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QAnon converting over yoga moms really made me realize there's no such thing as a harmless conspiracy theory, and if there is, it's going to get exploited by Steve Bannon tier activists.
Speak of the devil, #QanonAnonymous episode 288

2024-08-26 18:02:09 UTC

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I have a mechanical pencil disguised as a regular pencil, does that count?
There's some fun ones of those out there too

2024-08-26 17:33:48 UTC

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fountain pen?

2024-08-25 20:56:28 UTC

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2024-08-25 03:58:05 UTC

Throughout the #Trump admin, there was consistent counter-messaging from the #Democrats against his anti-#immigrant lies.
But when #Biden came into office, they never counter messaged against the same reactionary lies #Republicans kept repeating.
This is the direct result of that.
Never cede ground.
Never give up.
Never surrender.
#politics #immigration
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2024-08-25 03:32:33 UTC

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Trump uses Palestinian as a slur
And he's not even in office
We're voting for people based on their policies, not their capacity or lack thereof to currently enforce them

2024-08-25 02:07:24 UTC

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Just tell me which politician is more likely to end the war in Gaza, and I will vote for them based on your recommendation

2024-08-24 18:33:24 UTC

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if you're going to critique me for not being grounded enough, then you need to be grounded yourself.
We both know that #Trump is interested in supporting not one #genocide but three genocides: #Ukraine, #Gaza, United States of America.
We can both agree that Trump is clearly the worse option for all, right?

2024-08-24 17:40:05 UTC

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we're choosing who runs the country, not who you date.
So you tell me, which is worse?
Conservatives can do this. Conservatives delight in falling in lockstep behind the worse option and sewing confusion among their enemies.
And if you are allegedly antigenocide, then surely, you would want to avoid creating new ones with the worst option, who was promised to create more. Right?
Unless genocide is more of a virtue signal to you.

2024-08-24 17:36:01 UTC

Both #Harris and #Trump have policies that will make Gazans suffer
Both bananas and Chernobyl are radioactive
Both apples and cyanide pills contain poison
Thinking in binary erases the ability to comprehend degree.

2024-08-24 17:33:21 UTC

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you tell me.
And after you're done answering your own question, I'll posit you this: are you more informed by being offered the choice between eating a whole apple and downing a cyanide pill, or being told that two things contain poison and you must eat one of them with no further information?

2024-08-24 16:36:30 UTC

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it's the most charitable interpretation of a lot of the people who decided to protest the DNC events.
And this is a subtoot
What else do they say about it?

2024-08-24 15:17:33 UTC

Anybody who says "I will only protest #Harris and not #Trump regarding #Israel, because Trump cannot be reasoned with"
Is inherently admitting that a Harris presidency would be more likely to end the #GazaGenocide.
#FreePalestine #Palestine

2024-08-24 00:02:53 UTC

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are you doing your part to dissuade Trump voters from voting for the guy who wants to commit double genocide?

2024-08-23 21:36:53 UTC

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is this intentional on your part, some kind of lucid dreaming thing, or do you just get 8 hours of rest like people are supposed to get

2024-08-23 21:36:35 UTC

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you have dreams with anime characters in them?
And spiders?
Hello, I would like to lease your dreams. They sound great.

2024-08-23 21:05:30 UTC

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I've noticed that pattern myself! And Mastodon, being a generally friendly place, will generally net you a follower count of 1/10 of the people you follow (if you do absolutely nothing else).
So, if you're a spammer, follow 7,500 people and you'll get 750 followers in a few days!
I wish it was easier to look at profiles without the boosts included. Often, if someone follows me, I really want to know if they're worth following back. And in this case, it could help identify trolls.

2024-08-23 21:03:06 UTC

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"Israel's Reel Extremism"
is not about Israel?

2024-08-23 18:55:01 UTC

FWIW American #liberals have won the #transgender debate, at least in the optical sense. Trump-aligned conservatives tried hard during midterms to signal explicitly over it, and they all failed (bigly).
The #DNC rally cheered Tim Walz' iconic "mind your own damn business", made huge headway into calling the right creeps and weirdos, and booed Republican promises to ban books.
That's how you win over the median voter right there. It's winning rhetoric. The polls support that.

