Twitter C/D

probably best not to link to substacks of hatemongers. quoting or paraphrasing should be enough if it's a worthwhile dunking opportunity

every fourth tweet is an ad now. yesterday i blocked my second ad for devices that set up dominoes so you can knock them over. just now i blocked my second panama hat ad. the other day i had one for sink strainers.

oddly, my second account sees no ads at all.

Yeah I dont ever see ads on Twitter? Is it because I never use it/only have 50 follows? Is it my Adblock? idgi.

I use it heaps and never see ads. Whenever I saw them in the past I would always block them on principle.

no doubt this is weak-minded of me but i don't really consider "this account doesn't exist" as any kind of per se admission on singal's part, let alone a defeat or whatever: lots of ppl switch off their accounts for a while when they want or need to take a pause when the Discourse™️ gets too intense or distracting

(i mean he's bad and wrong and he *should* very much log off and shut up on this issue -- does he even write abt other issues now? -- but that is not yet what this is)

idk exposing your source to legal jeopardy is an L is how i break it down to an extent

Is it my Adblock

yes, using twitter via a browser with an adblocker keeps them from showing up and is now the only tolerable way to use it

lmao

Jesse Singal logged off twitter yesterday and then read all your mean tweets about him and wrote about how it made him feel. No, I am not joking. pic.twitter.com/cbIg2DySuZ

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) March 15, 2023

pretty gross that the entire reason that dude continues to write bad articles on select topics is that it draws clicks and he's taken that particular stance is he has insanely thin skin and doubles down on his slanted perspective and hate every time someone calls him an asshole

the reason he's taken that stance, I mean

his initial work was wrong-headed and bad and it just keeps getting worse

he shouldve stuck to his previous normal obsession

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpCvBLhX0AAAE5n?format=jpg&name=small

his blog has the subhead "Singal-Minded" and this alone should be enough to condemn this guy to the Hague.

xp oh jeez I forgot about that

Between Jesse Singal and Jesse Watters, I'm feeling bad about my name these days.

There's always Jesse James

You could change it to Jussie

every generation gets the andrew sullivan it deserves

Every generation sends a hero up the challop charts

I logged out but kept some lists public so I can keep up w/ sports, etc, etc. When I visit the site (in a private window blah blah blah), the suggested tweets (not ads) at the bottom are just awful -- anti-"woke", anti-trans, anti-biden, anti-Dems, climate-change denying...just gross.

https://t.co/WhRsxxMkPs pic.twitter.com/RJ9rP9GWRo

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) March 16, 2023

i dont use that feature but it seems like a lot of people do

that's one of those things that makes me thinking I'm using a different twitter. like I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone where some of us or maybe just me are using an app that doesn't actually exist any more

I do use bookmarks for the stuff I want to save and want to find later, I like too much stuff to use likes for that.

I just have 270 tabs on my phone where I’ve followed an article link or a band post or something.

Oh god, up to 312 now.

thats the way to do it

there has never been a product feature designed by fewer women than this https://t.co/CZoxSN2Nte

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) March 16, 2023

lol this is so pitiful

Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets won’t show on the For You tab for the most part: https://t.co/nz8XNGtIXb

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 17, 2023

I like that you killed your own mother.

— Glenn Danzig (@GlennDanzigReal) March 17, 2023

haa

Guess he had something to say

did Glenn's Twitter account get hacked by the Gravel Teens?

2nd best thing Danzig has done involving mothers.

— Ewan Ross (@Mentoch) March 17, 2023

Third. The first best thing was yours.

— Glenn Danzig (@GlennDanzigReal) March 17, 2023

Twitter is Good

he’s so vain

vein?

who itt wants to volunteer to explain the "bethany mandel killed her own mother" meme and what makes it funny

I thought this was the origin of it, but with someone this awful maybe it goes even deeper

You can call me a Grandma killer. I’m not sacrificing my home, food on the table, all of our docs and dentists, every form of pleasure (museums, zoos, restaurants), all my kids’ teachers in order to make other people comfortable. If you want to stay locked down, do. I’m not.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 6, 2020

crüt:

In the last chapter of our book, I tell the story of my mother’s death in detail for the first time. Trolls think they found the motherload of a reveal with a very old tweet, in order to accuse me of killing my mom. I did, sort of! https://t.co/gTO4IR4FmQ

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023

extremely weird lady

not mad

You don’t matter, not to me, and probably not to anyone in real life either. It bothers you people so much that I won’t crawl into a ball and shut up. I don’t care about literally anything you say because I have a bestseller and wonderful life off of this stupid app. https://t.co/TwWgU3qUiq

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023

I watched my mom die. I took her off of life support before we knew if she would survive because I had the choice to do it then.

— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) November 3, 2014

Such odd phrasing

“off of”

“I needed to bump her off before she could potentially recover and I’d have to put up with her for 20 more years.”

to be fair, if you had the weight of responsibility for bringing bethany mandel into the world on your shoulders, the sweet release of death would be pretty tempting

sounds traumatic and not very funny tbh

well yes

She sounds nice.

Bethany Mandel deserves an eternity of misery and trauma.

“I needed to bump her off before she could potentially recover and I’d have to put up with her for 20 more years.”

Ms. Mandel may be an overly rigid and harshly judgemental person who is belligerently proud of her bad politics, but she is correct that a person on a ventilator undergoing a life-threatening major infection and cascading failures of multiple vital organs (as she describes her mother being at the time) is predictably going to die in a matter of days or weeks, regardless of treatment. The idea of anyone 'making a recovery' under such circumstances is nothing but a false hope. The only indeterminate factor is how long and agonizing their remaining time will be before they die. Responsible physicians would have made that clear to her at the time.