#dem bots

[simstryingtheirbestok]

Way too excited to find that the descriptions are back! 😍

I mean, I still reported and blocked it, but at least I had more fun doing it.

[ms-demeanor]

making my own post because nobody needs my bullshit on their post:

OP:

Reblog 1:

Reblog 2:

My response:

The IRA blogs were here and they were active and they were quite popular; their posting patterns did not match normal tumblr users (i was followed by lagonegirl and followed back only to be put off by the account reblogging the same five or ten posts every hour for a day before selecting another five or ten posts to reblog hourly the next day - it was clear engagement bait).

Tumblr has never been as transparent about these accounts as both Twitter and Facebook were, but several of the accounts had shared names across platforms and you can find a significant amount of data that was released by both facebook (ex: ads purchased by the IRA accounts) and twitter (over three million tweets from IRA accounts). Academic researchers have published papers on the data released from facebook and twitter. Several papers. So many papers. Soooooo many papers. We have a LOT of direct evidence that you can explore for yourself that there were hundreds (possibly thousands) of IRA accounts that were created on Facebook and Twitter. Of those accounts, some shared usernames across platforms, and of those accounts, a few had tumblr accounts that posted the same content on twitter and tumblr.

To quote a buzzfeed news article from the time:

The Russian-run Tumblr accounts used the same, or very similar, usernames as the account names contained on a list of confirmed IRA accounts Twitter submitted to congressional investigators. In some cases, the Tumblr and Twitter account has the same profile image or linked to each other in their bios. Some IRA Tumblrs and Twitter accounts also cross-promoted content between platforms, further linking them together.

Current tumblr user @ alwaysbewoke (who I don't want to tag because I'm sure he's got better things to do) is interviewed in that article and talks about following one of the blogs identified by tumblr as an IRA blog that had a matching account on twitter identified as an IRA account but unfollowing when the left-leaning blog supposedly run by a black creator started rooting for trump in the election.

Dr. Jonathan Albright is heavily quoted in the article; the data review he collaborated on is one of the only reviews of this subject that includes data from Tumblr and Reddit.

One of the claims that I've seen is that tumblr just deleted funny black people, but these were blogs with thousands of followers on tumblr who never recreated, never popped up on another social media site, never started a reddit account after getting banned; nobody ever showed up saying "hey this is 4mysquad, I got banned on tumblr and twitter, follow me to pillowfort". These very popular blogs got deleted and, as far as I know, nobody ever popped up claiming to be a person who was deleted - and it's not like tumblr users haven't figured out how to evade bans.

What you are doing when you make posts saying that the IRA accounts on tumblr never existed is *absolving tumblr of guilt for their utter lack of transparency.*

Tumblr is not the only tech company that has tried to fly under the radar as its larger counterparts face regular scrutiny in Congress and in the press. Earlier this month, Reddit revealed it too had deleted hundreds of accounts with ties to the Internet Research Agency. A WIRED investigation found more than a thousand links to Russian propaganda websites are still live on Reddit, and unearthed two suspicious accounts that Reddit immediately shut down.

So should you believe what Tumblr says? No, because Tumblr has been functionally fucking silent on this issue and the information about this subject aside from the list of blogs has come from the hard work of data scientists, journalists, and researchers.

(For the record; some of those bot accounts that were recorded by Dr. Albright also had Google+ accounts in 2017 - there is every possibility that they had myspace accounts).

Now, the reason that I'm popping onto this post as an annoyed anarchist is that I was tracking a similar group of blogs for a while and was discussing them and I stopped precisely because of the galaxy-brained liberals who are now trying to dunk on communists for criticizing electoralism. One of the people who was following my project was one of the ones who started calling out the "joe biden kills dogs" posts as disinfo and I realized they were using some of the guidelines I'd written up to "identify" misinformation and that is very a rock fucking stupid approach to what was clearly a leftist making jokes and was horrified and realized there was no way that I could continue documenting what I was documenting without someone attempting to call actual leftists russian bots.

