I’m not saying that leaving an instance unblocked means you’re in favor of them, to be clear. My response was only addressing the issue of achieving a “normie” experience.

Kind of a silly question, but asked honestly: How much do you think the name “communick” matters when trying to convince “normies” to try it out? Would they see that, read it as a play on “Communist”, and assume it’s only for extremists or whatever?

At a minimum, you’d want to find an instance that blocks lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net. lemmy.world already blocks both of those though. The next instance you’d probably want to block is lemmy.ml, which not many other instances do. beehaw.org does, but also blocks lemmy.world, which cuts out a lot of the threadiverse.

If you felt like it, you could explain how to do instance blocking on your user profile. That might be too much for people that don’t really care either way and just want stuff to work, though.

@[email protected] might also have opinions on this, having spent a lot of time over on Reddit convincing people to try out Lemmy

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In a Danish book version of The Far Side, the caption on this cartoon was changed from “Louie, Louie” to “Singing in the Rain.”

My only guess as to why they did this was that “Louie, Louie” was more a national hit than international and the song just didn’t register with the Danes.

And, for all intents and purposes, “Singing in the Rain” is pretty funny.

Anyone from Denmark around to comment?

I have standing orders to invade the Hague if ever tried there

There’s a sudden influx of users from instagram and tiktok and whatnot because of the ban, zuckerberg fellating Trump, and all of that stuff going on. So the answer to “What’s getting posted?” is “everything”

In case anyone’s still checking here for recommendations, here’s a few more reasonably active communities:

• [email protected]: fun or interesting loops (i.e. TikTok/Reels/etc but better)
• [email protected]: Come see the cute characters created by Tove Jansson
• [email protected]: celebrating fun and cool sites across the web
• [email protected]: when you want to feel well-adjusted and normal, look at crazy people’s social media posts
• [email protected]: for the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness
• [email protected]: for the comic The Far Side that we all know and love
• [email protected]: the best that tumblr has to offer
• [email protected]: for cartographers with nothing left to lose
• [email protected]: for nerding out about those handy devices
• [email protected]: Not too short, not too long. Videos to last through your meal.
• [email protected]: A community for a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language
• [email protected]: Look at some nice classic art
• [email protected]: Read the title, then read the twist
• [email protected]: Memes from the days of yore
• [email protected]: See cool art created by AI
• [email protected]: Cozy corner for short stories
• [email protected]: A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab
• [email protected]: Because sometimes lewd and funny go hand in hand

Some background on this comic:

Some background on this comic:

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THE EXHIBIT

I drew a cartoon quite a few years ago entitled, “The Real Reason Dinosaurs Became Extinct.” The drawing involved a small clique of dinosaurs hanging out together and smoking cigarettes.

That cartoon stayed in my sketchbook for almost a year until, pressed for ideas one week, I dug it out and submitted it for publication. And, lo and behold, it became one of the most popular cartoons I’ve ever drawn. Obviously, if I’d had any idea of its potential impact, I never would have sat on it for as long as I did.

The following and final section of this book, however, does not include the cartoon just described—nor any cartoon from The Far Side based simply on its known popularity, which would turn this into a sort of “Hit Parade” of weird humor.

Simply put, the following cartoons are among my own personal favorites. They’re the ones that I feel best reflect something about my own attitude toward history, music, literature, art, religion, and science. (Yeah, sure they do.) I’ve rarely laughed out loud at the things I’ve drawn (I’m a little too close to the “joke” to ever be surprised), but these are the cartoons that at least made me smile inwardly. (I might mention that some favorites are in the main body of the book and are not repeated here.)

A final note: I contemplated making this last section a collection of what I consider the lousiest cartoons I’ve ever drawn, but space was limited.