It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.
It is genuinely unsafe for average people to use Twitter and speak freely. It appears to be this administration's primary intelligence gathering operation.
Jail? No, that time is past. Nazis don't get mercy. That was dine after WWII and look where it got us.
as if you could gather any "intelligence" in X
I exited all right wing social media due to this (Instagram, FB, X, etc). It was already becoming unsafe pre-2nd toddler term. Like during covid when you weren't allowed to question science anymore. But now it's insane. And yes gathering data on dissenters is REAL.
Snitches and collaborators (derogatory).
Oh, they are gathering everything all of us say here to be used in the future. There is no question that is happening.
BlueSky shares data with the government too, and they do it without the need for a warrant This site isn't safe, as well. The people being it, are not the progressives people think they are
I don't think one should trust any website. They're all forced to share with the feds or the site operator gets jailed.
That's not true Without a judge ordered order, sites don't have to share information However, they are sharing without those orders now
Corporations tend to comply in advance. Or worse yet, use protocols that are so open source that they can be scraped by anyone and everyone.
Could someone please explain this to me. I've seen it a few times. I have no idea what the exchange is about.
Perhaps some day they’ll actually find intelligence on Twitter.
"Intelligence" 🤤
Once Elmo took it over, it turned into Fascist Central. Post the wrong thing and the Gestapo will be at your doorstep in a heartbeat.
That's surprising. Do they find a lot of intelligence over there?
I didn’t, which is why I left a couple of years ago. There really isn’t any point talking to racist, misogynistic, malevolent incel idiots.
I don't understand this obsession with me hearing opposing opinions. I've heard them all before & I don't care. 2nd off, I come to social media to post my stupid thoughts & share dumb memes, & to see the stupid thoughts & dumb memes of my friends & family. Not for DEBATE ME corner.
Counterpoint-- You don't understand other people's need for you to hear their opinion. They are not here to talk to their friends and family (who won't listen to them anymore). /sarcasm
I have no clue what this means.
popular twitter account apparently revealed his immigration status for some reason, and the VP of the united states posted a gif indicating his psychotic desire to deport or otherwise harass him
It appears shape-shifter sociopath JD Vance is addicted to and primarily gets his "information" from Twitter.
No, straight or the gallows.
“Intelligence”
Xitter, not even once.
It should go without saying, but be careful what you post here as well.
It's also full of bots and right wing nut jobs.
They said they use it to find names to revoke greencards for
He's had bad opinions lately but I genuinely hope he doesn't get vanished off the streets. That's not something that anyone deserves.
for both policy shaping & enforcement it seems
#GetOffTheXitter bsky.app/profile/mc20...
They're everywhere man. But ultimately it becomes difficult to find a needle in a stack of needles. Resistance is a numbers game. Right now we don't have the numbers we need to win. We will. But it'll take more time. Stay in the fight until then, then we'll bring these fuckers to justice.
Wooooah
100%!!! This is orders of magnitude worse than the ‘08 meltdown, and bad actors should have been tried back then. Anyone who violated their oath to the constitution needs to be purged, investigated, charged and tried if laws were broken.
Twitter Menswear Guy was openly encouraging users to marry undocumented migrants so they can get green cards and then OPENLY ADMITS THAT HE IS AN ILLEGAL ALIEN ON X. I don't wish harm on him, but he clearly has no idea the gravity of the situation. He spoke foolishly.
His understanding of mutual aid was encouraging people to financially adopt migrants so they wouldn't have a job to avoid getting picked up by ICE.
That is the primary reason I deleted X and Meta apps. I know every company is collecting my information but those ones are openly working hand and hand with Trump.
Twitter's gone full Stasi karaoke—every tweet a solo, every like a file note. It’s not free speech, it’s surveillance with a reply button. If you're average and outspoken, you're just feeding the algorithm its daily snitch ration.
Deleted account when you could. Now, if you leave, the data is theirs. Leaving now you are still data-tracked to the people you interact with. Paranoid? No. Think Grok x Palantir. And if you do not think FB/IG is the same, you are clearly naive.
that was elon's plan, he wanted everyone to be forced to use twitter, even for banking.
“Intelligence”
Honest question…WHY IS JD VANCE ON TWITTER? He has a family to spend time with.
he doesn't want to tho? which is a mitzvah to them
Oh god they think Twitter is real life.
