https://archive.is/UGjjx (LA Times article)

Long before Guy Bartkus’ personal war against life ended with him the sole suspect in blowing up a fertility clinic, and himself, there was a fascination with pyrotechnics.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
    29·
    29 days ago

    TBF he was only active on Lemmy during the month of the 2023 Reddit third-party app exodus.

  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
    28·
    29 days ago

    Hey remember when .world was getting all high and mighty about defederating from Hexbear and Lemmygrad because they might incite violence?

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      141·
      29 days ago

      Duh, it’s not violence when it’s against the marginalized.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    29 days ago

    Anyone want to place bets on how long it is before Elon uses this as an excuse to whisper in Trump’s ear that he needs to classify the Fediverse as a terrorist organization? It’d conveniently shut down competition with Xitter (and other billionaire-owned social media sites) if Mastodon (and Lemmy and PeerTube and Diaspora etc) was shut down for “RaDiCaLiZiNg fErTiLiTy ClInIc BoMbErS” or whatever BS.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      131·
      29 days ago

      lemmy is not even a blip on anyone’s radar and huge majority of its users still primarily use reddit and twitter.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      29 days ago

      I would strongly recommend using a Lemmy/fediverse instance that is not hosted in the US.

      For tons of reasons, the fact that it might get shut down by Trump isn’t even in the to five.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
    14·
    29 days ago

    He volunteered that he wanted to kill himself by strapping an explosive to his head, setting the timer for one hour and drugging himself to sleep. He said he lacked access to any drug stronger than codeine. Available explosives were not the problem.

  • jeffw@lemmy.world
    10·
    29 days ago

    I find it interesting that he was removed as a mod 3 days ago and this came out today

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    29 days ago

    Hey look, one of these anonymous internet people was insane and became a terrorist. Sure casts a bad light on all of you.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
    6·
    28 days ago

    It is unavoidable that in any social net with thousands or million users, can appear also one or several which obviously spread criminal, violent, terroristic and far right messages, because pure statistics. It can not value a social network by these, but how they treat or if they tolerate these users, instead of banning these in the same moment after posts like these.

  • fl42v@lemmy.ml
    1·
    23 days ago

    I mean, VHEMT is a great ideology and ever, but the dude seems to have missed the “voluntary” part.