@centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow We're all going to be a little grumpy around here for a bit, I think. We've been crying over somebody who just died from a heart attack. He was in the hospital with a blood clot and things went horribly wrong. @centauri73 @SomeBitchIIKnow In chat, we were drinking toasts to his memory, all night, until each of us went to sleep. He will be missed.

@daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 "Exactly how would you propose taking back the land from the aggressor?"

Reality check: The mighty Russian army has failed to overwhelm the Ukrainian army for a few years, now. If NATO put boots on the ground, it could obviously crush the Russian army. @daves2481 @thatfatbobcat @IanJaeger29 Nobody sane person seriously maintains that the Ukrainian army, even with the outside funding and supplies, comes close to being as powerful as the US army. Or as powerful as would be the army of a fully re-armed Germany, which at this point is looking like a very good idea.

@Flickr Hi. I was going to get an account on your site, but then I found out that this would have been a bad idea.

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Live and learn, right? Having just read the post, I'll give you all a condensed version of the story. @Flickr Writer gets Flickr account. He's going to do mixed media work, combining contemporary urban realist fiction with digital art. He writes a bio in which talks about his creative choices and the thinking behind them.

@flickrfdn Flickr and Free Speech - two things that I wouldn't expect to hear mentioned in the same breath. Probably because I just read this post

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from one of Flickr's most recent victims. They've really gone insane. @flickrfdn It's a long, angry piece and I can see why the guy is angry. For anybody who wants a shorter version, I posted one somewhere else.

@ztisdale Even less this. @ztisdale This, on the other hand, looks fairly inviting.



What good is an empire or a superpower, if hardly anybody or anything is left standing in it, when the smoke clears? commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prag…

@threadreaderapp Hi. What is this?

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This is what I got in response to this unroll request

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Your bot missed all but the first tweet. It even missed the tweet that I linked to in the unroll request.

A swing and a near-total miss on your part. @threadreaderapp This was completely useless. Are you going to fix this?

Or are you just going to play make-believe, pretend that you're offering a real service, and decide that's good enough? I ask this, because I've seen people do that, before.

@elliott_downing Speaking of men with all of the money ...

Below is something that I just posted in reply to one of Eliott's bleats, brought over here through the magic of cut and paste.

I'm done recommending Bluesky, probably permanently. @elliott_downing

@bluesky I guess that some of your mods decided to celebrate that birthday by making Bluesky just a little bit whiter

I'm going to cut and paste something that I just shared with the well-intentioned man who persuaded me to give your site a try. He's cool, but as it turns out, you aren't @bluesky

@Ghostface_Chilr @Industrial_GC @EndWokeness "It’s the fruits and veggies that will be harder to come by."

Briefly, at most. There is no shortage of people desperate for work in this country. There hasn't been for a long time.

Instead of hiring illegals, offer jobs to people in the inner city neighborhoods. @Ghostface_Chilr @Industrial_GC @EndWokeness People didn't stop working in them because they didn't want work. They stopped because they couldn't find work, and eventually lost hope.

This is Society's chance to give some of that hope back to them. Would you be opposed to that?

@TheeeeChad @Wilddeplorable @Trump_Regrets @realDonaldTrump Have some talking points memorized, Chad?

In real life, that program has been used to bring in cheap labor, while skilled engineers and scientists with experience have been laid off. @TheeeeChad @Wilddeplorable @Trump_Regrets @realDonaldTrump STEM graduates coming out of their degree programs with sterling credentials have found themselves trapped in the "no experience, no job" cycle for years, decades, even.

@batsandcupcakes Not sure my handful of stories makes me a writer, but for what it's worth, I'm still here. I'm also on Bluesky



and am about to set up accounts on Mastodon, Minds and Gab. Not sure about Threads.bsky.app/profile/microb… @batsandcupcakes Eggs, baskets ... if Musk does manage to drive Twitter into bankruptcy, I'll still have established (and known) presences elsewhere, and my followers should have no trouble finding me.

Also, Bluesky has a much better blocking function.

@brief_fiction @eleven_christin @artfanszone Thank you, NQA. Christin Eleven just tried to give herself the last word by blocking me in response to a correction of her poorly thought out ideas.

