deleted the tweet that is, not the day
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
i do believe in the idea of deleted days
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
well, I've heard May 1 never happened
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:55 (one year ago) link
teach the controversy!
― z_tbd, Thursday, 4 May 2023 15:59 (one year ago) link
works for me but just logging in I realized I haven't really visited Twitter in a while. I think it's still really good for real-time NBA updates but it's no good for anything else anymore. looked through the stuff I RT'd a few months ago and a lot of those people have just went inactive.― frogbs, Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:37 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:37 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
Yeah, I got sucked back into Twitter a couple of months ago, and my feed is definitely not the same as it once was. It's quieter, less interesting. Even during the peak Trump-era hellsite years, it felt vital in a way that it really doesn't anymore.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:34 (one year ago) link
I feel like the Blue check comments always being at the top is causing some reactions
WHAT IS GOING ON YOU PEOPLE SOUND LIKE MONSTERS MY GOD https://t.co/FZW9lT4jUs— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) May 4, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:47 (one year ago) link
I think with most social media sites you spend a while curating your feed and trying to add as many interesting people as possible, but then it gets to the point where it doesn't even cross your mind to add new people. I think that's where Twitter is at for a lot of people. which is a real problem if folks are actively leaving
― frogbs, Thursday, 4 May 2023 17:48 (one year ago) link
That's a good point. I've only followed a very small handful of people over the last few years. There's definitely a sense of stagnation when much of what you see is the people you've been following for years, who are tweeting about the same stuff as always and apparently have no plans to leave.
― jaymc, Thursday, 4 May 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
So can we start a bluesky invites chain or what
(mostly I'm just curious tbh)
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:48 (one year ago) link
I heard someone pronounce it like "Bluski"
If that is the actual pronunciation then no thanks
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:49 (one year ago) link
Three syllables -- 'bl' - 'uesk' - 'y'
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 5 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
xpost - tbh I vastly prefer that pronunciation
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
I keep thinking it's an Underworld reference
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Friday, 5 May 2023 15:58 (one year ago) link
i am absolutely baffled by the reaction to this subway killing.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:04 (one year ago) link
by democrats no less. it's like it's 1995 again.
I hear the A-ha song in my head each time xp
― Vinnie, Friday, 5 May 2023 16:08 (one year ago) link
Yeah I've been watching a lot of typically very left people in my orbit just turn into raging maniacs about "crime! crime! crime!" and "somethin' oughta be done!" lately. Shit I expect to hear from my central Illinois relatives who have always been afraid of "the big city" is now being spouted by lifelong Chicagoans. It's weird and unsettling.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
goldfish like memories
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
in this case though, it's not even about people taking a narrow view of crime that doesn't connect it to other systemic issues.
what we are seeing is people either making excuses for or even celebrating the cold blooded murder of a mentally ill homeless man.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
oh yeah, the reactions to this case have been horrifying and disgusting, but it seems to be tying into a larger national mood right now where an alarming number of people seem to think every urban center is now a crime ridden cesspool
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:30 (one year ago) link
a lot of people just repeat what the people around them are saying. i wonder if any of the people you are hearing were ACAB types in 2020.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
That is part of what is alarming and surreal about the subway killing. At a different moment, I could see people rallying around the victim and demanding justice, as happened for so many black victims of white policing or vigilantism in recent years. But for some reason that response — while it exists — is muted now and liberal politicians are making these ambivalent statements about not rushing to judgmebt.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 16:45 (one year ago) link
treesy otm
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
I know there’s a NY thread somewhere but I have to say that the both sidesism in the blatant vigilante murder of a homeless individual on the Subway has got me fucking furious. All the news coverage does is confirm that the US hates poor people, disdains those with mental illnesses, and wishes death upon those populations.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Thursday, May 4, 2023 7:20 AM (yesterday)
tabes very much otm here too
― rob, Friday, 5 May 2023 17:21 (one year ago) link
co-sign.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
I was waiting to hear where this marine was from. Was he a new yorker? A tourist? Apparently he's from West Islip. Long Island. Which makes me think, as I often do, of the article I read some time ago talking about how the people who are the most scared of the city are those who live close to it but not in it. The slightly further out suburbs.
