There are some weird people on LinkedIn. We're supposed to believe that we're the weirdos and they're the normo's, but I guarantee you're stuck on a desert island with Fedi's and it's fuckn paradise on earth, albeit extremely kooky. But stuck on a desert island with those LinkedIn monsters..... you'd better sleep with one eye open. Immediate devolution into incoherent cannibalistic chaos. Every person for themselves trying to climb to the top of the growing mountain of skulls. Language no longer exists - just tattered suit-wearing animals gutterally shrieking I HOPE YOU'RE WELL! KIND REGARDS! Over on Fedi Island, a couple of neighbours have disagreed on whether coffee or tea is supreme, but they've realised it's subjective and decided to respect each others perspectives and have got together to throw a little party to celebrate both coffee and tea enjoyers (although there is still one berk sat in the corner grumbling that if you like tea it means you hate women). The Linux people have invented an unnecessarily complicated method for catching wildlife, but it keeps them happy and busy. Just pulleys and weights and springs going boing, but it mostly works. The wildlife of course not for food, but to assist in identifying edible plants and mushrooms and verdant areas for growing crops. However what's that our lookout can see?! A boat. Coming from LinkedIn island. The alarm is sounded but we are not prepared.....

@TheBreadmonkey

Reddit. Tumblr. LinkedIn. Fedi.

Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony.

Then, everything changed when the LinkedIn Nation attacked

@DrakkenZero

Everybody talk about..... pop music

@DrakkenZero @TheBreadmonkey

Not to worry. One of the colonials -- a noble, wounded warrior -- will inhabit the body of one of our own and save us all.

@TheBreadmonkey There we were. Bloodied. Battered. Half-drowned. A hostile, deserted island, with no food and no potable water in sight.

Some people panicked. Others stared despondently at the sea. But where some people saw certain death, what I saw was opportunity…

@maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey "until the resistance wing of fedi arrayed itself on the beach.

Everyone was there, from tiny people in leg braces carrying signs, to meaty dudes over 6' with rifles slung in a way that looked second nature.

My MBA prepared me to inflict horrifying violence on millions, but having it inflicted on ME, directly and on person, why... I can't even put it into a PowerPoint.

They fought as a single entity. There were no leaders to bribe, no stragglers to trap with predatory contracts. It was a slaughter, and it was over as soon as it began.

Now, with a media campaign and enough financial pressure I think we can monetize them as a personal security force for..."

@TeflonTrout @maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey [sloughs off years of atonement, unsheaths the economics degree, shrouds myself in the dark arts of commerce and runs silently at the approach hoard returning the darkness I have forsaken, apon them]

@curiously @maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey

Side by side, we fight to make right the wrongs we have done lol

@TeflonTrout @maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey totally, I was lucky and immediately did a postgrad environmental studies so was I deprogrammed before it all got too silly. But I still call it the dark arts and it's not a joke.
@maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey I survived a desert island. Here’s what it taught me about B2B sales…

@jenkins @maxleibman @TheBreadmonkey

"That coconut was the company President. He offered me the role on the spot at 5X the advertised salary. Believe in yourself. "

@TheBreadmonkey You know too much about LinkedIn for my comfort. I suspect you of having an account there and now fear you might have tendencies towards incoherence and cannibalism.
@oantolin @TheBreadmonkey oooof i worked trust and safety there in 2021 until i had my covid stroke! i still shudder at the hundreds upon hundreds of dubai slave trafficking bots we'd suspend weekly and it terrifies me at just how many maybe millions of people are in some form of slavery thereabouts in 2025!!!!
@TheBreadmonkey if I ever have to find a survival group for the Zombie Apocalypse, I would definitely start with the Fedi folks
@slothrop @TheBreadmonkey The internet already feels like a zombie apocalypse outside the fediverse thanks to all the AI generated "content" out there, so in a way we already are a survival group
@slothrop @TheBreadmonkey all I can say to that is " joiiiinnn ussss.... EEEEERRRRRRRR"
The Fedi it's like a viralent mutating virus you can't refuse. One bite and your hooked.
@slothrop @TheBreadmonkey Fair comment, but I'll just add that Bristol (south-west England) has a proper plan for a zombie apocalypse, and their may be some good stuff in there :-)
@TheBreadmonkey I'm following LinkedInLunatics subreddit and I approve your message.

