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Serious question, I don't recall what exactly it was.

I'm passing this question along, because I think we might have folks here who have some suggestions.

What tools or combination of tools are folks using to organize in your local area and beyond?

A relative of mine was asking me about software to replace the event/RSVP/page aspects of Facebook.

It almost sounds like he wants a locked down Lemmy instance or a combination of tools, but I'm not sure what the landscape is like out there.

Any input would be cool. I might link him to this post later if I get enough comments.

Edit: after some light googling I found this: https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

Cuz its fucking killing me.

I'm an educator, and every day I go in and try to help people at their lowest points turn things around. And every day I have to watch them be abused by the pigs and admin, or get shortchanged by our schools need for higher numbers of graduates. I thought I fuckin hated cops before. As a tankie, I thought I was used to The Weight of Being Objectively Correct All The Time. Lemme tell ya, you don't know the half of it.

The Inmates haven't had AC or Heat in their dorms for years. Nobody is exactly sure when it died, but the nicest estimate is 3 years. Interestingly, its the same for the education building. If you go up to admin though, well, that's a perfect 71 degrees, every day of the year. There was money set aside to fix it early this year. Somehow that got spent on cutting down all the nearby trees, right before summer. They said it was because it was too easy to hide contraband, but it just so happened to make things quite a bit warmer all around the facility. A coincidence, I'm sure.

Bugs and other vermin also had quite an uptick recently. Surely it had nothing to do with the fact their homes (the trees) are gone. Just keep a fly swatter nearby, and if a snake gets through the cracks, well you can always call security.

Luckily! We've got a top-notch lab, at least as far as prisons go. Photoshop 7! Adobe Acrobat! And....computers. They exist. They're not really good enough for the decade old programs, but technically they do run. And! its only twice a month when they'll do an unannounced "refresh" of a random computer, without warning. All that means is that they're going to wipe windows, do a fresh install, refuse to install the things we actually need (like PS7) and also not save any of the students' work. Sure hope I'm caught up on grades.

Don't worry though, I've got all day to teach. Unless there's a lockdown for unspecified reasons. Yeah, sure, those unspecified reasons usually end up being "Captain [REDACTED] didn't want to walk outside more than once", and yes, sometimes that means they cut my class short because of it, but other than that. Its not like I have to hear them talking about which inmates they'd fuck, or hear them curse an inmate out to their face for an untucked shirt, or watch these pigs get walked out in handcuffs when they eventually do fuck (rape) an inmate or bring in drugs, or see the black eyes of my students who said the wrong thing. Did my student sleep in? Or are they in medical with bruised lungs? Who fuckin knows.

I nailed the interview for this job because I told a story about teaching my daughter. I wasn't even really "teaching" as much as I was just playing with her, totally absorbed in her current interests (dinosaurs, of course). Her love of the subject meant I didn't really need to do anything. Just be there, as she told me "tee tops. three horns on head. steg-so-saurus, spikey tail!" She makes things so easy. My students here are the same way. They have a drive. They want to be there, every day, and most days they have to literally fight a cop to do it.

So I guess I'll be there too.

At least until it kills me.

What do we know about this group?

Does anyone remember Bingus tokens? No one? Okay, maybe this will ring a bell.

No? Maybe him endorsing this project will do? Or this?

This used to be their original page: https://bingus.finance and then https://bingus.io/. Today, neither of these links seem to be working.

Bonus pic for laughs and giggles, I guess?

Edit1: Bonus pics about rug-pulling?

im drunk

A bunch of animals were Godzilla sized for some reason.

Giant peacocks were strutting down the street terrorizing humans and eating them like bugs.

Giant wolves would set off volcanic eruptions whenever they howled

And then there was a third one I can't remember.

It was terrifying to my dream brain but awake I'm just like "Damn that could be a metal record cover".

That's it. He's just a good poster. Up bear him when you see him

I made the mistake of balking at some particularly unhinged Ukraine/Russia rhetoric offline yesterday and got called a vatnik, a tankie, a Russia lover and I was even suspected of being pro-Israel and apparently a nazbol Aimee Therese follower or something

I'm not even invested in this shit, I just find the insane saber-rattling and warmongering unsettling

When someone tells you Putler's going to invade Estonia, Poland and Finland for Lebensraum next if he's not stopped in Ukraine, just nod your head solemnly

I try not to judge people for being victims of the environment we find ourselves in unless they have a lot of material power, but god damn to Chuds of all kinds make me want to shove their heads in a toilet.

Yes you fucking idiot, it's totally queers, poc and women ruining the world and not the insatiable rapacious greed of the rich. You talk about hating wealthy elites while bootlicking the biggest right-wing grifters on the planet. Yes fuckhead, those sigma grindset business moguls that you look up to so much are definitely not wealthy elites, so smart.

