@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter For what? Having his own political views? He's a skiier, not a member of the administration. The president is not his boss, and he has no duty to publicly support this (or any other) administration.
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@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter JBSX won't be replying for a while, at least not here. This is not because he has nothing to say in reply - I'm sure he will - but because right now, X'itter is depriving him of his freedom to speak based on a flimsy pretext.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter I know this, because I spoke with him about this in chat last night, during one of @somebitchiiknow's Big Dig Energy streams, this one
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow He sid that he hoped that one of the skiiers would fall during his run down a hill. His account was then locked based on a charge of "inciting violence," on the basis that he was supposedly wishing physical harm on the skiier.
Horse s--t seldom stinks more than that did.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow Any reasonable person who has every strapped on a pair of skies and gone down a hill is having the same thought on reading those words - "give me a f--king break." We've ALL fallen going downhill, before, and injuries are the exception, not the rule.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow Just like with falls in general, only more so, because instead of hitting the hard ground or cement, one is hitting snow, usually soft, relatively fluffy powder. One gets a little bump as one lands, bounces and skids a little, and coasts to a halt.
That's about it.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow One doesn't even bruise. It's like taking a spill onto a hotel mattress, the padding provided by one's ski pants taking most of an impact that just barely registers.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow You feel a little silly (maybe), you laugh, you get up, and then having snapped back into your skis, you go looking for your ski poles, which will be MAYBE ten feet away.
Then you brush off the snow, and continue. That's all.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow In a competition, that's bad news, because you'll lose maybe 45 seconds doing this, but life goes on and there's hot chocolate to make the cold go away.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow If you're the kind of big ol' wuss who's going to feel cold after that, in which case we'll order some cheese curds and try to put the Midwest back into you, because darn, dude, that's just sad.
(Cut to picture of my Alpine French BF shaking his head.)
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow So, that's what's going on with JBSX, and I hope we can all agree that this was some real bulls--t. Having to knock snow off of a waterproof skiing outfit is not scary to anybody who isn't trying to be scared.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow Sorry ... correction, not last night, Thursday (or "Chrusday," as L calls it). He said that he was looking at a one week lockout, but you know what TwiX is like - we can only hope that when the week is over, that the staff will be honest enough to admit that the week is over.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow This is the site on which "12 hour suspensions" have been known to stretch for years, because Support has persisted in refusing to admit that a year was more than 12 hours long.
I hope that won't happen this time, but you never know.
@jbs_with_a_kiss @KurtSchlichter @SomeBitchIIKnow If all of a sudden, he can't seem to answer the counter-arguments he's getting, that's what is going on.
Please pass the word around because this kind of thing needs to see a little civil shoveback.
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@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow That's it? They suspended you over THAT?
Go over to , which is run by @BasedTorba. Get an account there, and mirror all of your front page posts on Gab, wherever you end up. Torba censors next to nothing. That's not just a sales pitch, it's the truth.Gab.com
@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow @BasedTorba Gab is where dissenters were hanging out during the Covid crackdowns, and it didn't let them down.
@TheBigDoinkShow @SomeBitchIIKnow @BasedTorba Also, here are a few tools that you can use to keep censors more honest than they'd be on their own, on this site:
You can use @threadreaderapp to unroll your own tweetsorms on X. You can use to unroll all of the tweets leading up to a given tweet.unrollx.app
@baiaphilia @readingquietly @ProtonMail Thank you. I'm a ProtonMail user, and I kind of suspected that their nice act was just that - an act. Thank you for confirming my suspicions.
I guess the moral of this story is that we shouldn't trust anybody working in the Cloud, ever.
@baiaphilia @readingquietly @ProtonMail Looking at Grok's explanation of that last tweet, I see that he thinks it's just about privacy concerns. Well, yes, those, but so much more.
@baiaphilia @readingquietly @ProtonMail Let's think about the horror stories we've heard from past generations of users, compare them to our own, and ask ourselves if anything really seems to have been getting any better over the years.
@SomeBitchIIKnow Of course you can say it ... over on Gab.
@SomeBitchIIKnow Then you can connect to it via an interstitial page linking to your Gab post, warning the sensitive traveler of the soul shattering consequences of following the link to your Gab post, and urging him to turn back now, before grief counselors have to be brought in.
@SomeBitchIIKnow Adding that by ignoring this heartfelt warning, the reader would be forfeiting all rights to complain about the content ahead to X'itter, his mother, or anybody else and be taken seriously, because he would be consenting to the psychological trauma awaiting him by doing so.
Whatever you just did absolutely broke Gab for me. When I try going to my account
it instantly redirects me to
https;//gab.com/
where I am given an offer to put Gab on my non-existent cell phone, but no login option.gab.com/microbitch
@BasedTorba By "instantly," I meant "in a bit less than a second,
so perhaps "almost instantly" would have been a more accurate way of putting it, if anybody wishes to split hairs.
@BasedTorba During that fraction of a second, I can see that I still appear to be logged in, but thanks to the redirection, I can't post anything or do anything on your site.
@SomeBitchIIKnow For example, let's take a look at this comment about my content ...
"Thoughtful but polarizing topics like immigration or COVID could spark backlash"
My content about Covid has consisted of criticism of bad science.
@SomeBitchIIKnow For me to stay quiet about those, while in my own academic lane, would be to engage in a breach of basic academic ethics. There's even an expression for what's being asked of me: it's called "intellectual prostitution."
is what Gary posted after I expressed my anger toward him in response to the insult above, in a pair of tweets that I deleted a few minutes later. Can anybody still seriously doubt that this guy is a troll?
@GaryAmbrosia @SomeBitchIIKnow Look at how much pleasure this lowlife got out of the anger he inspired in me, after he followed his unprovoked attack on L with condescension in response to a simple, reasonable question - "why are you acting like this."
Basically.
@GaryAmbrosia @SomeBitchIIKnow Not just a troll. A terminally online troll who, two days before Thanksgiving, was sitting there, waiting for them, as he responded to them within that very narrow window of opportunity. Suggesting that he had nowhere else to be, all day.