One of the things I really like about bluesky is that there’s a collection of horrible people who have prominent media positions who I felt like it was important to pay attention to. It turns out they were not.
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I remember early in Bluesky's life, someone threatened to invite Shaun King into the conversation if we didn't do more to help the charity he was trying to promote. 😬
I genuinely think it was important to sneer at them when we were in a place that forwarded their nonsense around. Kind of like how if you live in a stable you need to shovel horseshit a lot.
The ‘wait I didn’t miss that and I’m no worse off as a person’ realizations that come with Bluesky have been great.
It’s been hard to see Twitter friendships fade, especially for industry networking in some cases, but… the forced reset has also been nice/revealed some stuff.
Mostly people nominally on the left, but who possess and promote reactionary positions of all kinds. Yglesias. Breunig. Most of the columnists for major outlets tbh. And the exceptions are either here or get shared here.
It really does, not just because of the people we block, but because people stay away from the platform entirely or because so many of our mutuals have blocked them, but they just don’t appear.
Turns out you can go a month without seeing anyone sharing an Yglesias post. A year without Bruenig. I haven’t seen a Greenwald post or tweet in my recent memory at all. Yall still share Taibbi too often.
One time Neocon was in a word puzzle my friend and I both play. She didn’t know what it meant and I said, “You know, like Max Boot” to which she replied, “what’s a max boot?”
Same! And I had completely forgotten who those folks were until that thread today. My goodness how quickly they vanish from the mind when their takes aren't on the timeline every few days.
Every now and then I am really tempted to subscribe to that mute feed that labels any screenshot taken from Twitter, because boy howdy that is just about always something toxic.
This in reaction to a good thread, I reposted earlier. About one of those writers. Let’s not even mention the name and move on. I’m cooking a beautiful dinner of a porterhouse steak, grilled asparagus, and homemade gnocchi, finished in brown butter and sage.
You give me hope. I'm a #Post refugee and was dreading the possibility of this place being another x-lookalike dumpster fire. I left a couple years ago. It's not, at least so far. 🤞🏼
An added bonus? That dinner sounds divinely motivating. Thx!
His work on Snowden was so focused on Snowden the person and Snowden's sensational and hyperbolic claims that it effectively buried what should have been the legitimately scandalous details (e.g international data sharing agreements with allied countries to circumvent domestic spying prohibitions)
Instead we got "the NSA is spying on your computer in *real time*" and bullshit like that which frankly made it sound like *Snowden* didn't know what he had either.
Instead of being annoyed at this point I just think about how easy they would be to honeypot into putting useful lies into that ecosystem.
Distance really gives perspective
I would generalize this to say there's a whole genre of Twitter-centered opinion piece that I feel better off without.
For me at least, it wasn't just one piece of the opinion spectrum. Often an NYT op-ed, but sometimes a Jacobin piece. Either way, the point was to stir the pot & skim hate-clicks.+
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Being in the house is nice.
It’s been hard to see Twitter friendships fade, especially for industry networking in some cases, but… the forced reset has also been nice/revealed some stuff.
well.
very well.
IIRC he tried to come here and Bluesky, collectively, bullied him until he went away.
And it turns out we can just do that.
I didn’t even know who Peter Baker was.
Before I was on Twitter in 2019, I didn’t know who Joe Rogan was
An added bonus? That dinner sounds divinely motivating. Thx!
Just made a charred lemon brown butter sage sauce on rotini the other day, it was delightful
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Love it.
it’s really just a huge improvement in my online existence
I think Taibbi has remained alive in minds here because of the Elon related dramas, maybe
Distance really gives perspective
For me at least, it wasn't just one piece of the opinion spectrum. Often an NYT op-ed, but sometimes a Jacobin piece. Either way, the point was to stir the pot & skim hate-clicks.+