smug about it too
― lag∞n, Saturday, 15 July 2023 15:33 (nine months ago) link
ugh this is why it's a good thing I don't look at Twitter anymore, I'm so annoyed by those replies!!
― jaymc, Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link
these trending topics have nothing to do with each other, yet Twitter has grouped them together for some reason pic.twitter.com/hfD0jOwDUO— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 15, 2023
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:37 (nine months ago) link
The Tracy Chapman post is incredibly weird, I'm sorry.
"What if Tracy Chapman, a queer Black woman, had made country music instead of folk-pop? And also instead of writing a Top 10 pop hit, she wrote a country song? And *also* instead of Elektra successfully marketing a pop song across radio and MTV, they instead marketed a hypothetical country song to the narrow world of country stations. Also, for the purposes of this argument, it might be 2023 instead of 1988"
It's a huge leap into the imaginary that sidesteps how the racist, sexist, homophobic machinations of the music industry actually work. And I'm sorry if blue-check dullards have trouble following this logic to comment intelligently.
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:06 (nine months ago) link
As T.I. and Rihanna's hit interpolation of "the Numa Numa song" dominates the hip-hop charts, it’s bringing up some complicated emotions in fans & singers who know that O-Zone, an all-white Moldovan eurodance trio, would have an almost zero chance at that achievement themselves.
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:13 (nine months ago) link
Like, the music industry has like a billion concrete examples of being racist and/or sexist and/or homophobic, you don't have to imagine a scenario
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 July 2023 22:15 (nine months ago) link
are they phasing out twitter threads? when i see a tweet that's part of a thread, there's no indication it's part of a thread, and half the time when i click on a tweet that clearly is part of the thread it doesn't load the rest of the thread just the one tweet in isolation
― flopson, Sunday, 16 July 2023 09:27 (nine months ago) link
Musk's war on Threads continues
― Alba, Sunday, 16 July 2023 12:31 (nine months ago) link
The book I just read about Vince McMahon affirms that some assholes thrive on being the heel.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 July 2023 13:30 (nine months ago) link
a friend of mine used to work for WWE, they have a gym there. in his first week some guy got fired because he was new C didn't understand that when the gym starts blasting "hell's bells" by ac/dc that's the sign that Vince is coming to work out and you should clear out. he stayed and ended getting fired because Vince was annoyed he was making too much noise lifting weights.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 16 July 2023 17:14 (nine months ago) link
jfc
― lag∞n, Sunday, 16 July 2023 17:18 (nine months ago) link
saved by the dumbbell
― rick james, critical moralist (Hunt3r), Sunday, 16 July 2023 17:22 (nine months ago) link
lolI knew a guy who worked for UFC and Dana White is also a piece of work, to put it lightly
― mh, Sunday, 16 July 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
In the book it said that Vince would go lift at home during every commercial break when watching TV with friends, returning from each break more sweaty and pumped and with more skin exposed.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:27 (nine months ago) link
When you're spending six figures a year on designer steroids and growth hormone, might as well get your money's worth.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 16 July 2023 23:55 (nine months ago) link
tbf ppl who are loud about lifting are deeply annoying
that said, i'll bet vince was the fuckin loudest
― mookieproof, Monday, 17 July 2023 00:50 (nine months ago) link
What’s the book Josh?
