Just so you know - you inspired me. While I was doing my nightly read-up on my RSS feeds, I made the deliberate choice to pull mostly positive climate stories, and put them in my posting queue.

They won’t pop up right away (I try to space things out), but now >50% of my queue for the week is highlighting positive news. That may shift as the week evolves and news breaks, but this is looking to be a more positive week from me :)

A+ silly affirmation! Spread those around like they come with measles!

I post climate articles I find interesting rather indiscriminately probably 70/30 downer/upper, but the engagement I see in terms of upvotes/comments is probably 90/10 downer/upper.

I’m saying this because I dont think there’s a dirth of positive content, it’s just not being encouraged to flourish.

Be the change you want to see in the world and upvote/comment on positive content. Even silly affirmations help things float up the algowall.

If you want to take things further, post positive and organic content! Adopt a community and make it your goal to add something to it every week - start growing the positive culture you want. It’ll feel rough to start because you likely won’t get any engagement, but keep at it so folks know its okay for them to share as well.

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Thankfully, I haven’t noticed excessive farting in Archie. But I still have questions. Is my cat farting more or less than a small dog, say, a Chihuahua? What do cat farts usually smell like? And at what point is some farting too much farting?

Jackie Flynn Mogensen is a breaking news reporter at Scientific American. Before joining SciAm, she was a science reporter at Mother Jones, where she received a National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications in 2024. Mogensen holds a master’s degree in environmental communication and a bachelor’s degree in earth sciences from Stanford University. She is based in New York City.

It’s also why I’m excited about the Steam Machine despite not actually owning or wanting one. It gives a consistent benchmark upon which game developers can be judged, and hopefully further encourages Linux support.

If reviewers start consistently referencing Steam Machine performance, it’ll give developers something to optimize for instead of just optimizing for the latest, fastest hardware.

The numbering is weird, there aren’t actually 50 Propositions because you need a certain number of signatures to get something onto the ballots. Only like 10 Propositions actually make it onto the ballot each year.

Everyone is eligible to receive a mailer that contains the full wording of the proposition, a couple of pages summary with complete “for” and “against” arguments (and rebuttals), as well as a ~2 paragraph summary from a coalition of folks representing the “for” and “against” campaigns.

On top of that, outside groups like DSA provide “Voter guides” like the above, that you can independently research.

The ballot itself just has a title. You are not required to read anything to vote, but I’d wager most folks just read the official “for” and “against” blurbs and form an opinion.

ETA: You can see the official voter guides here, just scroll to the PDFs and choose your preferred language.

To be honest and blunt, the quick reference opposition arguments were quite weak, which is likely what carried this proposition over the line.

Docker helps with software compatibility, SBCs with hardware.

Communities are not legal institutions. The rules are suggestions to keep the community organized and on subject.

Just because a rule doesn’t exist, doesn’t mean mods are powerless to react to content that breaks the social order.

Not everything needs a rule unless it’s a significant problem or common misunderstanding.

The advantage of SBCs aren’t just the price, it’s the uniformity. Before SBCs made it on the scene, the default response when something doesn’t work was either:

“Well, it works on my 12-year-old Thinkpad”

Or

“Your system sucks, just buy better hardware”

Now there’s a consistent system to build compatibility for and benchmark against that can help the most people, allowing devs to spend time on things other than hardware, and allowing a “how-to” community to flourish, bringing new users into the fold.

Please let Hegseth be the GOP nominee, dude is practically radioactive for abusing troops and being a key player of the economic nightmare we find ourselves in.

That endorsement from the Michael J Fox Foundation carried a lot of weight, it seems.

https://www.californiadsa.org/voterguide#propositions

https://www.californiadsa.org/voterguide#propositions

Yeah, it does imply that, which is why they compared the top 3 oil companies to the top 3 environmental groups.

Together, Shell, Exxon, and Chevron spent $2.1 million on “social issue” ads on Facebook and Instagram between late July and late October 2026. In the same period, three of the top climate and environmental groups – the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, and Greenpeace – spent just over $846,000, less than half the amount spent by oil companies.

But also, it doesnt matter because they could have focused on Shell alone who outspent all three Climate groups combined

Solar generated 2,807 TWh of electricity worldwide in 2025, 8.8% of the total.

(Source)

Its taken us decades to get to this point and solar can easily do 5x that much generation without even thinking the word battery, and close to 10x with just daily battery backup.

Surely it’ll plateau any second now…

https://codeberg.org/reesericci/nyt-paywall-passer/raw/branch/main/filter.txt

The office of the President has a press budget. They could easily give him a dumpster to shit in over at whitehouse.gov, woulda made it harder to grift idiots though so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Look, I’m tired of Jefferies smug “I tweeted about it, what more do you want” face, but I do want to call out a bit of a hypocrisy I’m seeing here on Lemmy.

Theres a bunch of folks clamoring about how they want Democrats to focus on trying to fix things and not just waste time on impeachment, but then Jefferies says that’s what he’s gonna do and everyone is back to WHAT ABOUT IMPEACHMENT.

Personally I’m a fan of the walk and chew approach of doing both, but seeing a lot of people bickering about what Democrats should do for the next two years as if nothing they do will be sufficient.

For me, for now, I’m just glad we slowed the bleeding.

Reminder that gay marriage failed in California back in '08.

People will come around, but it takes time to overcome ignorance at this scale.

For now, it’s on all of us to do what we can to support the community and highlight how these injustices impact real people - hate thrives on ignorance.