For me, social media has become a 21st century ephemeral diary.
Not the old kind that stays hidden away.
These are reasoned fragments of how I see the world right now, dropped into a space where anyone can find them, fight them, scroll past them, or silently...
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@rakeau@ajkenney2000@Movie_Xtra1 Now you’re holding random personal X accounts to advertising standards? 🤣
Bless your heart.
Your commitment is adorable.
Enjoy the remainder of your weekend 🙂
@rakeau@ajkenney2000@Movie_Xtra1 Hahahaha!
Bless you 😂
You prove my point perfectly.
At no point did anyone ask for the restaurant name.
At no point was it refused.
Yet there you go, spinning up your whole dramatic analogy about how withholding basic information is rude.
The entitlement is real 🙄
@Movie_Xtra1@ajkenney2000 I'm not worried about him.
It's more a message to others who see it and might silently agree with him; that not you or the world owe them anything.
If they want a public service account, then they should start their own.
(I love Moneyball, seen it maybe 10 times.)
@ajkenney2000@Movie_Xtra1 It never ceases to amaze me: the entitlement of expecting people cater to your demands.
The post doesn’t owe you anything.
Insulting people over it is pathetic.
You could have asked politely.
Grow up.
Movie title: Moneyball.
@SangitaMyska@5Pillarsuk@SadiqKhan Expecting Sadiq Khan to prioritise strict Islamic principles over his public duties is exactly the kind of religious/political inflexibility that undermines integration.
This is the path that populist politicians & right wing activists have been leading us along for far too long.
@shesbonky The men arguing here aren't listening to what women are saying; they're filtering women's stated preferences through a male lens of tribal acceptance.
Fitting into the male group often shapes a man's self-image more than raw female feedback.
It's about male status hierarchies.
@IainDale@campbellclaret Would Iain Dale pass a 'who wrote this?' test?
It must take enormous energy, or deepest bias, to maintain nonstop opposition to anything a PM & govt do.
Scrutiny is essential, but treating everything as inherently suspect while ignoring context is simply feeding an outrage cycle.
@KateFlemming3@KaineParkerOG Words are indeed 'made up'.
Humans create them all the time.
Such as 'phobia' which comes from Greek phóbos, meaning irrational panic, fear (hydrophobia, claustrophobia).
You don't get to be the arbiter of which 'phobias' are real and which are just rhetorical shields.
@echochamberbad@Shivajihimself2 Starmer didn't stand in the local elections.
We don't vote for a Prime Minister directly.
This is the problem: too many treat elections like a presidential popularity contest instead of judging local candidates & records.
Blaming Starmer for council results feeds that confusion.
People claim the system is rigged.
The real quiet rigging is adults taught to refuse responsibility; electing easy promises and people to blame.
People don’t tolerate parental government, they crave it.
Adulthood is hard.
The trap isn’t the elites.
It’s arrested development.
@RingoPrime@kokeshimum You mean people worked regular jobs and paid regular taxes?
The same as today?
Many of those people who turned into entitled martyrs and now expect the state to fund their comfort forever while blocking opportunities for the next generation?
The ageist entitlement is real.
@HomoSocialist Heaven forbid we encourage travel, exploration and experience of the world beyond estates.
The same Brexit mentality that cheered ending freedom of movement now recoils at kids getting a bus pass to do exactly that.
Preferring to imprison another generation in fear and ignorance.