Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥

@melanpops.bsky.social

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

Having fun on #Bluesky
I have people blocked for many reason mainly cos I’m just exhausted by either explaining or defending myself this is end of my life on this shit show of an app

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LCFC Have a week off now fed up of the training hard videos & working towards the weekend etc no one actually cares anymore

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@JasonBourne1986 Maybe club can distract us after this terrible result by announcing new signings but we all know that ain’t happening

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

You would hope club try to distract us from this poor result by announcing new signings but we know that’s not happening #leicestercity

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@WTFox1884 Another great player who can’t manage knowing this club they will bring Rooney in next…

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LeicesterFanTV What can he do in all honesty 🤦‍♀️ players and him talk the talk but clearly can’t walk the walk it’s same every game

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LCFC We will be lucky to have any fans left by end of season you can’t expect fans to be putting up with this 💩 every week there’s zero anything give kids a go!

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

15 mins gone
2-0 down
Can’t be bothered already
Being a Leicester Fan lately is more like torture than enjoyment why do we put ourselves through it 😭 🦊 #leicester

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LCFC @bcgame Literally forgot what the buzz feels like when we win! Well done lads onwards and upwards 👏 🦊

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

If you don’t think Musk was doing a Nazi salute then why not video yourself doing it and put it online and see what happens 👍 #ElonMusk #fouryearsofhell

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

This is my farewell post. I am not deleting this account, as I don’t want to lose the archive, and I don’t want my name taken by imposters. But, for as long as Musk owns the platform, I’ll no longer use it. I’m now posting at https://t.co/0iVBaQEKGy.

Since Elon Musk bought this site, he has transformed it from one on which millions could converse as equals into his personal megaphone. Now the world’s richest man uses it to wage his class war, transferring blame for the ills of capitalism onto vulnerable minorities, boosting the grimmest and most antisocial accounts while suppressing the humane voices with whom he disagrees.

He has used X not only to subvert the election for the US presidency, but to create a role for himself in US politics which, though he has never stood for election and would not be eligible, grants him immense power over the citizens of that nation. This site has been used as a tool to help replace democracy with oligarchy.

Musk claimed, on purchasing the platform, to be a “free speech absolutist”. He is in fact a prolific censor, suspending dissenting accounts and using lawsuits to shut down free speech, while employing an algorithm to increase the reach of his own posts 1,000-fold. He cannot abide a level playing field.

He has permitted or encouraged the growth of a ghost army of bots and trolls to degrade the experience of all who disagree with him. Their task is not just to abuse opponents but, perhaps more importantly, to drown intelligent conversation with a tsunami of stupidity. They respond to data with denial, expertise with execration, insight with insult, humour with hatred and thinking with thuggery. They suck the meaning out of everything. The stupidity trends in one direction: in the service of economic power. It is a weapon used to suppress the possibility of a better world.

Many years ago, when I lived in Brazil, I learnt that the military dictatorship had actively sought to suppress educational levels in schools, as it saw a well-informed population as a political threat. A confused, distracted and ignorant population is easy to manipulate. Now this counter-educational model is being rolled out worldwide, and Elon Musk is its primary sponsor.

I stayed here long after I first considered leaving, as I believed it was wrong to cede the ground to an oligarch and his minions. But I came to see that those of us who do not subscribe to Musk’s grim project are being used as groundbait: stimulating the feeding frenzy of 15-minute, 24-hour hate that now powers this platform. We can no longer build anything of value here. Brute force – the unmediated power of money – has beaten humanity, intelligence, humour and democracy.

On Bluesky I can be the person I want to be, a better person than I am on X, where it is almost impossible not to get dragged into the mud. I feel I can be understood because I am not confronting a deliberate effort to misunderstand me. So I can speak more quietly.

There is no guarantee that Bluesky will not also one day be monetised by its owners or captured by self-serving billionaires. But for now it remains a place in which interesting and enjoyable conversations can be had, kindness can be shown to strangers and a better world can be imagined. I hope to see you there.

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@jeremycorbyn So sorry losing a furry companion is tough :(

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LeicesterFanTV How much longer do you stick with anyone at club? Top, Board,Manager

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

Fans support has been taken for granted for too long at @LCFC club is chaotic on & off field the love for Top, board & players it seems has gone & clubs around us have much more desire.
Relegated for sure there’s no fight, tactics etc can see an empty ground before long

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@VirtualAstro He is definitely adorable what a handsome boy 😻

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@LCFC You can’t play Ward and think we’re going to be good! Give the youngsters a go no fear, passion & can’t be any worse

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@JasonBourne1986 The club is unrecognisable from a few years ago under Top there is zero ambition from board to pitch sadly. We are down for sure as club always acts when it’s too late

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

We have to have a third keeper surely? I can’t cope with Danny Ward over busy festive period! I’m sure he’s a nice guy but PL goalkeeper he definitely ain’t #LCFC

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

Ward was, is and always will be poop 💩 this could end up bad very very bad #NEWLEI

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

@BBCRLSport We’re gonna lose 4/5-0 with Ward in goal he isn’t PL quality sadly

[Mel Browning 🤕🫶🏻 🦥 @melanpops]

And it just gets better…. 🐯🫣