― Godzilla: (laughs) You are a fool, Mozart. You will never defeat me. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 17 July 2023 20:11 (nine months ago) link
Xpost - I think in this case "too loud" means "existing as a human being"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 July 2023 20:14 (nine months ago) link
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, July 15, 2023 6:15 PM (two days ago)
I just want to say that the actual article in question is, no surprise, a lot sharper than the tweet summary: https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/07/13/tracy-chapman-luke-combs-fast-car-cover/
― rob, Monday, 17 July 2023 20:38 (nine months ago) link
Pretty good piece.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 July 2023 20:48 (nine months ago) link
Xpost The McMahon book is called "Ringmaster." Pretty solid summation of his life and ethos. Spoiler alert: he is pretty much a piece of shit and part and parcel with Trump in more ways than many may know.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2023 21:37 (nine months ago) link
wasn't his wife in the trump administration?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 July 2023 21:46 (nine months ago) link
Wapo article overlooked the "Fast Dick" version but maybe ppl aren't ready for that conversation
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 17 July 2023 22:32 (nine months ago) link
seems like there arent that many tweets on twitter these days
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 July 2023 22:47 (nine months ago) link
Yeah. But also Trump and Vince are basically BFFs and have been for decades; the book said he is one of the few people that Trump clears the room for when they call. Trump grew up watching wresting events in New York promoted by Vince's dad and has remained a fan ever since. I mentioned on a different thread that I saw the author of the book speak, and she hypothesized that Trump facing an "active" (which is to say, hooting and hollering) crowd as a WWF presenter may have been the first time he encountered that sort of audience and leaned in to being a heel himself, in part exploiting the ugliness and offensiveness that has been a pro wrestling trademark since the beginning. And the rest is (sigh) history.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2023 23:59 (nine months ago) link
my following feed is tumbleweeds xp
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 01:50 (nine months ago) link
Yeah, it’s dying fast
― stet, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 01:55 (nine months ago) link
lonely turd just thinkin baout things
Why Me? by Catturd. I'm exhausted - mentally and physically. This Catturd thing has been a 5 year rollercoaster ride. I basically work 7 days a week; no days off, no vacations. I don't even know how I got here. I often ask, why me? I have no idea how I've gained such a…— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:01 (nine months ago) link
Elong deliberately killing Twitter to force shut-ins like me to want to go back to the office.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:04 (nine months ago) link
if you think about it talking to people was the original twitter
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:11 (nine months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1aKCHqWcAQucKm?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:13 (nine months ago) link
he's a human fedora
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:17 (nine months ago) link
btw that catturd post almost certainly provoked by the fact that elon gave a handful of right wing posters ~$10k each saying it was part of some influencer ad revenue sharing program that prob doesnt really exist and cat turd didnt get any despite him and elon being bros, shouldnt have complained so much about being shadow banned when really he was on a special promoted list with biden and lebron lol
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:18 (nine months ago) link
🗣
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:19 (nine months ago) link
For just giving my honest opinions, I've been doxxed, harassed, 100 hit pieces written about me, people come by house and scream obscenities, tons of death threats, and on and on. Everyone I've known for 40 years and many of my family members have been bullied and relentlessly harassed for years. I've been fucked over, left for dead, dissed and forgotten. Luck ran out, they hoped that I'd be gone, stiff and rotten. Y'all just piss on me, shit on me, spit on my grave.Talk about me, laugh behind my back but in my face y'all some well wishers, friendly acting, envy hiding snakes with your hands out for my money, man, how much can I take?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:24 (nine months ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 17 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink
? - my TL is ok.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:25 (nine months ago) link
at a deep level i never truly understood why anybody had accounts on Twitter, but it especially baffles me now.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:33 (nine months ago) link
Go deeper.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:35 (nine months ago) link
wait, catturd is pushing 60? Am I reading that correctly?
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:36 (nine months ago) link
wikipedia says he's 58 and a virgo
― mark s, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:38 (nine months ago) link
I've been doxxed, harassed, 100 hit pieces written about mePeople come by house and scream obscenities
Been stuck in airports, terrorizedSent to meetings, hypnotizedOverexposed, commercializedHandle me with care
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:39 (nine months ago) link
lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:46 (nine months ago) link
EverybodyNeeds somebodyTo shiiiiiiit on
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 15:48 (nine months ago) link
so ... he completely gave up on that throttling thing?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
catturd is basically dril if he were a real (and therefore boring and shit) person
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:19 (nine months ago) link
But even if you should suffer for doing what is right, GOD will reward you for it. Do not fear their intimidation and do not be troubled.1 Peter 3:14— Wendy Patterson (@wendyp4545) July 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:20 (nine months ago) link
stations of the scratching post
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 16:23 (nine months ago) link
I basically work 7 days a week; no days off, no vacations.
So he's catturd professionally? Or has a IRL job? If it's the latter, it's predictably ironic that his politics reinforce this unrelenting schedule. If only he could take a vacation hmm
― octobeard, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 19:49 (nine months ago) link
thats him on lead vocals
Does it make things worse or better that his band was called The Groovy Grapes? pic.twitter.com/Gcr0hiLQBX— Cape Codder (@CapedCodder) July 19, 2023
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 19:51 (nine months ago) link