Gregg McLennan: I see LordBusinessman pulled the pin. Too bad. He was a good account. I wish him well.

I see LordBusinessman pulled the pin. Too bad. He was a good account. I wish him well.

Fuck, he was a decent dude who didn't sound like everyone else on this place. But I get it, the politics shit here has gotten real stale real fast, and it's pushing out the fun shit.

[quickly checks clearsky to see if he blocked me]

update: nah.

WHAT?! Seriously? Between him and Paul what’s left? Did something happen today specifically?

Not today. The post debate fracas. He mentioned he'd just about had his fill of dealing with morons.

I am honestly really close also. This places is just filled with the worst psychos on earth. It's like 4chan but lefty.

Well I hope you don’t. Blocking liberally is a boon. The first time somebody pisses me off, they cease to exist in my world.

That’s all good. But there’s just less and less quality stuff on here.

There's the trite word play of accounts who think themselves far more clever than their education suggests. *cough*trade school*cough*

Man up! And block

I just went through way too much “thought” about someone calling me racist for asking a question. It really felt like a Qt and expose people situation. Block feels like it’s letting people off too easily.

That sort of thinking is a trap. You're not letting them off easy, you're sparing yourself the headache of dealing with them. When you let yourself care about a random jagoff's opinion of you, you've already lost.

Mute words seem easier than, um, going to mastodon? I dunno where people are going if they don't want to go back to Twitter. But hey good luck to him

This isn't a "good riddance" or anything I just literally don't know what people are doing. Curating your feed here seems easier than changing sites

i understand the frustration post-debate especially if you actually want to talk about stuff like the debate without a bunch of people replying nonsense. i’ve muted a bunch of stuff and people, and still the doom is seeping in and i don’t like it

It's frustrating as hell and super dumb and annoying because *gasp* everyone has the same opinions as before but stronger

well, I'll continue to s**tpost but I know that ain't much

This place is a fine line. You don't want to exclude possible good interactions but nobody wants to open the windows in a hurricane of acrimony.

for all my whinging about "people have always been mean to me," I may have a greater tolerance for s*** than some folks do, by virtue of having had to put up with a lot of it. I don't know. also maybe teaching for 25 years have thickened my skin

do you know if he deleted or just deactivated?

How does one tell? I searched his account on ClearSky and nothing came up.

dunno, we'd have to ask :-/

With the panicked morons?

That's the ones. OHMYGODANOLDMANSTUTTEREDINJUNE!

And now the Perennially Overwrought are pre-flailing about France where *it's only the first round of voting*

Well…I personally don’t think things will get much better in France at all but yes.

I think there are enough people on here who are just really crappy to other people that if you have opinions stronger than cold tapioca, you're gonna catch hell. I blocked a lot of people based on people yelling nonsense at him

I just do not see the fun to be had in having more than around 500 followers. Could absolutely see myself pulling the plug if I got to the 4k mark. I do not foresee this ever being an issue.

I am on here because I need to see opinions of what's going on that are not totally insane. It's niche, and I have not found a lot from the former hellsite, even if some never followed me back. Those leaving here makes me sad.

if they make locking our accounts (allowing followers only by permission) a thing, I will lock at however many followers I have then. as it is, I rarely follow back these days

I’ve blocked more people in the past two days than the previous year, and I’m just a bystander. Stay safe out there, posters.

!!

Ah fuck. Hope he comes back, he's a good one.

Are things really that contentious here? Seems pretty civil compared to Twitter.

Nothing is as bad as Twitter.

well, compared to that place, sure but there are definitely some “come at me, bro!!!!” accounts on here that can exhaust people’s patience

Partnership taxation sky won't be the same.

I know. I learned so much from him. He was a fine shitposter but a great accountant.

Aw no!

This is why my motto is block early and often.

He’s fine. He is taking a break because the diaper-pissing is just too much.

Good. He's quality people.

People seem to have genuinely lost their minds. Or maybe the same people have just logged off and less us insane on here to enjoy the clown show.

Oh no.

aw poop. Well, the great Bsky exodus begins; maybe this will eventually get me to break from social media, if I lose enough folks

I hope that it’s just a phase. Like, I like Lego. We generally agree on politics, but I liked his accounting stories and when he talked about his roleplaying games and such. Most of my mutuals here I like for other-than-politics reasons.

We need more social and less politics here. Not that I am not as responsible as anyone.

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