It’s just what it’s called, not some secret handshake club or anything.
(And welcome. Unless you’re s Nazi, in that case you can fuck right off. But I’m not going to go digging into your skeet history because ain’t nobody got time for that. So welcome 😁)
NGL, this company had their brand merchandise on point. My mom is a GI nurse, and I will never forget when she came home from a conference with a little stuffed Eneman. Next year, Eneman crocs. Wild.
I don’t mind this issue and cast my vote for calling posts “Fleets”. If anything, this makes me kinda want this to be a thing even more bc that’s actually hilarious 😂
Don't know if this is still the case, but about 20 years ago I had occasion to visit the Fleet home office in Lynchburg, VA. In the lobby was a small Museum of Enema Technology - display cases showcasing implements used over the years to perform enemas.
Everyone who is trying to shock me with the foul meaning of skeet needs to know that I have the knees and back of someone who listened when Lil Jon told us to get low. like come on now what are you doing?
Ok, I think I'm getting at least a little of the terminology I'm reading in the skeets. You guys really know how to make me feel old. But I'm having a good time here and haven't once felt like slitting my throat.
the posts. it's analogous to "tweets" since that's what Twitter posts were called, someone put the "sk" in "Bluesky" together with the ending of "tweet" and since it's also sexual slang, people thought that was hilarious and it caught on
I don't call them skeets and I've been on Bluesky since...? I think I was in the low 50,000s in terms of signing up. I've just started using "post" — or "share" or "repost" — regardless of the platform. But I also don't care if other people call them skeets or whatever they want.
The PR for them is pretty bad. I think 90% of the posts I see referencing them are about whether the term is good or not. I think I could probably mute the word and not miss anything meaningful.
So my understanding is that skeet formally is a term for a shooting sport that uses clay birds instead of real ones, I assume that's why they chose the word. As for the different reason, its appearantly slang for ejaculation, or something. It's weird.
It's a simple portmanteau. Sky Tweets = skeets. The sexual slang makes it funnier. The sexual slang does derive from the sporting term, because of the shooting part.
New here. The number of slang loops I’m out of is infinite, including, till now, the horny definition of “skeet.” 🤷♀️ Whatever, but: who vetoed “yeets?”
No part of the skeet wars in 2023, joined only ~5 mio users or about a month ago and not mad about skeet, but:
You missed a chance to emancipate from that other site...
And "flutter" is a nice word, references the icon via "...flap of 🦋➡️🌪..." which can happen with that microblogging thing
i think it’s a stupid thing to call them and won’t call them that but i don’t see how this is even an issue, let alone something to compare to an actual problem that’s displacing hundreds of thousands???
I joined a while ago and don’t like the word in this usage because, when I was in my formative years, it was a slang term for copulation. That term, being encoded early in my life, pops up first when I hear it. As long as you realize that a certain small portion of us read it that way, skeet away.
So google says that the def for skeet is that it's some form of shooting sport where clay birds are thrown to shoot instead of using actual birds, I'd assume it has something to do with that and the fact it rhymes with tweet. That's just my guess though
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When do we want them? Skeets.
Are we annoying as hell? Skeets.
Hope that provides clarity to newskies.
be-doo-bee-doo-dat- do-ba-da-bop🎶
Just happy to know I never gentrified a damn thing.
It’s just what it’s called, not some secret handshake club or anything.
(And welcome. Unless you’re s Nazi, in that case you can fuck right off. But I’m not going to go digging into your skeet history because ain’t nobody got time for that. So welcome 😁)
"OMG, skeet? How gauche. " Blackie Lawless fucks like a beast.
(I had envisioned Agatha Christie’s ‘landed gentry’ yelling “Pull!” and blasting clay pigeons out of the air with shotguns.)
🥰😎
Imma get my phone to add a Ken Burns filter and some circa 2023 music for a “great skeet war” montage…
quote skeet
As in "cracking open some bluskis with the moots?"
https://bsky.app/profile/kendrawrites.bsky.social/post/3l77ec6fihr27
And now here we are.
I don't love skeet but only because it makes me think of like the sound of a turntable stop.
Then again, maybe that IS the sound of skeeting....
The CEO begged us to instead say "skoot" and that was rejected.
Skeets forever.
....how did we pass on skeets/skeet-skeets???????
You missed a chance to emancipate from that other site...
And "flutter" is a nice word, references the icon via "...flap of 🦋➡️🌪..." which can happen with that microblogging thing
So is it also "reskeeting" and "subskeeting" and "quoteskeeting"
"Damn dude that's not appropriate office conversation"
skeets. i like it