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Hands Jul 6, 2023

@ChrisHolladay @chrisisgr8 Except for when the judge decides that their ruling only applies to the parties that filed the suit, because judges like to pretend the fascists are operating in good faith and that if you just tell them that a law is unconstitutional they'll stop trying to enforce it.

Hands Jul 1, 2023

Sheldon Jul 1, 2023

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

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Hands Jun 24, 2023

@taber Okay but is there a reference to the Elliott Gould Sexy Grover picture?

Tsutsuku (he/they)Jun 13, 2023

#redditmigration #reddit

One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private.

It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.

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Hands Jun 14, 2023

@Tsutsuku I love how the Reddit Admins refuse to remove the white supremacist mods from /r/Canada because they don't feel it is appropriate to involve themselves in who moderates what subreddits but this is apparently where they draw the line.

Hands Jun 13, 2023

kira :3 Jun 12, 2023

2022: what if you had to find an alternative to twitter
2023: what if you had to find an alternative to reddit, discord, youtube, every single search engine, and microsoft windows

Hands Jun 9, 2023

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Kickflip Robit Jun 8, 2023

@PsyChuan @categorille
(Just a CW'd version for people to boost).

I put some text on this image to make it easier to spread around.

This is literally a nightmare scenario. And is probably exactly what some of the politicians banning HRT want: to force us into dangerous unregulated medicine, so we die and then they can say "look, see how dangerous HRT is? We were right to ban it!"

Hands Jun 5, 2023

@tupfentier I am aware of the timeline on this, it is why I said people want those same programs but not systematically denied to minority groups this time around.

If someone comes back with "not denying these benefits to black people is what makes the modern proposals radical" they're a racist and we just ignore them.

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Hands Jun 4, 2023

@EarthOne @bigheadtales @QasimRashid I think you got that backwards. Things that would have been center-right when you were 18 (government spending to keep housing, education and healthcare affordable) are now considered "radical leftist" policies.

90% of what kids these days want are the strong social programs of the Post-War Boom but not systematically denied to minority groups this time around.