evacide"I'm just going to let people be wrong on the internet" remains the single most difficult New Year's Resolution I have ever made, hands down. Nothing else comes close.
Matt Brunt@evacide oh fuck, yeah I can see how that's a real challenge
Trev 
GlitzersachenI wish I had your greatness ...
holgersson@evacide It's mostly, but - errr, wait! ;)
DianeI found this on Ed Yong's twitter feed years ago and felt like saving it.
Maybe it will help with the difficult resolution?
Kierkethumbs up convincingly@alienghic @evacide i’m dead before the causality
Jo - pièce de résistanceOmg. The irony of this meme considering Chalamet’s recent problematic comments.
Carlos SolísDumb-problematic or boycott-problematic?
@JoBlakely @alienghic @evacide Wasn't he was commiting to being his character in Marty Supreme IRL, similar to Andy Kaufman's performance art/comedy
Greg Whitehead@evacide I have deleted more replies than I’ve posted in the last 24 hours, by a wide margin, and I’m definitely happier for it
Gavin@evacide It is much harder now they have automated being wrong on the internet. The volume of wrongness is growing exponentially.
spinnyspinlock
Nathan A. Stine@evacide that doesn't sound very difficult...
(this is me being wrong on the internet so you can let me be wrong and feel good about meeting your resolution)
bituur esztreym@evacide
& the consequences will never be the same!!! `w;7[)
& the consequences will never be the same!!! `w;7[)
Heliograph
FurballsNHairballs
Meander
Nazo@evacide Gandalf was captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise during the early years until his encounter with the Balor, upon which the elf Spock reigned for a while.
Andrew 🌻 Brandt 🐇@nazokiyoubinbou expellinerdus!🪄
C++ Wage Slave
Security Writer 
@evacide I mean there’s a clear loophole here… it says nothing about not *telling them* why they’re wrong on the internet…
But I agree, I failed quickly.
Dark Matter Zine@evacide IMO it became easier when, years ago, foul men living in the USA posted sh*t about me (“How dare an Australian woman start a zine without our permission and mentoring?!”) and I learnt that they WANTED an online fight and to be named. They were FURIOUS when I took all identifiers & links to them off my website. Many ppl are like that: they want the engagement. The best punishment you can mete out is to ignore and even block.
Gentleman Programmer@DarkMatterZine @evacide Kind of like the Naughty Step
@evacide I know....
Gay Violet@evacide ⌛ Two things make this easier for us:
- The people who are shouting aren't here to listen.
- The work that is education of randos on the internet is, fortunately, not my responsibility. If they're nice I'll help because I'm also nice, otherwise its their problem.
Evelyn Octavia@evacide oh yea, nobody can perfectly prevent mistakes from happening
Joscelyn Transpiring@evacide I have been getting better at just not commenting…and instead stewing about it for the next 48 hours driving myself nuts 😅
Nicole ParsonsIf freedom is something you value, then the freedom to be wrong is part of that
So is the freedom to face consequences for conduct & learn to do better
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/20/in-the-wake-of-nokings-2-0-trump-magas-four-fascist-roots-are-failing/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/15/fascist-fashion-language
Sometimes though, there's a small voice inside enjoying the schadenfreude of MAGA's hard lessons on the stupidity of fascism
They wanted "freedum" & now they pay a price, along with us
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/donald-trump-and-the-maga-movements-aspirational-fascism/
https://stephendinan.substack.com/p/maga-is-american-fascism
https://www.salon.com/2025/11/16/maga-rights-new-fascist-man-crush-hes-been-dead-for-50-years/
Scott Francis@evacide for everything there is an xkcd
lp0 on fire 
@darkuncle @evacide, and in this case it's no. 386.
@lp0_on_fire I almost linked it but assumed @evacide knew exactly what I was thinking of ;)
spiegelmama@evacide I should have let people be ignorant about journalism. I failed. Sigh. I'll aim to do better. /gen
Flipper 🐬🏳️🌈@evacide they're really good at it, even without adult supervision
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@evacide Now it has to be expanded to letting bots be wrong too.
@evacide Liberating, but exasperating. Salute 🫡
TheOcarinaOfPrime@evacide it's easier if you approach it like an anthropologist
Signor Q. 🦩@evacide most of the time it´s a wate of time. ;)
paulglasspshr (@[email protected])
@farah (resisting urge to get into a discussion of units with you)
@evacide The hard part is not letting anyone be wrong on the Internet, that happens naturally, all the time. What's difficult is making anybody conscious to be wrong, on the Internet.
Once, communication with a wide audience was driven by entities with some authority on that media. Somebody authoritative, some other authoritarian, but whatever the narration always showing to be "right".
Hence, anybody writing on this media (like I do now) feels to have inherited that power to be "right". G'd lk
I AM BANKSY ☕ / 🗑🔥@evacide
I've written and deleted so many replies here.
I've written and deleted so many replies here.
bignose
Chicky
Simon ZerafaThe main issue being it's now automated and at scale with multiple tools available for generating and publishing wrongness.
Correcting such is a task at least an order of magnitude bigger than the problem 😕
zimpenfish@evacide Taken me several decades to (mostly) work that out of my system (and various other things too.) Wish I'd been quicker about it but happy that I eventually (mostly) got here.
kit
MontyOnTheRun@evacide Nah, you're wrong.
ideaPDish
Aria <3 
Utarg of Utarg 🔬🇪🇺🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦@evacide In extreme cases I type out what I think of any “wrongness” then delete the draft.
SupermoosieBut what if they think they are right, but they are wrong.
Maybe you can change their mind with just a little bit of information.