2024-08-23 17:39:17 UTC

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well, if you don't know who Andrew Tate is, there's a good chance you probably missed Russell's transformation too.
There's a good video about this , but it's also 2 hours long. From the guy that brought us complex takedowns of Tim Pool and the Project Veritas guy.
https://youtu.be/lskXbQUt2Tw

2024-08-23 16:57:08 UTC

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Russell *was* one of the "good guys" many years ago. But he has since descended down the same conspiracy woo as the others here. (And it turns out that, even back in the early 2010s, he was up to some abusive behavior behind the scenes... So perhaps he was never that good)

2024-08-23 15:00:04 UTC

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okay, I might need to tentatively retract my beige.party recommendation, because while they have extra characters, it's not such a politically oriented instance
I have looked for decent instance pickers, but while they will have some technical details, it's hard to understand how connected or disconnected they are, or how political or apolitical, unless you actually have an account there first...

2024-08-23 00:35:22 UTC

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well, despite my low opinion of conservatives, there hasn't exactly been an epidemic of pro-Trump people smashing into politicians houses. This reads more like an origin story. It could radicalize anybody, but somebody who spent their entire life reaching across the aisle, that's joker moment stuff.

2024-08-23 00:13:43 UTC

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seriously, I'm having a hard time recognizing the Democrats right now. In a good way. Maybe Nancy Pelosi, after a lifetime of reaching across the aisle and being mocked by conservatives after her husband was almost murdered, had a massive change of heart.

2024-08-22 23:46:27 UTC

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Am I hallucinating or did somebody yesterday say he was a gamer and a Redditor

2024-08-22 23:38:44 UTC

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Jewish Voice for Peace advocates for "a future where everyone, including Palestinians and Jewish Israelis, can live their lives freely in vibrant, safe, equitable communities, with basic human needs fulfilled".
There's a large difference between a Jewish group you disagree with, and a group that is not Jewish...

2024-08-22 23:30:10 UTC

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I don't see a single contradiction between Jewish Voice for Peace and your description of a moderate Zionism that does not wish to engage in genocide. Can't we unite under that banner?

2024-08-22 23:04:13 UTC

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It was my understanding that Jewish Voice for Peace is, in fact, a Jewish organization... And it's been doing some incredible protest work.
Meanwhile, I see people like Elon Musk the white supremacist, and Rudy Giuliani (who declares himself more Jewish than Jewish people) promoting Zionist ideology.
Maybe just my bubble, but in practice, I rarely run into people who self-describe as both Zionist *and* oppose the human rights violations the IDF is currently committing.

2024-08-22 22:57:59 UTC

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I thought it was a given that when somebody says "Zionist" that, in a political context, it means somebody that uncritically supports Israel's bombardment of Palestine (including in a way that dehumanizes both Israelis and Palestinians in the process...) in other words, typically, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, Republican, etc.
I'm aware the phrase can be used in a racist way too, and I'm always on the lookout for that, but this doesn't seem like that kind of post

2024-08-22 22:47:52 UTC

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well if that's the case, it sounds more like Marti is concerned by the subset of Zionists who do want to kick out Palestinians, including the ones in power in Israel right now. And the third in line to the Presidency in the United States.
To me it seems right wing Zionism has eclipsed the movement in the same way that Christian Dominionism has eclipsed Evangelical Christianity (and attends to speak over the voices of Jews in the US).

2024-08-22 22:38:03 UTC

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It seems a Motte and Bailey is being deployed here. For example, when someone says "as a French person, I want to feel secure in France" It doesn't seem so bad.
But then, if it turns out the Frenchman wants to kick out an enclave of Muslims, we realize they might have meant something different, no?

