Don’t get me started on the irony of those! :)

Ah, yeah. I think they realized having all their communities in mixed languages would get messy.

I think the community has enough sense to not go crazy about “buy russian gas, is europe!”.

I would love to get neat recommendations for British shoes and shortbread, and if people suggest British digital services I’m sure the good people of the comment section will give helpful feedback.

Feddit.org has German and English speaking communities - if you check out their instance, communities like !dach@feddit.org, !deutschland@feddit.org, and !ich_iel@feddit.org are among the most active there.

That’s not really the point though. It’s a maybe bit ironic to have the dominant “buy European” community hosted at feddit.uk, but I’m all for it. Would love to see them join forces.

I guess it depends on the art style. But generally, if you want to do it the hard way:

1. Get a drawing tablet. The ones where you draw directly on a screen are the best, but they are also way more expensive.
2. Get some powerful software that can imitate brushes. Krita is good.
3. Practice, experiment, watch videos and gather knowledge on both the art style and your software of choice. Copy pieces of art in the style you want to reproduce until you master it.

With an emphasis on the third point. Digital art done manually is not so different from traditional art - it takes practice.

Of course there are also styles you can reproduce using filters in GIMP or whatever. And you can do the above by drawing over pictures you’ve taken or borrowed for the purpose. It’s really a question with an unlimited number of potential answers.

Lemmy does not display microblogs, which is what Threads is.

The only way we’d see content from Threads here is if someone on Threads somehow stumbles over content from here (for example if it’s boosted by a Mastodon user they follow), and leaves a comment.

That, or if Threads users tag a community, in the same way Mastodon uses can do.

Basically it expands the theoretical reach of the comment section, but in practice it’s unlikely to have a huge effect.

When talking about the making of Jojo Rabbit (a must see movie, in my opinion), I remember Taika Waititi making a point out wanting to represent the colourful fashion and more lively sides of Germany under the Third Reich. War movies tend to portray Nazis as dark and dull figures with no inner life other than murdering Jews and plotting for world domination. This is probably dangerous, as we won’t recognize the fascists when they’re in front of us. They’ll be laughing and dancing as they murder the innocent.

Similar to how we study Eichmann to learn about the banality of evil, I think pictures like this one should be in every text book. This is what evil looks like — pretty much like anything else, if you’re willing to ignore the atrocities.