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2025-04-08 09:59 pm

State Of The Dead Internet | Jules

The link to the video, since embedded videos crash screen readers. This goes way deeper than the "dead internet" meme, into a discussion of Active Measures. This is one of the best videos I have seen on this issue yet this year.
numb3r_5ev3n: Dragon pendant I got at a renfaire. (Default)
2023-07-09 10:16 am

Begun, the Social Media Wars have.

Well, this development has at least been amusing.



Threads signups are really taking off. And look, ElonMuskjet is back on Threads! Nature is healing!



I'm not sure what to think about Threads. The good news is, Zuckerberg is winning the Social Media Wars. The bad news is, Zuckerberg is winning the Social Media Wars.

I was hearing from people I trust that Threads was already inundated with fash assholes, but the people I know who are actually using it haven't encountered that yet. I'm still on the fence. I don't want to give Mark Zuckerberg more of my soul than he already has.

EDIT: and here it is:


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numb3r_5ev3n: I know you're here Dracula, where's my damn money (dracula)
2022-11-16 08:16 am

HARDCORE.

Being on Twitter right now feels like we're the band playing on the Titanic. Elongated Muskrat has gone from publically firing people trying to tell him how the site works via tweet, to demanding random people tell him how his site works.

Cut for MORE HARDCORE! )

Twitter is where the bulk of all the fandoms I follow are active; but now that Trump has declared he is running for office again, I think we face a real danger of him being allowed back on.

1. I am not on DW nearly enough and I've been neglecting all my friends here again and I'm sorry.

2. When I deleted my LJ 5+ years ago, I made the statement that we need to be the source of the content we want to see here. Well.

Other people are talking about moving to Mastodon, but there's a real problem in that Twitter is used by many activists, organizations, and even nations to disseminate info and organize. And this may be one reason why Muskrat is tanking it. For example: Twitter may be about to fall out of the GDPR one stop shop.

If indeed he is doing it on purpose. Hanlon's Razor may apply here. He may not just be doing it for Vladdy Daddy (who may have just accidentally attacked Poland.) He may just be that stupid.

I would say "I hope this puts an end to the notion that billionaires are SMRT because they have money, but, well. You know how people are.

In other news, I am reading another Witch Book: The Witch Compass: Working with the Winds in Traditional Witchcraft, by Ian Chambers with a forward by Griffin Ced.

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numb3r_5ev3n: it's over for you hoes. (it's over for you hoes)
2022-07-31 06:48 pm

For real: breaking my doomscrolling addiction.

First off: RIP Nichelle Nichols.

Second:
So my Twitter addiction, which I have been very unsuccessfully trying to break over the past six months or so, is really a doomscrolling addiction.

I logged on today to see nasty infighting in the leftist/Trans folx sector (when there are Republicans and white supremacists standing RIGHT THERE to fight) and just logged back out, then created a Hannigram/HEU-only account and only followed the Fannibal Fam I was already following from my main account. Now when I refresh my Twitter feed, all I will see is Hannibal/HEU content, which is good for my mental health! (my new handle is @ ballerhyde)

1. Purity politics sucks, and it's the cancer that's eating The Left. We should be eating the rich and not ourselves/each other,

2. This is self-care, and it's what may break the bird app's hold on me after all this time.

3. I'm still doing a lot of crafts. A pics post is happening sometime this week.

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