One may legitimately wonder how the Twitterati of 2022 would have responded.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:03 (eight months ago) link
reddit link for the untwittered?
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:16 (eight months ago) link
AITA for being honest with my girlfriend when she asked a question about the birthday cake she made me?
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:24 (eight months ago) link
this js a guy on twitter telling me I'm a terrible parent for reasons I am unable to comprehend
This is ridiculous. You sound like a terrible parent. Allowing yourself joys and pleasures is absolutely allowed as a parent. He would have done it himself but SHE OFFERED. What don't you understand about this? He didn't ask her to bake him a cake, she asked him then made— Vinyl Seller (@Vinyl_ShopSF) August 27, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:32 (eight months ago) link
xxp ty!
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:33 (eight months ago) link
lol do not argue with that guy. his favorite teams are in his bio. he is past help
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:48 (eight months ago) link
lots of adult babies out there on the internet latelyI caught myself doing that a couple weeks ago and Logged Off if only a moment too late
― mh, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:49 (eight months ago) link
xp I can't argue with him, he blocked me after posting that.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:51 (eight months ago) link
loooooool never change, bird app
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:52 (eight months ago) link
daddy wants his cakey
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:53 (eight months ago) link
its true, dads are absolutely crazy for it
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:53 (eight months ago) link
i stand with cake dad, he only wants the perfect cake
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:54 (eight months ago) link
getting the good cake is called self-care
― Clay, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:58 (eight months ago) link
it's his special day
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:58 (eight months ago) link
we have been told by society that we dont even deserve delicious cake
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 22:59 (eight months ago) link
my favorite take is ‘cake man is clearly neurodivergent, so siding with the girlfriend is ableism’
― mookieproof, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:00 (eight months ago) link
there's somebody down thread who wants to argue that baking the wrong cake is really abuse
NTA, and everyone here is so ignorant about emotional abuse its painful.My man, you are better off with out her. Every one here is piling on and it's ridiculous. I had a partner that was exactly like this, her pattern of emotional abuse was to specifically ask what I wanted so she could deny it. She had it out for you and when you didn't blow up like she wanted she blew up herself. In any context, asking someone what they want, and then specifically doing something else so you can hold your (volunteered) effort over them so that the man is the bad guy. It's bullshit dude, you are better off without her and everyone in these comments is acting like someone doing something for you is always good, she is acting like an abuser and you disserve better.
lol yeah that's it exactly. it's abuse when I don't get the cake I wanted
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:02 (eight months ago) link
the thing no one understands is cake dad is confection pilled and birthday maxxing
― lag∞n, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:07 (eight months ago) link
what I also don't dare add to the twitter discourse is that these "devil's food" or w/e cakes with layers of chocolate frosting are all awful and all taste the same anyway
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:09 (eight months ago) link
cake person
― kinder, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:12 (eight months ago) link
devil's food with nuts is objectively the best donut (southern california donut style division) but I think it's true that a devil's food cake generally is a devil's food cake. but it's also been pointed out onthread that the cookbook definition of devil's food has a layer of vanilla frosting so my bro is just genuinely embarrassing
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:14 (eight months ago) link
It's okay to feel mildly disappointed because you didn't get the birthday cake you wanted. Part of being a functional adult is recognizing that that disappointment is a silly trifle for you to process internally rather than something that you should broadcast to the entire world because you're a thirtysomething who should literally be wearing a diaper because you presumably piss and shit all over yourself over the slightest infraction.
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 August 2023 00:02 (eight months ago) link
What's most unsettling to me is the multiple people in the thread I saw who don't see a problem with the "if you went to a restaurant..." analogy about a cake your girlfriend makes you (assuming she wasn't charging him, which now I hope she was)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 28 August 2023 00:42 (eight months ago) link
This is my favorite genre of reply pic.twitter.com/2tPfiNrg2s— aslaug (@zoddwalker) August 27, 2023
― mookieproof, Monday, 28 August 2023 01:17 (eight months ago) link
If I went to a restaurant and the chef made me something different than what I asked for, I would drive to her house and tell her children she was a failure.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 01:18 (eight months ago) link
Personality disorders: recognizable + treatable or nah?
― Prop Dramedy (Old Lunch), Monday, 28 August 2023 01:39 (eight months ago) link
Twitter main character is a post from a subreddit of people volunteering to be the main character. That’s how you know twitter no longer has the juice.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 04:14 (eight months ago) link
I don't know if it was just my algorithm on my feed but there seemed to be a racial element to the division, with most of the defenders of the guy being black - first of all Roxane Gay and a psychologist then lots of random tweeters. That made me think again about my initial reaction - not that I was going to change my mind but rather than be too judgemental myself maybe there are interesting cultural factors at play here.
