BrooklynMan

designer of experiences, developer of apps, resident of nyc, citizen of earth

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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I don’t want to discuss the incident in detail because it was very traumatic, but long story short, I had a near-drowning incident when I was 12 (technically not a drowning because I survived). I was technically dead for several minutes.

    I saw nothing. total blank. I remember flashes of struggling to get to the side of the pool one moment, and flashes of waking up in an ambulance the next. then it cuts out again, and then I woke up in a hospital room with tubes in all my holes (plus some tubes in new holes) and surrounded by my mom and brothers.














  • That’s actually a really good question. I can’t answer for certain, but, sine moderation on lemmy isn’t particularly sophisticated yet, I think it’s safe to assume that you’re not going to be able to see them, even as mod, if you have them blocked personally.

    if that’s the case (most likely), your most likely tow choices are to either permaban them from your community or to live with leaving the user un-blocked for moderation purposes.

    one third option would be to mod your community with an alt account or appoint some other user to help out…




  • brainwashed Fox/MSNBC/CNN people

    this represents 3 different groups of people who, largely, not only disagree on many sociopolitical issues, but also largely hate each other.

    just FYI

    Fox is pretty far right, CNN is kind of in the middle, and MSNBC leans leftish, as mainstream US cable media outlets go