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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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…so someone can post an article to /c/news once Cornageddon is over so I’ll know when it’s safe to unblock /c/lemmyshitpost

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I can recall two instances of Lemmy making the news...

One, IIRC is of some person who carried out political violence or some other nasty thing who also just so happened to host a Lemmy server in the years pre-Reddit-exodus for unrelated reasons. I can't remember enough details to find the article if someone can help.

The second is a 404media article crediting @silence7@slrpnk.net for spotting missing sections of the Constitution on the White House website (article, discussion)

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah I got stoked for the 404 article. Keep up the original posts folks!

[–] nocturne@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Was the political violence one the anti child dude? I used to have his profile bookmarked.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah it could have been that.

[–] Today@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

There was another one about a year ago about bluesky or madtodon that also referenced the fediverse. I'll look for it.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is this some Lemmy drama shit I don't know about?

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago

Must be local to a community I don't subscribe to or it's somehow getting caught by my content filters.