407 years ago, the first slaves arrived in Virginia. They were from Angola.
162 years ago, Lincoln declared that all enslsved people in Confederate territories were free.
160 years ago (to the day!), on #Juneteenth, the last enslaved people in the USA were freed.
61 years ago, racial discrimination and segregation were outlawed by the Civil Rights Act.
60 years ago, black Americans finally secured comprehensive electoral protections through the Voting Rights Act.
But:
- 12 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that states no longer require federal approval for new voting policies. Since then, more than 100 voter suppression laws have been passed across states with histories of discriminatory practices.
- For every dollar earned by a white person in the USA, a black person earns 87 cents.
- White Americans hold 84% of the country’s wealth, while black people hold just 3%.
- Institutional racism remains a serious problem, with black people facing disparities in education, housing, employment, healthcare, and in the criminal justice system.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, three good things that help *everyone*, are under constant attack.
Today is Juneteenth, and it’s a day to celebrate. But I hope all of my white friends can take a moment to consider that however far we think we’ve come with civil rights in this country, it hasn’t been far enough. Every day we see more examples of people in power actively working to undermine fairness and decency while driving increasingly larger wedges between ethnic groups. We have to be better than this. We must refuse to accept this. There is so much work to be done, by all of us.
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We’re 222 minutes away from tonight’s debate watch party! 📺🇺🇸🍿 Join us in the omg.lol Discord at 9 PM EDT for... well, who knows? It’ll most likely be interesting, at the very least. 😄
⏰ Our omg.lol watch party of the presidential debate is TONIGHT at 9 PM EDT in the omg.lol Discord. Hope to see you there! Lurkers and introverts are welcome, of course—there’s no pressure to speak or anything! 😄
Have a quick chat and then see if you can guess whether you chatted with a person or an AI.
I’ve done two so far, and was wrong both times. 💀
nostr:npub18du9j7nmt84h7847e8007qj5d0gk28s8hrw73t2cm5w9n3592tlqtutx7r I’ve had Citizens One (the company that does the upgrade program leases) provide my account number over the phone before. Give them a try at 888-201-6306. 👍
nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq It’s nothing special! I’ve been toying with the idea of “URL as sentence” or “URL as statuslog entry”... and with a clever Icelandic domain name, the social.lol API, and a tiny bit of scripting, I whipped this up: https://adam.newbold.is/making-a-little-thing-for-statuslogging
It fetches my latest statuslog entry, renders it in glorious minimalist text, and even redirects to a URL that fulfills the “URL as sentence” concept.
It’s dorky and impractical, but I still think it’s kinda cool and I’m going to toy around with it!
✨ Making a little thing for statuslogging.
nostr:npub1ewxjfjyzggghttl0vkj9jtwur5ya3ppkqct0yraqjse3tljjvresswy3dm Hello! I hope it's okay for me to tack on an extra question about some.pics!
I noticed that nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq's question said “to be used in other places (like a blog)” while you responded with “other parts of omg.lol.” Does that mean that if I needed somewhere to upload something like a picture to show on a site that's not part of omg.lol, I should not use some.pics?
I'm not a famous person so I don't expect it to be high traffic or anything. I'm curious because you said slightly different things!
nostr:npub1nr9sx6e6q3jgajtfqkaa3x8hs79tfk5k5sul79xu637700spsy4qc6u2va Of course, you can always ask any questions. 😄 And I’m glad you asked this one because I definitely phrased that a little awkwardly, heh. It’s perfectly fine to link to stuff hosted on some.pics from anywhere on the internet. I was being a little too omg.lol-centric when I responded to nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq. Sorry for any confusion!
nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq Good question — the current implementation isn’t stellar (but I’m going to get it there, promise!) but the intent is for it to be a photo sharing service (while also serving as a way to load media that you want to use on other parts of omg.lol). I’m going to add an actual per-pic “visibility" toggle (and address-level default preference) so we’re not relying on the presence of a description as the sole trigger for whether a pic is public or not.
nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq I’m also going to add a caption field that’s distinct from the description field. Description will wind up being the alt text for the image, and caption will be what’s shown on the image page. I do feel pretty strongly about making sure that the pics that appear on the landing page all have alt text, so I do really want to encourage people to add a description when uploading, though it’s not required to perform the upload. Does that make sense? I’m open to feedback on any/all of this!
nostr:npub1ewxjfjyzggghttl0vkj9jtwur5ya3ppkqct0yraqjse3tljjvresswy3dm Is some.pics meant to be a photo sharing site or just a place to store photos to be used in other places (like a blog)? I'm wondering about the description requirement. Is it going to be a problem to allow folks to upload photos without a description if they don't care about them being "public"?
nostr:npub1mmt2c7qgq404483t3fdd6njl9yhgw6hskn7rsypa7jmzy2s5450qluszvq Good question — the current implementation isn’t stellar (but I’m going to get it there, promise!) but the intent is for it to be a photo sharing service (while also serving as a way to load media that you want to use on other parts of omg.lol). I’m going to add an actual per-pic “visibility" toggle (and address-level default preference) so we’re not relying on the presence of a description as the sole trigger for whether a pic is public or not.
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nostr:npub18du9j7nmt84h7847e8007qj5d0gk28s8hrw73t2cm5w9n3592tlqtutx7r I’m not sure! I poked around and found a bunch of forum posts going back as far as 2011 with people complaining about comic sans not rendering, and a reddit post from just 8 days ago with someone saying that "this is still an issue in 2023". I'd love to know the full story behind the phenomenon!