between the newsom fluffers and the “honest question, not trolling” transphobes, this place is really losing its shine. time to sit on my hands and force myself to stop interacting with fools.
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I hate Newsoms so much that I've only managed to find one of those stupid him vs trump posts I've liked all week........I'm also hella pissed at Hasan rn because he's been helping it not correcting the idiots falling for it
aug 24, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah. The transphobia is making it really uncomfortable to even engage in debate. Istg, they don't see us as humans, just lambs to be sacrificed to appease the GOP.
aug 23, 2025, 6:27 pm • 15 0 • view
Remember our motto: SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIE- Sorry, #ReportBlockMoveOn
aug 23, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
I miss when the cognitohazards were at least funny
aug 23, 2025, 6:26 pm • 12 0 • view
I feel like we had a really good period where every asshole got blocked, and we mostly resisted engaging
aug 23, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Newsom is doing **something**, filling a vacuum, so people are quick to crown a savior-king, b/c it's so dispiriting, how all the news is. But Newsom is gross. So gross. There's lots of time between now & whenever this nightmare's in the rearview; don't let it getcha SO down, moment to moment. 💪
aug 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 2 0 • view
Mastodon doesn’t have this problem, if you can find a good server with admins who will actually look at for you It has plenty of other problems, but without either a “relevance” algorithm or a way to “promote” content into people’s feeds, a lot of this bullshit doesn’t happen
aug 24, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
Over the last few years I have realized I spent a lot of time being naive to how willfully ignorant and mean spirited people are
aug 23, 2025, 6:43 pm • 8 0 • view
I always think that if I just explain something well enough, I can get through to someone. I cannot.
aug 23, 2025, 6:59 pm • 4 0 • view
this is the part that slays me, like "but I'm telling the truth and have points and you're just yelling." but nobody comes by and declares me the chad and them the soyjack. We need like a team of nonpartisan judges to tell people they're owned.
aug 23, 2025, 10:14 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s not something you can counter with logic, which is immensely frustrating. There are people in my life that I work on and they seem to get it and then I leave and the bullshit just seeps back in. It’s always worth trying if only to reaffirm where you stand.
aug 23, 2025, 7:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Sometimes it's also just insane how much work is being done in opposition. My grandma was slowly becoming someone unrecognizable (she was never political) and it turned out before my dad passed he used her facebook and followed all the charlie kirks, bonginos of the world. I silently unfollowed
aug 23, 2025, 10:13 pm • 3 0 • view
God that’s sad and it happens to so many people.
aug 23, 2025, 10:17 pm • 3 0 • view
I think it restored so much chartiability though for me. My stance of "you are not immune to propganda" still has to be extended to the loved ones who are kind and raised me. It's just crazy how simple of a fix that was, I mean tbf I don't know how she would have oriented had I
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
not intervened, because how is an 82 year old going to notice that something thats only existed for 1/20th of their life is rotting their brain
aug 23, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
your compassion for people who are sucked in by powerful propaganda is a good reminder for me. thank you
aug 23, 2025, 10:28 pm • 2 0 • view
we can still be mean and shake some, its about balance and I think anecdotes like this are what we all need to remind ourselves this war isn't just today and the fight isn't lost, doesn't make it easier and I wanna cry a lot but I think we can do it
aug 23, 2025, 10:29 pm • 2 0 • view
❤️
aug 23, 2025, 10:30 pm • 1 0 • view
every weird propganda one day when she was having me do something on facebook. I still feel kind of weird because like imo violation of privacy, but also I was like 99% sure it was the ghost of my maga dad haunting her facebook turning her into a bigot. A year later shes back to being the kind
aug 23, 2025, 10:13 pm • 2 0 • view
person she always was and not hallucinating crime around every corner.
aug 23, 2025, 10:13 pm • 2 0 • view
I am blocking/silencing/hideing posts of anyone posting ai pics of that moron dressed as superman.
aug 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 5 0 • view
Yeah, I'm excited to start a new job on Tuesday, then a class the following week, simply to see if I spend less time in the digital sphere. I hope I do.
aug 23, 2025, 6:46 pm • 1 0 • view
After the first few i realized talking to blueanon was not an option and chose to view their comment section as block/follow lists
aug 24, 2025, 8:01 am • 0 0 • view
It’s starting to make me realize there’s more to life than being online
aug 24, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
Don't forget the Pritzker glazers.