2024-08-22 17:45:26 UTC

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10:45 is the perfect time to start drinking imo

2024-08-22 17:43:33 UTC

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Channel 5 was so good before the incident.
I don't exactly know what that man is packing, but there might be some muscle there. And, based on recent #KnowledgeFight episodes, it seems he has started drinking more heavily than ever.

2024-08-22 17:35:51 UTC

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context:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubehaiku/comments/10063vs/poetry_drunk_shirtless_workout_with_alex_jones/
I've seen him take off his shirt a great many times, including to pose next to stuff he wants to eat
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2024-08-22 17:28:03 UTC

The "do your own research" #starterpack
...of authorities to trust
#meme #intellectualdarkweb
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2024-08-22 17:16:34 UTC

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e621.net is the official one.
Even more interesting, I can get the .co.uk site if I spoof my VPN in the UK...
Even if I tell #DuckDuckGo not to search per region, it still sends me regional results based on my IP address.
Whoops! :eyeroll:
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2024-08-22 17:09:08 UTC

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you telling me the "think for yourself" people just want to defer thought to a different authority?

2024-08-22 17:04:09 UTC

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waaaaait...
(I don't think I turned off safe search here, but I definitely did for DDG.)
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2024-08-22 17:02:15 UTC

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I guess you're right, but I don't really think about Bing all that much, either to praise or condemn them when it comes to my DuckDuckGo results.
I still remember when a few bangs to adult/piracy websites were removed. Those ones can definitely be traced back to their decisions. So this reminded me specifically of that.

2024-08-22 15:39:02 UTC

#DuckDuckGo, you have dropped the ball.
When I search for #ThePirateBay, I get pretty results including a direct link to the official website. This isn't just a good UI feature, it also helps people avoid scams.
But when I search for e621, a prominent #furry website, it doesn't show up in the results. Unofficial sites with similar names (but the wrong domain) do.
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2024-08-22 00:38:49 UTC

#memes that I don't want to describe me
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2024-08-21 00:03:47 UTC

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You're not looking for snarky answers like "because corporations deserve fresh water more than humans do" I'm guessing...
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that water is used to offset what would otherwise be carbon usage, so whatever is going on, seems like they're just expending one limited resource in pursuit of looking like they aren't expending another. Fat lot of good it's all doing, though

2024-08-20 23:40:31 UTC

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generally I like their reporting, but I don't appreciate this particular article.
Especially considering Harris herself has been more vocal about Palestinians than, say, Trump or even Biden.

2024-08-20 23:02:27 UTC

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#Frediverse
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2024-08-20 23:02:11 UTC

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#Fediverse logo
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2024-08-20 22:56:17 UTC

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rum ham, well salted.

2024-08-20 22:54:21 UTC

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2024-08-20 22:53:58 UTC

bisexual Catholic icon Dean Norris

2024-08-20 16:40:09 UTC

If you had to use just one, it would be...
#OS #OSWars :blobcatgiggle:

2024-08-20 15:31:12 UTC

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how do you harvest this thing anyway
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2024-08-20 15:30:18 UTC

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PowerMac G4

2024-08-20 15:27:27 UTC

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looks like they've already blocked my instance. And many others that sure look harmless including
tech.lgbt for being too LGBT (not their wording)
fediscience for "propaganda" (lol)
todon, mas.to, writing.exchange, universesodon.com, mastodon.social for no reason (to avoid reports notifying the admins?)
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2024-08-20 14:36:01 UTC

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biblical indeed. If I was uncharitable to Trump and Musk I'd just say they were the Revelation 13 beasts.

