#admin idiocy

[monoclr]

went to my first fall out boy concert last week and it wasn’t either of the gay ones so im rioting

[fadetoblackhq]

apparently, the ads blog has been private this whole time.. boy do i feel dumb. but also.. we've gotten this far just from what i post on the main? fcking impressive!

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

So, he's repeating what the CDC did during the Obama administration. Like that worked so well.

[fuck-customers]

You motherfuckers.

A combo is FRIES AND A DRINK.

AND A D R I N K.

It is literally CHEAPER to just get the fries if that is what you want. Quit making me type in then delete then retype your order three dozen times if you do not want a drink.

The amount of times today I’ve done the “slow blink + stare of idiocy” at people…

Posted by admin Rodney.

[imaginary-grandpa]

[The art is sooo good]

"Even if you did return for selfish reasons only, I'm sure Morty likes having a grandpa around."

@your-dead-wife

[Admin: Ahhhhh tyyy!! :DD]

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"I'm... gonna ignore that you're Diane or a fucking clone of her o-or something." -ahem- "Anyways- I'm only hanging around since the little shit has some potential and it'd be a waste if Jerry's idiocy spreads to the kid."

[henrysglock]

i wish the start of the school year would fix the unending idiocy on this app. unfortunately most of the people causing trouble are 20+ years old and can’t have their devices taken away by admin

[qua-king-with-power]

It’s nice to see someone on this site who can use correct correspondence etiquette.

How are you?

Replied,

Team Sigma Admin Lyn

(@teamsigma)

While I appreciate the statement of support... I must wonder why on this blasted planet are you considering yourself a part of a "Team".

And what year is it you're claiming to be from? I'd almost consider it insulting if I didn't have prior knowledge of separate timelines and the like.

I suppose the direct answer to your question would be "mildly aggravated by idiocy at my expense" and "baffled at just how you're capable of connecting to our timeframe".

[imagineakatsuki]

Hello there! I hope I did it right :) Could you do an image about an akatsuki and a fem s/o and they have to care about a robot baby as a school project? Feel free to choose an akatsuki :) (School AU, if you don‘t do it, it is okay) I hope you could understand me, I am not very good in englisch 😅 Have a good day!

Hey anon! I chose Sasori because I’m a little obsessed with him right now, but just send in another ask if you want a specific character! Who knows, I may or may not make this a series anyway~

Note: for some reason, I missed the s/o part of this ask, so this scenario reads more as a general female reader. Sorry about that!

Admin S

“Sasori and [Name].”

The redhead wasn’t thrilled about the project when the teacher had first announced it, opting to finish a joint of one of his puppet creations instead of paying attention. With a heavy sigh, he turned to his project partner with his usual dead-eyed stare.

“You’re [name], right?”

“Yes, I’m [name]. You must be Sasori?”

“That’s right,” Sasori took the paper with the instructions and skimmed it quickly. It was like one of his puppet creations - except he didn’t make it, and it required actual physical attention beyond just fixing its appearance.

“Frankly, I think this is a ridiculous project and a waste of time,” the boy said, “How unfortunate that it counts for so much of our final grade.”

“Y-yeah,” [Name] replied appeasingly. She had sensed the irritated aura of her partner and didn’t want to push her luck. If the rumors were true, the redhead had very little patience for idiocy. He was a genius, however, so maybe [name] could use that to their advantage. “It might be stupid, but I kinda need to do well on it to get a good grade, so your cooperation would be great.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll pull my weight. It seems fairly simple and straightforward; getting a good grade will be easy.”

[Name] raised an eyebrow. “Oh? You have some childcare experience then?”

The silence was telling.

“No.” Sasori scrunched his nose. “But I take good care of things that I own, and they somewhat resemble this… thing.”

[Name] still wasn’t very confident with that answer, but, hey, it couldn’t be that bad, can it? It’s not like she had a choice anyway. She just hoped that Sasori wouldn’t be this standoffish throughout the entire project or this project would be harder than it had to be.

“So how do you want to do this? I take it one day and then we alternate?” [Name] asked.

Sasori hummed. “That sounds acceptable. It seems that we have similar schedules, though, so it wouldn’t really matter until after school.”

At that, [Name] had to admit she was surprised. Sasori had noticed her?