aug 24, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
i took a couple weeks off and i’ll be honest it was nice
aug 23, 2025, 7:32 pm • 2 0 • view
I think I need to make myself do that. And venting my personal sorrows by heaping abuse on Newsom supporters is fun but probably not healthy.
aug 23, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
This kinda shuts down discourse, doesn't it? I'd be hesitant to ask you an earnest question based on this tweet
aug 23, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
I don’t see it that way. I see opportunity for listening and learning. And becoming an ally if I listen and learn. We can acknowledge wrongdoing, use our privilege to amplify to Newsom’s office and actually force change. But first we have to know what the change needs to be so we don’t cause harm.
aug 23, 2025, 9:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I meant that assuming people saying they're not trolling means they are ends the convo. I grew up in the queerest place that existed at the time, and there's so much I get judged for. Then you can tell ppl marches you led & the death threats you got, just to be told it was performative.
aug 29, 2025, 8:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for taking the time to respond. I got help this week seeing something about myself I didn’t want to admit. And I’m learning from you too. Performative is sadly what I’ve been doing: working at the food pantry, founding an independent newspaper for democracy, writing conservation grants,
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
donating to charity when I can, quitting in solidarity with colleagues… Never really doing anything to end my privilege, maybe doing more to prop it up. And thinking all along I’m helping. I hope I find more good teachers so I can learn to really help elevate everyone so no one has privilege.
aug 29, 2025, 8:22 pm • 1 0 • view
All of those things sound great! Proud of you 🤗. Will follow. Feel free to DM :^)
aug 29, 2025, 8:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you. I’m likely to take you up on that.
aug 29, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
AI pfp and JAQing off, name a better duo
aug 23, 2025, 9:51 pm • 5 0 • view
I don't know what that means :^(
aug 29, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Follow better people
aug 23, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
get a haircut
aug 23, 2025, 7:24 pm • 2 0 • view
When a post breaks containment, it doesn't matter who you follow, the people following you will spread the post to a large and diverse enough audience that sooner or later some goon who doesn't know better will make an asinine comment that does nothing but rob people of their time and energy.
aug 23, 2025, 6:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I would not be a bit surprised that they are searching for people to argue with.
aug 23, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
For some people, that's the closest thing they get to personal interaction with others, which is kind of sad.
aug 23, 2025, 8:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Plus there’s always the Discovery feed to help that process along.
aug 23, 2025, 6:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you for your input
aug 23, 2025, 6:32 pm • 2 0 • view
yeah robin surely this is a problem with the people you follow, not the random weirdos that find accounts to harass. Leo037 has over a hundred followers I THINK they know what they're talking about
aug 23, 2025, 6:33 pm • 28 0 • view
The random weirdos that find accounts to harass exactly like Leo037 is doing RIGHT. NOW?!
aug 23, 2025, 6:42 pm • 12 0 • view
THE PROPHECY IS COMING TRUE STEPHANIE
aug 23, 2025, 6:43 pm • 13 0 • view
TYLER YOU ARE SO SMART
aug 23, 2025, 6:44 pm • 11 0 • view
If I could move maybe 3 or 4 trans posters to mastodon, and one grungler, I'd be gone from here in a hot minute
aug 23, 2025, 6:40 pm • 2 0 • view
Honest question, what’s a fluffer
aug 23, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
The person whose job it is to, um, warm up male porn stars for their big scenes.
aug 23, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
And you can get paid to do that??
aug 23, 2025, 6:34 pm • 3 0 • view
not anymore
aug 23, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
I guess
aug 23, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I fear the virtue-signaling libs think they are having a moment—and are unfortunately being very loud about it
aug 23, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
It feels like they have a hard time with the definition of "lesser of two evils". Yeah, sure, he's better than Trump... But he's still not a good person. It's like in Canada when Doug Ford was calling Trump an idiot, he's still a shit and corrupt human.
aug 23, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I personally think he is not "better" than Trump, he is more "competent" than Trump. He is still a sociopathic narcissist, and his competence potentially makes him more dangerous.
aug 23, 2025, 7:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes he's more dangerous, he'll fly under the radar with his bullshit like how he has sorta been doing so far in his role as governor of California. He's not a progressive, he's a conservative pretending to be progressive, he'll undo progress and leave the bullsht Trump did in place. If he even wins.
aug 23, 2025, 10:22 pm • 1 0 • view