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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
I know itās terrible being a drama gossip, but there are some Fun Times on bluesky at the moment. Iām sure most of you know the origins of the project, and the political leanings of the founders, but theyāre currently getting publicly riled up about trans folk and palestinians and tying themselves up in knots defending their decision to change the rules to keep jesse singal on site, and penniless victims of the idf off it.
They really cannot cope with the fact that their user base arenāt politically aligned with them, and are desperate to appease the fash (witness the crackdowns on peopleās reaction to charlie kirkās overdue departure from this vale of tears) and have currently reached the Posting Through It stage. Iām assuming at some point their self-image as Reasonable Centrists will crack and one or more of them will start throwing around transphobic slurs and/or sieg-heiling and bewailing how the awful leftists made them do it. Anyone want to hazard a guess at a timeline?
Well, theyāre already using āwafflesā as a transphobic slur (irony poisoning speedrun any%), so itās really more of a question of which transphobic slurs theyāll escalate to next.
And all this because she simply could not shut up. Which seems to be one of the oldest, modding a large community rules.
Nobody ever seems to learn the ānever get high from your own supplyā lesson. Gotta get that hit of thousands of people instantly supporting and agreeing with whatever dumbfuck thought just fell out.
You absolutely donāt have to hand it to zuckerberg, but he at least is well aware that he runs an unethical ad company thatās bad for the world, has always expressed his total contempt for his users, and has not posted through it.
whenever thereās a huge scandal he listens to his PR people, keeps his mouth shut, then goes on a media tour where he lies his ass off in exactly the same way at each stop. itās that simple and yet almost no other tech people can do it
Its an extremely low bar to clear, but Iāll begrudgingly hand it to him for being one of the few tech CEOs who didnāt actively limbo under it.
hereās a good summary of the situation including an analysis of the brand new dogwhistle a bunch of bluesky posters are throwing around in support of Jay and Singal and layers of other nasty shit
hereās Jay Graber, CEO of Bluesky, getting called out by lowtaxās ex-wife:
hereās Jay posting about mangosteen (mangosteen juice was a weird MLM lowtax tried to market on the Something Awful forums as he started to spiral)
since Jay posted AI generated art about dec/acc and put the term in her profile, her little āironicā nod to e/acc and to AI, my guess is this is coming very soon
This doesnāt include her blurb about, āare you paying us? where???ā
But werenāt there a multitude of people clamoring for a Bluesky subscription service from the get-go? Out of recognition that this situation was one of the potential failure modes?
The question on getting paid might give credence to the rumors that theyāre running out of money and wonāt make it (user-growth wise) as an ad platform. Which, lol and also lmao.
Yeah, I canāt see that theyāre doing anything besides burning runway. Itās probably shortly going to become cliche to say, āglad I never made an account there,ā but, welp, glad I never made an account there
Even beyond that, the Twitter refugees came to Bluesky because they wanted a Nazi-free successor to Twitter. Most of them wouldāve happily pitched in to keep the site alive whilst goodwill remained.
Bluesky wanted to be Nazi Twitter, then Elon purchased Twitter and stole their market.
Huh, didnāt know about the guy behind tangled.org (Anirudh Oppiliappan) being a waffle enthusiast too š«¤ Just visited his bsky profile, and heās enthusing about a ādecentralised accelerationismā post by jay.
I hadnāt really seen the point of the tangled project (Iām not sure what atproto brings to version control) but I was interested in an ecosystem around the jujutsu vcs stuff. I guess I wonāt find that here.
ok plz explain what āwafflesā means in this context
TL;DR: Itās all a meme-poisoned bluesky circle-jerk involving transphobes and people who desperately want transphobes to think theyāre cool.
The link from self to mccās bluesky thread sums up this stuff with references, but to attempt to summarise the summary, thereās a tweet from the depths of time (2017) that says
Bluesky ceo jay graber uses āwafflesā as shorthand referencing this post, and whipped it out when asked about blueskyās ongoing unwillingness to do anything about noted transphobe jesse singal, who has since posted about how much he loves waffles.
jfc
Thanks for taking the time to expand