@jackmlawrence
Scientist working on pancreatic cancer & research integrity. Care about free speech, democracy, magic. Troublemaker. Occasionally write about online political and scientific misinfo. He/him. Email: Bluesky@jlawr.com | Signal: +44 7763 517488
Reading through Reddit forums like r/professors is often deeply depressing.
Some of the educators on there seem to just really hate their students and teaching and have a reductive us vs them mindset.
If you hate and distrust the students that much just quit?
We love links because we love the open web
kitten πΈ or frog πΈ
you decide
Twitter is cratering. Despite the inevitability I still feel sad.
He didnβt buy that place to save it, to grow itβ¦he bought it to shift the Overton window to the right.
But it was also home for millions of people.
Realising I have followed far too many American lawyers on this site today.
Looking for anyone not falling into this category to follow now (unless youβre like a cool American lawyer)
Coming back to Bluesky after some time away and seeing gifs are now allowed.
If I see any of you using any of these ones Iβm blocking you instantly. Please leave them on twitter.
I have a spare ticket for Lion King on Sunday (tomorrow) at 14:30 at the Lyceum theatre. It is a Disney Magical Mondays ticket so only Β£29.50 (a big saving on the normal price). The seat is in row ZA at the back of stalls. Anyone interested?
I am begging and pleading with the media (I see you @bloomberg.com) to stop taking Elon's false framing that he's a "free speech absolutist" at face value. It is actively misleading people and is journalistic malpractice. www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/c...
Things we're leaving in 2023:
-apologizing for credit card fraud
-being a people-pleaser with the FBI
-feeling shame about the things that bring us joy (walking around cemeteries looking for names to put on loan applications)
Giving a big talk tomorrow in Brisbane about the decline of free expression globally, and its particular impact on LGBTQ+ communities and sex workers, and how it's all intertwined, just as human rights are interconnected. I'm excited and also a bit anxiousβthis is my first keynote since 2019!
https://buttondown.email/KateClancy/archive/period-26-journalists-stop-saying-that-menstrual/
doctor: your parents were in a car accident
me: how are they?
doctor: extremely critical
me: so they're awake, that's good
Elon Musk understands the value of the block feature. I know this because he blocked me over this post:
Phew. I'm in, thanks to @jackmlawrence.bsky.social. I feel like a bank robber reaching the vault. Except without the robbing. Or the bank. Or the vault.
RFK Jr: Pee is stored in the balls, OK?
Rogan: Wow. In the balls? How does nobody knows this?
RFK Jr: There are literally tens of thousands of studies that show pee is stored there, in the balls
Rogan: Wow. Wow. So like, does that mean girls donβt pee?
RFK Jr: Now youβve gone beyond my expertise
Oh man I loved his early work!
Should note I was/am a reporter (still freelance), and Iβm trying to sell a book right now.
So I 110% get the business importance of these huge platforms - but Iβm not sure I believe itβs *worth* it anymore.
Or ethical.
It's perfect.
Threads stole Elon Muskβs idea, a social media platform that sucks
Every screenshot of Threads I've seen is basically
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who getting they ketch upped??
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legitpat on threads asking βwhat if we made twitter cheugyβ
The perfect summary of Threads
If by lit you mean awful then yes
It's somehow so much worse than that. @zitron.bsky.social said it's like a "truncated Facebook comment section where everyone wants you to follow them" and it could not be more accurate.
Only feed you get is filled with random bullshit.
Threads is fucking awful
This is god damn awful. Jesus Christ
This feels like a platform specifically designed to drive me mad with animal rage
100% agree. Threads vibes are very bad
thread review: absolute dog shit app for terminal cases of linked in
everything you hate about instagram with nothing you like, assuming there's anything left of insta to actually like
The vibes on there are awful. Absolutely gross place. Feel like I need a shower after using it. Not a fan at all
Vibes on Threads are utterly rancid. Much prefer Bluesky. Corporate accounts are thriving and no one is being threatened with hammers
