BREAKING: Ross Ulbricht has been pardoned by President Donald Trump

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 21, 2025

If you don't know who Ross is

FREEDOM!!

FREEDOM!!!! pic.twitter.com/itRuuyFAxe

— Free_Ross (@Free_Ross) January 22, 2025

Wow. 2 million people have viewed my reels in the past 30 days. Is that a lot for some of you? Probably not. To somebody, who just one month ago, bought a new computer brush up on his video editing, and was sitting on a few years of emotionally-charged raccoon footage he didn't think he'd ever get around to? It's fantastic.

Swipe on over to my reels tab to see what I've been working on (I keep them separate from my posts). There's some car stuff, mostly raccoon stuff, and a lot of repeats as I figured out what worked, what didn't, and realized all of the different ways I could cut the footage.

I was pleasantly surprised to see just how much footage I have of One, Two, and Four's short life. It's taken about two years for me to be able to watch it, but now that I have I am so glad I've had the opportunity to share them with the world. They were truly the best raccoons I've ever had, and I've had a lot of raccoons pass through my life. I plan on doing something more long-form with the footage at some point, but my creativity needs a recharge as I'm getting quite frustrated with the process.

For those of you who've endured this somewhat obsessive and absolutely obnoxious episode, I thank you. Things will likely be slowing down now, however, as I'm running out of good footage and time to waste.

Here's hoping somebody brings me some orphaned babies this spring.

______________________

On a more serious note, thank you, rDrama for putting up with my bullshit. For a select few of you though, go frick yourselves and just ignore it if you don't like it lmao. My goal for the month was to become a raccoon influencer on IG and goddarn I did it. What have you accomplished this month that was so great?

In response to the post that just went up demanding that we ban people from posting links from Twitter/X, and instead only allow Bluesky, we want the sub to understand that we will never restrict where people post their Panthers news from. This is antithesis to the purpose of this sub, a place to aggregate all the news we want to read about the Panthers organization. Heck, we don't even restrict posts that are sources from people like David Newton, and he's usually not a reliable source

Regardless of how you feel about what's going on outside of the Panthers fanbase, in relation to Twitter/X, this sub will always focus on exclusively Panthers media, news, and discussion. Every member here is free to post any links from Twitter, Insta, Bluesky, and any other source of news or discussion they see interest in

/r/panthers mods do the unbelievably rare action of letting the upmarsey and downmarsey system do it's job. They of course are getting heat for it (62% upmarseyd at the moment). Some

I don't understand the big deal? If you don't want to see the X/ Twitter post don't click on the link? Most of the panthers reporters/insiders post mainly on X

Honest answer? Virtue signalling

[–]judgeholden72 26 points 22 hours ago

Free market at work is now virtue signaling?

Not banning a website and letting people click on it if they want is the definition of free market lol. What kind of logic steps are you taking to get banning X is actually free market lol.

judgeholden72 -8 points 21 hours ago

Because users are asking for it to not be utilized.

That's the free market. Reddit isn't imposing a ban. Users are asking mods, who are not reddit, to not allow links that have it because those links are less useful

Went back 7 pages, /u/judgeholen72 doesn't appear to post in /r/panthers very frequently, possibly ever. Posts in the /r/nygiants sub every once in a while and a smattering of loser gen X subs. Still claims this is a grassroots every the "users" of the sub is asking for.

Some r-slur tries shit and the mod keeps going "yeah that's fine" and he responses "but what about?".

But that's the truth, I have never removed any posts based on where they were posted from. Usually links to certain sites would just get downmarseyd but the mod team has always been careful to only use our removal cowtools for stuff that is either meant to troll/harass/flame or is irrelevant to the Carolina Panthers

So, nsfw sites are okay to post from? .onion sites? Like, I feel like at some point Reddit would nsfw or quarantine the sub.

As long as the posts are directly Panthers news and discussion related (maybe as a crazy example, some porn star does a weekly discussion about the Panthers while topless) and as long as the post is properly tagged NSFW, then we should have no problems with Reddit

So, and I mean this with all sincerity, if I start just posting full Athletic articles through archive ph, then that's fine? ESPN+ articles?

People already do it. All we ask that you copy and paste the key parts of the content you're posting. So for example if you're posting a paywalled article that lists 5 free agents the Panthers should target, comment those 5 names within your post for people who aren't subscribed

I don't mean posting just the paywalled article. I mean something like:

https://archive.ph/pGbJA

That should be fine too. I've seen Archive posts on many subreddits and as far as I've seen Reddit has no rules against it

This guy gives up against the slight rebuttal, cries about how much he doesn't like X, and then says the mod is taking it too personally.

