I think I'm gonna start posting my webcomics here. Why not?
This is Gyno-Star episode 329: "But Mah Freeze Peaches." It's the first strip in the storyline "The Base." (You can read all Gyno-Star comics at ).
#gynostarcomics
Everyone's rightly dragging Elon for not understanding the Kobayashi Maru test & being a fake nerd.
But there's something more insidious here. He's saying that free speech is an unsolvable problem, thus laying the groundwork for openly abandoning his supposed commitment to it.
The Maryland shooter stalked and harassed a woman online, then online harassed the paper that reported on it, then murdered several people working at that paper. But you know the internet isn't real life and if you can't handle a few angry messages get off social media right?
I just got out of Twitter jail and it was a fascinating peek into this site's moderation procedures, let me tell you my story.
3 days ago Twitter locked my account due to "abusive behavior." Here's the email and the tweets in question.
ME: Teach boys not to rape.
THEM: That's ridiculous, rapists are psychos, everyone normal already knows rape is wrong.
ME: Why brandish a gun in your daughter's prom photo?
THEM: Because girls have to be protected from boys' uncontrolled sexual aggression, that's just normal.
In honor of screenwriting legend William Goldman, some screenshots from that time I replied to gamergate trolls using only quotes from The Princess Bride:
Note that the tweets
1. Are barely insulting, much less abusive or intimidating
2. Are replying to some random troll who initiated the conversation with me out of the blue
3. ARE ALL QUOTES FROM PRINCESS BRIDE
I just heard that, in addition to wearing clothes, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez also eats food and even combs her hair. And we're to believe this person isn't rich? Sure.
@realDonaldTrump
You're so obviously jealous of Speaker Pelosi for stealing the spotlight. All these desperate tweets and thirsty media stunts just make you look even more pathetic. You've lost control of the narrative, my dude.
Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled "potatoes" one time and it haunted him the rest of his tenure as VP and basically sunk any chance he had to be President?
If billionaires like Bezos were properly taxed then we wouldn't need billionaires like Bezos to sweep in and "rescue" people failed by our underfunded systems.
If you feel the need to point out that Al Franken isn't touching Tweeden in that picture, stop. IT DOESN'T MATTER. It's still demeaning and sexist. It's not a "tasteless joke," it's deliberate, gender-based public humiliation of a colleague.
@artisticandrews
@LeeHamill04
@Karens_smile
@ChrisEvans
Hi folks, just so you know - mental illness is a disability and the term "handicapped" is considered an old-fashioned and even offensive term. Let's not insult people with disabilities by saying Trump has one, when in reality he's just a mean-spirited bigot.
PSA: We shouldn't have to say that teachers are striking "for the kids." Teachers are highly educated, certified professionals who typically work 50+ hours/week doing a difficult & stressful job that provides a crucially important service. They deserve better pay. Full stop.
I guess I've lived long enough to see sexist stereotypes of women go from "desperate to trap commitment-phobic men into marriage" to "shallow sluts who need enforced monogamy."
@sbarolo
@shrewshrew
This thread is amazing. I'm not even in STEM but these Reply Guys seem to be in every conversation about sexism. I made my own comic about it once but your version is much more thorough 🙂
I chose to wait. Not because I cared about the tweets - sometimes when I get bored with a troll I reply to them with Princess Bride quotes - but for the PRINCIPLE of the thing. They were basically saying "confess and go free, or insist on your innocence and remain in jail."
"Incels" are what happens when men feel like their value depends on how sexually attractive they are, i.e. when they experience what it's like to be women.
UPDATE! I just got this email from Twitter, 3 hours after the message saying my appeal was rejected. LOL I wonder what changed??
Alas, I already deleted the tweets. The harm is done. This only sets back my grieving process.
After 3 days I got this email. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's difficult for me to believe that at any point in time an actual human being was involved in reviewing my tweets.
But I deleted the tweets, because my principles are not as important as being able to tell you all this story. 😁
Twitter gave me the option to delete the tweets and restore my full account functionality. The only other option was to appeal their decision. So I filed an appeal.
While Twitter processed the appeal, I was completely locked out. Couldn't even browse.
Hey everybody it's 2020! We can finally stop using disabilities as an insult. Like for example, claiming people you don't like have Alzheimers or dementia.
When Cassandra Levesque was 17 she led a campaign that was dismissed by a state legislator because he said she was just 'a minor doing a Girl Scout project'.
Now 19, Levesque has been elected to the state House of Representatives:
You know I've made my share of mistakes, but I'd like to think I've conducted myself in such a way that no-one will ever question whether I inspired a Mosque shooting.
The fun part is, the supposedly offending tweets were deleted by Twitter anyway. I guess there could be a reason why they also needed me to delete them, but it struck me as odd. My options were to delete some harmless tweets and restore my account, or be locked out and wait.
Kevin McCarthy loses a fourth consecutive ballot for speaker. He also loses a vote (Spartz, who voted present). There will be a fifth ballot.
Jeffries (D) -- 212
McCarthy (R) -- 201
Donalds (R) -- 20
Present -- 1
This tax bill was just written tonight. It hasn't even been *typed up,* much less analyzed or debated. It's being voted on in the middle of the night on a Friday. Sorry for the seriousness, but THIS IS NOT DEMOCRACY. If you're not profoundly worried, you're not paying attention.
I taught at underperforming Brooklyn public schools for 7 years and I want to see this pampered, grinning ignoramus try it for one fucking day, no one fucking hour.
As I waited to hear back, I always had the option to simply delete the tweets in question and restore my account. To do that, I'd have to cancel my appeal request.
Discrediting journalism as enemy propaganda; forming group identity around hating an ideological enemy; treating disagreement as attack; harassing & trolling the enemy while insisting it's them doing the persecuting... Sound familiar Women have witnessed this online for years.
Ever feel like you've been calmly but forcefully warning people about a thing for like 5 or 6 years and then the thing leads to tragedy and then everyone's like, Oh is this a thing? Wow who knew.
My cats have both started doing this thing where they refuse any food I put in front of them but then will eat from the other cat's bowl EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE EXACT SAME FOOD, because cats.