Get rid of the bots and glowies here and this is like 90% of fedi.
@cR0w glowies?

@Viss just found it in Urban Dictionary:

Glowie

Normally used for the CIA but also used for agencies like the ATF, FBI, etc. Their inability to blend in to the native population's habits, patterns and speech makes them stick out like a sore thumb to the population, hence they "glow in the dark."

@cR0w

@superball @cR0w aahahaha thats fantastic, ive never heard that one
@Viss @cR0w What's a glowie?
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@[email protected] just found it in Urban Dictionary: Glowie Normally used for the CIA but also used for agencies like the ATF, FBI, etc. Their inability to blend in to the native population's habits, patterns and speech makes them stick out like a sore thumb to the population, hence they "glow in the dark." @[email protected]

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@Viss @cR0w Three letter glowies :3
@catsalad @cR0w wow thats how bad they are? thats almost impressive
@Viss @catsalad Cat's a fed too. They're part of the Feline Boosting Insurgency.
@Viss @catsalad @cR0w TIL a new word with no idea how it got that origin. But maybe you should leave me in the dark, if that's ok with you, especially if it started on n-chan or Xitter.
@linuxandyarn @Viss @catsalad @cR0w eh, no, I think the etymology is important…
@jason @Viss @catsalad @cR0w Yick, and please obscure the n-bomb. It definitely sounded like a -chan thing, and it's as disgusting as that could be.
@linuxandyarn @Viss @catsalad @cR0w it's the same Wiktionary page anyone here could have looked up, but… done.

@jason @linuxandyarn @Viss @catsalad @cR0w

They have the full word in the wiktionary; makes sense cos they are quoting somebody

@harib_murshidi @jason @Viss @catsalad @cR0w Thanks, Jason. Looking something up is different than having it appear in a feed without a CW.
@linuxandyarn no prob. I sort of want a lot of this -chan–sourced shit to have similar reactions but everyone keeps laundering it into everyday speech. It kind of sucks.
@jason @linuxandyarn or we claim it and piss of a bunch of incels...

@catsalad @Viss @cR0w

of _course_ you have a banger glowie gif

@catsalad @Viss @cR0w
Wow. I really have not been hanging out in the right wrong parts of Mastodon.
@cR0w I used to be a fed. I'm reasonably sure that I'm also on a watchlist somewhere.

@da_667 @cR0w

We should NOT start a club lol

@TeflonTrout @cR0w trusting me with national secrets. dumbasses.

well, at least I'm not wiping my ass with top secret documents in the bathroom of my very public access resort.

or taking home government software for it to get catalogued by my desktops' antivirus. Which also happens to be kaspersky.

@da_667 @cR0w i'm quite sure we are. but anymore, a clearance is as disqualifying as intelligence for a national intelligence job

@tati @da_667 New process is basically:

"Where were you on 6 January?"

"What year?"

"...thanks for coming in."

@cR0w fediverse the feds .... are you starting a pundemic or what?
@cR0w this but for effort role
@cR0w since 1/1/70
@h2onolan Hey, that's my birthday!

@cR0w @h2onolan

Yo! That's mine too. Wow. What a coincidence.

@cR0w I did have a modest FBI file, but I've never been on a watchlist. I think.
@spiegelmama I keep meaning to FOIA myself but it'll be super boring, I'm sure.

@cR0w dipped out of a fair few communities in my day.

I definitely haven't heard glowie ina minute

@cR0w Following the Robert Pirsig tradition!
@cR0w You're telling me my vague furposting is being watched by narcs? πŸ₯΄

@cR0w

You guys work here too!?

@cR0w Hi, How are you?
@cR0w Jokes on you. I was never in the honor roll.

@cR0w

I wonder if the people not knowing what a glowie is are glowies pretending not to know, if they're new to the Internet or if they just never learned basic OPSEC.

Fascinating.