This guy has posted a lot of weird, inadvisable shit since this but it was a real turning point.

“Dogpiling” is one of the worst coinages to describe online behavior. Or maybe one of the best in terms of effectiveness: it does what it sets out to do, which is obscure power and make a bunch of people complaining about the actions of a person with authority sound equivalent to bullying a child.

This has got so bad now that I've been ghosted for jobs *even after an interview*. Just never contacted and left to deduce it's a no.

You have been given 4 strikes on Bluesky for saying you hope someone is not really set up for success. As this is your first offense, you now have 8 strikes.

It's so fucking depressing seeing someone you know share AI art. Especially when they're in the fucking arts and it's an AI poster promoting a show.

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Honestly don’t know when I last saw a tv show as bad as Imperfect Women. Apple really thought this was gonna be another Big Little Lies or something and it’s like b-movie schlock.

"didn't really set him up for success" is the best new euphemism for "tried to have him killed by a mob"

Finally getting its flowers thanks for the Hatosaisance.

I would say "everyone who ever tried to tell me Ryan Grim wasn't a massively credulous piece of shit owes me an apology" but I don't think I'm in touch with anyone like that anymore.

this is open to every american to comment on, and it only has 220 total comments! if we want to stop this we need a LOT more please share and encourage your cis friends to do the same, we need you!

It really seems like Britain is currently suffering from the worst of its homegrown failings combined in a very ugly fusion with the worst American influences. But enough about SNLUK, how did the recent elections go?

Do you think Sluggo is like a bike messenger anarchist or more of a very well-read Leninist? Into DC hardcore either way I think.

I think he's still bad though, even if he did this good thing.

I think writing fanfic is one of the healthier outlets for "fandom" because once you have your own little story world to play in, ideally you should be released from the entitled idea that you get to yell at the people writing the original stories.

Basically whenever someone says “I’m not interested in purity tests” you can save yourself time and stress and energy by treating it as a massive red flag.

I’m sorry Vidal Sassoon, I wasn’t familiar with your game

It is so incredible that Democratic leadership is obsessed with calling everything a “distraction” except the one thing that literally is, which they are excited about

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

It's so funny* that we live in a dystopia that makes us all deeply un-okay and then consumer products and brands constantly make our teetering-on-the-verge-of-collapse mental health part of their marketing. *not very funny

Many people are bad at jobs that shouldn't exist and they're making more money than me :(

i'm a new york times journalist and i'm doing a 6 episode podcast miniseries called the robocall explaining how our original reporting on AI pierre poilievre was true and accurate and how everyone who thinks it wasn't is a trans activist

Sadly I don't think the car fanatics in the Lincoln Square Facebook group are at all worked up about all the road closures and disruptions today.

lmao yeah "You now have 8 total strikes. Because you reached 48 strikes,"

If you want to understand how safe it is to be a cop consider that this was just one low ranked cop. They can only do this kind of pageantry because they almost never die on the job. Delivery workers, garbage men, and construction workers all get killed at work far more often.

Reddit users are reporting that they parked their car overnight on Lawrence or Sheridan and that it was towed this morning without posted signage in advance. I tend to be skeptical about complaints like this but given how much of this has been a shit-show: It tracks www.reddit.com/r/chicago/s/...

unfortunately I will be suing Katie Gavin for emotional damages

I don't care if something good happened to Chris Fleming. It should have happened to me.

going great

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I've been seeing a lot of disrespect for our beautiful mods who lay their lives on the line every single day to protect us from mean jokes and nasty language and any knowledge of them liking loli porn at work and other things like that. Enough!!! Respect the mods!!! WE LOVE OUR MODS!!! 🫡

Now Chicago Police are shutting down the Expressway without advanced notice? How many people will miss flights because of this? This is ridiculous. Seems unlikely that any public official will have the courage to speak up to criticize a police funeral. The worst parts of our system laid bare.

Taking sides: Meta comms guy who is angrily melting down on Bluesky vs Bluesky comms guy who is mostly just Yaccarino-posting.

*looks at quotes and replies* masterful community building, sirs!

If anyone had(understandbly) forgot Bluesky hired a pr and comms person because moderation is banning every Trans person on the website, you'll be excited to know what he's been up to while this is going on

the head of meta comms is threading on bluesky because he's mad about a NYT opinion piece

Anas Sarwar was viciously transphobic in this election campaign and, for that (and other reasons), he is going to lose his seat. Learn the fucking lesson.

To be clear: I called my Alder’s office yesterday to complain about the scale and span of the closures and it was news to them. There was no democratic process for this procession. No community input or consideration. Police just did this and barely bothered to inform anyone, least of all our reps

Oh good, they're not just blocking the road, they're scoping the route with helicopters. Didn't spend enough on the cars.

Luckily we had lots of time and energy to waste utterly on fully indulging this pack of self-important clowns and shitehawks, and nothing very bad or important happened during that period.

A mere ten years after this was absolutely obvious to the point of undeniable. Ten years pissed away by Britain’s Sensible Moderates on an insanely destructive, self-indulgent temper tantrum, because the public won’t agree they’re special golden boys and girls who deserve treats and applause.

The British fascination with novelty has its pros and cons but the fact so many politicians' careers have ended standing on stage next to someone in a big weird costume is definitely a pro.

Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough 🫡

one of the ways you can tell JD Vance's Catholicism is fundamentally insincere is that whenever he talks about religion he always sounds like an evangelical, because he is one

Chicago Police want to show that they run this town and that the rest of us are secondary. One of their own was killed. Seemingly due in-part, to a failure to follow protocol. But they’ve shut down the whole northside and LSD during rush hour to make a show. But when a cyclist is killed? Fuck em.

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I’m told my acceptance speech upset some of the BBC journalists who were in the room. I said what I said and it’s the truth 🤷‍♀️

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