Twitter C/D

eventually TikTok and Fanduel will be one app and there will be no apps after that

How many album titles beginning with 'N' can you name?

Nebraska - Bruce Springsten

Never mind...

didn't they debunk the liver king as being on roids?

he was (is?) on ten thousand dollars of steroids a month, idk how much steroids cost but that seems like a lot

yea I'm pretty sure it's impossible to look like that otherwise

no you just need to eat more raw liver

you can only aspire to liver prince until he dies from causes unrelated to liver

skips leg days

Something I've noticed is that there will be tweets w numbers of "Views" listed as being in the tens or h a hundreds of thousands (or more), but which have only a handful (if that) of likes and/or replies. Seems slightly off...

two accounts, one is mostly indie games and trains but i must've clicked on something recently because I'm also getting posts from every London museum and library and walking tour and university now

the other account, music and friends, is now 90% Arabic, which i can't read, pages and pages of it. and it's just random Arabic stuff too, weddings and cars, lots of the war obv, but also recipes and pop videos and fashion.

oh, those algorithms...

still doing it. the only odd thing i can see is

Languages: "English, No linguistic content, Estonian"

David Klion profiles Will Stancil:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/will-stancil-twitter-mn-house-candidate.html

lmao

The way people talk about Will Stancil you think they’d never seen an annoying moron before.

— ettingermentum🥥🌴 (@ettingermentum) December 14, 2023

oopsie

In the summer of 2023, Stancil clashed with more irony-poisoned elements of the left who were joking, in his view distastefully, about the wealthy tourists who died during the Titan submersible implosion. And for a period after the October 7 Hamas attacks, Stancil went hard after left-wing critics of Israel, myself included — though he hasn’t tweeted about the conflict at all since a few weeks before he announced his candidacy. “I kinda don’t think the organized left in America is going to survive this,” he tweeted on October 11. During our discussion, Israel was the only major topic Stancil wanted to go off the record for; on record, he simply said, “My position on the war in Gaza is that it’s horrible, and I want it to end as soon as possible.”

i like david klion but that piece doesnt examine what i guess is stancils core thesis that hes influencing the media and washington with his tweets, which is needless to say absurd, sure if you go around playing the victim to some boogieman left thats sabotaging an otherwise popular and successful democratic party then yeah some people will listen to you, people who already think that, because its a comforting easy thing to believe, it also happens to be completely unmoored from reality, but comforting things are generally like that

the idea is an old one, to the extent professional dems think about left thats what they tend to think

its also funny behavior from "a policy wonk" because its completely vibes based, why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people instead, oh cause no one gives a shit, yeah its like that sometimes

its funny cause he thinks hes on some grand strategy but comes off more like hes fucked in the head

Beijer, one of the more outspoken socialist power users on Twitter, takes a cynical view of Stancil, though he notes their disagreements are primarily ideological. “The man has absolutely convinced himself that he is somehow controlling political discourse at a national level. He really thinks that his tweets set off a chain of events that ended in the population of the United States deciding that Bidenomics are working,” Beijer said. “It’s delusional, but it also betrays a staggering level of Messianic arrogance and condescension towards all the people who he thinks he’s manipulating.”

anyway hadnt thought about this guy in a while due to going off twitter, overall recommended, tho i do kind of miss checking in on sad freaks like him, he did try to go on bluesky for a while but the shtick didnt take i guess cause its not specifically designed to dredge up the most psycho bs available

stancil's shtick is incredibly dumb, he's basically constantly saying "the highly polarized positions people take online are not indicative of real life" which is mostly true. but if you keep going down that route you end up as an annoying ideology-free centrist where, again, your centrism gets narrower and narrower until you don't have constructive ideas on changing anything

you don't have to listen to all the strident people, but you do have to take into account that their opinion may be valid, even if they're quote-tweet dunking on you

why not spend yr time advocating for real world policy that could actually help people

this is apparently his day job, which is funny because that is an actual thing he could run on. the history of left-leaning candidates being extremely online and thinking that it'll help their campaign is not a good one

something funny about telling people theyre living in a not real world bubble then running for office in an extreme liberal district against a bunch of candidates with identical politics

what we need is a sixth candidate in this race not really a different kind of guy just a more annoying one

Had no idea Stancil thinks of himself as a master manipulator a la Chris Rufo (who is also delusional/bullshitting that he’s pulling society’s strings, man).

idk rufos had some nice wins, ultimately its all sound and fury but as far as one guy getting inside the medias head hes done well for himself

yeah Rufo has been pretty successful in astroturfing at least, a lot of the anti-CRT/DEI/"Wokeness" stuff comes from him, it's not like these are issues conservatives really care about or can even define

seeing the phrase "titan submersible implosion" and remembering how happy we all were back then

lol

Special times

“remembering how happy we all were”

i wasn’t it’s against fucking policy but alsoi wasn’. shit was horrific. even if it was an underwater deservable.

it’s funny because the reality of people getting crushed is sad and that kid was just there for his dad, but in the stakes of tragedies dying instantly by being crushed like a grape is not a terrible way to go, all
things considered. and the ridiculous hubris of a guy who ignored every expert taking insanely rich people in a death tube is wild

so many good details in that story the video game controller every submarine person telling them to stop

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jwc6rjltbvw2wffcxyvy44qy

whoa utilitylimb has made me login to bluesky for the first time in foreevr

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uyskqsvlhftcugfobrin5dub/bafkreidw2c2ol3zpejxjwan55d6g5xnm7oznauhnpcdtqmpgjqvif7iwte@jpeg

🖼

whoa utilitylimb has made me login to bluesky for the first time in foreevr

― 龜, Friday, April 26, 2024 7:23 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thats awesome, every once in a while I remember there was a Lovecraftian dril account out there that just disappeared

yeah Rufo has been pretty successful in astroturfing at least, a lot of the anti-CRT/DEI/"Wokeness" stuff comes from him, it's not like these are issues conservatives really care about or can even define

Well, they definitionally care about them? It's being able to name them (even if the definitions are wavy) that he's done the work on - so 35 states can pass anti-CRT measures, but they can be applied on a "you know if it you see it" basis - even worse than CRT is CRT that's denying it's CRT!

meanwhile elsewhere 😔

this email subject just in: "A New Chapter Begins: Post News Users Are Migrating to Spoutible"

lol
I saw a couple new bluesky users with “coming here from Post, nice to see you!” as their first skeet and laughed