“Two years ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter. I personally didn’t have a problem with that, because I’m a common sense centrist who nevertheless only writes about how much I agree with reactionary ideas.” Pitch-perfect satire. - ThreadSky

legalnomads.com • 93 days ago

“Two years ago, Elon Musk bought Twitter. I personally didn’t have a problem with that, because I’m a common sense centrist who nevertheless only writes about how much I agree with reactionary ideas.”

Pitch-perfect satire.

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spincast-ag300.bsky.social•87 days ago

Some very finely honed snark.

2-wheeled-thug.bsky.social•92 days ago

🤣

alejandromanevich.bsky.social•92 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/navalang.bsky.social/post/3lbkvxqw7uc25

petrarca.bsky.social•93 days ago

Emma Camp feels seen

icabojo.bsky.social•92 days ago

I really don't t this. No one has the right to just turn up in my living room and say whatever they want uninvited. Why are folk melting diwn because it's on your phone? Try randomly phoning numbers and giving off to whoever answers, see if that works...

brunofrancocancado.bsky.social•92 days ago

She needs to tape her bullshit’s ideas for herself and play it continuously to herself , inside her personal mirrors chamber. Who knows one day she will convince herself that her statements are totally nonsense.

ralphhhenson.bsky.social•92 days ago

Does Bluesky have a feature that would allow people to be ranked by how many other people blocked them?

yourpalhawkboy.bsky.social•91 days ago

There’s a website called Clearsky that tells you who the most blocked pages are.

theunhingedbajan.bsky.social•92 days ago

Really fun read.

mynahleague.bsky.social•92 days ago

Well written and funny.

labourbusiness.bsky.social•92 days ago

Satire is dead… because when we all innocently laughed at the ludicrous, we’ve since discovered they actually meant it.

painedumonde.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's the syrup cartel's psyop, don't believe a single eh.

lawnchairmedia.bsky.social•91 days ago

Definitely. Good artwork. Hands on hips from a woman in a pantsuit means we're getting high minded liberal tough talk on politics.

thenicklogan.bsky.social•92 days ago

📌

beebuzzin19.bsky.social•92 days ago

🤣🤣🤣

cbusdms.bsky.social•92 days ago

Wow, remarkably witty & truth-telling satire: "And I will write an opinion piece like this once a week, published in a major newspaper, to chronicle how my ideas are being censored."

pickersnext.bsky.social•92 days ago

I love people discovering The Beaverton. Canada has a fabulous history of satire that is steeped in the British tradition, with the withering sarcasm from being so close to the US

legalnomads.com•92 days ago

I’m entertained when they realize we have our own version of the onion here.

pickersnext.bsky.social•92 days ago

I miss their TV show too. Also, Rick Mercer

legalnomads.com•92 days ago

Yes! Though this hour has 22 minutes is still running (with Rick) - I didn’t realize it was still going til recently.

vincenzodon.bsky.social•92 days ago

Disgusting and severely lacking in self-awareness, or worse, she knows the truth.

anotherbob.bsky.social•92 days ago

Gaslighting hard

boomboxes-unite.bsky.social•92 days ago

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

tdcheetah.bsky.social•92 days ago

Oh. My. God. Look. At. Her. But!

(Such deadly and beautiful satire.)

orygoon.bsky.social•92 days ago

Fabulous.

david-schmidt.bsky.social•92 days ago

Brilliant and too true.

hardciderblues.bsky.social•92 days ago

I recommend a good therapist to discover why she has an obsessive need to be liked by everyone.

bindyp.bsky.social•92 days ago

Great observation. Made me chuckle. 😆

jacksonerp.bsky.social•92 days ago

and there it is… The bots have started pretending to be anti-trumpers then attack their own, then call it echo chamber here we go. They can write all of the articles they want but people not bots know that he is dangerous and should never have been allowed to run for office

heidiotoo.bsky.social•93 days ago

!!!!!

browniemn.bsky.social•92 days ago

Loved the article but my mind was blown by the reminder that Musk bought Twitter only 2 years ago. I had to look twice to be sure it didn't say "10 years ago." Feels like a decade. 🤦

chadeverett.bsky.social•93 days ago

This is perfect

saintron.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yeah it's pretty good.

golfingjourney.bsky.social•91 days ago

We have heard enough from these assholes to know we don’t need to hear any more. You can’t argue with stupid.

borggeano.bsky.social•92 days ago

Flashes of “Conservative voices are being silenced” all over, it was hilarious

https://youtu.be/t2DA1uwVsdE?si=2LE94yqV6WTboa9D

yannthi.bsky.social•92 days ago

Thank you!
Facts? What facts?

andreaspieker.bsky.social•92 days ago

This is so fun. Loved it.

john-nemeth.bsky.social•92 days ago

Brava ! 😂

fightlies.bsky.social•92 days ago

Musk turned twitter into the largest outlet of propaganda and misinformation on the planet.

