Twitter C/D

It’s even more egregious when someone like Nate Silver assigns a percentage to something like this, because millions will believe it must be data-based instead of ass-based.

— John Smith (@GOP_U) May 27, 2021

the simultaneous hit and boost your ego takes when a million people tell you to eat shit, fragile psyches arent equipped to handle it

evidence suggests almost no one handles this well

nate's lucky that there's no way to easily make a fart pun out of his name

ema-nate silver, nvm

nate shitter

Tell us more about "the Jews"please.

― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, May 27, 2021 9:27 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

"The Jews are tired" is a common refrain for Eve Fartlow types who like to project their bullshit on the rest of us

the e*e b*rl*w instagram, which I clicked on for reasons I will not delve into, is wacky. she uses it as a… platform for screenshots of her tweets, and to manually image-retweet things and comment on them off of twitter?

this is some kind of weird strategy I am unfamiliar with

so is Nate Silver's position basically "I can't tell the difference between true things and false things, so I'll just say it's 50/50 but tilted in favor of the side that isn't currently yelling at me?" dude's got a bad case of Dilbertbrain

sounds about right

uh yeah thats called bayesian thinking

baylessian thinking

Bayesian stinking

I don’t have stances, only a big sieve where my brain used to be and probabilities coming out my mouth once the data is fed to me

I’m starting to agree that this guy has mastered post-Trump tweeting

So I was checking in to a Fancy Spa (FAT CAMP) and the front desk TOOK my phone for the “Digital Detox”-but I didn’t sign up for THAT! I just wanted my Mango Massage and Netflix. BIG Argument! I left “Rancho Relaxo”—got a Suite at HARD ROCK CASINO. Party!(DIET postponed to ‘22)

— Greg Kelly (@gregkellyusa) May 27, 2021

If life has taught me nothing else, it's that when there's an unusually long delay for your order at the coffee shop/restaurant/whatever, there probably was some snafu ("they forgot to put it in") and you're not being a jerk for politely inquiring about it.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) May 26, 2021

chilling

used to enjoy Nate Silver but Adrian Chiles is the only pundit I need now

"if life has taught me nothing else"

which I clicked on for reasons I will not delve into

take it to the WS of Shame thread

Chiles is cancelled I'm afraid. He had some shit-talking QC on his 5live show doing a hideously pro-cop account of the Hillsborough disaster and didn't once challenge him. twat.

Nate Silver's deathbed address

putting the hack in lifehack

'i don't know whether COVID was a leaked bioweapon, but the fact that it's so easy to imagine is revealing'

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EofZzElWEAEc8aT?format=jpg&name=small

sad that we can't post stuff like this to the GG thread anymore as it is apparently reserved either for his imminent rehabilitation or gruesome mauling

Nate Silver is used to “did you forget to put it in” feedback around his home, amirite

Nate Sliver

A teeny-tiny inclusive language thing I've tried to get better at this past year is avoiding northern hemisphere-specific seasonal language. Like instead of "this summer," I say the months I mean, or Q3.

Because it might be that season for ME but not that season for everybody!

— Lara Hogan (@lara_hogan) May 27, 2021

Ok I'm the Joker now.

i use the fiscal calendar, always showing up in the wrong month because people don't include me

Might start trying to use only the Hebrew calendar.

howl at the moon when its full sleep when its new good enough for me

late on the latest stuff on eve fartlow, who sucks, and I know I’ve mentioned this before, but after reading one of the essays in jia tolentino’s book about bari weiss and other people whose entire online business model is getting dunked on for attention, I’ve gotten so much less mad about these people even if I still like to make fun of them

https://i.postimg.cc/JnfWqcxW/image.png

the father, the son, and the holy ghost

love how twitter blurbers are compelled to write like this, can't just say "cracker barrel getting dunked on"

With Twitter Blue, the company's new subscription service, you'll be able to pay real $$$ to get someone to actually look at your harassment reports 🤡https://t.co/bmAbBpk2UO pic.twitter.com/Px0Nf1Ilh5

— Ryan Brown 🎮 (@Toadsanime) June 3, 2021

Rich blue checks are going to purge the site

tbf it only costs three dollars a month

tbf, even if costs only a handful of cents per month, it's bullshit that they are straight up admitting that paying them will be the only way for them to take harassment complaints seriously in a reasonable timeframe

yes that is true

for $3 a month, i should be able to harass anyone i want

nobody with any self-respect would pay a fucking penny for twitter. And if you get booted much faster or more frequently for dunking on some blue-tick+ arsehole, then it's reaching the end of its usefulness for ordinary folk.

self-respect? on _my_ internet? never!

lol probably self-respect is probably wrong! but not fucking rebellious enough by half.

lol it's such wretched bullshit you don't even get ad-free for paying subscription.

The only website here there are *no* ads for people who don’t sign up for an account

Banned in Nigeria

"The Federal Government has suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter, in Nigeria," the Ministry of Information and Culture announced in a statement https://t.co/bCCoDFtWlu

— CNN (@CNN) June 4, 2021

So what happened to her on twitter? Reading this and thinking she said some shit and couldn't stay cool with the overreaction.

Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Wow. She went in. https://t.co/IsBPUh0IIK pic.twitter.com/kLjxIgZG4D

— Tomiwa Owolade (@tomowolade) June 16, 2021

You don't remember the transphobia row from a couple of years ago?

In other news, comics twitter dunking on a 16 year old for saying ppl shouldn't be shamed for torrenting comics, really cool.

I didn't know of that row, no.

Regrettable because I do think her original misstep - refusing to say trans women are women while stating that trans ppl have an important role to play in liberation - was well intentioned ignorance rather than the actively hateful TERFery of the UK press, but once she got called out on that she went the way of every other celeb that ppl have dared to disagree with.

I was wondering whether 'trans women are women' was the mantra she was referring to.