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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago

I was already on ultrafast, and never hit 50 during uploads in any case, so the upgrade hasn't made much difference to me

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 days ago

I've got dark hair and white skin, and it took about a dozen or so treatments, and I'd say it got rid of 99.9% of my hair permanently. However, experience tells me most people don't get that level of effectiveness.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

We run our own custom image caching setup. I'll ask Kaity to look in to it and see what's going on

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago

I feel the the author is not completely wrong

They are though. It's a sky news article, downplaying racism at a Nazi rally. There's no two sides to this...

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Just loose wording from me. What I was trying to say is that their vote count was actually higher this time around, not lower, but the increase was so small it was a rounding error on their overall percentage. The point being, their voterbase didn't go anywhere, but nor did they attract new folk.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

The greens got more votes in the last election than the one prior, and their overall percentage remained unchanged. The greens lost out because the liberals preferenced Labor over them, and so a large amount of the swing away from the liberals ended up in Labor's lap both directly and through preferences

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

YSK then that Piefed has a subscription feature

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

I can "see" the stem, the striations of color, the shape, the imperfections move as the apple rotates

I have aphantasia, and I can't do this.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, blahaj.zone admin :)

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Sadly, it only runs on genuinely ancient smart phones. I can't even re-purpose my old pre-loved phones that I've kept after upgrading, because most of them are still too new for postmarketos

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The term threadiverse to describe the "reddit like" fediverse network predates Zuckerbergs latest bigotry factory.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

The instance stance is that we don't allow people to undermine other folks identities. Transmeds think they're doing the "right thing" for trans folk because they think that they're protecting the "real" trans folk. People who want to undermine non binary identities, people who want to undermine therian identities etc, people who want to undermine neopronoun users, will always have a reason for it, often based around acceptability in the eyes of broader cishet society.

Just because you think there is a good reason to undermine those specific identities doesn't make it ok. You and I, and anyone else is not the arbiter of anyones identities except their own, and the moment you feel that you do get to have an opinion on the validity of someone elses identity, is the moment you have put yourself above them.

There are absolutely trolls who will misuse this kind of acceptance. But even that doesn't make it ok for you or I to install ourselves as arbitrators of other folks identity. The answer to the trolls doesn't change just because they're trolling by bad faith use of identity. The answer still remains that you remove them when they're trolling becomes apparent. But on this instance, that removal is done in a way that doesn't empower folk looking for excuses to invalidate others.

 

If you're trans masc or trans masc aligned, have a lemmy.blahaj.zone account, and an established history and are interested in moderating this space, please let me know!

 

Kaity has just spun up a PieFed instance, which is open to anyone that wants to try it out.

PieFed is part of the "Threadiverse" along with lemmy and mbin. If you are already reading this in lemmy, then you already know what PieFed is about.

If you're curious to try it out, or if you're just looking for a way to avoid lemmy, you can find it at https://piefed.blahaj.zone/

Like our lemmy instance, we have set PieFed applications to require manual approval, but if you're already a member of our lemmy instance, you can get auto approved by our modbot by quoting your registration code somewhere in your application.

 

Thanks to Kaity Blåhaj PIx and Blåhaj Tube are up and running!

Feel free to check them out!

For now, it's just me moderating, so applications to join may not be instant. If we start to get busy, we'll onboard some more mods in the future.

Enjoy!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/femboy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

If you're interested, you will need to have a blahaj account and have participated in this or similar communities prior to this post.

DM me or reply here!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/crows@lemmy.ml
 

We left snacks for the local crows!

Birtinya, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

 

Clayfield, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #brisbane #meanjin #honeyEater #noisyMiner #manorinaMelanocephala #manorina #australianBirds

 

This post is "FYI only" for blahaj lemmy members. It is not a debate, and is not intended for non blahaj lemmy users to weigh in and offer opinions.

I recently received reports of a feddit.uk user espousing transphobia. Specifically, this was a feddit.uk user refusing to use the word cis, repeating the "adult human female" dog whistle, and claiming that trans women are not women. I approached a member of the feddit.uk admin team and raised my concerns and sought clarification of their stance on posts like this, where the transphobia is mostly dogwhistles, and "civil disagreement" on the validity of trans folk.

I was told by the feddit.uk admin that their preferred response is this kind of transphobia is to "sort it out through discussion and voting". However, the comments in question are currently more upvoted than downvoted, and little "sorting out" has occurred. The posts remain in place.

At this point, the admin stopped responding to my messages despite being active elsewhere on lemmy. When it became clear they were ignoring my messages and had no intention of removing the posts in question, I made the decision to defederate the instance.

I know some folk agree with the feddit.uk admins approach of pushback through discussion and voting, but this instance is not designed to be that kind of space. Blahaj lemmy is meant to be a place where we can avoid the rampant transphobia universally visible on nearly every other social media platform, and where we can exist without needing to debate our right to do so.

 

Buddina, Sunshine Coast, Australia - April 2025

#bird #australianBirds #brushTurkey #scrubTurkey #Alectura #AlecturaLathami

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Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/birding@lemmy.world
 

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #AustralianBirds #swan #blackSwan #Cygnus #CygnusAtratus

 

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#bird #birds #swallow #WelcomeSwallow #AustralianBirds #Hirundo #HirundoNeoxena

 

Kedron Brook Wetlands Reserve, Brisbane/Meanjin, Australia - April 2025

#meanjin #brisbane #spoonbill #royalSpoonBill #bird #birds #australianBirds #Platalea #PlataleaRegia

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