These are some sick sadistic fucks
Holy fuck...
How dare he invoke Jack for evil
Seriously - He needs to make his way to Canada stat if he's not there already. Pretty sure these details mean he's got a claim to Canadian citizenship.
Describing anything this administration does as "intelligence" simply does not compute.
I can’t believe the Nazi site ran by a Nazi and is specifically catering towards people who are a Nazi is engaging in Nazi behavior
For sure I wouldn't be using Twitters group-chat functions with the expectation of any kind of privacy. But public facing posts are logged here (at government agencies) just the same, I hope people realise that...
People saying Twitter has been fun lately need to have their morality checked
But Elon said it was a free speech outlet? I'm being absurd. You see, when they use the word free, they are really thinking of their wallets. Through the all the bullshit they speak, which is only using people. He is like Trump. We are a means to his wallet, period. All the rest is personal bias.
Really? Do you mean MAGA spreads LIES??!😱
Yep.
Shipping him back home to Canada sounds more like an offer than a threat at this point
The idea that I’d willingly fund Elon Musk is anathema to me and to anyone paying attention to his behavior over the past year and holds a wide range of values, equality, healthcare as a right, science as a search for truth, government as a force for good. Heck, even Trumpers are now stepping off.
"To do the funniest thing ever" is an insane thing to write when we all know they are insinuating "deporting" the person (aka putting them in ICE camps god knows where..). These people genuinely have no moral compass and no humanity at all, and it really shows.
No but seriously, these guys love and glorify Patrick Bateman in American Psycho, so like I feel that says a lot in and of itself. Like I enjoyed the movie, but at no point did I admire his character..? Also the way they act like he is some big, cool guy - did they even finish the movie tho... 🤷🏼♀️
We genuinely need to ban: -American Psycho -Fight Club -The Dark Knight -Breaking Bad Society will heal eventually
We need to educate people to not draw wrong conclusions from any piece of literature or entertainment instead of banning anything.
Was thinking the same, not a fan of banning art and literature, I'm not for censorship just bc shitty people exist. But critical thinking and critical understanding are pretty core necessities in society
What artistic value do any of the things I mentioned actually have
I'm very much on the opposite side of far right idealogy, also my country's politics don't even come close to comparison to the US. I'm a queer woman, and used to enjoy most of the ones you mentioned. Now I can't watch them bc I automatically think of edgy far right ppl, but I did enjoy them prior.
Fight Club is a great satire, I think. (haven't watched it in years though)
I mean, sure, but the damage it’s caused to society does not make it worth existing.
What artistic value does your post have? Who gets to say what is valuable and what not? The ones who want to dictate value are on the wrong side. Fuck banning stuff. Period.
It’s either that or mandatory media literacy courses for white men aged 18-30
The problem is critical thinking is rather rare in a society where religiosity was pushed due to the Cold War and thus is as religious as many developing countries.
This. As I said awhile ago, regarding the equally damaging effects of prime-time animation on the same audience:
yeah being loved is really hard so they're choosing to be feared. they know that they are idolising the villains, they aren't that stupid.
But they are also stupid enough to not understand the plot of American psycho.. like he literally loses the plot mentally, and the whole "beginning" of his psycho evolution is competing to be better than guys that are the exact same type of guys, mixing each other up bc who tf knows who is who..
They are also averse to exercising like Patrick Bateman. Or fastidious grooming. Or higher education and sacrifices for a career. In fact, they only seem to mimic the abuse and cruelty of the character.
Very much this. They think his shitty personality in general is what makes him *him*. But other than the being a nepobaby getting a job at his dad's business, he still had to get higher education and make the career his first priority. Which is kinda also part of what pushes his psyche..
Remember, Bateman isn't the only role model like this. Cartman, the Joker, and the Punisher have no other training or careers leading up to their bad behavior; Cartman is close to an IRL Trumpist, being a lazy, 12-year-old glutton who has achieved nothing beyond "doing what I want."
They've not actually seen the film, just a few clips on YouTube. That's the other thing with a soundbyte culture, they're exposed to a ton of stuff without any context
They are all literally an illustration of how fucking irrelevant each and every one of them are, unable to keep up with who they have met and not, bc they all are equally boring people competing to be the most flashy boring person.. imagine wishing to be like that.. no actual personality..