― Alba, Monday, 28 August 2023 07:58 (eight months ago) link
I'm not sure how many of the people attacking the guy actually think the woman did nothing wrong. If I were her I'd definitely not have ignored his wishes having asked him what he wanted, but I'd probably never have offered to bake a cake in the first place so AITA? Also trying to imagine being someone who gave a shit about the icing being wrong on my cake is quite a mental stretch. What would I do in his situation if I thought it was so important? Probably hold my tongue and harbour simmering resentment.
― Alba, Monday, 28 August 2023 08:08 (eight months ago) link
The root weirdness to me is the requirements he laid out at the start - if a partner says "I'm gonna bake you a cake" my only response is "that's awesome, thank you!"
I don't like pie - show up to my birthday with a Key Lime Pie and I'll eat a piece like it's the best thing ever.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 28 August 2023 10:01 (eight months ago) link
during lockdown we hosted an American kid at our house (his private school had closed their dorms) and I have never had to deal with such a fussy eater, of course I just gave him the four or five foods he would eat but then my own kids were asking "why can't we have burgers/hot dogs/pizza every day?" and I would have to have private conversations with them later to explain why not.(sure there are plenty of British kids like this too, but in terms of food mine are 90% Chinese)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 28 August 2023 10:24 (eight months ago) link
Roxane Gay seems to defend all the worst, self-absorbed people on twitter
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 28 August 2023 11:25 (eight months ago) link
thats because shes a... bad feminist haha
― lag∞n, Monday, 28 August 2023 11:26 (eight months ago) link
Don't know if this is happening to anyone else, but over the last day or two it keeps switching back to the For You tab over and over, even though I only want to look at Following
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 28 August 2023 12:05 (eight months ago) link
For a long time I listened to everyone's complaints about the For You tab, smugly quiet about the fact mine was actually quite good and interesting. Some switch has been flicked in the last few days and not only am I getting some awful people on there, I'm getting deluged with stupid blue tick viral video accounts about cats and what not. Only thing I've changed at my end is blocking a lot of the blue accounts (I used to just mute) so maybe I'm getting punished for that.
― Alba, Monday, 28 August 2023 12:14 (eight months ago) link
I've also had that the last couple of days, after a month's-long period where it would always say it was on For You but actually be on Following
(xp)
― Iain Mew (if), Monday, 28 August 2023 12:14 (eight months ago) link
Looking at it, it seems blue and gold ticks account for more than 95% of the For You feed now so I maybe that's the simplest explanation.
― Alba, Monday, 28 August 2023 12:16 (eight months ago) link
laptop twitter very occasionally switches me to "for you" -- with a little recent flurry after a long time apparently resignedly accepting my preference
phone twitter has NEVER ONCE switched me to "for you" -- to the extent that i half wondered if this firmness of purpose acted as a kind of anchor for my account lol (i have no idea how or whether this is possible)
― mark s, Monday, 28 August 2023 12:21 (eight months ago) link
i follow about 250 people, and i would guess half of them have just stopped posting in the past year, maybe another 25% posting way less. so i've been looking at "for you" a bit more than i used to, but it's so bad.
the one redeeming feature "for you" had (occasionally you see a cool reply from someone you follow to someone you don't) is gone because conversational threads are finished among people i follow (presumably blue check spam).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 15:11 (eight months ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Subreddits have been quoted on twitter for ever.
It's actually pretty good as a means of checking on the 'health' of other social media. So you don't see much of Insta being quoted on twitter these days, but you see a lot of funny to deranged stuff being reposted from tik tok.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 28 August 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:40 (eight months ago) link
a cool reply from someone you follow to someone you don't
it often switches me to "for you" on phone and is then insistent on showing me one friend's dad yelling at tv stations and footy clubs about rugby refs' decisions for half the commute
― vashti funyuns (sic), Monday, 28 August 2023 16:57 (eight months ago) link
i don't think they've been discussed at length on this thread for a while.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:20 (eight months ago) link
and i can't think of a time a reddit screenshot has been the main character on twitter before. when was the last bean dad/justine sacco?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
Elon has been the main character for a year or so
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 28 August 2023 18:35 (eight months ago) link
My impression is that most of this thread have left twitter. Or have an account but aren't checking in.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:44 (eight months ago) link
yea it was Trump for like 5 years and now it's Elon, the only real opening for that shit was in like 2021-2022
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 13:47 (eight months ago) link
Today's character.
The most annoying people in the world love to say there is no objective difference between good art and bad artSo I made a list of 15Good Art v/s Bad Art: The Masterlist of 15 Differences👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/caQ0b3Aqjt— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) August 27, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:02 (eight months ago) link
he's no bean dad
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link
Old Opinion Having Guy
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 17:11 (eight months ago) link