just a big ol gay Mets fan

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be

[just a big ol gay Mets fan @trishcrane]

When you murk people for a living but you also enjoy coloring books and playing on the jungle gym.

[Metsmerized Online @Metsmerized]

Woke up thinking about the bases loaded bunt

[SNY @SNYtv]

"Excellent play by Baty. Aggressive, playing in, no hesitation. That is an aggressive play" - Keith Hernandez

[SNY Mets @SNY_Mets]

The Mets are the first National League team to score 10 runs in an extra inning since the Cincinnati Reds did back on May 15, 1919 against the Brooklyn Robins

[Mike Janela @MikeJanela]

🚨GIVEAWAY🚨

Mets are hot, sun is shining -- let's get somebody a little brand new swag. Tags still on this baby, one-size-fits-all, leather brim and strap

You know how it goes: random winner picked in 48 hours. Be following me and RT to be entered

[anthony @HoodieAlonso]

Luke Weaver you could never make me hate you

[jack @Jolly_Olive]

Every pitch from Luke Weaver's 7th inning escape

[MrBuckBuck @MrBuckBuckNBA]

Inside The NBA: While discussing Jason Collins' passing, Charles Barkley: "We live in a homophobic society ... anybody who think we ain't got a bunch of gay players in all sports, they're just stupid."

Via @ESPNNBA

[Dissproportionately @dissproportion]

The most millennial thing about me is that NO I do not want to open this link in an app, no I do not want to download an app to view this, please just let me open this in a tab in the browser. I don’t want another app, I just want to see the three pictures or whatever in the app I am already in. Do you know what is also an app? The browser. That’s an app. Stop pretending I can’t see this stupid article unless I download another thing that wants to track me and I have to come up with another cutesy username and save another password in my password manager that’s already been hacked btw and I have to configure fucking notificationnnnssss and I have to figure out why it’s still pinging me anyway and I have to block everybody I know in a new place and god no I do not want you to look at my contacts and tell me if Jerry who I worked with ten years ago also uses FlimFlam and no I do not want another app that has a nearly indistinguishable icon from the app I actually do want to use fairly often and no I don’t give you permission and no I don’t want to tell you my gender and no I don’t want to figure out another interface and hate it for new reasons I had never even imagined before and no I don’t want to get my hopes up about a better way to see pictures or read articles or listen to music because we allllllll know by now that it will just be short form video all over my fucking unconfigurable feed by the end of the fucking day. I just want to open the link in a tab!!!

[just a big ol gay Mets fan @trishcrane]

2 sleepy guys 💤🐱

[Tehran Tadhg @TadhgHickey]

Every single one of these is hilarious

[Long Monkeypox @podiatristdon]

This is my entire feed now lolololol

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

These are so fucking funny lmfao

[just a big ol gay Mets fan @trishcrane]

@jquadddddd Right before that DoorDash too.

[MLB @MLB]

Repost and reply for a chance to with this Café con Lindor baseball bat signed by Francisco Lindor and KidSuper 🤩

[dianna @runwildkian]

kinda sick ngl

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

this is an absolute disaster for meta.

and most people don’t know the tenth of it.

meta studied the solutions to child safety problems, calculated the growth impact, then shelved the fixes for years because metrics mattered more than protecting kids.

in 2019, safety researchers recommended making teen accounts private by default to stop adult strangers from messaging minors. the growth team ran the numbers and found it would cost 1.5 million monthly active teens per year.

policy, legal, communications, privacy, and safety teams all pushed for the change. one safety researcher asked: “isn’t safety the whole point of this team?”

meta waited five years. during that time, teens experienced billions of unwanted interactions with adults. billions. instagram had 38 times more inappropriate adult-teen interactions than facebook messenger.

the company had a 17-strike policy for accounts trafficking humans for sex. you could violate prostitution and solicitation policies 16 times before meta suspended your account. when the head of safety joined in 2020, she was shocked to find instagram had no way to report child sexual abuse content, even though users could easily report spam or intellectual property violations.

meta’s own employees saw what was happening. one wrote: “targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago. like we’re seriously saying ‘we have to hook them young’ here.”

another researcher studying problematic use said: “oh my gosh yall ig is a drug. we’re basically pushers.”

when meta ran a study showing that deactivating facebook and instagram reduced anxiety, depression, and loneliness, they killed the research and never published results. one employee worried internally: “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”

then in 2020, when congress asked if meta could determine whether increased platform use among teenage girls correlated with depression or anxiety, meta answered: “no.”

they had the data. they had the solutions. they had employees begging them to act. meta chose growth metrics instead, then lied to congress about what they knew.

they knew kids were being trafficked. they knew adults were messaging minors. they knew their products were addictive. they knew the fixes. they ran the math on protecting children and decided it cost too much engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

absolute disgrace.

[just a big ol gay Mets fan @trishcrane]

@shereaps Nah lol.

[ɴ.♡ @luvblessingz]

how tf a computer gone ask me if i'm a robot 😭 bitch you da robot 😭😭

[just a big ol gay Mets fan @trishcrane]

That’s crazy.