oh my fucking god https://t.co/A0uliRN6bo pic.twitter.com/Ev74lZQzMw— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 19, 2020
― jaymc, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
ok forget i said this sounds like assault, it sounds extremely funny.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
Even without the jerking off that call sounds like a nightmare.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
lol
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
... and the stimulation continued.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:54 (three years ago) link
there's all sorts of ways to show your dick during a zoom call
Um, Karl, you ok?
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
He meant to type "you're," which makes more sense.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 October 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
“meet me in the break out room”
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Monday, 19 October 2020 22:02 (three years ago) link
Was waiting for this
and people say *i* embarrassed the new yorker— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) October 19, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2020 23:20 (three years ago) link
I hope someone is already working on the appropriate Eustace Tilley graphic, in which a Victorian dandy is holding up a monocle to look at Toobin's, um, toob
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 19 October 2020 23:28 (three years ago) link
This feels like a good time to deploy the WHAT ARE THOOOOSE meme
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Monday, October 19, 2020
haha, yes
― Dan S, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
The post headline is “toobin his own horn”
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
I'm not a fan of Toobin but considering this would be an obvious career buster not to mention deeply humiliating...it's probably safe to say this was a terrible accident and shouldn't end the guy's career.
The other account upthread, however...yikes.
I also think it's inappropriate to conflate in one story the account of abuse and his enjoying himself in a sex club, gtfo w/ that
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
I don't think it's been established that the Zoom call was a sex club.
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
No, a separate event.
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:30 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile, another source claims that Toobin definitely seemed to enjoy his research in 2008, when he visited the Miami Velvet swingers club while reporting a New Yorker profile about political consultant Roger Stone.
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link
That's bullshit reporting
horny and bad with technology, it's a tough combination
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Sorry, I was just amusing myself with the thought of a New Yorker sex club involving election war games.
― Alba, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:37 (three years ago) link
right over my head!
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:45 (three years ago) link
I am not clear what exactly went down (or up) with Toobin's tube.
But. Am I the only person thinking the following thought? There is a specific personality type for which the risk of discovery is part of the thrill. And the level of transgression is also part of the point. It's adjacent to obsessive-compulsive behavior (though not synonymous).
A sensible person is thinking: why not wait till later? Whereas I think the kink in this case may be more like "Wow this is so risky / so wrong / so dangerous to my position in respectable society."
Not my kink, personally, but applying normal-person logic to it may not work.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:49 (three years ago) link
psychologizing someone's kinks based on something like this just seems...who knows?
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
the election simulation is WAY more embarrassing than accidentally (I think) jerking off on a zoom meeting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Toobin's most recent long NY story on the failures of the Mueller investigation reminded me what I liked about his reporting: crisp, well-sourced, able to condense complexity. His book on the 2000 election has the same virtues.
Toodles, Jeff.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
yeah
i mean i'm sure masha gessen had fun playing trump but what exactly were they supposed to learn from this
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
never to trust Toobin's boxers over Zoom
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
i don't think he was being transgressive, i think he was bored off his ass and thought he was jerking off some other forum, based on the reporting that people thought that *he thought* he was on a different zoom call.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
Well, we know what they did end up learning
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
'harvard guys jack it'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:12 (three years ago) link
xps:
Seems it was an in-house replay of the Transition Integrity Project's June wargaming of the post-election.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:14 (three years ago) link
Running a table top exercise always seems at least mildly absurd from the outside. I’d guess they were trying to come up with likely narratives for reporting & commentating on the election so everyone could have an angle heading into the big night.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:16 (three years ago) link
Perhaps he was actually jacking it while browsing ILXor on a different computer and forgot which was which. Happens to me all the time.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:17 (three years ago) link
"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you said this was the erection stimulation call!"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Wanking at the wonkfest
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 04:09 (three years ago) link
conde nastay
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 04:41 (three years ago) link
GOLD
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 06:40 (three years ago) link
― error prone wolf syndicate (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:27 (three years ago) link
Best joke I've seen on Twitter:
New Yorker sub-editors forced to correct every instance of it to "zoömdick".— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) October 20, 2020
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:36 (three years ago) link
This thread is gold:
This seems to have been an accident not an intentional act. Of course I would react differently to an in person transgression— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) October 20, 2020
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
I mean honestly I have rubbed one out in the work bathroom a few times in my life, p sure I’m not a sexual predator. And anyone who refers to being at home as being “at work” just because of WFH can go lick a boot.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
Jeff Toobin does in fact have some creepy tendencies but let’s not use that to support some new kind of hyper- capitalist Puritanism.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
But have you ever excused yourself early from a meeting just to go do that?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link
Gender breakdown on my FB feed:
Women: WTF IS WRONG WITH MEN Men: erm well
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
And anyone who refers to being at home as being “at work” just because of WFH can go lick a boot.
...
I take you're the guy who shows up on videoconference calls shirtless?
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:39 (three years ago) link
xp tipsy: Mitchell and Webb touched upon this a decade ago.
― Sanpaku, Tuesday, 20 October 2020 13:46 (three years ago) link
I don’t think toobin was shirtless for the whole call
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
lol this thread sucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:06 (three years ago) link
are you all like.... kidding?
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 6:06 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
having... work boundaries... is bootlicking... ok
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link