this has hit the inflection point where new readers don't understand the meta debate i'm joking about so they take it dead seriously and respond "erm... thats's the point of SOCIAL media, no. maybe start a blog if you don't like it...?"
having a big account must be exhausting. I have a smallish account and I get a good share of people who seemingly refuse to understand satire and humor and mansplain every joke back to me
to be fair there are certain people (myself included) who just have trouble telling if ppl are joking in general if there is no tone indicator (such as emojis or tone tags)... but this is to outrageous to not be a joke😭
Part of me thinks that online social media is all a mirage to get people to think they're doing something to change things for the better while in reality thing just continue to get worse.
“If you awaken from this illusion… and understand that black implies white, self implies other… life implies death, or should I say death implies life… You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on-”
Exactly, I’m often both surprised and frankly a bit humbled when I read my tweets, some of my better offerings are simple one worders such as “yep” or “great”, and the occasional two worder “no way”
So thats interesting i had what I think is a similar conversation where I'm trying to be reasonable and there were calls for violence I denounced it and was met with similar rhetoric I think that this is the far left, I don't know that for a fact but I listen and that's what it sounds like sorry btw
I've been tempted to ask recently about lists of people celebrating murder so I can block them. But I've been hesitant as the couple of replies where I've questioned it brought M*AGA level angry responses. So laying low except this. 😂
Look up the horseshoe theory of politics the far right and far left are basically the same rhetoric so if you feel like your talking to maga you might just be talking to the far left. Either way block who makes you uncomfortable you don't need to engage with them. I will but it's a choice for me
I don't think they are maga like I said i engaged in conversation they were very anti trump my concern was with the he deserved it rhetoric and the push back i got when I said violence isn't the way. The individual said we are past negotiation I think it will calm down but if you need to block them
Thanks, brother. Similar feels. Too many to block though. I enjoy the block lists that keep my feed generally hate free, but so far only MAGA, Nazi, etc... none for murder advocates. I hope you're right, maybe the violent rhetoric will fade. But I'm not optimistic given what I've been seeing.
Well I'm not maga so you have one person you can voice your opinions at. I may disagree or maybe not thats the point in democracy conversation be well and if you want to speak about any issue or just think you're alone you're not ill get your back. That's why we are here to talk
Isn't it about sharing opinions and learning about others? The art of debate (which seems to have largely disappeared from today's society - to our detriment).
I have a tumblr blog where I just chirp to myself whenever I'm -very- depressed. I fear that one day it will blow up as one of the internet's dark corners
Writing in a journal, scanning the pages at a local library, emailing the scans to yourself, burning the journal, printing the scans at home, reading them, feeding them into the shredder.
But my tweets are just aweful.... starting a sentence with but. I probably misspelled something and it's totally bereft of actual information. Alas why would I want to read this...
🤔I don’t “follow.” I observe, I judge, and I embrace grammar as an effective communication tool that is vital to forestalling the collapse of western civilization and all we hold dear.🫣😜
I have to believe that most of us are smarter than that. I follow / follow back those whose content interests me. That makes it my business. Those whom I feel don't interest me are either simply not followed, muted, or blocked. Really not that difficult. Don't judge. Please.
I tweet each and every thought not because i have an ego but so that I may be able to scroll through them multiple times a day and remind myself how smart and funny and relatable I am 🥰🌈
Are we allowed to call them tweets? Should they not be called Buleys or something?
Should the still be called tweets now that it's called X. So many questions.
There's a popularity contest going on here, with people bragging endlessly about how many followers they have. Those are the ones who never follow you back! It's looking a little like Junior High all over again.
I follow because I am deeply unhappy while reading my own tweets. They're so bad. I'm reading one right now as I write it and I feel worse with every key press.
It’s a post on a microblogging platform. It originally only meant posts on twitter dot com but, as that site no longer exists, it’s now a generic term that everyone readily understands
I just posted that I don’t understand this format. Didn’t get Twitter, either. It’s just a bunch of people I don’t know or care about typing into the void.
Lauren - I tweet for myself almost solely. Any validation is icing. Hell I have 1 whole like on my feed. I literally have an OF solely so I can go on hour long rants while not naked and doing nothing sexy (I did vacuum a carpet once & that actually turns out hot by accident.) you know your audience!
You see, I'm what you might call a "mind collector." When I read any tweet, I'm not reading it as myself. Rather, using sophisticated psychological techniques, I inhabit the mind of the tweeter, and for all intents and purposes become them. Which means any tweet I read is really my tweet.
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I can’t look at my own posts because they’re all bad
like you don’t really need that much context to realize that you might not be serious about only reading your own tweets??
“If you awaken from this illusion… and understand that black implies white, self implies other… life implies death, or should I say death implies life… You can feel yourself not as a stranger in the world, not as something here on-”
JAKE! GET OUT OF THAT WATER RIGHT NOW!
... wait, how am I reading this?
Less fun on your own.
😏
i am fighting the temptation to click follow
I don't get why that's so hard?
ARE YOU /J OR /SRS?
Ok, no I don’t. But it’s my wittiest retort at 5fartingthirty am.
Please reserve your meta stuff for more workable hours. Thank you in advance.
If other people vibe with it, that's dope, but at the end of the day, I'm my own lil art/opinion gallery's head curator, and it's all my favorite shit
I think it's neat :3
Do you want us all to go OUTSIDE
Should the still be called tweets now that it's called X. So many questions.
BTW I will take your suggestion and make sure I don't follow you.
Also, ‘trigger warning’ needs a trigger warning.
Exciting!
For most a waste of time, like talking to the wall. There even is a therapy of talking / crying out to the wall..🥳‼️
Maybe that's what we do here. But can we be more effective with our time for ourselves..⁉️
Ahhh... 😍 peace at last!
I do this 25 times per day
I am ip-banned from Twitter, Threads, Instagram, Facebook, Telegram, Truth Social, and Mastodon
Bluesky hasn't caught me yet
And if they're not happy, I don't want them to feel alone. There's just a lot of people to check up on...
Don’t why I put this here just read it today