@TheBreadmonkey

"Prepare to repel boarders!"

@TheBreadmonkey @bytebro
That clip went on way longer than it needed to. Glorious.

@bruce @bytebro

I love it

@bruce @bytebro

Biro's hit! I'm going in after him!

Impetuous boy. Ah well. Who wants to live forever? HAHAHAHAHA DYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

@TheBreadmonkey @bruce @bytebro
What the hell is Brian Blessed doing in such a terrible movie? 😀

@MennoWolff @bruce @bytebro

I love that movie. You take that back.

@TheBreadmonkey @MennoWolff @bytebro
That movie is objectively terrible. Gloriously bad. Awful in the best way.
@bruce @TheBreadmonkey @MennoWolff @bytebro
And to sum that up:
THIS IS (the fedi) WAY
@TheBreadmonkey
To be honest, I've never seen it. I've heard the sound clips in the Queen song and pretty much decided it's trash.
I've seen tiny clips like the one you just showed and those never came code to convincing me otherwise. But as @bruce suggests, I might be convinced one day by the absolute low budget cult trash vibe it gives off.
I imagine it's 1½ hours of continuous cringe. Might be an interesting experience 😀
@frankboon @bytebro

@MennoWolff

Watched it again last night while reinstalling the laptop OS and it's still wonderful 😀

@TheBreadmonkey @bruce @frankboon

@MennoWolff @TheBreadmonkey @bruce @bytebro Having an absolute whale of a time, I believe 😁
@MennoWolff @TheBreadmonkey @bruce @bytebro The UK economy was in the crapper at the time that film was made, and the arts in particular were suffering. Actors were taking anything that they could get. That movie had Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Max Von Sydow, and Richard O’Brien (Riff Raff in Rocky Horror). Just fricken crazy casting.
@hal_pomeranz Got confused what Keiko would think for a moment.
@MennoWolff @TheBreadmonkey @bruce @bytebro

@TheBreadmonkey

Just look what you've done. You've let the school down, you've let your parents down, you've let me down, and more importantly you've made this amazingly wonderful.

You're out of here now, but before you go, can I have your email address please?!

🙂

@bruce

@TheBreadmonkey

Love it! Takeaway quot from that clip was "Who wants to live forever?!"

@TheBreadmonkey @bytebro Come on, Ming’s weird drone soldiers are far more LinkedIn than Blessed’s brave hairy Hawkmen.

@BashStKid @bytebro

Yeah I realise it's totally the wrong way round lol

@TheBreadmonkey

linkedin is proof of Lord of the Flies.

@Thebratdragon @TheBreadmonkey And the Fediverse is what actually happened when a LotF-like scenario happened in the real.

@ArtHarg @TheBreadmonkey

I think of the Fedi as more, the Stanford experiment but run ethically....

@TheBreadmonkey LinkedIn is toxic. Now and again, I will hop on it, and the fake positivity is overwhelming.
@ang6666 @TheBreadmonkey My estranged, much younger, more foolish, sellout government ass-kisser cousin, who thinks she's a white girl(mass internalized racism issues), uses it often. It's just a bunch of toxic positivity & cognitive dissonance with the realities of almost everyone else I know 🤮
@TheBreadmonkey
But we’re saved because that boat from LinkedIn Island is using AI for navigation?
@TheBreadmonkey
Deleting LinkedIn when I retired felt like getting a tumor removed from my brain.
@greenhombre @TheBreadmonkey it’s locked me out for some reason and I’m taking zero steps to fix that
@TheBreadmonkey
Deleting Slack was like an enema. Such a relief!