I've seen the post that OP is referencing [it's one where someone makes a very obvious joke about the democrat presidential ticket and people jump on to call them a bot and then someone tries to do the "AI tell me a story" thing and OP is just like "I don't want to :(", proving that they are in fact a person and not an AI] and have deeply enjoyed the humor of watching liberals a) not understand a very, VERY obvious joke and b) become the unwitting butt of a joke they were trying to make, but also I am so exhausted by watching normie dems call leftists AI bots after years of watching normie dems call real live actual leftists who hold actual political views that real people actually have, like prison abolition, russian bots.

But I am also so fucking tired of left conspiracism and how stupid it sounds when leftists dismiss a preponderance of evidence that is easily accessible and publicly available for analysis as "lol so you just trust everything tumblr tells you?"

No, dipshit, learn to click a fucking link or twelve.

[alteredsilicone]

a bunch of right wingers pushing blatant Russian propaganda were exposed to have taken money from Russia

and one of the ringleaders had the last name Kalashnikov

You can't make this shit up

Tim Pool "Ukraine is our enemy" took Russian money, wow how unexpected

[sphnyspinspin]

Just so you guys know this right here was the OFFICIAL turning point for my artstyle

[istherewifiinhell]

Okay somewhat unorthodox but u gotta see this character in animation so uhhh here looks like a? 16 year old amv?

[Some flashing and grating noises]

[VD: beast wars amv of the character transmutate. They do not look like any type of transformer, instead more a simple and spindley robot. Their face plain, almost like a theatre mask. The emote slowly, everything is new to them. Their neck is extendable and attaches to their body on a sliding joint, giving it an usually range of movement. Two tubes trail from the back of there head. Their limbs are asymmetrical, one arm and one leg on sliding joints, the others on rotational ones, giving them a lurching walk. The have one gun arm and one three fingered hand, one thumb 2 fingers on the outer edges. Theres dialogue spoken about transmutate highlighting their strangness, and music plays with the clips. END]

[caramelonz]

my account's old enough to still be spam followed by nasty bots

[roseonthewindow]

Que my rabid democrat stalker finding out after fucking around...

[abjayosta]

Just wanna make sure if whomever is following me is a bot or nah, if you dont have a pfp or no post history I WILL REMOVE AND REPORT YOU if you dont comment here to prove you're human 💀

Better safe than sorry.

[fuscorooni]

She truly is Wonder Woman.

I will not.

[cthulhushibainu]

FOR THE ONE'S WITH THE SEXY LADY PITCHERS, PLEASE STOP FOLLOWING THY CTHULHU!

cthulhu already knows that thou are fake bots and plastic

Thou should respectful kill themselves NOW!

Thou have a not pleasant day >:[

[gomzwrites]

also let me make this clear once again, if you follow me but literally have zero info on your blog with "untitled" and stuff i WILL block you, put a picture, write something random or at least put your age or sum XD im gonna be doing a purge again because if i dont i cant keep count of empty accounts

[hazel2468]

You know, to get political for a second.

It hasn't escaped my notice that every time someone brings up the presidential election. There is ALWAYS an early 20-somethings queer person in the comments or replies going on and on about how Biden won't help Palestine, about how Biden is doing a genocide, about how "Israel this and that" and like...

You're all fucking idiots for falling for this. You are. Because those people saying that shit are either the morons we see protesting who can't answer which river and which sea they're screaming about or who don't know what Hamas' charter says, OR they're the same fucking bots who appeared all over tumblr back before the 2016 election to try and convince all of us, using the hot political topics at the time, not to vote Dem. Because they had a vested interest in us not voting Dem.

And just to speak on the whole Palestine thing here... Do you really thing. That Trump. The racist fascist who openly wants to be a dictator. Who is buddy-buddy with Netanyahu, the other racist fascist who wants to be a dictator. Is going to do anything other than give Bibi the fucking green light to do anything he wants? If you think that Trump is going to be better for your "Pro-Palestine" movement (which, btw, is in quotes because the vast majority of the idiots supporting it don't know jack shit about what's going on and don't actually care about the Palestinian people, seeing as they have a habit of cheering for the terrorist organization that uses them as human shields, steals their money and aid for their own devices, and they have a lovely habit of attacking actual Palestinian peace activists who call them on it and ignoring what they say they actually need so...) than Biden? You're out of your fucking mind.