2024-08-20 14:16:50 UTC

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oh right. Because Trump promised Elon a cabinet position didn't he

2024-08-19 23:07:47 UTC

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bring back the Black Panthers and let them carry anything they want

2024-08-19 22:59:31 UTC

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Buy my server farm half a bottle of drinkable water
https://me.mashable.com/tech/27212/thirsty-ai-study-finds-chatgpt-requires-500ml-of-water-for-every-50-questions

2024-08-19 22:32:38 UTC

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the wife he practically apologizes for
🤢 (at him not his wife)

2024-08-19 21:50:53 UTC

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at this point he's preaching extra-biblical extremism. Like seriously even Mosaic law has exceptions to this
And we know it's not going to just be a suggestion when a creator of Project 2025 gets into office

2024-08-19 18:10:56 UTC

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making a "them" group in general is unhelpful; complain about neoliberals (in all but specific terms) and you join leftists, conservatives, Alex Jones, fascists, Jimmy Dore fans (I repeat myself), and pretty much anybody who doesn't pigeonhole themselves in a pretty specific definition of the term
BTW leftists don't (shouldn't) be opposed to all neoliberal prescriptions, even if they disagree with the way to get there. But saying "(neo/shit)lib" helps nobody

2024-08-19 16:42:38 UTC

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okay yeah if it's some third party script I can totally see why you wouldn't want to putz with fixing their incomplete solution
Sometimes I feel compelled to fix other people's scripts but... If it works and you've only got the three, right?

2024-08-19 16:31:57 UTC

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can you make them into one script with an extra option? I think tampermonkey has an API for making extra commands but I haven't really experimented with it, or checked if the commands' text can be modified with a setting

2024-08-18 00:40:57 UTC

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Ghost of Disney+ Present

2024-08-17 23:58:33 UTC

So #Fascism includes replacing institutions with fascist stooges -- not necessarily nationalizing anything (the #Nazis privatized, de-nationalized, a TON of stuff).
And it involves removing anything in its way...
Including the #Bible apparently.
https://www.segurosayerza.es/cra-ms/2024/08/17/EIN44LSM145606HSJ39Oz/
#RonDeSantis
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2024-08-17 14:43:06 UTC

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so the person posting those screenshots either controls the server or is in close contact with somebody who feels comfortable leaking stuff FROM the server

2024-08-17 14:08:42 UTC

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Linux is to a working computer, what the uncanny valley is to photorealistic computer graphics

2024-08-16 22:42:21 UTC

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vore

2024-08-16 15:58:14 UTC

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@npub1xsv…q6he web3 is a cryptobro-first project. I don't trust anyone who attempts to define that new marketing buzzword by rolling in things that existed before it.

2024-08-16 15:25:23 UTC

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https://youtu.be/hMLxjZ4ZUPI

2024-08-16 15:20:02 UTC

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If you can't decide whether you are against genocide, why would I compile sources? You would be wasting my time.

2024-08-16 14:46:39 UTC

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Because I want to know whether you actually stand against genocide or not

2024-08-16 14:46:16 UTC

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legitimately the fuck does that have to do with anything

2024-08-16 14:43:26 UTC

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Why do you want to know my ethnicity?

2024-08-16 14:42:59 UTC

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Do you need to know the name of a genocide to decide whether or not you support it?

2024-08-16 14:33:26 UTC

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Serious question:Do you care about people who commit genocide? Or are you simply trying to waste people's time?

2024-08-11 15:49:22 UTC

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#BriannaWu digs up a years-old tweet to advocate for bringing back the #Nazi word "degenerate". She knows it's been used to demonize LGBT people, and that's why she likes it.
"'degenerate' was shorthand for gay and trans people... society NEEDS a word for people with a lack of moral character in how they conduct themselves, ESPECIALLY sexually."
#transphobia #queerphobia #RebellionPAC #weirdos #SexNegativity
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2024-08-10 23:16:45 UTC

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this is the very thing that Alex Jones has been screaming about ever since it became somewhat obvious that Biden was a bit old.
But then again, Alex Jones has also been screaming about how Democrats want to impose martial law.
Every accusation is a confession...

2024-08-07 23:15:02 UTC

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I think it's really interesting that this is Zionism, but coming from an explicitly Evangelical Christian angle. Johnson is an extremist among them, a Dominionist, somebody who believes that church should rule over state. Hell, he had a whole podcast about it. It's still accessible.

