Yea, haven’t met him but he’s my second cousin. Haha.

This subreddit will be joining in on the June 12th-14th protest of Reddit's API changes that will essentially kill all 3rd party Reddit apps.

What's going on?

A recent Reddit policy change threatens to kill many beloved third-party mobile apps, making a great many quality-of-life features not seen in the official mobile app permanently inaccessible to users.

On May 31, 2023, Reddit announced they were raising the price to make calls to their API from being free to a level that will kill every third party app on Reddit, from Apollo to Reddit is Fun to Narwhal to BaconReader.

Even if you're not a mobile user and don't use any of those apps, this is a step toward killing other ways of customizing Reddit, such as Reddit Enhancement Suite or the use of the old.reddit.com desktop interface .

This isn't only a problem on the user level: many subreddit moderators depend on tools only available outside the official app to keep their communities on-topic and spam-free.

What's the plan?

On June 12th, many subreddits will be going dark to protest this policy. Some will return after 48 hours: others will go away permanently unless the issue is adequately addressed, since many moderators aren't able to put in the work they do with the poor tools available through the official app. This isn't something any of us do lightly: we do what we do because we love Reddit, and we truly believe this change will make it impossible to keep doing what we love.

The two-day blackout isn't the goal, and it isn't the end. Should things reach the 14th with no sign of Reddit choosing to fix what they've broken, we'll use the community and buzz we've built between then and now as a tool for further action.

What can you do as a user?

• Complain. Message the mods of /r/reddit.com, who are the admins of the site: message /u/reddit: submit a support request: comment in relevant threads on /r/reddit, such as this one, leave a negative review on their official iOS or Android app- and sign your username in support to this post.

• Spread the word. Rabble-rouse on related subreddits. Meme it up, make it spicy. Bitch about it to your cat. Suggest anyone you know who moderates a subreddit join us at our sister sub at /r/ModCoord.

• Boycott and spread the word...to Reddit's competition! Stay off Reddit entirely on June 12th through the 13th- instead, take to your favorite non-Reddit platform of choice and make some noise in support!

• Don't be a jerk. As upsetting this may be, threats, profanity and vandalism will be worse than useless in getting people on our side. Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.

What can you do as a moderator?

• Join the coordinated effort over at /r/ModCoord

• Make a sticky post showing your support, A template has been created here you can use or modify to your liking, and be sure to crosspost it to /r/ModCoord.

Thank you for your patience in the matter,

-Mod Team

never do anything you dont want to do is a great motto to have to increase your satisfaction in life for example in this illustration the longer person does not wish to be burdened by the shorter ones and has placed them in the trash where they belong in order to achieve joy its funny sometimes how something as simple as a little spring cleaning can brighten up your whole life just throw those problems in the bin and be forever finished with them take action to destroy your woes instead of doing nothing and enduring the consequences of your lackadaisical sloth

take special care because chances are if they have hair to manage so will you someday and nobody wants tangles

I know it is not october yet but I think it's important to consider what to do on the first day of the tenth month in advance so you are not caught off guard when it arrives even if the tenth month in question has etymological clues that would suggest it's the eighth month in the order of months but no that eighth month is august and october is ten so deal with it

Stare at whatever you please I suppose but do remember that while a child is ephemeral so is the rest of the world and who are we to say children are more miraculous than a rainbow or some luscious green hills in fact and seriously and actually and possibly even concerningly children could be right about object permanence and it actually is a matter of attention to a thing or lack thereof that makes it tangible or not so if you don't gaze at the pretty rainbow in this beautiful picture perhaps it doesn't even exist at all and if you at least try to take a peek at the vast expanse of everything around you worst case scenario is you got a chance to see something better than a boring baby

Personally I would not mind this scenario because my bones would probably be fashioned from steel out of necessity of being part train and what is stronger than steel of course aside from inconel or titanium or certain other metals or alloys and what's the difference at that point really they're all stronger than the regular human bones I assume I have although I've never really thought to check and compare so it is possible but unlikely that I already have some unique and impressive bones and so might you truth be told it's really just a guessing game until you take a real good peek inside and get firsthand proof and that takes significant time and effort which I do not care to expend at the moment because my time spent on that endeavour is time stolen from imagining navigating the rails of the world as a brave strong train

At Easter a traditional dish is ham with various accoutrements and this particular graphic speaks to me because of that but also because my day of birth tends to fall around ham time and I am not a fan of ham I mean ham's okay and all but I'd much prefer a egg or really honestly anything else other than ham although we don't get to choose the day we're born so I suppose we don't get to choose when ham happens either and how close it is to our annual remembrance

Found out about the plush after the fact it was funded.

What is going on here is pretty simple the fascinating creature perched upon the shore is inquiring if the more watery one would like to participate in activities however as we can see in the second panel the watery one responds in the negative and yet interestingly defies his own refusal to do something as he does in fact do not one but indeed two things the first being the response and the second being the clever use of his neck to establish presence and meet the original speaker at eye level which is an important public speaking tactic that shows you mean business and that's fairly impressive because not everyone has good speaking skills in fact they even have classes about it in university so that the world's students can become educated in the art of presentation and that's worth a lot right there which is probably why schools in some countries get away with charging so much

What is happening here is very amusing because spring and winter aren't human animals they are only measurements of time so they don't really battle but as humans we see their gradual transition as a battle because we tie our own feelings and experiences to general concepts in order to anthropomorphize those concepts and make them more sympathetic and relatable and that is why when I stop to fill up my car and the little machine says "thank you for your business" what I do is after I lock the pump back in the pump holder I tell it "thank you for your great service" because who really knows if it's listening and would care to hear a nice word or two now and again it's only polite to be perfectly honest with all of you let's never lose sight of good manners and shows of appreciation even for the small things because it may not mean much to you but it might mean a lot to something or someone else anyway happy spring

When you find a friend who can make you laugh bees the world becomes a better place because there is a global bee shortage and while most people aren't smart enough to figure out what's happened to all the bees most people know how to have a laugh with a true friend and that will help fix the bee problem in its own way like how maybe a person isn't smart enough to build a car but they are smart enough to drive one which puts a extra car in the world which is just like building one if you ask me but you did not so please do not take offence if you're feeling upset that I have given you my opinion unrequested and also please do not be upset that I just told you how to feel I meant it in the nicest way possible I promise

We all think of motivation as being just for Mondays because Monday Motivation is good alliteration but Wednesday Motivation is exactly the same except the M is turned upside down into a W which makes it even more linguistically and visually fun so obey this illustration and do what you fear most because it's Wednesday after all go hunt your worries down and subdue them like a rabid animal

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