Twitter C/D

noo matt bruenig was given the choice to either stop constantly calling people names on twitter or be fired and he chose to be fired because being a rageball online was too dear to his heart lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:50 PM (thirteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that website drives ppl fn insane lol

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:53 PM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

some nerd ass socialist lawyer is suddenly a wild pugilist, once he tastes blood he cant get enough and asking him to abide by any standards of decency is a violation of first amendment rights

― lag∞n, Thursday, December 15, 2016 1:55 PM (eight minutes ago)

you gotta respect it he died for what he believed in

i've thought about trimming back on people who talk about politics a lot, i'm really just on there for the poop jokes

https://68.media.tumblr.com/606fbd6a91600577c99eea64521a199a/tumblr_oi7nqs0iJI1qa9yvvo1_1280.png

you gotta respect it he died for what he believed in

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:05 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tru

current josh marshall meltdown over a gizmodo article saying tweetstorms are bad is the good twitter

yeah the bruenig thing was a seriously wtffff moment and went off the rails hardcore when every twitter buddy (or person who wanted to be his buddy) started hammering his perceived foes about how he, a real person with a job, was now without a job and they should die in a fire for not letting this man rage at others

the best part was he was only writing part time while holding an actual well paying lawyer job

can't remember, is gamergate lawyer a real lawyer now? he was married to a real lawyer, but I was thinking he got divorced and remarried or something

fraid i missed out on that "thread"

xp u sure about that? I thought I had seen tweets about how he had become unemployed.

tbf, I felt kind of the same way about the whole Salaita affair, like maybe he ultimately got canned because pro-Israel types were out to get him, but it's still probably a good idea for a professor to comport himself with some dignity on public social media and his tweets were bilious.

im not positive but it is my iirc

I mean his wife was posting "hire my husband" stuff for a while, so I figured that meant unemployed.

think he mightve lost his law job after idk? or maybe he just was looking for writing work... the brueings r lowkey shady

his wife seems great but that time she was all 'if everyone tells husband how wonderful he is, maybe he'll come back on twitter' made me rmde

chipper anti abortion socialist is admitly a novel approach

isn't that all of catholic twitter or w/e

yeah i mean i guess i just dont understand that culture

yeah, left catholics are like that corner of the political matrix you didn't believe really existed

left catholics are the coolest ppl imo, get me fired up

haha nice

best part of the bruenig thing was a bunch of twitter guys being totally incredulous that anyone could possibly be unfamiliar with the "scumbag steve" meme

feel like if you're a cool twitter guy you gotta know your memes

yeah, i think a lot of twitter superstars just assume everyone else also spends 90% of their waking hours on the internet, absorbing every bad joke and microtrend

tbf scumbag steve is a very viral meme

probably, but even very viral memes have a pretty small reach if you're not on social media all the time.

i dont understand what r u doing then

like i don't assume neera tanden or heather mcghee from demos immediately thought, "obviously this is a sharp comic reference to the famous meme!"

Salaita had quit his other job and moved to take his tenure track position when they just decided to pull the offer as if they had no idea he was fond of free palestine wildin' on social media; no warning, and no job, and this is a major university system that did it

Bruenig had a day job (that he has kept) and the writing gig was part time - they definitely took a hit financially, but he was warned

basically nobody with a job should be on social media is what I learned

otm

brb deleting my anonymous twitter account before it gets hacked by russians

I can't see the replies to sosadtoday's tweets. i didn't know you could hide them?

Just in time for xmas:

https://twitter.com/hegelfan1

yeah, left catholics are like that corner of the political matrix you didn't believe really existed

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Thursday, December 15, 2016 3:26 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

left catholics are the coolest ppl imo, get me fired up

― k3vin k., Thursday, December 15, 2016 3:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i went to 12 years of catholic school, 4 of them at a jesuit high school, i know a lot of these people, at one point i identified as one, they are okay imo

rip van wanko what are you talking about, I clicked on a couple of her tweets and the replies are right there

basically nobody with a job should be on social media is what I learned

― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto)

what i learned is that spending lots of time on social media is a great pathway to not having a job

Just in time for xmas:

https://twitter.com/hegelfan1

I find myself enjoying their choice of Twitter handle most of all

Love the ppl debating Karl Marx.

Also the one person he is following.

Its fantastic!

what i learned is that spending lots of time on social media is a great pathway to not having a job

― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Friday, December 16, 2016 12:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*swallows*

Why am I a fan of Mara Wilson on Twitter? I've never even seen Matilda.

people clowning kurt eichenwald for getting a seizure is pretty gross

Did he actually have a seizure?

I mean Eichenwald is eminently clownable but I wouldn't clown him for that.

I, too, had a seizure that made me forget that I sent thousands of dollars to child pornographers

this dude,,, might not be on the level

oh wait, someone sent him a gif that apparently caused a seizure?

that's legitimately horrible behavior but frantically tweeting about a television interview, deleting all those tweets, and then immediately claiming a gif was what gave you a seizure is some timing

he's doing very well in the shit account tourney!

a new low....

https://twitter.com/grabmybutstick/status/810226475026632704

ohnoshetwint!

that account lol man

glib "clever" comparisons make up like 50% of twitter, ppl r so proud of them