https://www.garbageday.email/p/viral-content-optimized-to-piss-off
"There should be no illusions anymore about what Facebook is, as a platform. It’s just random bits of sensory information meant to make old people fight with each other."
― rob, Friday, 14 January 2022 18:46 (two years ago) link
lol forks
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 14 January 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
that's an interesting article, thanks rob. God this FB shit is so weird. However I did really enjoy the cat breastfeeding video, that was worth 1000 counter spaghetti videos.
― akm, Friday, 14 January 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
i’m sorry the what
― cowboy bopeep (cat), Sunday, 16 January 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
College acquaintance who now teaches at a very prestigious divinity school and was recently profiled in the NY Times bc of her corporate spirituality consultant job posted some kind of flickering neon aurora-ish gif on FB today. Someone in the comments asks "What's this? Maybe I can't get my audio to work." She replies "Haha there's no sound, it's just meant to evoke the inner life of spirit," with a smiley face emoji. Obviously if this person were less successful in life this would only be mildly annoying; it's the fact that she gets paid the big bucks for this sort of thing that fills me with rage.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 02:06 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/20JW40n/274451171-10112872224645472-3541564788520862916-n.jpg
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 February 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
Well gee, by that metric I'm doing great. No one has offered me anything, so clearly my value is limitless.
― un chien boogaloo (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 21 February 2022 22:05 (two years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/YbdKJwB/FB-IMG-1645643373042.jpg
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
Oh my, let me put my readers on.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
"they"
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
I see a doggie
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 24 February 2022 01:43 (two years ago) link
Cat bottom right
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 February 2022 08:10 (two years ago) link
now that social media is filled with memes telling people that are worried about rising gas costs to be thankful they don't live in a war zone, I wonder if they actually have any low-income friends or family whom a massive gasoline hike actually could threaten their ability to make ends meet. or ever had a colleague call out of work because they had no money to fill up their vehicle to get to work that day. or have ever had the ability to hold two different thoughts in their head at the same time.
but hey, if it makes people feel better to ration out sympathy based on a tiered system.
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:39 (two years ago) link
(I'm definitely not talking about myself here, and obviously there's a wide gulf between David Allen Coe fans who drive SUVs with MAGA bumper stickers and make six figures whinging about gas prices and people who are actually struggling, but lefties' penchant for zero sum messaging never ceases to amaze)
― i read to 69 position (Neanderthal), Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link
wow you're getting that from lefties? feels like a classic conservative argument to me, "be thankful proles, things are much worse behind the Iron Curtain"
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 11 March 2022 10:06 (two years ago) link
Feels like an honorary Facebook post
20 books to read in your 20s= thread = pic.twitter.com/LzkP9Y76Hg— Art of Life 🦋 (@Art0fLife_) April 10, 2022
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 11 April 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
I made it about halfway through Atomic Habits earlier this year (at my therapist's suggestion) and it inspired me to make some small-but-important life changes that I have thus far been able to stick to.
There are obviously some egregious Jordan Peterson books in there and I'm unfamiliar with most of the rest.
― peace, man, Monday, 11 April 2022 16:44 (one year ago) link
If anyone is still reading any of those books 5 years from now I will be astonished. But there will be a whole new batch of warmed-over pop psychology and simple-minded self-motivational books by then, so no one will miss these.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 11 April 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Seneca is likely to make it another 5 years.
― bulb after bulb, Monday, 11 April 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
i like siddharta.
i have heard that sapiens is one of the least accurate pop science books.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 11 April 2022 17:51 (one year ago) link
12. Letters From A Stoic pic.twitter.com/jprmMCNkG6— Art of Life 🦋 (@Art0fLife_) April 10, 2022
(never mind that last post, misunderstood bab's comment)
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 11 April 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
Fiction books and female writers are for after you've retired
― jmm, Monday, 11 April 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
don't get me started on the many deficiencies of stoicism as a moral philosophy
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 11 April 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Yeah Sapiens was pretty bad but there are like ten worse things there
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:14 (one year ago) link
haha tuesdays with morrie at #19 killed me
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 April 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
Why are there 48 books in the first image... and a bunch of books on the list of 20 aren't even in that image...?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 12 April 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
20 books that will allow you to happily adjust to a lifetime of wage slavery and pretending your life actually means anything because you have a job
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Saturday, 16 April 2022 17:27 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/y8F2CG2/Screenshot-20220508-191829.jpg
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 May 2022 23:20 (one year ago) link
peter noone fights alone
guess he was in a band called hermits lol
― very interesting piece by (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 9 May 2022 08:15 (one year ago) link
two friends, one visiting georgia (the country) the other new orleans. both posting 6-10 photos a day without using albums. i wish the 'i have read this post' thing actually worked (and was cross browser)
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
turns out bread in georgia is very slightly different from bread in the uk, i know because i've seen pictures.
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
Sci-fi author Neal Asher here sticking it to the sheeple
Uhuh. pic.twitter.com/Tj4JismO4y— Neal Asher (@nealasher) June 13, 2022
― groovypanda, Monday, 13 June 2022 07:25 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZLo5cqX0AMrnSG?format=jpg&name=small
― jmm, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
https://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tumblr_lw7hsmVh9U1r2qaswo1_500.jpg
I never really thought of Bernard Cribbins as a philosopher.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, 4 August 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
No disrespect to to man like Bernard but I'd be at least highly amused to see the bunch of (possibly) former glue sniffers, truants and expert flobbers I mostly haven't seen since I wwas 14 given a shot.
― Noel Emits, Thursday, 4 August 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
that's one of the opening posts of the thread!10 years, full circle
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 5 August 2022 06:56 (one year ago) link
increasingly people are using Facebook stories. i get 5 seconds to read three sentences done as an image? what am i missing?
(videos are even worse because they don't auto-play and by the time I've clicked the button the 5 seconds is over)
(Facebook web mainly, via my phone)
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:12 (one year ago) link
FB stories are dumb and I only ever used them when I was banned because the system screwed up and still let me do them
― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:13 (one year ago) link
Oh god that makes me even more glad to have stayed off FB. Is Meta turning it into another TikTok clone like they are with Instagram?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
they've been available for a while but I've only ever seen one or two at a time. I've currently got 5 up there, all unwatched
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:44 (one year ago) link
oh, the one from Helen was actually 4...
― koogs, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
You can pause a story on an iPhone/iPad by touching it and holding it. It took me years to realise this.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 26 August 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
i hit reply, but it puts a transparent overlay on it, greying it out slightly, and brings up the keyboard obscuring the bottom half.
― koogs, Friday, 26 August 2022 21:06 (one year ago) link
yeah, just clicking it does nothing, it has to be the reply box or the emojis next to it.
― koogs, Friday, 26 August 2022 21:08 (one year ago) link
ughhttps://i.postimg.cc/DyhFryK9/Screenshot-20220928-081651.jpg
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 07:19 (one year ago) link
didn't say which generation to be fair
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:54 (one year ago) link
idea to start a pro-boomer, anti-zoomer meme page on Facebook, spend a year filling it with this shit, then suddenly start posting memes about 60s/70s music/films being boring and shit, use pure rage generated as an alternative energy source
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 08:59 (one year ago) link
Leave a red
https://i.ibb.co/JqXrWJC/Screenshot-20221013-150454.jpg
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 October 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Is the red <3 in that exact position vis a vis the photograph on purpose?
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Friday, 14 October 2022 05:14 (one year ago) link