Holy shit I am not going to sit here and watch people fall for the same BS they did back in 2016. Israel and Palestine is the hot-button topic right now. Every time you see someone talking about how Trump has promised to roll back all the protections that the Biden/Harris admin has put in place, every time you see someone pointing out that the Republicans LITERALLY have a plan to fucking turn our country into an Evangelical hellscape, there is some fucking numbnuts in the notes, probably with a pride flag in their bio, wailing about "Genocide Joe".

And you all need to ask yourself why the hell there are all of these nearly-identical blogs. All doing the exact same thing every time someone tries to point out that another Trump term would see people literally dead and our country fucking torn apart, possibly forever. Use your fucking brains.

[4typercent]

I thought I was popular.

Nope, just bots.. Again!

All of us on this hellsite right now.

[deutsche-bahn]

Ich bin als Kunsthandwerker erstaunlich gut, als Elektriker außerordentlich durchschnittlich, und als Monteur nutzlos, destruktiv und schlecht für die Moral. Während meiner Lehre wurde ich wider Willens für zwei Monate in die Endmontage geschickt. Es kam mir vor wie eine Strafe. Leider kam es dem damaligen Vorarbeiter der Montagehalle ebenfalls vor wie eine Strafe, and boy was he gonna let me know. Mit meiner Ausbildung wollte er pauschal nichts zu tun haben; stattdessen wurden die beiden polnischen Hilfsarbeiter mit meiner Einarbeitung beauftragt. Andrei und Ernest waren zwei Polen mit sehr unterschiedlichen.... Kompetenzprofilen. Andrei war fachlich begabt, effizient, und konnte kein Wort Deutsch. Ernest hingegen sprach bestens Deutsch, verursachte dafür wöchentlich Kurzschlüsse und kleinere Brände. Wir hätten ein großartiges Comedy-Trio in irgendeiner schlecht alternden Spielshow aus den frühen 2000ern abgegeben. Leider waren wir nicht bei Home Improvement (1991), sondern im deutschen Handwerk. Einmal versuchten wir zu dritt, eine drei Meter lange Werbe-Säule versandfertig zu machen. Mangels Kommunikation (oh wonder) ließen wir das Teil fallen, starrten zu dritt entgeistert auf die entstandene Delle, starrten dann unseren Vorarbeiter an, der gerade an der anderen Hallenseite mit dem Rücken zu uns arbeitete, und fingen dann an die Säule einfach schneller einzupacken. Ich glaube, ich habe noch nie so hohe Sachschäden verursacht als in Zusammenarbeit mit diesen zwei Typen.

Ernest warf mir andauernd polnische Toffee-Bonbons an den Kopf. Andrei bot mir jeden Morgen Cream Soda-Dosen an, und, wenn ich diese ablehnte, Bier. Die beiden wurden leider ein paar Monate später gekündigt. God knows why. Vielleicht lag es daran, dass irgendeinem Sekretär auffiehl dass Andrei gar keinen Staplerschein (geschweige eines normalen Führerscheins) hatte, während der draußen mit dem Gabelstapler Donuts drehte und Hilfsarbeiter jagte. Vielleicht lag es daran, dass Ernest irgendwann Mindestlohn verlangte. Bis heute fühle ich mich wohlig an die beiden erinnert, wenn ich wieder irgendeinen Trafo in Brand setze. Farewell, ihr SIcherheitsrisiken! ngl tho who the fuck hired you <3

[emelinstriker]

All dem Special Stranger Nezha enjoyers shall now also be happy

Since peeps were really into the idea of chatting with their most favorite, specialest stranger-

Immediately put him up as both versions. So no need for a delay this time. c:

Have fun! :D

character ai (sfw) version:

Special Stranger Nezha

janitor ai (18+) version:

Special Stranger Nezha

Note: The site is mostly for 18 and above

Especially the bot since I tagged him as such

You can still use the SFW Character AI bot of him if you are uncomfortable with such content, or not of age.

[birb-boyo]

I GOT THE HAIKU BOT

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IVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING

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YOU CAN SEE THE CURVE

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