They don't care about the plot. Who is who, indeed: Bateman is Cartman is the Joker is the Punisher is Thanos is Bane is Rick Sanchez is even Peter Griffin. They want to cause performative violent bigoted lawlessness for clout, with no empathy for its victims until/unless it hits them personally.
Mm, so they do also understand the plot of AP, they find Patrick Bateman to be a tragic figure, and that is another aspect they idolise. The self-destructiveness is, uh, sexy to them
the thing is that there's like 12 kinds of Fascist Guy, and the ones who idolise Bateman consider themselves to be in the "upper caste" who give orders to the mouthbreathing street fighting Andrew Tate fanboys who would not understand the plot of American Psycho
Ugh god I'm so happy I'm not attracted to men, bc jesus fucking christ nothing is more disgusting than glorifying such characters. Also the cringe glorification of The Joker (and the Jared Leto one too, like lmaoooo can you sink any lower!?)
these guys suck, and observing them also sucks, but know thine enemy i guess
Not sure about that, if they understood the plot they would get that the root of his psychopathy is that everyone around him, including his family, friends, and coworkers, think he’s a pitiful loser. A lot like Stephen Miller sure, but nothing he does changes that.
mm, I don't think that is explicitly mentioned in the movie, and these guys tend to strongly oppose interpretation of any text beyond the literal. Not saying you're wrong in that interpretation, though I think it's more that the "job" of managing financial capital inherently makes you insane
Seriously? That’s true? Because oh my God, that’s terrifying.
"intelligence"
I can't believe some people pay to be there and give that site their personal banking information.
Get 👏 out 👏 of 👏 Twitter 👏
Also, Daniel is a nasty little grass who needs his fingers shutting in a drawer.
Can someone explain this to me like I am ten years old?
High up officials in the united states government get to work, log on twitter, and use it as a tool to find people they can deport.
Ah ok thank you.
No problem, there's a lot going on, it's hard to keep track.
Oh, I get it! Because Jack Nicholsen made a name for himself in Hollywood playing sociopathic creeps with severe mental issues! Perfect for JD Power and Associates!
For the record, I was put on more than one public targeted rape lists on that cesspool site, reported it and informed by its shitty ass employees that such actions did not violate their TOS. So, yeah…not a marketplace for ideas outside of those who deem rape threats as something not disqualifying.
You know, Jack could’ve benefited from a little Botox therapy earlier in his career. But then we wouldn’t have Johnny.🤷🏼♀️
I hope his brown immigrant wife is proud of her redneck brown immigrant hating hubby
counterpoint: a "libertarian" who got her start in writing by saying that anti-war protesters should be beaten with lumber says that Bluesky is an echo chamber
Proving the adage that a libertarian is actually a Republican who smokes weed.
A libertarian whose family got rich working for the government, no less
It is no safer here, thanks to the public-by-design ATProtocol. 100% chance all of BlueSky is ingested and analyzed by the administration.
OMFG
I couldn't agree more.
I guess I'll only use it for my weekly tweet to remind Kim Reynolds she he is a horse fucking drunk driving grim reaper and that's it.
Elon has the opportunity to do the funniest thing, ban every us government account
/hj
Ummm.... since musk owns it, that's pretty much a given.
Unsure what you are referring to as the comment is blocked, maybe I blocked them or visa versa? But I still agree there is no valid reason to visit Twitter/X ever again.
I've heard JD is illegal we should check on that report him to Homan
Why is someone still using Twitter/X and not one of the other platforms?
Regime. Not administration.
With each new day I become more confident in my decision to have deleted my account there.
He took a selfie. Weird
As a teacher, I had to leave Twitter after the election. It’s not a safe place for my teacher voice.
I left and deleted my account as soon as the megalomaniac musk took over. Found Bluesky just in time for the 2nd abomination.
Same.
How are you doing, @dieworkwear.bsky.social? The eye of Sauron is upon you
there's not an iota of difference here vs twitter in terms of safety of speech
I really don't get why people still insist on using twitter, its a site owned and operated by a literal neo-nazi, I know other social media, even blue sky I'm pretty sure, is owned by like evil corpo rats but atleast they aren't just full on neo-nazis.
