I do! Thanks for the encouragement. How long have you been going, and what do most people (read: not 5 months old on trumpet) consider a high note? (I do understand scientific pitch notation, and think in that or sheet music. I’m very not new to music, just to trumpet.)

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Somehow reminded of this old Reddit post:

Original by u/cranne:

To make a long story short, im a late 20 something living in portland oregon. I had a pretty intense emo/goth phase as a tween that i thought i had grown out of.

A couple months ago, i was watching a nature program on our local station about crows. The program mentioned that if you feed and befriend them, crows will bring you small gifts. My emo phase came back full force and i figured that i was furloughed and had lots of time- so why not make some crow friends.

My plan worked a little too well and the resident 5 crows in my neighborhood have turned into an army 15 strong. At first my neighbors didnt mind and enjoyed it. They’re mostly elderly and most were in a bird watching club anyway. They thought the fact that i had crows following me around whenever i go outside was funny.

Lately, the crows have started defending me. My neighbor came over for a socially distanced chat (me on my porch her in my yard) and the crows started dive bombing her. They would not stop until she left my yard. They didnt make physical contact with her, but they got very close.

Am i liable if these crows injure someone since i fed them? I obviously cant control the crows. I would rather them not attack my neighbors. But since i technically created this nuisance, could i be financially on the hook for any injuries?

To be clear, they’re not agressive 100% of the time. If just the neighbors are out they are friendly normal crows. They only get aggressive when someone gets close to me or my property.

ETA: TL;DR- I have turned into Moira Rose, queen of the crows. My inadvertent crow army has gotten aggressive towards others. If they hurt someone could i be held liable?

ETA PT II: I did not train these birds to attack. Also thank you for all of your awards. Im glad my stupid decisions bring you joy. Please consider donating that money to your local Audubon society instead

Update:

So to make a long story short, i called our local Audubon society. They didn’t think feeding the crows was bad and suggested that the neighbors also start feeding them so they essentially became better socialized.

The plan worked and the crows are now a beloved part of the community. There have been no recent dive bombings.

Most amazingly, the crows may have legitimately saved my neighbor. Our city had a pretty big ice and snow event recently. Like i said in my last post, most of my neighbors are older. One of my neighbors was walking down his steep driveway, slipped, and couldnt get back up.

The crows started going ballistic and were making more noise than we have ever heard. A different neighbor went outside to see what was up and found the gentleman in his driveway. Neighbor is mostly ok! Just some serious bruises.

Needless to say the crows have been getting some high value food since then.

Thanks for all the help on my original post. It blew up way more than i was expecting and i thought you guys would enjoy an update.

Thanks, shared with some friends of mine who like birds!

Yep, I noticed

I loved watching the 1964 series. The family is definitely into creepy stuff, but also wholesome and loving. Was an enjoyable watch 60 years later! I think MGM posted the 1964 episodes on YouTube for free to help promote a newer Addams Family movie that came out?

Vibes the way I, who has never played Graveyard Keeper (or whatever the title of that game is), expect Graveyard Keeper to vibe.

Shame is usually deployed when someone “should already know better” and usually does not accompany an explanation, unless the shamer is feeling instructive.

Used to lurk in communities online that mocked others(’ behavior). Sometimes, the “wow what a worthless human being, the world would be better off if they weren’t here” comments also add “couldn’t be bothered to [do good thing X], what a [bad trait Y]” or “what kind of monster does [bad thing X], how [bad trait Y] of them.” Socially inept teenage me found this very instructive on what was acceptable and what was not, especially since I was inadvertently provided the why. (I avoid these types of communities now as a hopefully more-well-adjusted adult.) People can absolutely use their words to explain why something is shameful… at least when they are pretty sure everyone else is on their side, and the person being shamed won’t be able to retaliate (I am sure whoever is filmed for r/noahgettheboat isn’t aware they were posted on Reddit) or will be downvoted a lot if they try to defend themselves, whether justifiably or not (people judged assholes on r/AmITheAsshole).

I am a Piefed user. My default settings auto-hide things downvoted by a certain threshold. I have notice that this by default hides a lot of bigotry or cruelty from me, so I don’t bother changing the setting that collapses replies downvoted past a certain threshold. I think a lot of other are the same, or they just never change it because a lot of people do not mess with default settings.

