LaceyLou Posted Wednesday at 08:33 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:33 PM I should warn you that I follow a lot of pedestrian safety/public transit oriented people (or will be if I can find everyone I followed on twitter) which may not be everyone's cup of tea. But my handle is: @epl-type7greenline.bsky.social 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM 1 hour ago, oblong said: I suspect it's spam because she sent me a direct message... Yeah, that's kind of how it looks to me. The account is following me and there's not any connection that I can see to me or anyone here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted Thursday at 02:06 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:06 PM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 02:16 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:16 PM 9 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said: That is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted Thursday at 02:23 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:23 PM That is absolutely incredible 😂 I wonder what they are going to do with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted Thursday at 02:27 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:27 PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Thursday at 02:30 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:30 PM I wonder how ballmich is taking this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Bombers Posted Thursday at 02:38 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:38 PM 7 minutes ago, chasfh said: I wonder how ballmich is taking this. All I know is, there’s a war on for his mind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oblong Posted Thursday at 02:58 PM Share Posted Thursday at 02:58 PM I like the Onion but their humor is the kind where you get the joke in the headline but they take it too far so that it becomes not funny. Brevity matters. What would be great is if they make it just satirical enough so that someone may not realize it. that's the best kind. Maybe some idiots don't realize Jones lost the site so they can fool the fools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Thursday at 03:02 PM Share Posted Thursday at 03:02 PM 2 minutes ago, oblong said: I like the Onion but their humor is the kind where you get the joke in the headline but they take it too far so that it becomes not funny. Brevity matters. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted Thursday at 04:55 PM Share Posted Thursday at 04:55 PM (edited) https://x.com/notlarrysabato/status/1857062141213204633 I've seen about eight versions of this argument over the past 2-3 days (vis a vis people migrating over to Blue sky) and it remains equally uncompelling every single time. It really isn't about politics or exposure to ideas, it's about wanting to follow different subjects including politics, but also sports or movies or music) without having one's feed turned into a constant stream of angry BS. Maybe people are just tired of it, and maybe to the extent that Twitter (or X) loses usership, it's just the market at work. Edited Thursday at 05:00 PM by mtutiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:19 PM 2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said: This is brilliant... https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3QW8HbmU8_odkp98DubwKgmCY39vzfLsJPFv_4PUuyBe5kxHDRfqQ43iY_aem_SSKp93wujTTVNVXfi_6UKA Quote What’s next for InfoWars remains a live issue. The excess funds initially allocated for the purchase will be reinvested into our philanthropic efforts that include business school scholarships for promising cult leaders, a charity that donates elections to at-risk third world dictators, and a new pro bono program pairing orphans with stable factory jobs at no cost to the factories. As for the vitamins and supplements, we are halting their sale immediately. Utilitarian logic dictates that if we can extend even one CEO’s life by 10 minutes, diluting these miracle elixirs for public consumption is an unethical waste. Instead, we plan to collect the entire stock of the InfoWars warehouses into a large vat and boil the contents down into a single candy bar–sized omnivitamin that one executive (I will not name names) may eat in order to increase his power and perhaps become immortal. All will be revealed in due time. For now, let’s enjoy this win and toast to the continued consolidation of power and capital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 05:27 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:27 PM 31 minutes ago, mtutiger said: https://x.com/notlarrysabato/status/1857062141213204633 I've seen about eight versions of this argument over the past 2-3 days (vis a vis people migrating over to Blue sky) and it remains equally uncompelling every single time. It really isn't about politics or exposure to ideas, it's about wanting to follow different subjects including politics, but also sports or movies or music) without having one's feed turned into a constant stream of angry BS. Maybe people are just tired of it, and maybe to the extent that Twitter (or X) loses usership, it's just the market at work. Larry Sabato is selling slavery. F that noise. I should not have to use the monopoly product if I decide I don't need the monopoly product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 05:32 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:32 PM (edited) 12 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: This is brilliant... https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3QW8HbmU8_odkp98DubwKgmCY39vzfLsJPFv_4PUuyBe5kxHDRfqQ43iY_aem_SSKp93wujTTVNVXfi_6UKA I was thinking of using the mailing/phone data for the subscribers to spam them with pictures of dead kids. Edited Thursday at 05:32 PM by romad1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfife Posted Thursday at 05:56 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 05:56 PM A lot of tweeters with opinions about how i use my time and also having high tolerance for me