“You’re in nearly all of my classes.” Whoops. Apparently she had said that out loud. “I may not speak much, but I am still capable of observing.”

“S-sorry. I just wasn’t expecting you to actually recognize me, much less remember me.”

“Then how do you know me?”

“Well, your bright red hair is pretty noticeable… and you’re really smart when you feel like talking,” [Name] shrugged. “The way you eviscerated that teacher in biology class 2 weeks ago was awesome!”

Sasori smirked but didn’t reply. 

Soon after, the bell rang and everyone flew off their seats. Thankfully, the redhead took the decision away from [name] and grabbed the robot baby as he stood up. 

“Uh… I don’t think you hold a baby that way,” the girl giggled as she followed Sasori to their next class. He held the baby by one of its hands, the rest of the body awkwardly dangling at his side. 

“It doesn’t matter how you hold it. The thing can only track how well you attend to its artificial needs,” the boy retorted. He walked to his usual seat in the back of the class which, fortunately, had the seat next to it open. 

The two made it through half the class before the baby decided to unleash its fury on them. They had been hopeful it wouldn’t interrupt them at all, but alas, they had to suffer just as some people in the class already had. 

The entire rest of the morning was plagued with screaming, crying babies. 

<< Later >>

“What a nightmare,” Sasori rubbed his temples as he and [name] made their way out of the school doors. 

Feeling pity for the teen who was likely used to silence, [name] offered to take the robot baby for the night. The boy’s expression barely changed, but after spending the whole day actually interacting with him, [name] could tell there was a glimmer of gratefulness in his eyes when he looked at her.

“That would be great. I can take it tomorrow, but I’ve had enough of babies crying for today.” Without further ado, the redhead handed her the baby and walked away, “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

Later that night, [name] would come to regret that altruistic decision. Just as she was getting in bed, the baby started bawling, forcing her to get up and grudgingly take care of it. 

However, no matter what she did, it just wouldn’t stop crying. [Name] was getting to the end of her rope, close to a meltdown herself, which would put her no better than the baby she was supposed to take care of. Finally, after debating the pros and cons of doing so, she decided to call Sasori and see if he could help fix the problem. If nothing else, he could be moral support.

“[Name]?”

“Sasori! I’m so sorry if I woke you up or anything-“

“You didn’t.”

“But this damn baby just won’t stop crying! I swear I’ve tried everything! I was supposed to be in bed an hour and a half ago… I’m losing my mind!”

“Deep breaths, [name],” the redhead listened for an audible - if shaky - breath before continuing, “Now, I need you to tell me what you’ve done so far. We’ll figure this out by process of elimination.”

“I’ve fed it, I’ve changed it, I’ve burped it, I’ve rocked it - I don’t what else I’m supposed to do.”

The two were on the phone for half an hour before they gave up. “Since nothing has worked so far, I’m going to believe it’s malfunctioning. And it doesn’t surprise me that these companies who mass produce these things are making errors,” Sasori ranted. “Instead of continuing to waste our time, I say we just disable it and tell the teacher tomorrow.”

“Ok, that sounds good. How do I do that though?”

“I’ll walk you through it. Are you ready?”

“Yeah, I’m ready to get this over with. What do you want me to do first?”

Sasori smoothly dictated the steps to disable the doll. Knowing his impatience, [name] did her best to keep her (stupid) questions to a minimum. It didn’t take very long after that before the doll finally stopped crying. As someone who had been hearing it for the past 2 hours, it made [name] feel like crying herself. 

“Thank you, Sasori! You’re a miracle worker! Sorry I kept you awake.”

“It’s no problem. You should go to bed.”

“You don’t have to tell me twice! As soon as I put this phone down, it’s straight to bed for me. Thanks again! And good night!”

“Good night.”

Suffice to say, the teacher heard an earful the next day about the superiority of independent creators over large corporations when it comes to making good products.

