Went ahead and made a Bluesky account:
cheesy1.bsky.social
cheesy1.bsky.social
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Well so-rry, do you know how much Putin pays?!
No, but probably not much since I had like 2 followers and I followed around 15 myself.
Yeah, I'm deleting it tonight. I know it's said I was giving it a week, but...Christ, there's an addiction to it, I fully admit.
But I'm deleting it tonight.
But I'm deleting it tonight.
I don't like that you can still re-activate for 30 days, but here we are. I've deleted the link from my bookmarks and deleted the app off my phone.
A hyperloop?
Oil drills in every park? Even those without oil, just for kicks?
Rockets?
Since I'm not or ever have been a Twitter user, I don't know if this will help, but I just saw an article that recommends Don't delete your Twitter account, but do this instead. Short version: someone can pick up your user name after 30 days, and since you'd no longer have control over it, you may not want it's content linked back to you, especially if your Twitter handle is your name. It might not affect anyone here, but the info might be helpful.
decided to do this to keep my username safe since i try to keep it uniform across all platforms (damn you other bertnotburt on ig and gmail *shakes fist*) - tried to format the banner and icon to show my bluesky address - not perfect, but not bad for freehand done on an iphone
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@Bubble181 Elon Musk has changed his Twitter handle to be "Kekius Maximus" and has changed his profile picture to be that of Pepe the Frog wearing armor supposed to be that of a Roman legionnaire. "Kek" is from the Korean "ㅋ" and was originally used to indicate Internet laughter (similar to "LOL"), but has also come to represent the kind of smug laughter that accompanies "Ha ha! Too bad, so sad. I'm amazing and you suck!" And Pepe's association with alt-right is already pretty well-known. For all I know, Elon is innocently referencing "Kek, the frog god of meme magic," but given his past statements, the alt-right option is far more likely.
--Patrick
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I...don't? The image shows Sam is following Elon, not me following Sam. Does Twitter only show users following someone else if you also follow that same user? I don't use Twitter enough to know. That image was taken from someone else's reddit post, it's not a screenshot of mine.
--Patrick
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figmentPez
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For those that don't know, here is an article from the Anti-Defamation League on the use of Pepe the Frog as hate symbol.
I'm genuinely fascinated by the discussion around Pepe on the internet. There seem to be a *ton* of people who are taking an absolutely unwavering stance that since it wasn't initially intended to be a hate symbol it cannot possibly ever be treated as one, and anyone who suggests that symbols can be coopted and change meaning in the public consciousness is a complete idiot or discussing in bad faith.
I honestly can't tell if it's gamer chuds trying to derail the conversation, naive kids feeling threatened that their spaces might not be defined by themselves, or something else. Really bizarre.
I honestly can't tell if it's gamer chuds trying to derail the conversation, naive kids feeling threatened that their spaces might not be defined by themselves, or something else. Really bizarre.
The swastika existed for at least 12,000 years as not a hate symbol. What are these people on?
Basically every symbol that people can tie to Norse culture and/or ancient Rome, too. It's absolutely wild to see people refusing to accept any possibility that their cartoon frog could possibly have been warped to mean something other than its original intention, but I keep seeing it.
figmentPez
Staff member
And how many of those are making bad-faith arguments because they're mad their dog-whistle is being turned into a whistle everyone can hear?
Oh, definitely some of them. I'm under no illusions that there aren't a good chunk of people playing interference for the ongoing efforts to radicalize the internet.
At the same time though, I don't think that accounts for everyone. I think there's a lot of cognitive dissonance from people thinking along the lines of "I like pepe, I've used pepe emotes and memes and when people call it racist and bad they might mean that *I'm* racist and bad!" and then just rejecting the whole thing out of hand in the way that requires the least introspection. The discourse is mostly holding my attention at all because it's genuinely really hard to tell the difference between the dogwhistling chuds, the kids who are too young to have learned the skills to critically think their way through it, and the grown-up gamer men who are unable or unwilling to accept that digging their feet in and saying "that's not what the meme means!" doesn't make it true.
At the same time though, I don't think that accounts for everyone. I think there's a lot of cognitive dissonance from people thinking along the lines of "I like pepe, I've used pepe emotes and memes and when people call it racist and bad they might mean that *I'm* racist and bad!" and then just rejecting the whole thing out of hand in the way that requires the least introspection. The discourse is mostly holding my attention at all because it's genuinely really hard to tell the difference between the dogwhistling chuds, the kids who are too young to have learned the skills to critically think their way through it, and the grown-up gamer men who are unable or unwilling to accept that digging their feet in and saying "that's not what the meme means!" doesn't make it true.
We're at that point where the symbolism has been brought to a molten state, and we are waiting to see what shape it takes once it finally cools again.
--Patrick
Something angular. Maybe a bit like a cross.
GasBandit
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It's like the saying goes... A given republican may or may not be a nazi, but the self-described nazis sure claim him as one of them. By the same token, the swastika and the valknot may not have been originally intended as symbols of white supremacy, but white supremacists have definitely appropriated them, and to continue the invocation of the pepe and kek imagery to this degree absolutely communicates a wink and a nod.
Hell, the USA Betsy Ross flag is now used by the Troglodytes as a hate symbol.
