Nice! Glad I was able to help.

I’m not gay myself, so I wasn’t quite sure of some of your descriptors, but for a gay-bro music video night, I felt this would have to at least check some of the boxes.

My best friend’s ex-bf was Ukrainian and he showed me music videos for Kazaky. Seemed very gay and the music was cool (synthpop/EDM) and the videos, outfits and dancing seemed really good to me. It made me think of if Lady Gaga did a collar with Rammstein.

Thank you for the input!

It’s one of those things I’ve been meaning to do since the 2 services were bundled, but whenever I got bored with YouTube or whatever other streaming things I was using, I’d take a break and read a book from my backlog or play a video game and then forget to try them.

I just want longer content to put on in the background or while I do chores, I just don’t want it to be AI slop.

I really need to give this and/or Curiosity Steam a try. I still get a lot of use out of YouTube Premium (oh, boo yourself 😄) but for documentary type things, it’s so hard to sure through the AI generated stuff anymore.

Lol, I’m just picturing a bunch of middle-aged guys throwing their backs out trying to suplex each other.

As ridiculous as everything with this guy is, going on free dates with his girlfriend and sending himself to a different sports fantasy camp every week is seeming much less damaging than what a lot of other cronies have been up to. I’ll take funding a manchild’s excursions over a pointless war any day.

Send him up in one of Elon’s rockets next for his space camp adventure!

Most likely that will have been one of mine. The Blakistons Fish Owl. It lives in Siberia and Hokkaido.

I just found a book of Ainu folk tales called The Song the Owl God Sang and the first story is about the god that inhabits that owl in their beliefs. They have quite the pantheon, but their 3 main gods are the bear, the wolf, and that big chonky owl. Neat stuff!

That fish owl is difficult to find photos of, so it’s always extra special when I come across them. I need to get the book Owls of the Eastern Ice next. It is all about a guy’s 5 year adventure with them.

I’m glad you found something you enjoyed. I try to find things that should impress anyone, and the owls always deliver!

If this was someplace more commercial like reddit, I’d probably feel ok with occasionally spamming the charity I volunteer at, as it ties in with the content I share, and of course we would enjoy donations. There’s 2 reasons I don’t do it here.

This space I feel is meant to be for users, by users. I don’t want anyone to feel they owe me something for posting, sharing, or interacting with them. I’m here because I like most of you all. I think it’s great we still have an online space like this.

I also think while we need assistance, we are from all over the world, and I think people here should support their local direct action groups before they toss anything my way. Your local groups need you more than you need me. I tell everyone to kick in to them before even thinking of me. The sole exception was the LemmySilver contest, but that was by the World admin team, so that was an organization offering specifically charity money. Even then, I’m pretty sure I asked the community if they were cool with it going to my group.

I just like that money really doesn’t come into play in Lemmy. Shit is expensive these days and it feels like everyone is looking to get a slice from everyone else. Keeping this place non-commercial and with nobody looking for a transactional relationship seems like a huge plus.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with Lemmy, honestly. We make jokes and share the occasional funny picture in the comments, but it’s never really been the focus of the content.

I’m the main poster, though not a mod, for SuperbOwl and we’ve grown well without watering down the content. I try to stick to mostly educational, yet fun things, but I summarized a research paper this week on how levels of street traffic affects the hunting success rate of nocturnal owls. It was a pretty big hit, better than some pic only posts.

Maybe if the captivating content is keeping up with the volume of users, it’s less of an issue of conversation deteriorating. I’m still at a point I have a big audience but can keep up talking with everyone. If it got to a point where I couldn’t, I imagine it may be like any other group gathering where someone will inevitably try to fill any awkward silence with whatever and that could detail the previous flow of sticking to the real topic of the community.

I don’t know if that’s helpful to anyone whose community may have already passed that point, but we haven’t had to take any mod action or try to force anyone to do anything. I just feel we’re pretty good example of how popularity doesn’t need to mean sinking to the lowest common denominator.

I really appreciate all the time put into your replies!

