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Fraud? What the fuck???

I've always suspected, but...

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Well, I finally managed to get myself permabanned from Threads. I had always figured my anti-MAGA snarkiness would get the best of me, but, no, it wasn't that at all. I had a fairly normal afternoon of posting replies, then took a break for a couple of hours for dinner and such. When I picked up my phone to see what was new in Threads, I found I had been logged out. Weird, I thought. So I logged back in, saw my profile page for about half a second, then saw a screen explaining my account had been permanently suspended. The reason? Apparently I had violated their terms of service regarding fraud.

Fraud? What the fuck??? They cited things like romance scams and the like as examples of what violated their rules, but did not explain what, specifically, I had done. Worse, the message went on to state that I had no right to an appeal, that all my content would be deleted, and their decision was final.

Fraud? I mean, I always expected I'd eventually be shown the door for being a snarky, liberal bitch. But fraud? And, of course, they didn't even show me which post supposedly violated their rules! So I have no fucking idea what they're even talking about!

So, fuck 'em. The place was turning into a MAGA toilet anyways, like Twitter did. So I have no interest in fighting it if that's even possible. I have Bluesky, but I think I'm going to take a little break from social media for a bit to rub my wounds.

I'd wager that some magamoron got riled up by one of your posts and brigaded you, with their pals claiming you DM'd them directly with solicitations.

I doubt a human at Threads/FecesBarf ever saw it... it probably went straight into some algorithm "if #complaints > X : auto-banhammer"

 

[Noodles]

Time to return to Bluesky.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Yu-Gi-Oh card tournament suspended over hygiene complaints

BEAVERTON (Oregon), July 1 — An independently owned card shop in Beaverton, Oregon, has suspended its Yu‑Gi‑Oh tournaments for a week after receiving multiple complaints and negative reviews about players’ poor hygiene.

According to IGN, Chronos Games & Gifts announced the temporary halt in a statement posted on its public Discord channel, saying it had faced recurring issues with “mistreating the restrooms” and customers turning up in unclean condition. The shop urged players to follow Konami’s official tournament guidelines, which include hygiene requirements and allow attendees to report individuals who fail to comply.

Yikes, I guess it had to be pretty freaking bad if they straight up stopped the event over it.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Colin the Mathmo (@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz)

One thing no one ever talks about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself on keeping a cardboard box because it's, like, a really good box.

mathstodon.xyz

 

[Free]

I don't often indulge in the making fun of a dumb celebrity game, but...

TikTok - Make Your Day

This is comedian Sundeep Bhardwaj, mocking Mayim Bialik emotional discussion about...well, it seems she thinks her and her children are endangered by people wearing t-shirts in public that say things like "Zionism is Racism."

OK, sure. Zionists are the new persecuted minority. (Edit: I just learned her youngest child is 17 years old...)

I used to support Mayim in online forums for various views she's supported, calling her at worst a minimum level of crazy. But I've recently seen her using her youtube channel as a platform for folk like Avi Loeb, the...physicist who believed 'Oumuamua is an alien solar sail (he even released a paper on it), and 3I/ATLAS "might be" an extraterrestrial probe (he eventually acknowledged it was most likely a naturally occurring comet).

Beyond efforts to talk to real scientists and science communicators about shit like this, she's also taken to talking to a Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell about how telepathy exists (I don't know if they discussed how and why the doctor lost her medical license, or her "discovery" of a link between autism and telepathy...), as well as aliens are in religion (?) and also NOT FROM SPACE.

Watching someone you once had a modicum of respect for go whole hog into the crazy can be an awkwardly despairing experience.

 

[Noodles]

What really gets me, one, its a parking lot, were they "approaching her", or just, going to their car.

If they were, she is, a celebrity, they were probably just like, "Hey, its that chick from The Big Bang Theory, lets see if we can get a picture" or whatever.

I mean, its a clip from.an interview, so maybe she continies the story, but this framing does feel like "nothing happened."

 

[Free]

I mean, its a clip from.an interview, so maybe she continies the story, but this framing does feel like "nothing happened."

If you need to investigate, the full interview is here. But honestly, I'm not expecting to hear that the "big dude" did much of anything, other than probably pass by her.