Continuing from where I was, before I was so rudely and abusively interrupted ... @brief_fiction @eleven_christin @artfanszone "I can tell that you're not doing that either!"

In fact, I am a PhD student who already has her masters degree in Physics from a school that you've definitely heard of, Christin.

@mtracey A few hours later, your tweet was spoken of by somebody who didn't seem to want you to know that he had done so. I'll link to the tweet



and then quote his words of "wisdom." is.gd/ZKu72N @mtracey Wilson writes

"The through line is caring about people dying senselessly.

Really not that difficult to figure out, unless you're a creepy little contrarian sociopath, who thinks everyone is like you, without any morals."

@Southpaw018 @clapifyoulikeme @coffeespoonie And? TERF doesn't mean homophobe. It simply means that I don't agree with what I guess is your definition of gender.

If you want to create drama about that non-issue, I'm just going to block you. Bye. @Southpaw018 @clapifyoulikeme @coffeespoonie I don't hate transwomen, I just don't agree that they're really women.

* shrug *

@PennyFarringt14 @DrJBhattacharya Science and Medicine had little to nothing to do with this. The fear mongering campaigns in Britain were planned and implemented by "behavioral scientists" (read: psychologists) who admit to having become "drunk with power" as they manipulated the public will.

It was a PsyOp. @PennyFarringt14 @DrJBhattacharya Real scientists and physicians who spoke out against the campaigns of misinformation were silenced on social media and, thanks to the lockdowns, unable to meet in person.

@phenomspeak @kevinnbass Unpopular opinion, but I'll stand by it: you shouldn't have the freedom to post that talking point. Dying with Covid vs. dying from Covid has been explained to your crowd, repeatedly, and you keep doubling down on debunked numbers, seemingly hoping to win through persistence. @phenomspeak @kevinnbass As your faction has a history of acting to deny freedom of speech to others, it has forfeited any moral claim to that freedom for itself.

I am absolutely in favor of censoring the content posted by your faction. Yes, I said. Yes, I meant it.

Enough is enough.

@Think_Reed_Line @BexBookaholic OK, you're not getting it. Chicago is really big, bigger than you probably think it is, because unlike European countries, the US doesn't count the suburban population when listing the number of people in its major cities. @Think_Reed_Line @BexBookaholic If we computed city populations the way that Europeans do, Chicago would jump from 2.66 million to 9.44 million, while New York would go up to 20.1 million.

There's a massive light bubble raised.

@AzatAlsalim Why do this? If the UK doesn't want to accept immigrants from some part of the world, or at all, either way, that's its right. I will support that right to do that.

But to let people in, and then force them to abandon their ideas of modesty seems uncivilized. @AzatAlsalim In India, women used to routinely go topless. Let us suppose that India had maintained that tradition, accepted some European immigrants, and then told all of the White women in the country that they now had to go topless, too.

That wouldn't be right, would it?

@Eisenfaustus @CreatureHabit2 @AzatAlsalim "3rd world immigrants bring the 3rd world with them."

My parents were third world immigrants, as are the older children in my family. They did no such thing. @Eisenfaustus @CreatureHabit2 @AzatAlsalim "They have no motivation to become better human beings."

Motivation comes from within, and one doesn't have to have white skin to have it. How could an American not know that?

@Eric112499 @BGatesIsaPyscho It wouldn't help America, but I think you know that countries and other collective entities don't really make decisions, individual people do, and some people don't mean well. They are quite happy to have themselves (or their factions) benefit at the expense of their societies. @Eric112499 @BGatesIsaPyscho The HAARP conspiracy theories, much as the conspiracy theorists will deny this, serve as an example. They're absolute nonsense, supported with specious arguments pushed by those who know they're specious, and try to derail any real examination of them.

They want their egos fed.

@rumblevideo Meanwhile, after repeated attempts to upload a profile photo and a backsplash, I still have a plain blank profile, because your system fails to update it after the uploads. This has been going on since March.

I am not the only user with this problem. @rumblevideo When, exactly, do you plan to fix this recurring issue on your system?

It is now October, and your system has still failed to manage to process an update from March. I hope that we can agree that this is unacceptable.

So when will we see progress?