[nodynasty4us]

In the case of Biden, switching will steal news cycles from Trump for months, give the new candidate a chance at voters disillusioned with Biden's Gaza policies (hello Michigan), pull the rug out from Trump's (and the entire GOP’s) anti-Biden campaign. Switching will give us a candidate who can hammer away at Trump's corruption, bigotry, misogyny, racism, fascism, nepotism, ignorance, idiocy and mental decline (which Biden lacks the capacity or willingness to do), a candidate better able to sound the alarm about the plight of reproductive rights and the danger of the current Supreme Court. This isn't about loyalty to Joe, it's about beating Trump and preserving democracy. This isn’t about "norms” or “staying the course”; we've never seen a situation or trajectory like this (comparisons to LBJ in '68 are ridiculously off; every congressional Democrat is currently outpolling Biden). The Biden admin is currently gaslighting desperately, trying to hold the base with familiar appeals. But it's swing voters who are critical, and they are not swayed by appeals to policy, let alone the dangers of fascism (as insane as that may be). Biden is sinking in the polls daily, he’ll only get worse. Switching greatly improves the odds of beating Trump. Democrats must switch.

Diana Goetsch in Deep Midwest

[thelastfriendly]

Whoever switched from Twitter to Threads and not to Tumblr, Mastodon, or whatever else there is, is a massive idiot. But on the positive side, those idiots aren't bringing their idiocy over here.

Rant about Threads under the read more

To put into perspective why Threads is a terrible thing to join and even to support, look no further than the fact that Threads isn't launching in the EU yet because they can't make it compliant with GDPR.

On top of that remember how it was advertised that it would be integrated with the Fediverse? That part doesn't exist yet, but the Admins and Owners of big Fediverse instances, have been invited in the past for a discussion with Meta executives on how the integration can best be done and what that means for Mastodon, etc. that discussion invite was stamped with a gigantic 'You may not talk about anything being discussed in the meeting' understandably the Owners were disinterested in partaking due to that limitation.

You may have also heard of Owners proactively defederating (blocking) Threads servers, this isn't simply being done to fuck with Zuck, but also done to keep their users safe. Meta will collect the data of anyone who uses Fediverse services, and it can happen from something as simple as someone from Threads interacting with a post of yours (Any interaction with a post apart from viewing saves that post onto your home instance servers). There will be no escape, and that is a privacy nightmare of unforeseen reaches.

[comradeboyhalo]

I really wanna control my demons but I am not satisfied with this. It feels weird that they forced all these weird interactions between ccs. Baghera had so much hate for nothing. Q got everyone else to stop streaming. So many angry and delusional fans. Bbh fans on Tumblr going 'hurray bad didn't win and we don't have to suffer the Twitter hate.'

Just. So much idiocy and not even very much fun coming out of it. I think the only bits I really enjoyed was Foolish's second death and Max's interviews.

Iunno. Just a lot of thoughts I've been having for a few months. I'm not very happy.

i think thats been the general sentiment for many people regarding the elections: the community just isnt mature enough to handle this type of competition. but i dont think the admins/quackity expected it to escalate, or for it to go on for so long.

[monoclr]

girls dont fart they *mariachi band horns*

[carpathxanridge]

my mom just told me her boss (school admin) told her that at a neighboring high school they have kids who identify as furries and bring litter boxes to school ??? and the school is just letting them??? i told her she should relay the info that an investigation should probably b opened up with cps because that’s definitely a safeguarding issue and those kids are almost definitely being groomed…… i can’t even wrap my head around this tho like i don’t think it sunk in when i relayed this info to her like i fully accepted it as plausible reality because of my unfortunate fucked up internet knowledge but now i’m taking a step back and it’s like. what the fucking fuck seriously what the fuck this is hell on earth death to kinksters death to the furry community death to tiktok

edit: okay wait so i looked it up right after posting it like surely this can’t be real and the litterbox part was rooted in joe rogan right wing idiocy propaganda. makes sense because when my mom told me the story she was confusing what was happening at the neighboring school with “another story [her colleague] heard about in the news.” so thank god the litterbox thing is made up lmao because that sounded legitimately insane. but i’m still like AS AN ADMIN IF KIDS IN YOUR SCHOOL IDENTIFY PUBLICLY AS A FURRY THAT ALONE SHOULD WARRANT MANDATORY REPORTING IT SHOULDN’T BE SOMETHING TO GOSSIP ABOUT WITH NEIGHBORING ADMINISTRATORS 😭

[teamwinterofficial]

yay. another evil team likely indoctrinating impressionable minds into their cause. i cannot wait to see the world saved by another thirteen year old from your idiocy!

