Remember folks you don’t get to choose your sexual orientation, but you do get to choose if you’re an asshole. So please try not to be assholes to those of us that got stuck with one of the most taboo ones.

Also since I feel it bears repeating:

“Stephanie LaFarge, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the New Jersey Medical School, and Director of Counseling at the ASPCA, writes that two groups can be distinguished: bestialists, who rape or abuse animals, and zoophiles, who form an emotional and sexual attachment to animals.”

Something I think should be emphasized more is for most of us zoophilia is not just a sexual attraction, but an emotional attraction as well. It really is the same love as you would feel for another person, would you hurt those you love? I certainly hope not, and neither would I. Heck I don’t even have it in me to kill a bug, it’s either catch to release outside or ignore. 😁

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked

The TLDR; Democrats raised money for far right candidates during their primaries in some strategic elections, the idea being that given the choice between a sane moderate democrat and a lunatic maga republican in the general election, people would choose the sane option.

I don’t know that is what’s happening here however, even if they threw a massive amount of money at Robert F. Kennedy Jr it seems unlikely he would ever win the democratic presidential primary.

Not universal but it’s the unfortunate reality that people obsess over stuff they don’t like as a form of internalized repression. They better be careful though, looking at so many furry images while downvoting they may eventually catch the pathOwOgen.

It’s nice that you can get this information by querying the database directly but it would be nicer still if it was built into the admin or mod interface somehow. Although I imagine in order to compile that information you used some sort of DB aggregation which could be unexpectedly resource intensive on larger instances so perhaps not.

I wonder how possible it would be to create some sort of plugin system for lemmy to add functionality like this and more that would only be of interest to particular lemmy instances. That could help to keep the core of the server small and lightweight while giving people the option developing and installing server resident bots, additional functionality, and user interface enhancements as they see fit.