I know that some people downvote as a simple dislike button. Alright, irrelevant, I don’t care. But I also know that some do it because you broke the norms of the community or the rules or did something mean and cruel. There are enough trolls and dislike-downvoters out there that the most uncontroversial and on-topic post will still get downvotes. 10 downvotes to 200 upvotes is nothing to worry about. But 20 downvotes to 20 upvotes? Hmm, did I just post an unpopular thing and so I can ignore the downvotes, or did I make a big faux pas and was 1) unintentionally but unfortunately bigoted 2) cruel to another user 3) breaking a community norm/rule I failed to notice 4) perceived as spamming/self-promoing/LLM output (I write my em dashes with my own two hands on my keyboard) 5) anything else that people give deserved downvotes for because you’re mucking up the discussion? Time to do some self-examination. There is noise in downvotes, but there’s some meaningful signal too.

And the people who seem too sensitive about downvotes might be picking up on the signal, going “what did I do? I didn’t do anything wrong, why are you mad at me?” and getting upset over that. I can certainly understand where they might be coming from if they poured their heart out and got a bunch of unexpected downvotes. Or if they are having a really rough day or something. “Is my picture of a pear really that offensive that people would downvote it? Or did I just get my post collapsed and hidden from everyone in !pears or !photography because enough people on All didn’t like it, figured that downvote = dislike, and hit the downvote button? Man, (assuming !pears and !photography are moderately active) having the reasonable expectation that people would see and interact with my post, but having that frustrated because it is auto-hidden as if it were spam sure is frustrating.” And if this is one of your first posts, at least on Piefed, I think if you get enough downvotes you might get marked with two exclamation points by your username for lots of downvotes. Kind of a caution sign, controversial content or spam or cruel or something. Nobody wants to be slapped with the “take care around this person” sign for doing nothing wrong but posting something the hivemind dislikes but that didn’t actually do anything harmful beyond make someone look at a picture they thought was ugly.

I do not care about the fake internet points, but I do care about the consequences voting has on whether your post will get seen or not, and about the humans trying, in some small way, to judge my post through those votes in case I have actually done something objectionable.

As a huge hater of video when I could just see a perfectly good text article with pictures or GIFs, knitting is one area where I often find I need to see a video. Seconded.

That’s super cool. Never associated knitting with more utility wear in my head, so it’s interesting to see knitting used to make something like this.

For context:

This is the home of the Tiny Awards, which, since 2023, has celebrated the best of the small, poetic, creative, handmade web.

The Tiny Awards exist because we thought it was important to shine a spotlight on the sorts of personal web projects that tend to get overlooked by more traditional, larger or more commercial awards.

The link is for voting, but it also gives you links to the sites to vote on, so even if you do not want to vote, lots of cool small sites here.

Not mine; but wondering about consolidating !dullsters@dullsters.net and !dull_mens_club@lemmy.world. I personally favor the former because I post there and because I’d feel weird signing up for !dull_mens_club as a woman—I imagine I’m not the only one who would feel that way. Inclusivity is good. Then again I have never been in !dull_mens_club, so… Will probably make an actual post for it here later.

!blood_donors@healthy.community is still mostly me yelling into the void that I accomplished a donation and feeling guilty because it looks so much like humble bragging. But what the hell else would I post? People sometimes comment a thank you, and I wonder how much is because people on stuff like Mastodon are seeing my post since I ensure they are hashtagged with #blooddonors and similar tags (thanks PieFed). I miss r/blooddonors. I seem to remember an inactive community for blood donors at one point and might look into consolidation too.

I hope !transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone has seen this

Oh man Shimejis! I remember these from DeviantArt so many years ago… could you crosspost this to !smallweb@lemmy.cafe?

I count in groups of (2/3/4) stitches and push them down the needle once they’re counted so I can try to keep track. And this still happens to me!

Might be worth sending a request to be made mod there, unless you want very different rules (in which case probably better to have two different communities if the current people subbed are not okay with what your new rules would be), or to contribute to quokk.au over blahaj.zone

I know my local library has one; I was surprised when I learned this.

Obsidian Bases sure are useful! Will take a look back later at the plugins

Glad this exists, thank you