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why get a burger and some fries when I could just get two burgers?
Thursday, 03-Oct-19 04:04:37 UTC from web -
Split of the moment thought : How long did it take Twitter to become profitable or even sustainable anyway ?
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Almost 12 years ! First profitable Q was Q4 of 2018. And here I was having the shadow-thought that everyone would lose their account if the thing goes under anyway.Wednesday, 02-Oct-19 22:54:31 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony That's actually kind of my point. For as many, and as diverse, options as there are, Twitter seems to have an outsized importance in the world's affairs.
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@scribus I have to imagine it’s because, unlike Reddit and 4chan and in some ways unlike tumblr and Facebook, Twitter is a single ecosystem. There are no groups, there’s no structural division, they don’t have a separate directory for anything... it’s like writing o a very, very, very big wall, and everyone else in the world is writing on the same wall.
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@scribus I think I kinda see what you mean, but in the same breath it was not Twitter that got scrutinized after a certain madman besmirched one of my favourite Initial D songs somewhere over in New Zealand. Those were 8Chan, Kiwifarms, Facebook, Discord and 9gag.
Actually Discord is having a really double reason there.
Not to mention that there are enough people around that hate the Twitter Verified Blue Checkmark ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/875246 ) seeing it as a "blue pill" or "Loony Lefty approved club"
It is actually that specific part where I think you are wrong when you say "Twitter is a single ecosystem. There are no groups," ( @mrmattimation @notice/5464941) . But you are right in that it's like a cocktail party with everyone, there is no structural division. Just a battle over who has the most trending hashtag. Unless if you want to count popularism and realize that if you are a nobody with the greatest thing to say, you will still be ignored.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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just realized that @realDonaldTrump is probably getting archived after he leaves office and now I feel all warm inside
Wednesday, 02-Oct-19 20:31:25 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Why wait ? get your warm feelz today http://rainbowdash.net/url/875242
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@drinkingpony No, just the idea that he’ll be forced to retire the account is pretty funny
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@mrmattimation Hmm, that actually is pretty funny yeah. I guess he shall not promote Trump Steak, or Trump Whiskey, or Trump University after he's done being the POTUS. Especially with the amount of followers he has RN just because he holds that office it would be quite, ehmm, bothersome to say the least.
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Why are people in that twitter thread sharing a picture of the 1972 election and treating it like a victory ? ( http://rainbowdash.net/url/875240 )
I mean if it is a quip about how Trump is a crook then they pretty much say 25% of the people inside of the U.S.A. to be stupid ( 56% of America voted, out of which roughly half voted for Trump ).
You garner no good will with those people, and you want those people to NOT vote Trump in 2020. So that is pretty much the equivallent of a 12 year old throwing a temper tantrum going "YOU'RE WRONG !"
But hey, I can see their point. But there was a smart and a stupid way to go about it from my perspective. and... "She chose, poorly" ( I kinda thought a Last Crusade quote would fit well, seeing I think the Democrats should rally before they actually become responsible for a Orange-inspired 2nd term )Wednesday, 02-Oct-19 17:12:29 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation Yeah and he was pardoned by Gerald Ford. Do you really think a country like the U.S.A. is going to still have the U in it should something like that happen again somewhere after 2019 ? In the days which I heard coined 'culture warfare'-era ? But you did not even need to bring that up, my original point still stands.
I mean if it is a quip about how Trump is a crook then they pretty much say 25% of the people inside of the U.S.A. to be stupid ( 56% of America voted, out of which roughly half voted for Trump ).
How does THAT help anything but all solidified echo chambers ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony i literally explained the point to you and you still missed it, that's incredible
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@mrmattimation I litterally explained that it does not matter what he did wrong and you still go "but what I said is more important". That is incredible.
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Wish our grand overlord Cerulean Spark a happy birthday or face my wrath
Wednesday, 02-Oct-19 12:40:14 UTC from web- Scribus and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@thelastgherkin Why do I have to think of this thing now ? ( 10 second clip from Spaceballs ) http://rainbowdash.net/url/875237
Probably the "grand overlord" part which makes it sound funny.
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So I’ve been advised that this Swole Foods short might end up DEMONETIZED because the newspaper gag ALLUDES to the Trump-Ukraine controversy, and these people are trying to tell me big tech has a liberal bias???
Tuesday, 01-Oct-19 19:32:40 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation What... the bootlicking. . . apple!?
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@scribus And the only reason that’s a “maybe” is because I don’t mention Ukraine by name. The word “Ukraine” gets flagged in their system automatically.
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@mrmattimation Oh, that faux headline could have been referencing any day of this presidency!