― dan selzer, Friday, 5 May 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
People are cheering this on and no one's even said what this guy supposedly *did* beyond being loud, "menacing"(??) and throwing a jacket.
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
Like what are you exactly cheering for if there's no discernable motive for someone to strangle a man to death beyond making a subway ride uncomfortable
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:55 (one year ago) link
Like at least Bernie Goetz fans went through the motions of pretending he was being robbed. This is just like straight up "Someday, a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
The whole thing hurts my heart like nothing I can remember in recent memory
― young sussy (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
homeless & poor people, the genocide both sides can get behind
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 5 May 2023 17:57 (one year ago) link
It weirdly reminds me of how suddenly torture became something we could debate and have pro or con opinions about after 9/11. I found that so unsettling and disquieting (still do). So now it seems like we're in a "maybe it's OK to kill people who annoy your or ring your doorbell or whatever" moment with vigilante violence. The right has always been there, obviously, depending on who the vigilantes are, but it feels like a real mainstreaming going on.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
It’s also a 180 from what the liberal consensus seemed to be in 2020. This is what is giving me whiplash.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
well, I was always a bit skeptical about the permanence of the movement in 2020 regarding less progressive folks.
but I feel like homeless people have gotten short shrift in this country form all sides no matter what societal changes have been going on. I find self-identified 'liberal' folk still feel very comfortable making derogatory comments about homeless people. i always challenge anybody who does it but it gets tiring because it almost always becomes a "you're being insensitive to ME" DARVO type thing
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
It seems erratic. One day “defund the police” is a mainstream slogan, the next day “murder the homeless” is an argument that is acceptable in polite company. Perhaps it is just different people getting the microphone at different times, but for a social media user the shift is very jarring and insane.
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Your last sentence gets it right. It's not so much that "the discussion has shifted"; it's "Who the fuck let all these lunatics in the room?" and the answer is, of course, Elon Musk.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 5 May 2023 20:11 (one year ago) link
seems like kind of a natural outgrowth of calling anyone who doesn't share your viewpoint an NPC
― frogbs, Friday, 5 May 2023 20:19 (one year ago) link
The Young Turks started lashing out at homeless people awhile back, and hatred of the homeless seemed to have something to do with the celeb support for Rick Caruso in the LA Mayoral race.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 5 May 2023 20:26 (one year ago) link
Scapegoating the vulnerable
― treeship., Friday, 5 May 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
uhhh are these good numbers for a subscription service
Over half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribedOut of about 150,000 of the first subscribers to Twitter Blue, only 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription. https://t.co/Mtvgca79EB— Travis Akers (@travisakers) May 5, 2023
― frogbs, Friday, 5 May 2023 20:39 (one year ago) link
more like Twitter Brown
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
that is exactly what this is. we are living in some shitty times that took a long time to make, but they are 100% here imo.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 5 May 2023 21:10 (one year ago) link
we also just had two Black siblings who were shot at after pulling into the wrong driveway, where the shooter actually shot at them as they drove away, and the local cops said they had no reason to believe they did anything illegal. but we know why they really didn't arrest the guy and that wasn't it.
vigilante justice is sanctioned but only for one race
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Friday, 5 May 2023 21:14 (one year ago) link
they found "no reason to believe the guy who shot at them did anything illegal", to be clear.
I was absolutely convinced that right wing blue checkmark people were getting amplified to be the first replies to the few people I follow, enough so that I brought it up with my wife. But she just looked at her own account and didn't see anything like that, and when I opened my computer to look, suddenly the replies seemed more normal once again, too. Maybe the dummies at Twitter flipped the switch back, because it was backfiring?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 6 May 2023 03:27 (one year ago) link
block post
"not interested in science?"
"not interested in authors?"
it's more that i can't read Turkish and those posts were both in Turkish
― koogs, Saturday, 6 May 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
looking at who Elon is replying/boosting this week, might be time to stop posting if you’re still on there
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
hes going full nazi
― lag∞n, Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
He’s going full nazi
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
I feel like people are posting things now as honey traps to lure the blue checks out of their holes so sane people can mute/block them. I saw a photo of Tom Morello playing guitar in front of a graphic reading NAZI LIVES DON'T MATTER and immediately muted every blue-check account in the comments — without exception, it was a parade of whatabouts (mostly having to do with Ukraine) and hit dogs hollering.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link