xyzzzzzzzzzz if you are just going to laugh at me, why should I engage with you?
and maybe that is why I hate twitter
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Saturday, 25 January 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
there are plenty of coherent expansions on why twitter sucks itt
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 January 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
People don't laugh at other people on ilx? Doesn't this place get argumentative and difficult? What is so much better about this place that makes you post on it but not on twitter?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
What do you mean?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Lots of people I have found through twitter and are not ilx ppl could've ended up on ilx if twitter didn't exist.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
Loving the new Gucci Mickey Mouse collection, featuring a vintage looking Disney Mickey. Jeans, sweatshirts, tee shirts, sweaters, jackets, and accessories. The Mickey craze is on!!!— Danielle Steel (@daniellesteel) January 23, 2020
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
Change your life – one happy thought at a time!— The Secret (@thesecret) January 25, 2020
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:30 (four years ago) link
lol
― opden gnash (imago), Saturday, 25 January 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
Where does hatred come into the equation?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
Envy iirc.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:16 (four years ago) link
We hate the fact that all these wonderful people who could be on ILX are on Twitter?
https://www.shortlist.com/media/images/2019/05/923fb68fea6fa36cb4c58afbe92548c8-1556687180-msXP-column-width-inline.jpg
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
We can’t bring anything to us unless we are grateful for what we already have.— The Secret (@thesecret) January 25, 2020
― pomenitul, Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Hatred is a bit strong. More like mixed feelings as less people post here these days..although there is something to be said for quieter mode ilx
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:44 (four years ago) link
I'm almost 100% certain that has absolutely no bearing on what people on ILX think about Twitter! Maybe other people's brains work differently to mine though.
Funnily enough, I was just looking at Facebook and noticed that one of my friends was talking to one of his (FB) friends, who happened to be Graham Lewis of Wire, who seems to post on FB all the time - he's the right age group apparently. Should I hate, or have mixed feelings about, Facebook now for keeping Graham Lewis (and Colin Newman, he's on there too) from posting on ILX?
― Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 January 2020 13:48 (four years ago) link
xxxxyyyy you were baiting me to write something here so that you could laugh at me, but I don't want to be bullied. I'm happy this place isn't like twitter, that's why I post here and not there. I came and have stayed here because it was a thoughtful place (and when I stay on ILM it still is)
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Saturday, 25 January 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
My experience is that people who stick close to bullies are cowards and enablers who live in fear of eventually being targeted themselves. People who participate in that toxic social dynamic, both bullies and enablers, are not well or happy people.
― beard papa, Saturday, January 25, 2020 7:11 AM
I always wonder why those people take a risk like that because they must know that bullies and enablers are likely to get shown for what they are eventually. Especially bullies who like to present themselves as the cutting edge of social justice.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 25 January 2020 15:44 (four years ago) link
That's ok Euler. Post as you want, you do you.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
Twitter is the terriblest and people who like it are part of the problem― juntos pedemos (Euler), Sunday, 19 January 2020
― juntos pedemos (Euler), Sunday, 19 January 2020
Can you expand on this? For the lolz― xyzzzz__
― xyzzzz__
PEOPLE YOU CAN USE TECHNOLOGY TO PRETEND ALL OF THE TERRIBLE STUFF THAT IS MAKING LIFE IN 2020 UNBEARABLE DOESN'T EXIST― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy)
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy)
― revenge of the jawn (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 January 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
twitter most actively harmful to my mental health
reddit the worst for the internet in general in terms of how it subsumed any actually interesting unique little corner of the internet. not to mention the actual interface is almost unusable, the comment threading makes no sense at all. forums are/were much better. reddit’s worst offense though is that it’s insanely boring
facebook the most concretely toxic in terms of real world effects
― global tetrahedron, Saturday, 25 January 2020 19:02 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 31 January 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
gotta go w Facebook. outside of Fox I suspect it’s had the biggest influence on turning aging whites’ brains into spoiled mayonnaise
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link
yeah agree
― Dan S, Friday, 31 January 2020 01:30 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 1 February 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
41strange got suspended?! wtf
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 17 February 2020 22:19 (four years ago) link
Maybe its a perception of being way more public here? Which would be right? One can filter and lock and so on on FB at least. I mean I spent 6 months talking on the regular to Ian Crause a few years back on FB/email, but he almost never showed up here.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 17 February 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
I haven't updated WhatsApp in ages, and now I've got a new phone so everything's installing again, and it's now 'WhatsApp Messenger' 'from Facebook' - was it always like this and/or has anything changed? Old news articles say Facebook wants to merge WhatsApp & FB Messenger, and I hate FB Messenger with the passion of a thousand firey suns, so would like to know before I install WA if it's gone to shit.
