Inside the Furry War Playing Out on BlueskyAug 22
anthropomorphic tigers and "puppygirl shock collars" are flooding (some) bluesky users' feeds — and people are starting to push back, signaling a larger vibe shift on the platform
Dopamine Thirst Trap
pirate wires #27 // when algorithms run for president, dopamine thirst, instacart misinformation, "truth" by popular demand, and welcome to the pirate wires live chat
Mike Solana
Jan 26, 2021
Another quick note, I’ve decided to experiment with a brief library of links at the bottom of each week’s wire. I’ll be including noteworthy tweets, longer form pieces, and news stories I find interesting or important. In the future, feel free to scroll straight down for the links, or read the wire and ignore the links, or unsubscribe and send me hate mail. I don’t care what you call me, baby. Just call me.
As ever, feel free to comment on this week’s wire below, or let me know what you think about the link library, Pirate Waves, or whatever else is going on inside that beautiful mind of yours.
Okay, back to regularly scheduled programming.
Inside the Furry War Playing Out on Bluesky
TBD If Racist Tweets Can Still Get You FiredAug 16
doreen st. félix waxes poetic on ‘the black man’s hunger for ass’ in the new yorker, chris rufo resurfaces her overtly racist decade-old tweets, and the new yorker promptly blocks him
New Tween Roblox Cult Just DroppedAug 15
on the gaming platform roblox, kids are inventing a new pagan pseudo-religion called "spawnism" based on video game lore, and worshipping a clipart asset from the 90s