it was useful at first to get ilxors to follow me but now i don't really like that it links me to this lameass msg board to the wider internet. also >:(
Urban Dictionary: flopsonwww.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flopsonApr 13, 2009 - flopson. Someone who lacks the ability to get 'it' up. Jenny: "I pulled this guy last night, but sent him home...he was such a flopson!".
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
just followed you. I'm not really @propertybrothers btw, in case that wasn't obvious.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
I have no idea why but mine is still my actual name. been planning on changing that (change account name, quickly change a second account to my name to keep it) but it hasn't happened yet
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
i own the account of my name and some ppl i know follow it lol i think it has one tweet
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
is freddie deboer one of those twitter political dudes because I read a decent article, realized I saw it because max had commented on it, and then I commented not realizing it was this freddie dude
feel like I have made a grave error interacting w/badness
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
for shame
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
i got mad today on twitter
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
I occasionally interact w/ fdb about standardised assessment of English proficiency. He seems ok most of the time.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
He's a hidebound grump who hates millenials afaik
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 16 September 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
I had a IRL pal retweet lag∞n yesterday and that was weird. Worlds collide.
― Jeff, Friday, 16 September 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
Half the people I follow now just seem to spaz about trump ever 43 seconds.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
basically whats going on in my head but i try to keep it down to once an hour on the tl
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
― lag∞n, Friday, September 16, 2016 7:34 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Thats what twitter's all about innit?
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
i thought it was about jokes
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
can't stand FdB
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
humorless thin-skinned white dude campus leftist crybaby who blocks everyone who disagrees with him
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
he quit twitter forever for like a week a while ago lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
his tone is so sanctimonious and blegh that even when i agree w him my instinct is to disagree
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
lol flopson I haven't gotten any notifications so either I commented on a dead thread or he's blocked me in some way on fb now
it was a comment about this article: http://thebaffler.com/salvos/degrasse-tyson-kriss-atheistshe somehow missed the point and was complaining that homophobic, racist evangelicals are a much bigger threat than atheists so why are you picking on atheists
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:34 (seven years ago) link
commented to this effect: imo if evangelical christianity disappeared tomorrow these people would still have the same in-group/out-group ideas and be just as racist/sexist/resistant to change
I mean, Trump is the great uniter of a bunch of these people and the far-right christian types fell over backward finding reasons to support his godless ways
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
Sounds like his schtick. he seemed overly concerned with the efficacy of the movement ("don't wate time criticizing what i perceive as a lesser evil, focus on overthrowing capitalism!")
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
Which is typical orthodox leftbro humorless impenetrability to the tenets of intersectional anti-oppressive movements.
It's like Marxists have never heard of the strategy of "doing both"
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:15 (seven years ago) link
get you a movement can do both
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
I think we were just talking about FDB on another thread but I can't remember which, and I find him very hit-or-miss.
Or like they're scared that if they question any aspect of their beliefs then the whole edifice might collapse
― you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
Xxp
― you can't drowned a duck (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
fdb is awful though to be fair i confuse him w/ friedersdorf
― marcos, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I started by following a bunch of liberal-to-left media people/bloggers etc. and so far my feed is kind of depressing, it's just this frenzy of people shitting themselves about trump's fallon appearance, trump's hotel thing, trump's hair, how the media should stop giving trump so much coverage, etc. I feel like there's a lot of denial going on about what the media is/are and about how good Trump is for it, even as its members express how upset they are over the phenomenon they are part of.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
I still have all my election filters in place so I miss anything actually using the candidate names etc
we need better image recognition filters imo
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:15 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also just like, ur not gonna overthrow capitalism maybe ever but def not anytime soon so maybe in the meantime could do some of those things
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
My feeling is that capitalism is either going to fuck itself up, proving him right, or not, proving him wrong, and I can't really change that so I'm just gonna sit back and watch capitalism play itself right
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:46 (seven years ago) link
(him = Marx)
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:15 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao otm
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
Idk, I'd much rather read Adolph Reed than FDB (not that I necessarily agree with either) but the critique of soft-liberal identity politics from the left seems like a useful provocation at times. Whether cranky Marxists are correct is less important than ensuring progressive politics doesn't end up as the endless repetition of woke dogma.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 16 September 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, September 16, 2016 3:24 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
aw /sigh/
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
twitter is definitely better when you follow real people and not brands or companies, though prob 80% of my twitter use is to stay connected in my field so i do follow a lot of libraries, academic departments, universities, and orgs. i've been involved in a lot of diversity/inclusion/social justice work in my field so a good chunk of my feed is black lives matter and social justice stuff in higher ed. i think i need more weirdness though. using it for work too makes me hesitant and sometimes guarded to post certain stuff so i haven't really gone in 100%
― marcos, Friday, 16 September 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
i can't follow too many social justice accounts, a lot of them are just so high-frequency they instantly dominate yr feed. you get enough of it just by following normal people and seeing the RTs imo
― flopson, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
idk if I'd call weird twitter "real people" but they're familiar to me
― dr. mercurio arboria (mh 😏), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
a lot of them are just so high-frequency they instantly dominate yr feed.
yes!
― marcos, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, September 16, 2016 2:50 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah I think there is something to this. It's sort of a fine line because some of the stuff fueling the "woke dogma" is very legit, but it can also lead into this terrible maze of individualistic/atomized non-analysis. Also because in this election all that "woke" stuff was pretty quickly coopted by the Clinton campaign and used against Bernie Sanders supporters.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
I would follow you marcos! I keep twitter totally separate from my professional life thoI am @joshuabizabcock
I basically just follow friends, ILx0rs, and the occasional entertaining celebrity account (Ralph Bakshi, Daniel Pinkwater, Sarah Silverman, Julia Wertz etc.) I can handle people that post a million things a day though gtfo with that shit
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:20 (seven years ago) link
tweeting constantly is what twitters for actually
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
lol
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
heh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
good one very timely
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
also fwiw imo the discussion the media is having amongst itself rn re how to cover trump is extremely important and may save human civilization from violet collapse, even tho its "the media" criticizing "the media" which i know is hard to understand
it's very important and will not amount to anything because they aren't going to suddenly stop needing ratings/views/clicks
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
It's also a "discussion" that has been going on for like 9 months now to no avail.
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 16 September 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
ah yes clickbait lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 September 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link