Absolutely!💯
I’ve been following the menswear guy for quite a while and I would not be surprised at all if this is bait
shocked the nazi app is weaponizing the app controlled by nazis
Let's see... When I was on Twitter, I was doxed and received over 10,000 telephone calls and even more texts. Someone created a bunch of businesses at my address. I was hacked and eventually received a hardware eating virus. And... that's what I remember now. It's always been bad. It's worse now
Maybe I’m dumb, but would the same apply here?
Or unintelligence gathering
WTF?
Real quick. I know what you're saying. I just wouldn't call anything on Twitter "intelligence." Information, perhaps
I understand what you're getting at, but within context, the verbiage we use matters. This isn't the time to be semantic.
I'm sorry. I understand this is dangerous
We all need a little brevity to cope here and there, I get it
Using Twitter to gather intelligence feels like harvesting apples in the summer. Sure, you'll get something out of it, but the substance behind it leaves a lot to be desired. What I'm trying to say is that "Twitter" and "Intelligence" don't really go together
The people must unite as one to make those rich people suffer heavy losses, and also make the president realize the seriousness of the situation. Please share with us, and let people from all states in the United States participate: let's take action to bring the economy back to zero.
It depends, as a leftist no one can read anything I post - esp replies - on twitter because leftists are all shadow banned.
And yet media people, Dems, & others are *still on Twitter*. They just can’t resist giving information to their enemies.
I don’t see much intelligence gathering on twitter
Well, I'm sorry for you. You are naive or blind!!
finest word play i've seen in ages. Bravo. 👏
Unfortunately these days in the US I think this can be shorted to: "It is genuinely unsafe for people to speak freely."
Fair, but I still think some places are significantly more genuinely unsafe than others.
Lmao Megan McArdle and Mark Cuban trying to get people back on the rat app
mute 'em all and let God sort 'em out
Seriously, how the fuck are you this delusional, @mcuban.bsky.social ? Affluenza?
There are no “good billionaires.” It’s just that simple.
bsky.app/profile/skyt...
my exact thought. trying to boost that elon stock.
Leaked emails of "centrist" editors (and mediocre "meritocracy" men) in "liberal" media coordinating with tech bros and extremists “Thanks re 1488,” “Please don’t forward chains like that showing the sausage being made,” Yiannopoulos wrote back. “Everyone knows; but they don’t have to be reminded”
"the left has an antisemitism problem" every statement is a confession, as they say. or something like that.
Every accusation is a confession. Not sure where it started, but it's pretty fair odds to take on any given statement made by RW pundits.
Megan McArdle hates it here because she can't manage the arduous task of adding an avatar
She’s also a wacko.
Based on the cursed image of her twitter one which is pan’s labyrinth style nightmare fuel I’m fine with her not having one here thanks
Much better than here
admit it coach, bluesky is an echo chamber. we gotta get people back in there to reclaim the narrative space.
Thanks! This graphic just reinforced that moving to 🦋 was the best idea ever.
But the amount of non-irradiated people is shockingly low in Chernobyl! How can we make it normal again if we don’t go back and reclaim the nuclear ruins?
You must absorb the radiation so that it runs out quicker
Some of you may become Fallout ghouls, but that’s a price twitters shareholders are willing to pay
You ain't gonna reclaim shit dude. Anything that doesn't fit their narrative gets immediately suppressed and ends up reaching absolutely fucking nobody outside of already leftist circles. You're just purposefully exposing yourself to the most awful shit for zero reason.
I think the skeet you’re responding to was meant sarcastically.
Okay guy I replied to liked this comment to liked this so you're definitely right. lol My bad. Sarcasm's tough for me to pick up irl, harder online.
Your point is still apropos and needed to be said.👍🏾
Communication online is always challenging. 🙂 I wouldn’t worry about it if I were you - I’m sure the original poster understands.
If this is an echo chamber I’d be affirming the cuntary you just wrote.
Might want to re-read it or check your irony detector.
I have no irony detector.
🤣 As opposed to the X echo chamber?
It’s funny how people can now see the problem of Billionaire Elon but Mark Cuban is still a liberal darling. Cuban isn’t any more principled, he just isn’t a ketamine addict.
This. Been preaching it since the beginning of this mess. Beware all billionaires. It’s just that simple.
