Twitter C/D

why, man

"We live in an age completely dominated by the fact of the internet" fatuous. thought the same thing about the lockwood piece

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:50 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting because the lockwood piece is not about this at all

i enjoyed the lockwood piece but felt it framed problems of human consciousness and communication that date to the invention of text as phenomena emerging from the author and her buds' doggo posts; halfway thru it explicitly acknowledged this and then was literally like "look this up lol?" before returning to a few more thou words of "the portal brought the dictator". nb tho i read it on acid.

also kinda think there is a media class that thinks everyone is on twitter all the time, and they aren't.

it was much more interesting than this clickbait about dril, to be clear.

Twitter users with "Eater of chicken" in their bios

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better or worse than 'slicer of bagels'

nb tho i read it on acid.

wow, otm

This is how you do twitter

Ive been on this Earth for a long time & have found most people to be kind and good hearted which is the reason i dont think they’ll vote for Donald Trump again. Also the first version of Myst was released in 1993 & I think its still one of the BEST video games

— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) March 26, 2019

Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist.

— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) February 10, 2011

A universal basic income would do wonders for so many people. And how about A Medea Family Funeral? It's a treat.

mia OTM re: myst

hahaha that mia tweet, yes!

hate this website so much

s/o to haiti & all the african countries and peoples who france (and western countries, in general) has spent countless years terrorizing, colonizing, pillaging, robbing, and raping. 🖕🏾🇫🇷 https://t.co/7ZRaVdZ11w

— stolen person. (@queersocialism) April 15, 2019

the normal internet place

Dud

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4TX-fWXkAEJDFq.jpg:small

wtf

irie!

she's not joking

seth abramson currently on tweet 160, predicting final count now at 325

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 18, 2019

Worlds collide.

(My other good ex is @mattyglesias, prob bc we dated for less than six months in college and he’s been a tireless cheerleader for my work and a source of support ever since.)

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) April 19, 2019

whaaaaa

my initial misreading that yglesias was a college cheerleader is an alternative, yet compelling, angle imo

i’ve always liked him

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5HUIQ_UUAALUIy.jpg

#jesuishelldude

fela kuti, might delete later pic.twitter.com/lVfkiznTB5

— f (@ardowsa) April 27, 2019

I laughed so hard at this

p good

I swore off Twitter last year but my new phone had me right back into it - after culling my follow list and muting a few words it was just about ok.
But today I think I'll delete it again. What I've realised is that the problem is all the basically nice(?) people on there who I see

* constantly quote-tweeting arseholes to tell them to fuck off (which means I'm effectively following said arseholes)
* on constant fucking cancel-watch and treating it like some sort of fun game we can all play
* non-stop low-key sniping at each-other over minor political differences because complaining about Trump/May/Brexit has been done to death now
* always having to have an opinion about everything, whether they are informed about it or not

Only exception to thins is a handful of comedy accounts, and I can live without those.

all things i've noticed creep onto ilx politics threads over the years -- twitter really is leaking

on constant fucking cancel-watch and treating it like some sort of fun game we can all play

what is fucking cancel-watch? when someone fucks up and twitter sentences them to death?

mordy otm

honestly the idea of shadowbanning conservatives is hilarious to me, I wish they actually did it

things i've noticed creep onto ilx politics threads

Just those?

we should shadowban all of us

hey, let's take it to the bi-monthly Why Does ILX suck so bad now? Politics threads are Bad thread gathering/focus group

I'm amazed ILX hasn't been cancelled yet. Has no one disinterred the filth that was routinely posted here pre-2010?

we need a reboot

IL...Y

<3

* constantly quote-tweeting arseholes to tell them to fuck off (which means I'm effectively following said arseholes)

god i hate this

* always having to have an opinion about everything, whether they are informed about it or not

this however seems to be the engine on which the internet has always run

few oldtimers don't have a ronaldinho bottle opener of sorts somewhere in the archives. will cop to that being particularly egregious though

I mean this whole website is built on people having an opinion on which music is good and which is bad, which is a pretty foolish endeavor

So you say.

I liked the movie I saw last night and went on letterboxd and one person I follow gave it 5 stars and one gave it 1 star, nobody knows what's good and what's bad

what is fucking cancel-watch? when someone fucks up and twitter sentences them to death?

no, more like when someone fucks up and everyone feels the need to pick over it for days on end like it's some kind of juicy drama instead of another tedious fuckup of no lasting consequence - this is in contrast to when Trump (or a number of other powerful people) fucks up, which is barely even noted now.

we should shadowban all of us

― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, May 9, 2019 12:21 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

* constantly quote-tweeting arseholes to tell them to fuck off (which means I'm effectively following said arseholes)

god i hate this

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, May 9, 2019 12:26 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some of the assholes are so grotesque and absurd that while recognizing the toxicity of the situation i kinda find them hilarious and fascinating

the twitter left obvs selects its enemies for entertainment value, going to war w bizarre ppl no one but them and a few under socialized gamer teens has ever heard of

like someone posted laura loomers patreon the other day and she was making $800 a/month, not exactly a media star, but on the other hand she does completely pitiful ridiculous stunts constantly so i can understand the urge to rubberneck

what i'm mostly tired of is people who endlessly complain about everything

yes i am complaining about that