And here we have an example of needlessly sensationalized language. An evil team, indoctrating impressionable minds. Or perhaps, it might be more accurate to say that we as a team are spreading education and awareness to those who had not yet realized the severity of the situation, hm?

-Winter Admin Firn (they/them)

[xsoldier]

It's like he's TRYING to broadcast to the entire world how little he knows about any of the things he's doing and how he's eliminated all of the competent staff who would normally prevent this kind of thing.

Like "Twitter" is one of the most globally recognizable brands in the WORLD, and trying to achieve that type of marketing awareness is INSANELY difficult, not to mention that effective SEO for a single letter is basically impossible to achieve.

For example: think about searching for something like "Jack Black Twitter" and now think about the search for "Jack Black X" how likely are you to land on the result you're trying to find? There's a REASON companies choose names that are natural sounding but slightly obscure. Google, Bing, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, TikTok etc. are names designed to effectively optimize the ability for search engines to locate and elevate the results when people are looking for them. Now think about how many other pages have "X" in them and how a search engine can effectively surface that.

The worst part of this is that this is what the ultra rich are capable of doing to an entire communications system at their whim. Imagine if this was a private postal service, but if it suddenly shut down, every letter or piece of mail that you'd ever sent with them would also vanish. Like, there will be Internet Archive backups, but that's mostly it.

Back in the early 2000s, if your admin went fucking nuts & privated the whole community, if they became mad with power and drove everything into the ground, if someone just didn't renew the domain name or the server owner didn't allow you to keep being hosted — the community could still find backups of the information and restart it somewhere else. I know this because we did exactly that in the early 2000s with the forums I've been an admin of now for almost 15 years.

Twitter can't really do that and Threads or other pop-up replacements are just solutions of other mega corporations trying to monetize upon an unstable market and reinforce their own existing ecosystem, and further gain control over more of those things in a single location that's incentivized AGAINST allowing multi-party interoperability like Reddit cutting off API access to third parties after Twitter did the same. Yes, tumblr is a refuge but for how long?

This is also why online communities moving off webforms and on to Discord gets worrying, because when THOSE communities go dark, the totality of that information up and vanishes. No Web Archive backups. Nothing. There is a worrying volatility about historic information these days, and while I know online platforms don't seem all that important sometimes, it's important to remember random documents and manuscripts are historically significant.

Conversation about preserving digital video games is getting more prominent as companies stop supporting the distribution platforms and the games just up and COMPLETELY vanish at the whims of some random rich idiot who doesn't know what the fuck they're doing, or who does know and doesn't care.

Not just that, but a lot of modern social media platforms are usually the only methods of correspondence we have with at least a few people, and there's a wealthy third party who essentially owns your ability to stay connected to them. It's kind of terrifying to watch how easy it is for someone to sabotage that out of idiocy and ignorance, but it should be more worrying to consider how much easier that would be for someone with the full intent to do so.

Capitalists & oligarchs don't care about the things they preside over, and while it's fun to point and laugh at their expense when the extension of the thing they represent is catching fire, it's important to also consider exactly what the big picture of that means for the future.

I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

[abdlgossipblogg]

Anon plz admin. Oh my fucking god here we ago again with the labeling a girl republican because she wants to be a tradwife. I know most of you guys are chronically on brain rot TikTok and don’t live in reality so you’re deeply confused but if you google the definition of tradwife this is all that comes up. It has nothing to do with being conservative or republican. All it means is you wish to get married and stay home. That’s it. You can be liberal and be a tradwife. You can be conservative and be a tradwife. You can be non-political and be a tradwife. You can be kink and be a tradwife. You can have kids or no kids and be a tradwife. The only place that connects republicans to the tradwife movement is TikTok. When I see you guys shit talk fellow women in this community because they want to be tradwives I know immediately you’re a chronically online TikTok brain rot loser. That app has already given you a severe case of idiocy, get off of it before it gives you cancer too. Google is free. Stop choosing to be willfully stupid, ignorant, and hateful toward one another. The beauty of feminism is that it allows women to choose. And if you hate a woman because she wants to be or is a tradwife, you’re not the woke liberal feminist you think you are. Shut up.