My cousin let my borrow his PS2 copy in like mid 2006 and eventually just let me keep it. Would spend hours doing random fights against the CPU in the practice mode once I beat the story

There’s a lot of smarter people saying smarter things than I could about Bsky resenting their users. So I’ll stick with pointing out that Bsky posted SEVERAL memes welcoming the swarm of ex Twitter users. They loved it. They celebrated it. They encouraged it.

Dorks

Bluesky about to pull a Target. Look, if your core is known to lean left, and you yank the wheel hard right, you know what happens? You lose your user base AND the people who mocked you as a left wing bubble aren’t gonna come on board. Twitter exists already. Techies out here reinventing Twitter

My mom had like 2 chocolate ones and 1 lemon ones just lying around on one of our kitchen counters and I ate both the chocolate ones Friday

*white people You gotta be able to be specific in this moment, Jen Jen.

Listen. If you didn't want to be seen as the Twitter escape pod, you shouldn't have deliberately fostered a community of people so united by their contempt for arbitrary authority and love of absolute free speech that they were willing to abandon a platform they'd been using for 15 years

So let me get this today’s drama right: * Jay followed noted transphobe Jonathan Chait * Blacksky user Link pointed that out that’s fucked up after the past week * Link was banned on Blueskys appview presumably by Jay * But Link is also hidden from Blacksky b/c it still uses said appview

Obama won in part because people were sick and tired of Bush’s approach to governance, including the attacks on civil liberties and starting illegal And Obama promised change and then didn’t even stop the abuses of executive power If you want to ask how we got here, we can’t memory hole that

keeping an eye on this

Progress isn't a finite destination. We have to CONSTANTLY work at it, from the individual to the society.

I just said this on the other app yesterday. I genuinely don't think I'm that interesting

That was a very wild day on Twitter

Guys… a decade ago a community (🤚🏿) was intentional about the deep militarization of the American police against its own citizens

It matters that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama both ran on progressive ideals that they ultimately turned their backs on It matters that Biden had things rigged for him, to undercut more progressive candidates It matters that Obama didn’t reverse the executive branch power grab that GWB started

i think they live in lala land, sorry. what grown, rational, critically thinking adult doesn't know you have to find the root of a problem to solve it? 🙃

What Sydette says about media is exactly what I've seen in literary and convention spaces, physical or virtual. Any way we try to gather and share fails because people who try to address racism get run out to laughter, applause, and gaslighting, while someone points to a BIPOC as proof it's fine.

It’s fascinating to watch someone be a willful problem and acknowledge it in no small terms. Just say you’re a bigot and go. At least then it’d be easier to digest

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite. To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

There is quite literally nowhere in the world or even online Black people can go to get away from this shit

It's not the apps. It's the raw ingredients, which are all anti-black. If you do not do the work to address as much of it going in, you will not get anything that is not anti-black. Even the AT protocol is anti-black.

Imagine crashing out and burning your rep for Jesse Singal of all people. Pretty sure this has made the rounds with the investors at this point...

the whole alternative R&B wave SZA's been on since her mixtape days doesn't exist without Kelis

At best we’ll see a similar version. Anti Blackness and the enmeshment of media and philanthropy . With no DEI standards or design autopsy of Twitter is what killed this project. It will kill most other ones too

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

Gyatdamn

The messy part of me is always disappointed by this

Part of why I rarely posted before the election even though I had an account since the rate limit thing with Twitter in 2023 is I felt like on some level this app would repeat Jack's mistakes of not taking bigotry seriously

And its citizens

Individualism is killing this country

Yes. They're cowards. And it's funny because they were never the ones going to protests in the first place.

Van Jones went from a Pan African with dreads protesting Guantanamo to a centrist lib who laughs about genocide, he's a grifter loyal to whoever pays him

Limiting replies is a safety tool, but often times it's used by ignorant cowards who want to avoid pushback for saying something stupid.

It's a country founded on slavery and genocide. The answer is yes

Brooklyn. Have you seen this lady? Her family fears that she may have been picked up by ICE.

Him on commentary was genuinely the best part of early 2010's Smackdown in my teenage years

HE WAS LITERALLY NO WHERE NEAR IT AND THEY CHARGED HIM WITH HOMICIDE RIP KYREN LACY

Why is every website run by absolute psychopaths??

I just wish there was some social media app where marginalized people were safe

or, heartbreaking (but ikwym)

Lord willing

Which is why it’s even more batshit that Dems didn’t get fully behind defunding or abolition. Cuz a defunded police department is an obedient one.

This all day, all week, all month, all year! Did we forget the Haitian immigrants who were targeted in Ohio in 2024? If you’re organizing to protect immigrants doesn’t not include Black immigrants than you are not doing it right.

You can’t honestly believe statements made by your ceo, cto, you on your main account and other co workers have contributed and made this site any better for trans people in the last 72 hours. I’m disgusted by your behaviour

I'm assuming it's how some midwesterners refer to Strawberry or Cherry soda?

and scene

Boosting

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LMAOOOO a “Vote or Die” shirt does not make one “a civil rights leader”