client side issue, and it's not related to my kbin extension scripts on Firefox. I can't find any settings within my profile that would affect this (if there's one I'm missing, please let me know).

For reference, here are the two of my posts that I'm finding the same behavior on:

[https://kbin.social/m/13thFloor/t/332463/Untitled-by-at-Aphel