― kinder, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
I'm getting tired of seeing people I like on twitter seeming to seriously advocate murder and other extremely violent solutions. Most of the time I imagine they were just extremely angry and wouldn't stick to it if you asked about it seriously but then there's all these "not even joking" tweets. For fucks sake.
Losing respect for almost everyone but still need to get along.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
Moving the Overton on choppy bois might be the only good sociological effect of twitter.
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link
otm
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Say what you like about Instagram, at least no-one's commandeered it to encourage genocide (unless you're counting Fyre Festival).
― i was joking about the cat soup thing (Matt #2), Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
I should maybe check more often if these people delete those tweets later on, but I never see anyone apologize.
Also: massive sweeping statements about groups of people that have nothing to do with any serious thinking about privilege.
Very few people seem to have learned that "it's just a joke" shouldn't fly anymore.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 March 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
people shouldn't joke about having tory scum executed like vermin, it's a serious business is liquidating scum of the earth!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
liquidate power, not voters tbh
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
I've said "they probably don't mean that and are probably nice" too many times for people in my social circles. Benefit of the doubt is important but I don't know why I gave it to strangers so often.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 29 March 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
have concluded social media was invented by harry harlow
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 March 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
my mum insists on referring to video conference calls, to which she has recently been exposed by me and my brothers, as social media. i mean i can see the logic, but “i know people complain about social media but i think it’s *wonderful*” takes some unpicking.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 2 April 2020 06:08 (four years ago) link
Why would anyone apologize for joking (“joking”) about guillotining billionaires?
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 2 April 2020 06:33 (four years ago) link
Too much violent fantasies give a sense that any real change is hopeless and we're reduced to childishness that won't gain us any advantage, might turn lots of people away. Comes across creepy too. Joking about executing the royal family might have been funny for a moment but when it persists it's just sounds the joker has a serious problem.
I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead. But I try not to and I know it's not good for me.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:16 (four years ago) link
...
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 2 April 2020 16:51 (four years ago) link
I also have an unhealthy fixation with kicking Family Guy fans out windows and shutting down Marvel and DC and jerking off while everyone affected cries. These are the less political ones.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
twitter is bad now that everyones on it 24/7
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
I'm someone who regularly fantasizes about taking a hot bath affixed to the top of the world's slowest steamroller, everyone I dislike is tied down in front of the steamroller and I can listen to the music of them being turned to mush and the screams of the hundreds who are ahead.
that sounds like a 'you' problem rather than something afflicting the person with a guillotine avatar
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 2 April 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
I'm sure there's all sorts of violent fantasies for all sorts of angry people.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
milo you’re almost as much of an asshole as me, kudos
― brimstead, Thursday, 2 April 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
ugh I regret that sorry.
Most people don’t have extremely detailed violent fantasies, even people who joke about putting Jeff Bezos’s head on a pike outside the city gates.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Thursday, 2 April 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
online: guillotines!! eat the rich!offline: plain cheeseburger no onions please. afraid to pee in the shower— @rogerclark (@rogerclark) December 19, 2017
― ciderpress, Thursday, 2 April 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Peeing in the shower does not feel good, the lack of contrast between my urine and the water is unsettling.
I'll say it again: it's amazing how poor twitter and instagram are for browsing. I'm irritated within a short time of being there.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
great revive
― mookieproof, Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:08 (three years ago) link
ffs
― Prosecutor Bradley Tankerton (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
The pictures on the instagram dashboard are way too big and the list of people you follow is this silly little list when a whole page would have worked better.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:46 (three years ago) link