Twitter C/D

about what you'd expect from a petulant child

I havent seen beef this petty since the auld IRC days of people taking over channels and kicking everyoen they didnt like out.

If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars

why on earth would anyone, let alone >2M people, retweet this?

it was the best photo ever

I havent seen beef this petty since the auld IRC days of people taking over channels and kicking everyoen they didnt like out.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, August 20, 2023 9:48 PM bookmarkflaglink

LMAO

dude paid $44B just to become sideshow bob at the rake factory pic.twitter.com/67d0wsdiHy

— danfromtheinternet on threads 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏾 (@danfromtheweb) August 20, 2023

It's Elon https://t.co/PnRqbTogQT

— taddy mason (@no_goblins) August 20, 2023

Scoop: X/Twitter, is planning a major change in how news articles appear on the service, stripping out the headline and other text so that tweets with links display only an article’s lead image, according to material viewed by Fortune. https://t.co/QWSA3UroEi

— Kylie Robison (@kyliebytes) August 22, 2023

3. ???????
4. Profit!

(I like that I had to search for this thread rather than just see it glaring at me on my SNA)

I also love that NYT is resolutely referring to X as The Service Formerly Known As Twitter. First TAFKAP, now TSFKAT

seem to be two viral posts today

* a reddit AITA with a grown man throwing a wobbly about his girlfriend making him a cake slightly different to the one he wanted for his birthday, in front of his girlfriend's kids
* a French person saying they think French food is better than American food

in each the ratio of fucking idiots to reasonable responses looks like about 50-1, even when you scroll way past the blue ticks.

it just feels like a shitty subreddit now.

the cake aita responses are really something

throwing a wobbly?

I'd never heard that phrase before, but the internet thinks it's just a normal bit of Brit slang.

the cake aita responses are really something

deeply depressing

interesting variance though -- the reddit thread is pretty clearly in the "you're a fucking grownup" camp, all the upvoted posts tell the guy he's the asshole here. on Twitter, tons of people saying "absolutely not the asshole. it was his special day and he should get what he wants." reddit is not great, but Twitter really shows itself here

One may legitimately wonder how the Twitterati of 2022 would have responded.

reddit link for the untwittered?

AITA for being honest with my girlfriend when she asked a question about the birthday cake she made me?

this js a guy on twitter telling me I'm a terrible parent for reasons I am unable to comprehend

This is ridiculous. You sound like a terrible parent. Allowing yourself joys and pleasures is absolutely allowed as a parent. He would have done it himself but SHE OFFERED. What don't you understand about this? He didn't ask her to bake him a cake, she asked him then made

— Vinyl Seller (@Vinyl_ShopSF) August 27, 2023

xxp ty!

lol do not argue with that guy. his favorite teams are in his bio. he is past help

lots of adult babies out there on the internet lately

I caught myself doing that a couple weeks ago and Logged Off if only a moment too late

xp I can't argue with him, he blocked me after posting that.

loooooool never change, bird app

daddy wants his cakey

its true, dads are absolutely crazy for it

i stand with cake dad, he only wants the perfect cake

getting the good cake is called self-care

it's his special day

we have been told by society that we dont even deserve delicious cake

my favorite take is ‘cake man is clearly neurodivergent, so siding with the girlfriend is ableism’

getting the good cake is called self-care

there's somebody down thread who wants to argue that baking the wrong cake is really abuse

NTA, and everyone here is so ignorant about emotional abuse its painful.
My man, you are better off with out her. Every one here is piling on and it's ridiculous. I had a partner that was exactly like this, her pattern of emotional abuse was to specifically ask what I wanted so she could deny it. She had it out for you and when you didn't blow up like she wanted she blew up herself. In any context, asking someone what they want, and then specifically doing something else so you can hold your (volunteered) effort over them so that the man is the bad guy. It's bullshit dude, you are better off without her and everyone in these comments is acting like someone doing something for you is always good, she is acting like an abuser and you disserve better.

lol yeah that's it exactly. it's abuse when I don't get the cake I wanted

the thing no one understands is cake dad is confection pilled and birthday maxxing

what I also don't dare add to the twitter discourse is that these "devil's food" or w/e cakes with layers of chocolate frosting are all awful and all taste the same anyway

cake person

devil's food with nuts is objectively the best donut (southern california donut style division) but I think it's true that a devil's food cake generally is a devil's food cake. but it's also been pointed out onthread that the cookbook definition of devil's food has a layer of vanilla frosting so my bro is just genuinely embarrassing

It's okay to feel mildly disappointed because you didn't get the birthday cake you wanted. Part of being a functional adult is recognizing that that disappointment is a silly trifle for you to process internally rather than something that you should broadcast to the entire world because you're a thirtysomething who should literally be wearing a diaper because you presumably piss and shit all over yourself over the slightest infraction.

What's most unsettling to me is the multiple people in the thread I saw who don't see a problem with the "if you went to a restaurant..." analogy about a cake your girlfriend makes you (assuming she wasn't charging him, which now I hope she was)

This is my favorite genre of reply pic.twitter.com/2tPfiNrg2s

— aslaug (@zoddwalker) August 27, 2023

If I went to a restaurant and the chef made me something different than what I asked for, I would drive to her house and tell her children she was a failure.

Personality disorders: recognizable + treatable or nah?

Twitter main character is a post from a subreddit of people volunteering to be the main character. That’s how you know twitter no longer has the juice.

I don't know if it was just my algorithm on my feed but there seemed to be a racial element to the division, with most of the defenders of the guy being black - first of all Roxane Gay and a psychologist then lots of random tweeters. That made me think again about my initial reaction - not that I was going to change my mind but rather than be too judgemental myself maybe there are interesting cultural factors at play here.

I'm not sure how many of the people attacking the guy actually think the woman did nothing wrong. If I were her I'd definitely not have ignored his wishes having asked him what he wanted, but I'd probably never have offered to bake a cake in the first place so AITA? Also trying to imagine being someone who gave a shit about the icing being wrong on my cake is quite a mental stretch. What would I do in his situation if I thought it was so important? Probably hold my tongue and harbour simmering resentment.

The root weirdness to me is the requirements he laid out at the start - if a partner says "I'm gonna bake you a cake" my only response is "that's awesome, thank you!"

I don't like pie - show up to my birthday with a Key Lime Pie and I'll eat a piece like it's the best thing ever.

during lockdown we hosted an American kid at our house (his private school had closed their dorms) and I have never had to deal with such a fussy eater, of course I just gave him the four or five foods he would eat but then my own kids were asking "why can't we have burgers/hot dogs/pizza every day?" and I would have to have private conversations with them later to explain why not.

(sure there are plenty of British kids like this too, but in terms of food mine are 90% Chinese)

Roxane Gay seems to defend all the worst, self-absorbed people on twitter

thats because shes a... bad feminist haha

Don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but over the last day or two it keeps switching back to the For You tab over and over, even though I only want to look at Following