If you haven’t discovered us yet on !superbowl@lemmy.world, you should join us. The French and German communities there have been very helpful there, and there is also a person that researches Aztec religion where we have discussed some of their linguistics as well and the trouble people have with determining what kind of owl Chiquatli is supposed to be.

Hearing some of the Portuguese owl words is helpful as well. I try to find photos and articles from all over the world, and having you all explain the languages to me helps me greatly.

I think I’m going to side with you on this one. They start out calm enough, simple feeding and housing requirements, they can’t hurt you as much as some of these larger animals, and most don’t seem to get too bad an attitude even as adults unless they’re cornered. Honestly my biggest problem would be them going to the bathroom everywhere and in places not readily accessible to clean. Eww.

Thank you for sharing all that! You’ve given me a lot to read up on. I was intrigued when you mentioned the Owl of Athena/Owl of Minerva in modern religious context.

Also very interesting about the confusion in Spanish about the confusion of the barn owl and screech owl. There is another person here I talk with about the confusion of them in Mesoamerican religion, so I’ll have to see that paper.

Owls are present in many belief systems, in good and bad incarnations, so I’m always curious to hear about them.

Owl religion? Go on… 🤔

11 square meters is literally the size of a bedroom lol

Now that I’d like to see! Though I’d still only eat the pieces with the crust, that’s my favorite part.

I had bought my 08 Honda Fit (Jazz to the non-Americans) brand new. It got near 190,000 miles and my wife was begging me for a year to pick a new car, but nothing I drove felt like it was worth what it cost.

She decided she gave me enough time, and she went and bought herself a new car and now I’m making her last year of payments on her Hyundai Elantra. It isn’t what I’d pick, but the features for the price are amazing and it has about 150,000 less miles. I gave my Honda to my niece as her first car.

The Hyundai doesn’t physically fit me well, so if I ever do find a car I enjoy, I at least I’ll have something newer to trade. Otherwise I’ll drive this until the wheels fall off.

You 2 do a great job with your communities! I’m very jealous you have such a counterpart. That would be such a relief.

I do get that, and with the .ML group starting this platform, of course there are a lot of kinds of leftist people here. In a way I enjoy it, even if I don’t agree with a number of people’s views. Spending time here has really made me confused as to what descriptor I could put on my general set of political beliefs.

The part that frustrates me is all posts are either every comment just says the same thing (ie. This person sucks, may some disaster fall upon them.) or it turns into people bickering about who is the best type of leftist. So I get people complaints about either “group think” or that everyone is just fighting each other in every thread like how communists and anarchists seem to have done for the past century.

I don’t see much education, discussion/debate, or anyone organizing or promoting direct action like I’d hope. I’m not a real fan of the ML philosophy, but someone like cowbee I see share a ton of reading material and educational stuff for their belief system is what I’d personally like to see more of from folks like the anarchists and dem socialists. I’d like to see people share stories from programs they’re involved in. I’d love to learn more about stuff like Food Not Bombs or how people are trying to unionize, not from news articles, but by the people here on Lemmy.

Being here got me to take action helping the wildlife in my community, and I’d like to hear about other people actually becoming forces of change. If all of us just stay behind a screen arguing with each other, what is the point of that? You guys have to be up to some good stuff, and I want to see it and be inspired. I got near infinite mainstream news sites if I want to be annoyed and worked up, but I’m here.

I used to discuss it with the people on c/fedigrow because it would bum me out. I thought I had upset people somehow.

They reminded me of things like spring break from school and people doing family things and all that. I don’t have kids or close family, so a lot of that kind of thing slips my mind that others have to do things in relation to that.

And once you see they do eventually come back, you get used to it.

As a daily niche subject poster, yes, please participate, even if it’s just something simple. It makes me feel like I’m not just talking to an empty room. Upvotes are fine, but I post to try to get you guys enthused and taking interest in the subject matter.

And I appreciate you reading them! 🦉❤️

I need to use my Subscribed feed more. I’ve been doing All - Top 6 Hour since I’m pretty active, but lately I feel I’m missing a decent bit of what I want to see.