Panicking idiot cop

It was a zoo worker.

What the fuck is this headline, anyway?

It’s from Wikipedia.

Challenger explosion was 38 years ago today; Naples’ readers recall event
Naples Daily News

On this date, Jan. 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.

The spacecraft disintegrated 46,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 11:39 a.m.

On Jan 27, 2011, for the 25th anniversary of that tragic day, the Naples Daily News asked readers to recall what they were doing on that day.

“I was teaching the fifth grade at Poinciana Elementary in a portable,” said Ann R. Dilbone of Naples. “I told my students that if the sky was clear we had a good chance to see it if we went outside. And sure enough we saw it rising in the sky, a beautiful white plume beyond the pine trees over Airport Road. It was thrilling. But suddenly it split apart and my students said, ‘What does that mean?’ And I answered, ‘I think I know, but I’m not sure. We’ll go back in and put our heads on our desks for a few minutes.’ Then I explained what I thought had happened and it turned out to be correct!”

Marian Barford of Naples: "We had attended Super Bowl XX where the Chicago Bears had obliterated the New England Patriots at the Superdome in New Orleans. We had enjoyed a beautiful visit to that wonderful city and had arrived at the airport in a most upbeat mood. The TVs were on in the bars in the airport and as we walked by toward our gate, we decided to stop and watch the launch.

"As Challenger exploded there was an audible gasp followed by total silence throughout the entire airport. As passengers approached the area and were told what was happening, they too fell into silence. We boarded our flight to Newark and rode home, all in total silence or soft whispers. The silence would be broken only occasionally by the pilot breaking in with a news update. It is a truly sad and heartbreaking memory.”

Is included in linked site:

John Erling: The name Mankiller, what is the background to the name?
Wilma Mankiller: It really was a title. In Cherokee historical times there was a central government but a lot of the communities had a very strong local decentralized government structure as well. And one of the titles for one of the leaders in a, one of these villages was called a Mankiller and that’s what it translates into English is Mankiller, so when the census – I assume this is how this happened, when the census of the Unites States Government started taking census rolls of Cherokees, the guy with the title put down Mankiller as his name, and that’s who we trace our ancestry back to. At that time Cherokees only used one name, they didn’t have a first name and a last name.

It’s working fine for me. Here’s an archived version, maybe this one works: https://web.archive.org/web/20250716134630/https://strv102r.tripod.com/stockholm_bloodbath.htm

You’re welcome!

Thanks! I think some buddies came up with it when I was young. It sounds slightly similar to my surname.

This post only says that the Lemmyverse data “is used to suggest search results to people when adding a remote community.” Is this data also included in the communities page?

Another thought about the linked post: Removing inactive communities from the Lemmyverse data is certainly a good thing for stuff like “technology”, “memes”, “news” etc., but if you’re looking for a community about a very niche topic you might even be interested in an inactive community without active alternatives to perhaps “revive” it with your posts.

One important thing about Lemmyverse is that you can search for communities your instance isn’t “aware of” yet. Seeing the “Add remote community” button, I guess this is something that’s not possible with Piefed’s community search?

cutie pies

Those polar bears are about to turn into brown bears.

You could also encode the DDL links. That’s what FMHY does for a list of (encodeded) links hosted on rentry.

You have to verify your age to see the uncensored image.

TIL you can have a single letter username, at least on Piefed.

Yes, I don’t know how accurate it is but I recommend the 2018 movie about it.

If you draw a really long and thin “iceberg” like this, it will cause an infinite loop: It shakes once it reaches the surface, is pulled down again, floats up, and the cycle continues.

That’s a funny gag

Shameless self-promotion: !anniversaries@sopuli.xyz

It’s like “On This Day”, “This Day in History”, etc. I’m currently the only poster but I don’t mind, I enjoy regularly looking for interesting anniversaries.

Post anniversaries on any topic you feel like; even personal anniversaries are allowed!

I included the titles in the body of the post. It’s behind a spoiler so you have to click it to expand it.

It’s Apocalypse Dudes by Turbonegro (Yes, that’s their actual name, the Wikipedia article has a section about it)

Yeah, I got it on vinyl. “Radio” is their most popular song. It’s a short but very good album imo with a mix between fun songs (“Radio”, “10 Bier zuviel” and “Scheisse”, I remember) and deeper and darker songs, e.g. “Allein zuhaus”:

Warum hast du mir das angetan?
Ich war doch viel zu jung
Warum hast du mir das angetan?
Ich konnte nichts dagegen tun

There’s also the “song” “Nichts” at the end… well, I won’t spoil it. It’s a funny idea.