Can we just keep posting this daily?
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
750 points (99.9% liked)
196
5278 readers
1471 users here now
Community Rules
You must post before you leave
Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Bigotry is not allowed, this includes (but is not limited to): Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Sexism, Abelism, Classism, or discrimination based on things like Ethnicity, Nationality, Language, or Religion.
Avoid shilling for corporations, posting advertisements, or promoting exploitation of workers.
Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
- When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
- Don’t waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
- Assume the best, but don’t tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
- Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
- Share everything you do in the mod matrix, both so several mods aren't unknowingly handling the same issues, but also so you can receive feedback on what you intend to do.
- Don't rush mod actions. If a case doesn't need to be handled right away, consider taking a short break before getting to it. This is to say, cool down and make room for feedback.
- Don’t perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
- Large internal decisions (such as ousting a mod) might require a vote, needing more than 50% of the votes to pass. Also consider asking the community for feedback.
- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Yeah that's basically what every morning is like for the past year
Yeah not me here wondering what day and even what thing for that day… it’s just never ending.
From a European perspective, that has been every day for at least the past 50 years. But honestly, far far longer than that. Something with slavery, genocide, wars, dropping nukes, crimes against humanity like it's incarceration system, corruption, etc.
From a European perspective, that has been every day for at least the past 50 years.
Your grandparents systematically murdered 12 million people during one of the two largest conflicts in human history culminating 500 years of raping the rest of the world.
Thanks for the moralization.
When did the US have slavery, commit genocide or drop nukes in the last 50 years? Or are you too stupid to remember your own premise from one sentence to the next?
Your grandparents systematically murdered 12 million people during one of the two largest conflicts in human history culminating 500 years of raping the rest of the world.
My grandmother from my mother's side had a grenade piece in her shoulder her entire life, she never told why (she was a teenager during the second World War). Her parents kidnapped and executed several nazis in their farm shed. My grandfather from my mother's side met her as he needed to go into hiding in their back garden. Because his father was taken by Gestapo, tortured for 2 weeks and deported to Birkenau. He used to smuggle allied pilots back to the UK. He never told the nazis anything when he was tortured. That's why it took 2 weeks.
My grandfather from my father's side was an honored resistance fighter, who blew up several communication lines, railway tracks and raided a nazi distribution centre once. A street is named after him. His girlfriend, who he already had a relationship with during primary school, stood by his side. She was my grandmother.
Assumption is the mother of all fuckups. I'm not even German, nor were my grandparents. Their country was invaded by nazis, just like Venezuela.
When did the US have slavery, commit genocide or drop nukes in the last 50 years? Or are you too stupid to remember your own premise from one sentence to the next?
I said it was actually way longer, so I guess you had some trouble reading. But there's still slavery in the US as the anti slavery act states "except when incarcerated". There are still states where inmates are forced to work without pay, which is slavery.
Actually, if you YouTube search "last week tonight incarceration" you can see many videos on the incarceration system and how crooked it is, and it's crimes against humanity.
Also, the last nukes dropped by the US were in 1991 and 1992 during testing. Source
Or are you too stupid
Well, it seems you are the one who is uninformed and didn't read my previous comment correctly, which is to be expected seeing the US education system (I am assuming you are a US citizen, based on the rude comment you made). So I won't hold it against you.
My grandparents fought against fascism and nazism, as did their parents. I'm actively fighting fascism, did and do a lot of volunteer work and I saved 126 people from drowning when trying to cross the Mediterranean to flee the dictatorial regime in their country.
So far estimates of the number of deaths by USAID funding cuts, done by your elected president, are 500,000 to 1,000,000 and rising.
What are you doing against fascism and to protect others, right now in your country?
America: "Oh, what did I do to deserve this!? I mean what specifically?"
Man, that date stamp could be pretty much any day in the last decade.
Since 1789
I think I'm out of the loop, which of the thousands of possible things is he referring to?
I am pretty sure Scalzi's trigger this morning is the letter to Norway, but it feels like a permanent and blanket statement for this administration.
THAT WAS REAL???
Holy shit, that doesn't read as bad president, that reads as mentally ill.
Also when I mentioned trump's letter to my mom, she confusedly asked "he can write?"
I suspect he dictates his texts. Rumors of his illiteracy have been circulating for decades.
I think it's a spectrum, not Autism, though. Some combination of greed, con, geriatric, uneducated, and dementia.
letter to Norway
Holeee fuck
Oh jeeesus
Does he know that the Norway doesn’t control the Nobel board?
Also Fuck Trump and this stupid letter. What has he done for NATO except extortion and existential crises? It used to be an effective tool until he got involved.
Does he know
No. Just a blanket no.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Its actually incredible how Trump can continuously behave like this, while governments all over the world still bend the knee to him.
Looking at the rest of the news this morning, I really don't think "bending the knee" describe what world leaders are doing at all. For example, Canada just re-started relations with China and is increasingly looking like they might buy a fleet of Gripens instead of F-35s, and the EU signed a free trade agreement with MERCOSUR. Everyone is drifting away from the US. They are just doing so quietly, after all, the US is still the world's biggest economic and military force.
This.
The manbaby is not smart enough to understand politics. He just understands force. By not doing anything "by force", he just keeps being a manbaby while the world drifts away from him without him even realizing.
What's going to happen here is that one day, the turd will start another tantrum and, instead of saying "yes, sir, you are right, now let's keep being friends", the same people will just look away the same way a parent ignores a kid throwing a tantrum over a snack they did not get.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(2 replies)
whining to norway about not getting a swedish prize is 100% on brand for trump. fucking moron.
Nah the nobel peace prize is from a norwegian committee. The others are indeed swedish
Edit: It's still stupid because it's not the norwegian government that awards the prize
load more comments
(4 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Pretty embarrasing century so far.
Is there a specific reason this time, orrr...
Just a normal Monday
It was actually a holiday Monday
Oh, it's America we work on holidays now. The lord protector insists that idleness is evil
yeah, the holiday makes work busier than usual
you would never know it at my workplace
load more comments
(1 replies)
America right now
It truly is a case of the Mondays.
What a deeply embarrassing platform to post this message to. Fuck X #Fedi is the way. It is known.
load more comments
(10 replies)
Thats really everyday tbh
Great Scalzi is not maga, can I continue to read his books or is there some other skeletons?
load more comments
(6 replies)
view more: next ›