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I am so bummed about what’s coming, but instead of sitting around in prolonged dread, I’m going to make this week fun: Join me in making this trashy novel the #1 book about JD Vance on Amazon, just in time for Inauguration Day. We can’t stop everything that’s coming, but we can go down fighting (and laughing). Forbidden Loveseat is here.

Seriously, when I look back on 2024, the only fun part was the Vance/couch stuff. We need more of that. Getting this up the charts is the best thing we can do.

In America, there was once a generation of people who were born in chains and lived to see their freedom, because millions of others fought for it. If they could win that fight and make that change, anything else is possible

I will keep fighting for freedom and justice. One election won't change that.

So there's this little election this week, and rather than watch talking heads vamp endlessly and get things wrong, I'd love to simply put up an election dashboard and watch the results come in. (I have a computer hooked up to my TV.) I've seen a bunch of election dashboards from Reuters, NYT, and the like, but does anyone have one that's particularly beautiful, useful, or innovative?

Thanks all!

This looks cool but... I'm nervous about pre-ordering from a company I've never heard of. Anyone know anything about these guys?

I genuinely believe that car owners could be tricked into supporting FuckCars policies by a very crafty politician/campaign. It would work like this:

1. Proclaim your love of cars. Loudly. "I want to make our city the best city in the world for drivers!"
2. "What are the biggest problems drivers face today? Traffic and parking! Therefore... We need to open up roads and parking spaces..."
3. "And that's why we're going to cap the number of cars that can enter downtown. With increased public transit, we can free up these roads for drivers! That way: more parking, less traffic, a better life for drivers"

Do the same thing for bikes:

1. "These bikers want to share the road, but studies have shown that whether you use sharrows, plastic bollards, it doesn't matter: people still get hurt.
2. And here's the thing: when a car hits a cyclist, it's bad for everyone, including the driver. Nobody wants to hit a cyclist. But the sad truth is that it might just not be possible to share the road
3. "That's why I'm proposing that we make some roads car-only, to protect cyclists." [Crowd of drivers cheer, and you quickly say:] "Also we'll make some streets bike-only, for the same reason." [And then when you get in office, just be like "Yeah the highway is for cars"]

I'm available for speeches if anyone's hiring

This happens a lot: I apply for a job and they ask for my complete address. Why? I would understand if they just want to know what city/town I'm in: That has bearing on how easily I can get to the office.

But why do they need to know my street address?

The only thing I can think: Indeed/LinkedIn/take-your-pick is building a profile of me based on this info, using my street as a proxy for my income, credit score, or, ultimately, for my social class.

From now on, when they ask me, I'm just going to put a rich person's address. For this one I used a Brooklyn townhouse where Maggie Gyllenhaal and one of the Saarsgaards lives.

Last year Elon Musk accidentally revealed that he has a burner account on Twitter called @ErmnMusk.

Now that account is gone.

I'm looking for an archive: its tweets, its likes, anything and everything. Does anyone know where to find?

I'm unable to load my own profile in Eternity. Having this issue across multiple accounts. Tapping "Profile" in the sidebar brings up my profile but it's empty, no posts load. Anyone know how to fix?

I just joined lemm.ee from lemmy.world. I was drawn to lemm.ee bc it federates with all the right instances.

But my feed is behaving oddly. (I view Lemmy through the Eternity app on Android.)

• I'm seeing posts from communities I haven't subscribed to, even when I view my "Subscribed" feed
• I get a weird error when I try to comment on some posts (in [email protected], most recently)

These issues didn't happen previously. Anyone know how to fix?

I've been on the hunt for a good (free) tool for collaborating with another screenwriter. This week, I learned of Etherpad, an online, open-source, realtime text editor. Basically, an open source Google Docs.

Out of the box, Etherpad doesn't have much advantage over Google Docs for screenwriting. It doesn't have any screenwriting-specific features like autocomplete for characters' names or scene headings.

But here's what's cool: Etherpad is customizable via plugins.

Could some enterprising developer write plugins that makes Etherpad into the best collaborative software for screenwriters? I think this could work!

These are the plugins that already exist that would be useful for screenwriters:

• Align
• Heading
• Markdown
• Spellcheck
• Comments page
• Desktop notifications
• Ether-o-meter (displays metrics, could be good for sprints)
• Table of contents

Someone would have to build a few screenwriting-specific plugins to make this work for Fountain. Basically the features we find in Better Fountain, which makes Visual Code Studio into a good screenwriting app.

• Smart autocomplete for recurring characters and scenes, as well as title page keys.
• Go straight to writing dialog after a parenthetical by pressing enter, while the cursor is still inside it
• Maybe a way to generate real-time previews, the way that Better Fountain does.

What do you think?