yeah that's been happenng for a while--when Obamacare was implemented right wingers started to get into "alternatve medicine" and the backyard chickens/organic/veggie lifestyle, as if anything substantively changed about the US health care system other than a few more people could afford it.
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:54 (ten months ago) link
the center of cultural power has shifted from nascar guys to fluoride is a mind control drug ladies
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 11 July 2023 15:57 (ten months ago) link
Big overlap in the venn diagrams of backyard farmers and doomsday preppers.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 02:32 (ten months ago) link
profiles seem to be broken, can't see anything there apart from pinned tweets. replies disappearing from threads too. feels like we're watching this thing die in slow motion.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:44 (ten months ago) link
currently my profile won't show my replies, just a list of other people, fuck knows why tbh, lol
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:44 (ten months ago) link
ha sorry Caal you beat me to it
Not getting any "Top" results at all in searches. Just "Latest."
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
ums posted in the Jeopardy thread about Ken Jennings crossing the WGA picket line, so I thought I'd see what ppl on Twitter were saying about it. But the search appears to be truly fucked, like "No results for 'Ken jennings'" fucked. Searching for info on Reddit instead (by appending "reddit" to a Google search) was much more fruitful.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
at least we can be 95 percent certain none of this stuff is Musk's evil plans and is totally "stupid cunt has broken his 40-odd billion property"
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 14:54 (ten months ago) link
he fired everyone and the site still sort of works, checkmate libs
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:09 (ten months ago) link
Look we could spoon-feed you and have every feature work, but there was a time where things required patience and elbow grease ,and if you can't deal with having to try ten times to get one tweet to twat, maybe this isn't the site for y-
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:11 (ten months ago) link
this thread is twitter now, everyone come here
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:53 (ten months ago) link
let that sink in
― mark s, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:56 (ten months ago) link
this tweet is your tweet, this tweet is my tweet
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:56 (ten months ago) link
thread is giving major twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 15:58 (ten months ago) link
posting all of your assassination coordinates
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:01 (ten months ago) link
all i said was “imagine no mods” tho
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:37 (ten months ago) link
Please lock this thread and create a new one for people to post on every time they can't access Twitter or search for something on it. We need this important information. We need it.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:37 (ten months ago) link
get musked
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:40 (ten months ago) link
outrageous, i have at least two goes at it and only post here when that hasn't worked and also i'm pished
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 16:43 (ten months ago) link
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― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 17:02 (ten months ago) link
Also they told me they don't like you
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:27 (ten months ago) link
Three “askew laughing crying emojis” in a row
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 18:31 (ten months ago) link
Trending in United KingdomHe's 332,321 Tweets
Love this feature love it.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 22:29 (ten months ago) link
this says so much:
Twitter no longer has a media relations department. The company responded to a request for comment from Reuters with a poop emoji.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 23:03 (ten months ago) link
levine on musk suing that law firm: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-07-11/matt-levine-s-money-stuff-elon-musk-blames-the-lawyers
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 July 2023 01:54 (ten months ago) link
Article has many hundreds of words detailing the usual practices around mergers, and a great deal of context concerning that pareticular one. It is perhaps not as much "technical" so much as very very detailed and specific. In sum:
Anyway now Musk owns Twitter, after paying $44 billion for it, and he is using it to talk about the size of his penis. These facts are also related.
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Thursday, 13 July 2023 04:01 (ten months ago) link
And, just like that, Bluesky is eating itself.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 12:57 (ten months ago) link
wha happen
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:16 (ten months ago) link
I don’t know but every post on my timeline is about Bluesky promoting racism.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:18 (ten months ago) link
lol oh no
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:19 (ten months ago) link
mods were slow to catch and ban a poster whose screen name and content consisted of slurs and deliberately violent hostility, and also slow and also undeft delivering a solution (= a banned-words list for screen names)
― mark s, Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:26 (ten months ago) link
also the poster was somewhat jack-adjacent
― mark s, Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:27 (ten months ago) link
i mean so i read, i too only picked up echoes of it, but from chatty shitposters who are usually quick to spot such stuff and summarise it
― mark s, Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:28 (ten months ago) link
Thanks Mark.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 13:29 (ten months ago) link
The replies to a post about the fix are wild:
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3k2f4cgzeyj2t
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:13 (ten months ago) link
able to screencap any of them? apparently have to sign in to see them and I don't have an account
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:16 (ten months ago) link
yeah that's pretty wild:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Bluesky_Social_iOS_Landing.jpg/800px-Bluesky_Social_iOS_Landing.jpg
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:19 (ten months ago) link
Here’s the post:
User handles that are slur words are a form of harassment. We've deployed a change so that these handles can no longer be created in the app.
There’s hundred of posts saying stuff like this:
Okay cool, so what are your next steps? This doesn't even sound like it was written like a human being, responding to other human beings who are reasonably hurt. It sounds like it was written by a machine for people who are worried about not offending the far right vs doing the right thing.
And:
For the record, an apology should contain:1. A description of what you did wrong.2. Acknowledgement of why it was wrong.3. (Optional) an excuse about why you couldn’t have known it was wrong.4. What you’re doing to make amends.5. What you’re doing to fix it and avoid future similar mistakes.
1. A description of what you did wrong.2. Acknowledgement of why it was wrong.3. (Optional) an excuse about why you couldn’t have known it was wrong.4. What you’re doing to make amends.5. What you’re doing to fix it and avoid future similar mistakes.
There’s also a dozen posts arguing that the Hammer and Sickle is a hate symbol and a dozen posts arguing that the Hammer and Sickle isn’t a hate symbol.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:20 (ten months ago) link
There’s also, as you’d expect, hundreds of fursonas.
― Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:25 (ten months ago) link
hard to believe that somehow we got to the moon once
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:30 (ten months ago) link
lol man fun times for team bluesky
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:32 (ten months ago) link
“While this may not be your vision necessarily, I think a lot of people are less concerned with moving to a new instance of Bluesky, than making sure bigots are not able to have *any* instance on here,” Ben Perry, a Bluesky user also known as tedcruznipples, replied to Graber’s thread.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:40 (ten months ago) link
from this article, which summarizes where some of the current situation originated: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/blueskys-growing-pains-strain-relationship-with-its-black-community-moderation/
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 July 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DSUkyR0.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:24 (ten months ago) link
(they/iel)?
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:28 (ten months ago) link
french
― peace, man, Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:31 (ten months ago) link
"a posting strike"
― butch wig (diamonddave85), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:37 (ten months ago) link
read that as "posing strike"
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:56 (ten months ago) link
(worthy cause that, tho)
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Thursday, 13 July 2023 15:57 (ten months ago) link