You're not a rebel, you're a cynical coward who desperately wants to become the very type of person who is making your life miserable because you're too weak and scared to stand up to the real threat to your freedom, capitalism.

I just got a check in the mail after waiting about 6 months for $2000! I guess it was just some old BoA account I somehow abandoned.

Just google your state + unclaimed property and you should find a site that tells you how to find and claim your shit. Some states make it easy some its more annoying. The state has to hold it for you and they are just earning interest on its value, so go get it.

I hate ADHD, and I hate how much time I spend online, especially on Youtube and here. It fucking sucks how time blindness takes over and my lack of will to, you know, just not fucking scroll makes life harder. I'm going to read theory, or at least fucking try to.

So long my lovely fuckers, I need a break. This is like, the last post I'll engage with for like a month or two. I hope.

I went to the Zoo recently and I couldn’t believe how many people immediately whip out their phones to film the animals in the exhibit.

Like, if looking at images of animals on your phone was anywhere near as enjoyable as seeing them in person, why even pay to come to the fucking zoo!?

The animal you are looking at is already existing within a dead facsimile of its actual environment! It’s already like looking at an image!

Do people really go back and look at these images and videos and feel the same feeling as when they’re looking a marmoset of exotic bird right in the eyes a few feet away from them?

It feels like we’ve all become trained to whip out our phones and start filming the moment anything interesting starts happening. The way everyone prefers this mediated experience to just being in reality experiencing art or living things or a concert or whatever just makes me feel kind of bleak. To me this is a great example of what is meant when we talk about Alienation.

Anyone else agree or am I being a grumpy geriatric shaking my fist at the kids on my lawn?

Lol, getting mad about the important things as always.

Apparently they've been saying the blue guy had his balls out or some shit? I didn't see anything like that. Bro was wearing blue modesty shorts as far as I could tell.

Imperial Olympic grandeur, but as vacant nostalgia. Israeli economy crashing. Trump backed in a corner. Sahel states uniting. Commercial real estate crisis reaching terminus. Ukraine about to cede. Polish EU infighting. Chinese Thorium reactor beginning construction. Record breaking global heat averages. Argentinian economy in free fall. Covid surging. Personal credit debt at record high. General strikes planned in various countries. Idk, a number of things. Just feels like there are a lot of fast moving trains at different angles that are crashing into one another, and those bundles are about to collectively crash into each other. Are we on the station, in the train, or at the cliff?

Idk wtf ever happened to all my toys, just one day I didn't have any. My parents basically incinerated anything i had so I have basically nothing left of my childhood than my memories.

Kilograms of plastic toys I'd love to post here lol. I miss my gundams and transformers. The transformers toys were PEAK

I did manage to get some gen 1 bionicles back tho

My self-discipline has been crap lately. My therapist thinks I have ADHD. I spend all my time in front of a screen. I don't exercise as much as I used to, I bounce in and out of the gym, and I haven't been out dancing in years because - while I'm not the most covid conscious - that many people in a confined space together gives me the heebie jeebies nowadays.

I need something to right the ship. I did Korean martial arts when I was a kid but I never practiced on my own and was too much of a goofball to take it seriously.

I need do something that requires enough concentration to get me out of my head and ideally involves some speed. Any thoughts on what's good? Things that worked for you?

Did they really expect North Koreans to be like "Oh shit, we were missing out on soulless baby music? Damn better give up our sovereignty!"

One of the few celebrities I knew and cared about because I grew up watching Charmed, still one of my favourite shows to this day, before I stopped watching TV. Shannen died on 13th July of cancer.

And all I can think is... man, she was kind of a piece of work. She had been battling cancer for almost a decade on and off and I suppose had a long time to grapple with her mortality and come to terms with it. And in the end, it seems like what she chose was pettiness and bitterness.

She had a "long" list of people who weren't invited to her funeral, because they wouldn't be coming for "the right reasons." She reignited a feud in the Charmed community with Alyssa Milano, using her cancer as the reason she had to "get the truth out" about a television show 25 years after the fact. She finalised her divorce with her husband one day before her death, ~~presumably to prevent him from inheriting anything.~~ The last one is contentious because who knows what was happening behind closed doors but still, that's definitely one last 'fuck you.'

It makes me sad that she was filled with so much hate and bitterness that even in her dying moments, she only chose to amplify the bad than forgive and make peace. I'm not at all religious but I think it's a very human thing to want to seek peace and reconciliation in the end, before you can't anymore, and I was a little stunned to see her choice be to go out in a blaze of bitterness.

That's it. There's not really any point to this. I was just stunned. I never knew her and don't have any right to judge her, and I'm not, really, deep down. It's just something that made me a little sad and that I don't really understand. People sure are strange.

Looking through and reading the banger removal/ban comments from my comrades is one of the best parts of this community, and I wish I could let everyone else know how much I appreciate them