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Why the Potato Knishes did we used to have cookie jars if you weren't allowed to eat the cookies?
Tuesday, 01-Oct-19 18:10:35 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Because there was a whole presentation platter on the table?
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hey someone tell Joe Gran that a peer-to-peer YouTube replacement ain't gonna take off for a couple of reasons
Monday, 30-Sep-19 03:51:37 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Eh, still interested in making a PeerTube node to check it out.
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That’s all a joke obviously but I AM tired of girls asking me to buy them juul pods. Ladies if you’re trading sex for nicotine you should probably quit cold turkey.
Sunday, 29-Sep-19 03:05:56 UTC from web -
ideal candidates: artist, goth, over 21 because i’m tired of girls asking me to buy them juul pods, please email all applications to MattsGF@mrmattimation.com, serious inquiries only
Sunday, 29-Sep-19 03:03:28 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I do not know what a 'juul pod' is but if you are looking to date people born before about 1999 and grew up in the internet-age but somehow are not smart enough to figure out how to 'smuggle' what I assume to be ordinary supermarket stock items... Well...
"Like Oh My God Becky, look at that weird thing. Like why does it not read @G-mail or something so I know what kinda, like, creeper I'm even sending an application 2. Like, hella uncool."
Ofcourse I am joking just as much I hope as you areJonathan Chouinard likes this.
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thinking about taking girlfriend applications
Sunday, 29-Sep-19 02:34:52 UTC from web -
With all of the leaks that kept happening, you’d think that everything that could be leaked about this administration would have already been leaked by now, but this week’d prove you wrong.
Saturday, 28-Sep-19 01:52:08 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation That is absolutely right, though we would no doubt get into a Dexter vs Mandark slapfight situation over the real definition of 'leak' ( and even less doubt regarding 'what is and what is not a whistle-blower' ). I know for a fact that I am not going to run out of popcorn any time soon.
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Saturday, 28-Sep-19 01:27:35 UTC from web -
Can’t wait until we get to find out what happens when an outgoing President just says “no”, and then Nancy Pelosi sits there like “now hold on guys, let’s not jump to conclusions”
Friday, 27-Sep-19 19:32:38 UTC from web -
WTF!! This Amy’s rice pasta recipe was made by Steve! STEVE!!!!!
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 23:29:22 UTC from web -
Besides which that wasn’t even the point. Again.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:49:24 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Nope, I have no idea what an intentionally topical joke is, considdering I do not know the topic RN.
However I was not talking about your "Couch Gag" things. I was talking about, oh Idunno, Swole Foods, and the Twin Souls, and pretty much all the conversations we, well, some of them did not end well. Still, you slowly but surely get to feel what sort of person you are dealing with.
As such I feel like I kinda know what kinda humor you would like, and the kind you would not like. As such a conversation of what is 'acceptable humor' between the two of us would be quite hard, if not completely abstract.
So who is to say what is and is not deserving of a good old round of Twitter/SocialMedia hatredstorm ? The mob ?
And if it is the mob, do you think that the mob will change when Trump has vacated the White House ? I could make a terrible pun regarding those who shall not be erased RN. But that could be in poor taste, and we both know they will still be around after TrumpJonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Trump comes up literally once in the entirety of The Twin Souls and he isn’t even mentioned by name, what the hell are you on about
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@mrmattimation I was not saying that Trump was in a thing you made. Not at all.
I was saying that I can make a pretty damn well estimate as to what you'll like or what you will not like.
Hence why, and I will quote myself : "I dare to bet on a day of soberness that where I set the bar for what is and is not funny might as well be on a different pane of existence compared to where you put the bar. That is if we were to estimate the distance between the 2 proverbial bars."Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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At any rate, that certainly was a three-paragraph, mealy-mouthed, non-committal "We'll see" I got from my congressperson. Also a lead on the next link on the chain, though. There is a Judiciary Committee....
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:00:19 UTC from web-
@scribus my congressperson (my new one anyway, the old one got voted out last year) has been pretty consistently open about everything she plans to do... the last one stopped holding town halls because people kept asking questions she didn’t have answers to.
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@mrmattimation Mine's a pretty cookie-cutter Republican. Party line on all major issues.
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@scribus I live in a congressional district that used to split its ballots, Obama won narrowly in 2008, Romney in 2012, and Clinton by 10 points in 2016, with the Republican House candidate winning handily all three of those years as well as every year between (and it was a Republican stronghold before 2008). So the way it USED to be was the congressperson here was a cookie-cutter Republican, but occasionally they’d back Obama (or rebuke Trump) on highly nationalized issues, and that’s how they survived. After 2016 the old Congresswoman got a little comfortable and just became a rank-and-duke Republican... then she lost re-election by 10+ points. Everyone thought it’d be one of the closest races in the country before that - it ended up being one of the first ones called.
