Twitter isn't the world's town square, it's a pub. Great when we all met up for a drink and a catch-up every week. Then a new landlord arrived, put a big England flag and his golliwog collection behind the bar and it was a magnet for his horrible EDL mates. Fuck that. We've found a better pub. - ThreadSky

ianmartin.bsky.social • 111 days ago

Twitter isn't the world's town square, it's a pub. Great when we all met up for a drink and a catch-up every week. Then a new landlord arrived, put a big England flag and his golliwog collection behind the bar and it was a magnet for his horrible EDL mates. Fuck that. We've found a better pub.

Reposted from Carole Cadwalladr

So I just posted this on Twitter & asked for views on it & the BlueSky exodus? Isn’t it just ceding ground to Musk? Zelensky didn’t pack his bags & decamp to Poland. Tell me why I’m wrong.

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deserately.bsky.social•111 days ago

A week ago, this place was dead. People create the vibe. And honestly I don't trust liberals to not waste years arguing with the Teenage Nazi Turdles on Twitter as if that changes anything.

deserately.bsky.social•111 days ago

I will say there's something po-faced and worthy about this place. It's just that the alternative is literally just incels and nazis as far as the eye can see.

ianmartin.bsky.social•111 days ago

follow some indiscreet and unworthy people, would be my advice...

deserately.bsky.social•111 days ago

I'm doing my best!

dajevans89.bsky.social•111 days ago

Wonderful analogy.

chicalolita.bsky.social•111 days ago

We are the Stonecutters from The Simpsons.

rx1f.bsky.social•97 days ago

also... ceding ground? the man OWNS it

frogfather.bsky.social•111 days ago

https://youtu.be/wl3tM81gjVk?si=fP4u12oRqcp9oUVZ @mattgreencomedy.bsky.social did a great version of this

chrisweston.bsky.social•111 days ago

Absolutely. It's not sacred ground to be retaken.

ianmartin.bsky.social•111 days ago

this whole ridiculous pearl-clutching "oh it's a land grab!" bullshit. fuck off, it's a pub gone horrible.

tomnicholls.bsky.social•111 days ago

It's that nasty village pub that you have to walk past but take a wide berth from on a Friday night.

moimau.bsky.social•111 days ago

Well said that man

funnyface1.bsky.social•108 days ago

That's such a nice way to put it :-)

gargarin.bsky.social•111 days ago

Also tbh I rarely spent time in the twitter trenches battling the fascist or right wing dicks they mainly circle jerked them into a fury by themselves. So I just ceded the crap puns , pictures of soup and film/music recommendations end of the battlefield of ideas

kneedeepdownunder.bsky.social•97 days ago

Just saw a screen grab of this post on reddit and I had to come like it. Perfection!!

sprucey.bsky.social•110 days ago

Nailed it.

pablosquared.bsky.social•111 days ago

The World's 'Spoons - Where Everyone Knows Your BunchOfNumbers

chrislintott.bsky.social•111 days ago

Also kept interrupting our conversation

fintansheerin.bsky.social•111 days ago

Hopefully blue sky stays this way. It’s like twitter circa 2012. No adds. But critically everyone you interact with is a human

pbgarbett.bsky.social•111 days ago

Twitter is a sh*thole, of course, BUT those of us that remain, ignore the landlord & his EDL mates because the jukebox is good and the beer passable. This place has a wanky (deserted) wine bar vibe to me. I’m here ‘just in case’ but I‘m not as entertained.

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