I saw you tagged the post re: X with 'stop joining Bluesky' -- can I ask why that is?
Because Twitter has always been a godawful form of social media, news, and networking. Elon Musk turned it into something unusable but in its usable state it had and continues to have an appalling effect on complex ideas and nuanced information. The nature of its character limit forced everything to a reductive sound-bite which effectively enshittified information propagation online, and its enshrinement as the "official" social media site for any person or entity to issue information or communication through dragged everyone down into the same level of garbage communication and analytical skills.
A website like Bluesky which only has "the same interface as Twitter prior to Elon Musk" as a selling point, isn't better for anyone. A short form character limited blogging site is fine as a gimmick and okay for simple person to person communication, which was more or less the original purpose of Twitter. It's absolutely shit for a central hub site for global information. The idea that Twitter's short form format and layout made it useful and popular needs to die immediately. The idea that information should be shared universally in short bites needs to die immediately.
What happened with Twitter, not with Elon Musk's purchase, but from the instant it gained media dominance, is fucking horrible, possibly one of the worst things to happen to online communication in its entirety. Go anywhere you want to get away from X, but for all that is good and hopeful in the world do not put any version of whatever constitutes your "personal official online presence" onto any site resembling any iteration of Twitter.
There is a window of opportunity to finally, finally be free from what Twitter did, but it is closing fast. I don't think very many people remember what it has been like watching information literacy collapsing in real time around Twitter, and I don't think there is much hope of killing that format, and I don't think it's going to solve every problem. But if somehow we do find a way to drive a stake not just through Twitter itself but the foundational ideals it represents, we will have made forward progress.
Kill the idea of Twitter that lives in your head. Don't reproduce the same mistakes just because it's familiar to use. For all our sakes, tweets must die.
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dreamed about an always sunny episode where frank decides he wants to have one last big night out (which he called the “ultimate frank reynold’s party blowout”) before he euthanizes himself and the episode consisted of the gang taking him to their favorite clubs and mac took them to an underground rave or “gay bash” where dennis slowly realizes that every single person there looks exactly like him (all were played by glenn howerton in various wigs and costumes. he got an emmy nom for the episode)
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Since it's been mentioned a couple times in the tags that the Rabbids were indeed bullied, I might as well provide the actual context.
So Ly the Fairy is in Rayman Raving Rabbids for the GBA. Raving Rabbids GBA is a wonderful (if heavily overlooked) piece of Rayman history because it contains a lot of remnants of one of the versions of Rayman 4 and, since it's more serious than its console counterparts, tells the Rabbids backstory within gameplay rather than just dropping a line of text in the manual. Its status in the canon is a bit in question but Rayman lore is just Like That, unfortunately.
But yeah, damn. Strapping creatures to rockets seems a bit harsh. That never happens in Rayma-
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look at it from a new angle to make sure its real
close-up under the cut, dont strain your neck to see her lovely face
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