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Probably maybe Trevor Noah is the only one on that list who wasn’t famous before Trump.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 20:50:21 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation He really wasn't. Before Obama's first term he was in Africa. Before Obama's second term he was somewhat active in the stand up community in the States. Aparently that is where Jon Steward actually first met him and propped him up to take over his show.
Sadly, if you look at Trevor's very first stand up routine you can still see all of the elements that make him such a bad comedian today. Most mentionworthy, always laughing at his own jokes before the audience starts to.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Hey, after Trump’s gone, can we please get comedy back to the way it used to be where an offensive joke wasn’t immediately followed with an unironic bout of legitimate hatred
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 19:57:44 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Do I think you are able to get the Trump out of the White House ? yes. There are ways and means to get that done.
But do I think you can get the Trump out of the Comedians ? I have NO idea how you can get that done, especially for those who have done nothing but make non-stop Trump jokes for the past 4+ years.
Tell you what though, after such a long amount of time there is NO doubt on my mind that these people legitimately hate Trump. The bigger the hateboner the bigger the chance that they will never be funny again. Steven Colbert, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel & Seth Meyers would be my top list of such 'far gone' 'comedians' that should Trump be removed will in all likelyhood never fully recover. Be it through weakness or through fan-expectations and them caving to 'give the fans what they want'.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony those same comedians made nothing but Bush jokes for eight years, they managed just fine after Bush left office
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@mrmattimation That's not really true, all of the Bush jokes I remember were mostly about him being slow or dumb, so like 95%+ of that repertoire was already written before he appeared on a ballot, and 95%+ of the near same jokes after he left office simply went to Mitch McConnel.
I do not know any Mitch McConnel jokes of before or during the Bush era though. Probably because he was still a whip back then.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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It’s quite inconvenient for someone like me who revels in being an edgelord but also doesn’t actually hate ethnic or sexual minorities
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 19:59:43 UTC from web -
Well, I finally deleted my Facebook. Turns out, as part of their fight against fake news, they refuse to fact-check politicians. Absolute garbage.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 16:18:34 UTC from web-
@scribus to be fair, the ones that need to be fact checked contribute like 80% of Facebook’s revenue.
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@scribus The divine powers or yet another GNU Social thing ?
... Yeah I know but I could hope...
But seriously, once you figure how to get more people to use a GNU Social instead of facebook, I would be all ears.
There are SO many people in my immediate surroundings who go "Wait, you did not know what, I posted it on Facebook like a month ago". I would call them stupid boomers but some of them are not even 20 yet.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Hey, whichever comes first, lol. As for getting people to leave the evil empire? No real ideas on that yet.
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if the transcript is the best news for Trump then hoo boy does he have a long weekend ahead.
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 15:16:05 UTC from web -
...did YouTube pass another law further wussifying their monetized videos? People are blurring out guns and like bloody noses and bullFrankerZ?
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 02:26:19 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Does "Jerk it in a lake, I h8 ur feels" count?
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@mrmattimation Well Doc Sweetleaf will never see monetization then.
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it's like... almost exactly identical, actually. Don't fix what ain't broke, you know? http://rainbowdash.net/url/875217
Thursday, 26-Sep-19 04:22:26 UTC from web -
The point of this gag was supposed to be so that I can make topical jokes in cartoons that can’t be topical because they take a few months each to make. All that’s really done is make me go back and change it every few days until release. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875216
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 20:38:52 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation I have to imagine this one is gonna stay in the news for a while so I think this is the final-final one
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I thought maybe if I went to sleep and trump released the Ukraine transcript while I was asleep the whole “impeachment” thing would just silently go away because if he’s offering to release it that means there’s nothing incriminating... right? He can’t be that dumb, right? Anyway I woke up and read the news and now i’m even grumpier.
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 16:04:10 UTC from web-
@mrmattimation Never get online before breakfast. That said, I am overdue for a burrito....
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...and the 80s lasted until, like, 93
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:45:30 UTC from web -
hot take: officially, the decade ends this year, but culturally, the 90s ended in 2001 or 2002 and the 2000s ended in 2008, so like, who REALLY decides when the decade ends?
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 05:44:35 UTC from web -
At least I finally get to live my dream of being able to parody a Presidential impeachment nine months after the fact because that’s how long animation takes. I’m joining The Simpsons in that feat.
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 01:52:02 UTC from web -
Every twenty years, like clockwork, stg
Wednesday, 25-Sep-19 00:18:27 UTC from web
