things feel much more personal here
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
idk I'd rather it be personal
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
well yes, it isn't bad per se, but it can sting when you find yourself on the wrong end of it
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
imo the creepy liberalism thread is cursed and no one should post in it
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
For sure! But then that makes it easier to quit in an aggrieved huff for a long break without admitting wrongdoing. Twitter just induces anxiety and self-loathing and doesn’t unhook you.Yknow in my experience
― Canon in Deez (silby), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
branwell made kate leave iirc
I always thought they were the same person? Now 85% of the board drama is even less coherent to me.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
for some reason twitter does not have that effect on me nearly as much, I think because I steer away from content that would cause that
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milo, there are 2 different Kates here is the thing
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
There aren't. If there's one courtesy I'd extend to the departed it's not to deadname them
― imago, Friday, 5 March 2021 17:38 (three years ago) link
fair enough, there have been at times and this is the source of confusion, but yes you are correct
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 5 March 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
Twitter is a horrible place because the format encourages an atmosphere of soapboxing with compartmentalized hot takes in a sea of competitors all trying to have the hottest take for maximum visibility and the stimulating/attention grabbing nature of the rhetoric infects even the users that are there just as an audience to the point that everyone is unaware that they're all boiling down and dramatizing everything so opinions are now clickbait headlines.
I don't use twitter though so maybe I'm wrong.
― Evan, Friday, 5 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
Twitter doesn't really 'algorithm' so it's easier to wade through the sea of shit and also you can talk to your favorite rappers sometimes
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:01 (three years ago) link
most of that that is true, but also applies to middle school
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:13 (three years ago) link
i will be ambiguous about which post i was xp'ing, but honestly a lot of life is like middle school
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:14 (three years ago) link
Karl what rappers did u know in middle school
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:18 (three years ago) link
ZERO
the cowboys (the name of their clique in middle and high school) dominated where i grew up. country, rock and roll, very little rap. i didn't even know who tupac or biggie smalls were until college (2001)
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link
actually, scratch that - the only rap i remember people listening to is the beastie boys. gee wonder why
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 5 March 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
(beastie boys are cool, but still)
oh god i was really on a tear ahaha, definitely had more reason to quit than j. did but my obtuse self-confidence kept me here ffs
― imago, Thursday, 4 March 2021 bookmarkflaglink
pic.twitter.com/6nXjnmsY9H— joolsd (@joolsd) March 4, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
lol
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― pomenitul, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
Twitter is a horrible place because the format encourages an atmosphere of soapboxing with compartmentalized hot takes in a sea of competitors all trying to have the hottest take for maximum visibility
Maybe! I mean quite probably! My experience of twitter is that it's as much of a bubble as anything else? I often see other ppl freaking out about what "Twitter" writ large is saying when my timeline is not saying that at all.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:17 (three years ago) link
on the note of "leaving a board due to a period of hostility, I used to write music reviews for a defunct site called Satan Stole My Teddybear in my early 20s. I was a terrible writer and was going to college and working for shit wages in a terrible Cali-Mex restaurant, and I used to get in flamewars with this guy who called himself Vic/Lord Vic, who if you scour alt.rocknroll.metal.metallica on Usenet in the mid 90s, you will see he posted all over the site there. he fronted this band Rampage and trolled us all and got me riled up. I think he was last around in 2003. I would stop posting any time this guy or other guys started trolling too bad as I got wound up too much (wasn't on my meds yet).
dude found me on FB minutes ago and apologized to me TODAY for his trollish behavior and was asking how i was doing. lol. that's out of the blue. seems a dece guy now.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
Damn, big up to Lord Vic.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
The cover of their live album from 1999 is, uh, something.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:39 (three years ago) link
In case anyone wants to google that, yes, it's NSFW.
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
he was hanging around with the anus.com folk back then, until he realized they were actual Nazis and fled
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 March 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, March 5, 2021 4:17 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
It's the "retweet" feature that really does the thing I'm complaining about
― Evan, Friday, 5 March 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
And fair point but I'm not necessarily commenting on the "bubble" effect. Yes all social media definitely has that problem!
― Evan, Friday, 5 March 2021 22:09 (three years ago) link