QuentinCallaghan

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[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

"Misery loves company."

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This reminds me of a straight pride event titled "Hetero Pride" that was organized in Finland way back in 2013. One of the organizers was a deputy regional councillor and Finns Party member. He claimed how society and the media over-emphasized homosexuality, calling it "homozation". He also claimed how it was hard to defend the traditional family model without being labelled homophobic and racist.

The event was held near the Parliament House in Helsinki. There were whole a lot more counter-protesters and some came to the event mainly because it was more like "popcorn pride". One of the speakers at the event literally said in his speech how "we don't have anything against homosexuals, but..." and another said something about how "the Bible states that marriage is only between a man and a woman". One speaker was later asked about "what privileges do gays have these days", and he just replied "I have to be honest, I can't say anything about that".

"The tiger can't change its stripes." The organizer mentioned later posed in a picture with five other men who made a Nazi salute – one of them was Seppo Lehto, an infamous Neo-Nazi. He also made a Nazi salute himself in another picture, this time wearing a Hitler mask. When called out, he said "I'm not in that picture. I wasn't there. I don't know where these kinds of clips came from." He later admitted being in the picture, claiming how he hadn't made a Nazi salute: "It's just a normal salute with the left hand. The official Nazi salute is with the right hand at a 45 degree angle."

The explanation wasn't enough for the Finns Party, and as a consequence he was fired from the party's regional council because of homophobia. Later he also resigned from the party.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why there are no movies about sperm bank robberies?

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 month ago

Dang it! Lemm.ee was formed in summer 2023 alongside the other instances that became the Lemmyverse's biggest, sad to see it go. Thank you for everything!

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

That Carlin clip has been circulated in various alternative medicine quackery communities for a long time, I doubt RFK Jr. has any media literacy. The similar notion has somewhat entered in mainstream discourse with the concept of "immunity debt".

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I think RFK thinks that swimming in contaminated water somehow helps build immunity.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

He was inconsiderate when he made edgy jokes, tried to test if those two Fiver guys really would put up a sign saying "gas the Jews" and once said the N-word in a livestream – controversy ensued for obvious reasons and he since apologized for his actions. I haven't been really following him in the last few years but after those controversies he left any Nazi jokes out, I think he learned his lessons. He has since settled down with a family and it has been pleasant following his life, especially now that he has gotten into Linux.

But don't tell anything like that to the average Internet leftist! Even if PewDiePie apologized and left edgy jokes out, changed and moved on, in their eyes he is eternally a Nazi or Nazi-enabler who can never redeem himself! No matter how many years have passed, no matter how many apologies, any time PewDiePie gets mentioned in a post or is the main topic, this happens.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Sperm racer came immediately into my mind.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There's WriteFreely for example. There's also Plume, but looks like it's not actively maintained anymore.

 
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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 

Previously this week I released a Lemmy guide in Finnish, as the platform has started to gain a bit more traction here. Based on that, I made an English version on my blog. I tell about what is Lemmy, how to choose an instance, how to find communities and how the interoperability with Mastodon works. I also tell a bit about mobile apps and my own experiences as an instance admin.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 months ago

This seems to be like a recent moral panic here in Finland about therian kids in schools.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

This headline might as well be from The Babylon Bee.

[–] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't know this is his first PC build, I assumed he had built one before.

 
 
 
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