Twitter C/D

Dud

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE...

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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

There’s like hundreds of lefty people on here who follow 2500 people and all they do is post epic pig poop balls pics at pundits no one in real life has heard of, get some 70 year old to ask “what’s BOFA?” And then whine about being banned for threatening to kill their kid or w.e

— jack sparrow/jack skellington calf tattoos (@intellegint) March 21, 2019

lol

just nearly fell in a trap by replying to a dude only to realize 90% of his twitter presence is making spurious arguments in comments, completely tangential to the original tweet, all total garbage

pretty funny that his shtick is starting tweets with “well, then do you concede that..” followed by more irrelevant junk

a million tweeter stories out there in the city

completely understand why pig poop balls is a good reply now though

what is this trend of guilt-tripping people into donating money to their cashapp/venmo accounts? i'm seeing this more and more, usually in the context of social justice issues but it's kind of annoying tbh

Some people need money, other people have money

that's fair obviously, so why not just ask instead of making ppl feel like a moral failure?

the latter is probably more effective

Whenever I follow a link from ILX to a political tweet and do a bit of scrolling down into the replies, I get the definite impression that Twitter is still rife with bots and Russian trolls.

it's a good grift tbh

finally blocked enough brands that i'm getting promoted tweets from "NematodeFacts"

blocking every ad is so essential for that reason

got 2 know the nematode facts

luv too report the brands