Folks should also keep in mind everything you post on @bsky.app can be read by anyone. And that anyone can subscribe to the firehose and algorithmically look for crimes. So like don't post your crimeing here either.
I’ve told Trump what I think of him, Netanyahu & Putin on ‘X’ (when I was on it) & by letter to the US embassy in London (not that they have replied). Blocked by the Russian MFA & no doubt on several watchlists. Oh dear, so be it.
If the Trump administration is going to gather intelligence, they should keep some of it for themselves.
twitter for intelligence gathering, lol, lmao even. the jokes really do write themselves.
These people are deeply broken, to take so much delight in the pain of others.
Yeah, but wasn't that before Musk got involved?
I wonder how many groups are active there trying to inject their ideals as policy in these people's brains. Dozens? Hundreds? Seems like it wouldn't be to hard.
You should be boycotting twitter anyway. Stop giving them advertising and data dollars. Also boycott Amazon and Facebook Instagram, all things Meta. Stop giving the billionaires your money and information to use against you
bluesky may be an echo chamber, but twitter is a death chamber
Bluesky feels like a chamber, because you have to curate your own algos here
i do love the return to large anime breasts that my twitter feed became devoid of.
Which I have found is a very healthy thing!
It sure beats the constant rage scroll that Twitter is turned to Not to mention the AI slop galore that all social media are drowning in
Morally you have to listen to me say the most ignorant and insane things you’ve ever heard
it is ILLEGAL to tell me that i said something stupid. that is against the constitution.
Echo chambers are good actually
You can call it an echo chamber, but there's no Nazis here, so I refuse to see that as a negative
Gas chamber might be more historically accurate
A lot of trick stuff That makes you fall into a trap
And why would I stay in a place where I can’t actually block people who I find horrible and offensive?
Bluesky is dying though. Usage is going down
When a high-ranking federal official especially someone a literal heart attack away from the presidency engages with private citizens' tweets in ways that imply potential legal action or punitive intent, it sends a message: “You are being watched, and your words can have consequences.”
I dropped it like a hot rock when the advertising got more granular than zip code or cell tower location. Advertising makes tracking spies very easy for me.
That is why I have my account on private and I never, ever post there, retweet, or even like a tweet. Just read.
And shitposters ask why my profile pic includes a mask. LOL.
I honest to god cannot understand why anyone still posts there. Baffling to me.
I thought the current administration was allergic to intelligence... :P Muzzle anyone smart, give megaphones to the fascist right and the billionnaires... Twitter is a cesspool more than ever.
At this point if you are still on that site, you tacitly support the current regime.
Counterpoint: everything you do/say here is also public and almost certainly being fed into some Palantir database. Don't use twitter (if you must look, use something like xcancel.com) … but be careful what you say here, too.
If you didn’t quit when white supremacists were tagging @whstancil.bsky.social to Ed Martin you’re lost
Omg I would never spend my time on an app filled with these total losers. So glad we have Bluesky
as a friend put it to me once -- why, as a journalist, would you tweet? it's like leaving a loaded gun on your desk
likely not any safer to speak freely on any other platform, bsky included. Especially once/(if? any brave heroes?) the Palantir contract takes off
I'm afraid so.
Rats and nerds flick together.
At this point I feel it is more fool them for remaining on an openly fascist website. Engagement ain't worth it
if someone is dumb enough to still be on twitter it is iNevitale that they will be exploited somehow
Absolutely. One of many reasons I left!
Full agree - so then why is The Onion still on Twitter? I know you guys have a business to run and subscriptions to sell, but opting out of participation in a fascist hell site would seem wise? (I'm a subscriber btw)
If you’re genuinely concerned about intelligence gathering, get rid of your smart phone. It is listening all the time and you have to believe after the Snowden info release, that all that info goes to the NSA or equivalent org.
First person deported because he ratioed someone is a wild achievement.
They use this one too. Don't kid yourself.
There can't be that much left to gather there, can there? Just wondering, really, what's left in that despotic abyss...
Twitter is not a safe space, period.
8647 🇺🇸
Oooo, I can’t wait for The Atlantic to tell us how this is a good thing and we’re horrible people for not wanting to be there.