2024-08-06 18:54:53 UTC

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your account is limited on mastodon.social, so your messages could easily be confused for DMs because Mastodon's user interface does not make that clear at all.
Were those DMs or just regular replies, though?
@npub1ety…78k4
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2024-08-05 21:53:27 UTC

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heaven forbid we have a teacher with decades of experience and a penchant for fixing his own car...

2024-08-05 21:41:42 UTC

#VicePresident material: #TimWalz surrounded by children after he signs free #school lunches into law.
#politics
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2024-08-05 20:27:29 UTC

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It's crazy knowing ROA is an advocate for total Palestinian genocide and pretends to have a leg to stand on

2024-08-05 20:21:57 UTC

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I wish there was more to go on there. Like, maybe turnover rates. The one interesting tidbit about Twitter is that it tends to be frequented by people with high income
Or maybe I just need to study the tables on page three more carefully

2024-08-05 20:14:19 UTC

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Even when NVIDIA was succeeding, the CEO was acting absolutely unhinged.
Anybody promoting Nvidia who wasn't a huge fan of AI or cryptocurrency too?

2024-08-05 20:12:31 UTC

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I've been keeping up with that a little on Better Offline, But maybe it's just that the people I hear who talk about social media at all in an obsessive way tend to talk about Twitter exclusively.
I need to find the video where people used anecdotes about their inability to leave it.
I know some podcasters talked about trying to hide the app in a folder and finding themselves going back to it anyway. (I need a transcript for the podcasts I listen to...)

2024-08-05 19:59:35 UTC

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Based on personal experience and a collection of anecdotes, I will defend this hill. I do wish there were more studies to support it though.

2024-08-05 19:26:04 UTC

I wish content creators would not just go on #Mastodon, but spin up their own Mastodon server, call it theirs, and encourage people to join.

2024-08-05 19:24:48 UTC

I genuinely believe Twitter is the most addictive social network.

2024-08-05 19:05:16 UTC

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Even the ones that want to kill all Palestinians.
No, wait, that's Mastodon

2024-08-01 23:11:41 UTC

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I just hope she chooses a vice president that's at least as based as her.
You've already heard me argue about how Biden was too weak on Israel, but I think VP Harris has been threading the needle commendably.

2024-08-01 20:23:40 UTC

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It's right out in the open.
https://linuxrocks.online/@yisraeldov/112888270306572979
Does your server allow the violent extremism - the beheading of minorities - that you are pushing here?

2024-08-01 19:11:06 UTC

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Do you genuinely believe that criticism of someone means that they hate the minority that person is from?
What's the correct way to criticize someone who wants to decapitate anyone who gets an abortion without offending you?

2024-08-01 17:30:32 UTC

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What should the punishment for murder be?

2024-08-01 17:12:26 UTC

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I didn't know asking questions was insanity, but since you've taken an interest in me, care to elaborate on something simpler, like whether you believe women should have the right to abortion?

2024-08-01 07:19:43 UTC

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why?
Don't you believe in free speech?

2024-07-31 18:10:47 UTC

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Are you actually opposed to bigotry, or are you just using personal experience as a shield while whining about anything that supports a minority he isn't a part of (women, black people etc)
The very fact you are whining here tells me a little bit about what you're up to.

2024-07-25 02:31:41 UTC

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#BriannaWu loves America, and by America that means the fascist ex-President Trump, who she actually sees as a positive symbol of America.
Who claims to be progressive while feeling "wishful" about this bigot of a man?
Totally a progressive and not a #fascist.
#RebellionPAC #DonaldTrump
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2024-07-19 19:58:27 UTC

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Brianna Wu praises the #fascist-written book "Starship troopers".
When called out, she goes on a rant about how it fulfills her "#progressive" agenda of "service and duty to your fellow citizens" while attacking non-existent communists.
#BriannaWu #RebellionPAC #fascism #StarshipTroopers
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2024-07-17 20:07:11 UTC

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Brianna Wu SAYS hateful parents will #abuse and beat their children, but she doesn't care.
#BriannaWu #transphobe #trabsphobia #RebellionPAC #childabuse
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