Catoblepas

Anyone who wants to see everything Musk owns crash and burn?

Last time I looked (years ago, admittedly) you’d also have to know what you were looking for to find it. Like a plain box with no pictures that just says “personal massager”. You can find racier stuff in a Spencer’s.

The real freaks are the ones that use the Thursday dildo on Tuesday. Once you’re that far gone there’s no coming back.

It’s probably a split between that and people who naturally metabolize opiates faster due to a genetic variation.

What remains is a discussion of the benefits of abstinence and a cursory review of various sexually transmitted diseases.

Oh hey, that’s the sex ed we got in my school. Along with at least 4 pregnant girls I knew of under 17 in a very small rural school. The youngest was 13.

If the people “teaching” us ever connected those facts, it wasn’t apparent to me.

This is why Melon and the AI chud brigade are so obsessed with having a chatbot (sorry, “AI”) that always agrees with them: a stupid number of people think LLMs are search engines, or worse, search engines but better, some diviner of truth.

Boy, are the aliens going to be embarrassed by this one.

I’d bet this is someone’s “pet” deer that they don’t want shot and are trying to signal that. I’ve heard of people putting reflective collars and things like that on deer that they’ve kept as pets, to try to deter hunters from shooting them.

If that’s what it is then I totally get the impulse to help a wild animal yourself, but the average person VASTLY overestimates their knowledge of what wildlife needs to be healthy. Always contact a wildlife rehabber if you find wildlife in distress!

Alternately: a 1 hour old account may not be entirely truthful about why they were banned

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

In that case the instance you're on is basically the block list, right? That's good, especially if most instances are really dedicated to stamping out that kind of thing. But if/when Mastodon gets big, it becomes a problem of scale.

In practical terms it's kind of unrealistic to expect T&S to deal with people because they have garbage takes; most of their day is going to be dealing with the usual internet nightmare sludge, which is where I think block lists become a real utility on the user end of things. In addition to the advantage of just making the blocked users shout into the void when 90% of the site wants nothing to do with their ass, which I can tell you from observation makes them extremely mad.

On Bluesky anyone who really hates TPOT can make a block list that anyone can subscribe to and you never have to think of it again. You can also easily flag accounts to include on the list.

If TPOT moved en masse to Mastodon, across many different instances, how would someone achieve the same thing? My understanding is they don’t have any similar feature. As long as “just block them all individually or hope they all move to one shitty instance you can block” is the solution, it’s going to fail to attract people.