Leaked emails of "centrist" editors and mediocre "meritocracy" men in "liberal" media coordinating with tech bros and extremists “Thanks re 1488,” “Please don’t forward chains like that showing the sausage being made,” Yiannopoulos wrote back. “Everyone knows; but they don’t have to be reminded”
Note that Sunderland goes by the last name Jackson these days and runs a media firm that works with anti-trans shills.
I’m like 60% sure this place is number two.
Remember last November when X changed the rules on blocking? It was specifically to provide an easy to use flag on what information to ingest for intelligence gathering. Blocked Trump? Blocked Musk? Awesome, I'm putting you on a list.
I mean, they are absolutely lurking Bluesky too. Maybe not the same level of visibility and maybe not with the same frequency, but..
They don’t even need to do that. All posts on Bluesky are publicly accessible via API, and govt contractors are ingesting and analyzing them as we speak. DMs are not encrypted. Please post responsibly, comrades.
Intelligence is a very BROAD term in this context with quite laser precision on its use.
To be fair that's all of social media and the internet more broadly. They're scraping everything we do online to such an extent it's impossible to process and act on the information until they focus in on something.
**THIS IS ALWAYS TRUE OF ALL SOCIAL MEDIA** I think people somehow forget that this is all digitally freely available to any 'ole schmuck with access to the internet. Anything you post on any social media site, ever, is under surveillance. That's actually WHY you post it!
They're not going to find much intelligence there.
Does Vance know that Jack was the creep in that film, or... ?
This should have been an assumption for a very long time. That’s why I left.
I mean, it’s current owner was part of this administration not too long ago
That guy is a Dreamer. Brought here as a baby. He’s never been to Vietnam. Never. Everyone, including the VP is evil in this administration. Fuck him. Fuck all of them.
If he was born in Canada, he's Canadian. That's the only place he should ever be deported.
(and he shouldn't be deported)
No, he should not. He’s lived here his entire life. He’s as American as the rest of us.
I can't give the Veep's post enough eye rolls
J.D. Vance is well aware of what he is.😵💫
Its also why I don't think it is a coincidence that airlines are enforcing social media checks in addition to systems that require you to have your cell phone. They want to have a digital panopticon to keep track of who they deem "undesirables"
All the Chinese surveillance
this is so fucked up
That's why I never use my actual name
I’d wager that very public Bluesky and the appeasement-laden Bezos/Zuck platforms may be scraped for info too. Trump seems desperate to fulfill his immigration campaign promise.
Exactly why it was taken over, infiltrated with nazi assholes and destroyed by Musky. ✌🏻
Terrorizing us everywhere. Professional stalkers.
I got reported to DHSGov, Dan Borgino and Pam Bondi because I said Congress shpuld answer to the constitution not Trump. I deactivated my profile and deleted the app for a reason.
What's the term for government by sociopathic juvenile memelord? Kakistocracy is close, but I don't think it fully captures the tackiness of the evil.
I am learning that not everything you post is funny.
well like not funny "ha-ha"
"It's funny because it's true."
I deleted all my tweets, wiped my bio and other identifying info and locked my account down so it's just a resource/research tool for me and nothing else.
Who and why is anyone still on shitter? Especially if you’re in #TheResistance. I left the day felon took over and only went back briefly during the 2024 elections at the bequest of Scott Dworkin of The Dworkin Report. I left the day after. We had Post for a minute, but now @bskyapp is home 💪🏽💙
Little narc ass town square
X isn't safe for anyone but Nazis.
There is a reason why I do not lurk on Twitter under my real name.
ya think
He is also here, you can tag him y'know @dieworkwear.bsky.social
Thank you!
JD Vance is showing up unarmed for the culture wars.
He's my favorite poster in the time after Apartheid Clyde took over Twitter
Hell yeah
If ya don’t think it’s happening here, think again….
Yep. I deleted my Xitter account on election night for precisely that reason. I can't imagine they'd really care what I think, but I only need to be wrong about that once, yakno?
Depending on what you're saying, you shouldn't be saying it on Bsky either. If they aren't stopped, they WILL move on to monitoring and acting in things in any and all social media. And eventually, any non-e2ee communication methods.
Feds consider full encryption as "probable cause" you're committing criminal activity. I think at this point, the only option is leave the damn US.
Hey about my ex wife...
Would people who think they’re the good guys post like that?