Many of us have a "problem": with liars like that.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/elon-musk-twitter-misinformation-timeline-1235076786/

carmenbs.bsky.social•92 days ago

📌

grekoff.bsky.social•92 days ago

Great article! Thanks

mathandstuff.bsky.social•93 days ago

Z, Y, Q...who can be bothered to keep track!

🤣🤣

legalnomads.com•93 days ago

No notes, truly

ocastedo.bsky.social•92 days ago

📌

catherinemcniel.bsky.social•92 days ago

Amazing and so real.

robhughes260.bsky.social•92 days ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

seasherm.bsky.social•92 days ago

I particularly liked how she kept referring to Y by different letters every time.

jaqjaqeats.bsky.social•92 days ago

This

seasherm.bsky.social•92 days ago

I wasn't sure for a while, but this is genius satire for sure.

azwildheart.bsky.social•92 days ago

📌

mdpesq.bsky.social•93 days ago

An absolute delight:

And instead of respecting my inalienable right to be debated, they just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be.

legalnomads.com•93 days ago

It was tough to pick a quote to use, because there were so many good ones in there.

nafo-harris4prz.bsky.social•91 days ago

Is this article supposed to be making fun of a certain person or is it just like hypothetical?

legalnomads.com•90 days ago

There have been quite a few editorials about how this place is an echo chamber or the like, so I imagine it’s satire for the lot of them.

debeauxos1.bsky.social•89 days ago

The photograph used is what I imagine chatGPT would produce if asked to mash up Jen Gerson, Robyn Urback and Lauren Southern.

jmugg.bsky.social•92 days ago

Disagreeing is....."dangerous". That's some true grit right there.

golightly.bsky.social•92 days ago

This is perfect

sypookus.bsky.social•92 days ago

Nailed it

flguy79.bsky.social•92 days ago

I'd like to follow her if she actually does write stuff here. Can't find her.

legalnomads.com•92 days ago

The author of this satire piece is on Bluesky! You can find her at @marygillis.bsky.social.

andiepandee.bsky.social•92 days ago

Make sure you also follow @thebeaverton.bsky.social

knocky101.bsky.social•92 days ago

I didn’t have a problem with it either…I just blocked him and all associated with him. But then he became an increasingly gowlbaggy #Trump sycophantic brown noser….and will be an agent of the next administration.

chrislabarthe.bsky.social•92 days ago

Loving Kirsten Sinema's new look

infogon.bsky.es•92 days ago

👏👏👏👏👏

werotan.bsky.social•92 days ago

There is a pattern where satire becomes reality in the Western world...

jeannetteeggers.bsky.social•92 days ago

Hahaha, fantastic!

shaner38.bsky.social•92 days ago

The Beaverton is a national treasure

skipb.bsky.social•92 days ago

Fairly sure fascists see themselves as centrists and not fascists

scasburn.bsky.social•92 days ago

In 2016, some far-right supporters of Trump demanded to be seen as centrists. As far as I could tell, their self-perception required them to be in the middle, above it all as the impartial judges of all sides. The people who passed judgment, never the ones who were judged.

nafo-harris4prz.bsky.social•90 days ago

My favorite is the "I used 2 b a lifelong Dem/Obama voter/Bernie Bro & then I saw how Hillary "rigged the primary" & how mean Dems were 2 trump after they indicted him (4 fomenting a coup n stealing nuclear secrets) so I abandoned all my "values" & became a far right Trump supporting fascist"

lordcorwyn.bsky.social•92 days ago

Agree, this is basically every piece in the press over the last week or two criticising BlueSky. Pitch perfect satire, as you say.

legalnomads.com•92 days ago

It is. There was a recent op-ed in a Canadian paper that continued the trend, but it’s by no means the only one. Like you said, there has been quite a few hot takes in this vein.

algoritmo.bsky.social•93 days ago

That one took me a solid minute, even with you telling me it's satire. Partly because it's pretty close to opinions I've seen, partly because it's Friday and I'm drunk

And yes, yes, I know, I'll even put up the comic myself:

mementomori4950.bsky.social•92 days ago

😆😆

kmdavo.bsky.social•92 days ago

I keep reading that bsky is an echo chamber for the left. So what is cable, Faux, news media, conservative radio and podcasts? The right seem to have a monopoly on echo chambers.

legalnomads.com•92 days ago

Yes for sure. They’ve funnelled huge amount of funds into those echo chambers, too. AOC made this point recently as well:

palky55.bsky.social•92 days ago

Oops, bit early, my reply implies being offed from 🦋, I realise now it was Z Jodi is having a pop at. Me? It was a 💩 🐦 💩 from the get go.

palky55.bsky.social•92 days ago

Not sure if this is for real. I can't imagine someone with Jodi's creds. being offed from 🦋 & I got banished from the evil empire!

smullins3000.bsky.social•92 days ago

I'm dying.

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