Posts you had second thought about and decided not to post - put them here

Richard Starkey gets the Gas Face.

it's not that bizarre a point tbh

if you think of threads like conversations ...

as opposed to folders

It’s bizarre I guess if you just skimmed over the part where I talked about ocd and the corrosive effect it’s had on my life all so a bunch of people can tell us how many tests they’re doing each day and give us minute by minute updates of everything. But hey, I must be reacting for no reason and not because

that shouldn’t be enabled because it nearly literally killed me

otm

“the thread title says it’s ok” arguments fail to sway me. if a thread title told you to jump off a cliff would you do it

one way we can find out. it begins with a p!

jump, jump, jump on the tiger

it's a fair cop. one ticket to India, no return

good threads are generally conversational, but they do still tend to have more discontinuities and disruptions than an irl conversation. they also stop and start, often requiring a series of false prompts before one post finally gets the conversational part going again. i guess I'm saying there's a folder-conversation spectrum that each thread tends to fall on.

i mean, yeah, Sufjan, you're right -- there are certain ilx threads that are definitely folder like and their intent is such and there isn't really too much conflict or fraught-ness about it. But like, coping with covid is different than album covers with little people in someone's hair

right, but that's the other folder-like extreme. even the more conversational threads will have some anecdotes thrown out and ignored. when someone posts about a spotify bug on their phone, they are certainly hoping to have a conversation* about it. it just isn't going to happen every time, so the thread looks like a log of spotify app issues.

*with glenn

*hits "suggest jump off a cliff" button*

at some point satire becomes worse than the thing it's satirising, and that point is where it thinks it's qualified to mock the prevailing pop culture but also really, really wants to be the prevailing pop culture as well

it's no Dyson with Death that's for sure

VIDEO GAME DUNKEY

it's not the dunkey we wanted, it's the dunkey we deserve

do i post Lana Del Rey parody lyrics?
do i make a joke about the Subway Soda Drip Tray?
is it even worth making a horribly formed joke about these stupidly named TV shows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGJ6TvKDlvI

this has nothing to do with anyone who has a birthday today or the surrounding days or weeks, but

who cares about birthdays!?!!!?!?!?!?!?!??!

HALLMARK

(am i trenchant? yes I am)

Allende must be relieved to hear that

morelike man-a-post-a-loada-shite syndrome

Or even Obama'08-Romney'12-Clinton'16-Trump'20 voters, though I would like to meet whoever that describes.

― jaymc, Thursday, January 20, 2022 10:11 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

ORC Tards are all thats wrong with this country

and i would do anal things for love

her eyes are orange, her tongue is black, she has purple prickles all over her back

Americans, please join the stop posting on the Ukraine thread challenge

oh sorry i didnt know this was a safe space for people to weaponize finances and call people broke my apologies

Proxy Paige

can we list board members here?

it's all on poxyfule.slack

where no one talks shit from a distance

Will talk shit from nearby.

Your egg could be the next Simon Pegg

Your jism could help revitalize neoplatonism

Your yoni could harbor the creator of a new type of macaroni

Your secretion could help create the next emperor Diocletian

Sometimes it's like pulling teeth to inspire the sort of aforementioned "engagement" most people here enjoy, but that's probably my problem.

Pika-pi!

Exactly the people whose opinions you’d want to hear on South Asian politics

applying standards to others you have no intention of applying to yourself: C/D?

Can someone open a window please?

Heavens no, not the middle class! Whatever shall we do?

^^
the path to this place becoming no better than facebook has many spiritually bald paths

yo i heard you love paths, so

https://media.ed.edmunds-media.com/nissan/pathfinder/2022/oem/2022_nissan_pathfinder_4dr-suv_platinum_fq_oem_1_815.jpg

putin is just punishing ukraine for not helping with the hunter biden laptop thing, isn't he?

(i don't feel like getting shouted at in that thread for a semi-sarcastic troll post like this one, so I won't)

vlads

nice

otm

Not going to touch that toxic ass Ukraine thread again, but I see it’s really active today. Is it safe to assume all the Americans posting in it now are also getting shouted down and chased out? Or are the ilx politics gate keeping trolls still only targeting specific posters for abuse and harassment?

it has chilled out a bit for the moment

Americans getting shouted down, there's a novelty.