dealing with dip****tery and also asshattery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutiger Posted Thursday at 05:58 PM Share Posted Thursday at 05:58 PM (edited) 32 minutes ago, romad1 said: Larry Sabato is selling slavery. F that noise. I should not have to use the monopoly product if I decide I don't need the monopoly product. Not actually Larry Sabato, fwiw... but still, the same is kinda true of Fox News where people are shamed if they don't use or consume the product under the guise of "understanding" the other side. Life is short and discourse on Twitter, while never great, has become really really toxic. Particularly if you end up on the "For You" tab, which the app seems to push me toward every time on log in. The ability to use the product to the product as a news aggregator for things that aren't politics has steadily gone downhill in the time since Musk has owned the product, undoubtedly in large part to changes made (such as eliminating blocking, among other things). Maybe the explanation is as simple as the product just sucks and has gone downhill, just as has happened to many brands over the years. And maybe alternatives are picking up steam because they provide a different experience for users who don't have time or inclination to wade through all the BS that the current environment that Twitter throws at you. In other words, the market is doing what the market does. Edited Thursday at 06:00 PM by mtutiger 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 06:06 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:06 PM 7 minutes ago, mtutiger said: Not actually Larry Sabato, fwiw... but still, the same is kinda true of Fox News where people are shamed if they don't use or consume the product under the guise of "understanding" the other side. Life is short and discourse on Twitter, while never great, has become really really toxic. Particularly if you end up on the "For You" tab, which the app seems to push me toward every time on log in. The ability to use the product to the product as a news aggregator for things that aren't politics has steadily gone downhill in the time since Musk has owned the product, undoubtedly in large part to changes made (such as eliminating blocking, among other things). Maybe the explanation is as simple as the product just sucks and has gone downhill, just as has happened to many brands over the years. And maybe alternatives are picking up steam because they provide a different experience for users who don't have time or inclination to wade through all the BS that the current environment that Twitter throws at you. In other words, the market is doing what the market does. Sears and Roebuck used to be the most important retailer in the United States. K-Mart was the most important discount retailer. Those days are over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMRivdogs Posted Thursday at 06:06 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:06 PM Looks like the butterfly is having some growing pains today. Keep getting "not enough resources" messages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigerbomb13 Posted Thursday at 06:12 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:12 PM 4 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Looks like the butterfly is having some growing pains today. Keep getting "not enough resources" messages Yeah I’m getting an internal server error. I’m sure they are overwhelmed with the quick influx of new users. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 06:14 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:14 PM 6 minutes ago, romad1 said: Sears and Roebuck used to be the most important retailer in the United States. K-Mart was the most important discount retailer. Those days are over. Now imagine if Sears and K-Mart were trying to convince everyone who came into their stores that gender roles were under attack and a cabal of leftists were poisoning our vital essences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Thursday at 07:05 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:05 PM This will not be the first story to be written about the stampede from X to bsky. https://bsky.app/profile/seankeeley.bsky.social/post/3lawexep5l225 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 07:08 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:08 PM 2 minutes ago, chasfh said: This will not be the first story to be written about the stampede from X to bsky. https://bsky.app/profile/seankeeley.bsky.social/post/3lawexep5l225 The more stories the more weight bsky gets and eventually we get the networks, the news feeds, the sports teams posting to bsky exclusively because its not a fetid swamp of hatred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasfh Posted Thursday at 07:09 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:09 PM I feel this is like the early days of MotownForums after MotownSports went tits up because of gambling interests. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romad1 Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:11 PM 1 minute ago, chasfh said: I feel this is like the early days of MotownForums after MotownSports went tits up because of gambling interests. now if we could just post a link to MotownForums and have it embed without having to delete the extra stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gehringer_2 Posted Thursday at 07:39 PM Share Posted Thursday at 07:39 PM 1 hour ago, mtutiger said: Particularly if you end up on the "For You" tab, Yup. Just as an experiment, after my 'For you' suddenly went to crap earlier in the year, I just started rejecting posts to see if the algorithm would eventually get overridden. It will after you reject at least a few hundred, but even after that you now need to keep up a constant rate of 'maintenance' post rejections to keep it decent. The site isn't worth the effort any more. If I can help move the market to a better product I'm good with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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