I discovered it this week and I love it! picard-excited Not sure how new the feature is.

It’s easy. Just put the citation inside square brackets, and then preface all that with a caret. Like this: Beanis cures cancer.^[I made it up.] It automatically takes care of the numbering and shit.

Example:

Beanis cures cancer,[1] and aliens will arrive next year.[2] More and more people are saying these things![3]

  1. I made it up. ↩︎

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  3. https://hexbear.net/PPB ↩︎

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    12 days ago

    The US has always been run by vampires,[1] and they moved into Russia in the 90’s.[2] Vampires love their little power games, political intrigue, etc, but they rarely do direct confrontation.[3] There’s only one thing that could provoke them into it: aliens. Ofc, they’ve had UFO technology for a long time,[4] but they’ve never actually captured a live alien, and a lot of the stuff is too advanced or biocoded, so they can’t unlock the full potential.[5] A UFO must have crashed in Ukraine and now both sides think (or at least suspect) that one of them survived the crash.

    They probably haven’t captured them yet (if they actually even survived), but if either group of vampires gets ahold of them, it’s fucking game over. They’re gonna go straight for the Galactic Union of Planets and it’s gonna be full-on, Castlevania style demon armies from here to the fucking Pleiades.[6]

    And I know there’s some fucking crackpot accelerationists out there like, “Actually, it’d be good if the vampires got the alien because then the GUP would have to intervene.” Yeah, just like they “had to intervene” if the vampires got UFOs.[7] Well, where the fuck are they? The Council is filled with these fucking, 90,000 year old vegetables hooked up to a bunch of tubes,[8] they will not respond quickly enough and they have never taken the vampires seriously enough.[9] Also, if they do interfere, then we’ll have failed the test and we’ll be eternally forbidden from interstellar travel.[10]

    Honestly, our best bet at this point is to launch the nukes. The Watcher will shoot them out of the sky, come down and tell us we failed, suck the extra CO2 from the atmosphere, and take control of the planet from the vampires.[11] Like at this point we’re gonna fail either way, the only real danger is the vampires getting to the council, and that’s way more important than just our planet anyway. And we’d be much better off under the Watcher than under the fucking vampires, that’s for sure.[12]

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    12. This has been a recycled bit. ↩︎