I'd argue against it from a functional perspective. Because Twitter has removed the functionality for non-users to see threads or visit profiles, it's simply a bad source and we should have higher standards of accessibility for the reddit audience.

I've lost count of how many other sites that get posted here that are paywalled that most members have no issues with. The Athletic, NFL+/ESPN+ articles, and many other links posted are paywalled

Cmon bro you know it's hard to use, it's not about a paywall, it's about links that I don't want to click because I know it'll annoy me if it's part of a thread that I won't be able to read. With the others you mentioned people tend to post a copy of the article in the comments for non-members. It's a hallmark of the reddit community that makes this place fun to go to, and it doesn't really exist for tweets. Put it to an official vote or something, it's weird how personal you're taking this.

Put up a poll in a thread with a bunch of flairless posters are commenting.

Put up a poll and see what the user base thinks

I don't think we need to, no sub rules or reddit rules are being violated, it's just a matter of preference and opinion.

This would fall under the often lamented umbrella of "over moderation".

Which ironically people call us Nazi mods for lol can't win for losing

Is there any way we could do an actual poll? It seems to be a widely supported move because of… well the nazi salute stuff.

I get wanting to protect peoples ability to post news, but can we really not vote to avoid supporting a nazi?

I'm going to start posting Panthers news in 4chan and start linking to it here.

It's patently ridiculous to say any source is okay.

And this is a community and if that's what the community wants then the mods should feel obliged to comply.

You're (likely) not a credible source, while a panthers beat writer who uses Twitter is

🫡 it's been fun while it lasted, i seem to be in the minority here and that's okay, but that man can not be supported in any way

Then don't read it lol. Why does everyone think you can tell other people what to do.

Not telling you to do anything man. I wanted my opinion to have some representation on this post.

I'm not telling you to do anything, I'm just wanting you to not be able to do things I don't like.

The “remember what they took from you” memes were literal… https://t.co/moRgKQMBdM

— 🦅McKrowComics🦩 (@KellyLovesBirds) February 6, 2025

IT WASN'T A MEME THEY TOOK THIS FROM US, THE GOVERNMENT PAID A CORPORATION TO REMOVE SOVL FROM OUR FAST FOOD!?!?

This is the blackest pill imaginable.

This is your one chance losers, dont mess it up!

Heres review of the movie shes talking about btw:

https://old.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1648nmn/past_lives_an_analysis_of_the_movie_spoilers/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AsianMasculinity/comments/14gykob/has_anybody_seen_the_new_movie_past_lives_by_a24/

For comparison, here is how Europoors react to the biggest political shift in Germany in decades

xD

!chuds !trump2024 !trump2028

More sad than anything, assuming it's not bait.

Your baby will be fine. Please touch grass, the world isn't ending no matter what the media says.

https://t.co/ZWIGEllZug

— Aella (@Aella_Girl) January 29, 2025

Some music while you read:

and/or the original:

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Zizian Murdercult summary, for those out of the loop

I know a bunch of people who were involved or adjacent, including someone who accidentally got some footage.

The summary below is based on talking to these people, looking at court documents, reading blog posts, etc. (I was also at the protested CFAR reunion and knew Daniel)

More info at the bottom (especially for journ*lists who would like interviews)

Pre-2019

Curtis Lind allows people to live in trailers and containers on his Vallejo, CA property, initially offering affordable housing to artists, woodworkers, and electricians. Over time, some tenants stop paying rent and are later referred to as "The Cult" by neighbors. The cult consists of Ziz (Jack LaSota), Emma Borhanian, Somni (Alexander Leatham), and Gwen Danielson.

Separately, at some point Ziz attends a workshop by CFAR, which is a nonprofit focusing on behavioral psychology and AI.

2019

November 2019: CFAR bans Ziz and Gwen from their alumni reunion, partly due to fears of violence.

November 2019: Ziz, Emma, Somni and Gwen protest at the reunion with accusations of bad decision theory (it's complicated) and transphobia. (All four of them are trans).

The protestors get arrested for blocking entrances (while there are children on the grounds) and wearing Guy Fawkes masks. They're released on bail.

2021

August 2021: Ziz advocates for "airlocking" (a sci-fi term for killing) various people in blog comments and claims many people seek "suicide by Ziz." Ziz runs a blog which appears to be the primary attractor for this community. They claim that people have two hemispheres, and are either non-good, single-good, or double-good (very rare, which Ziz herself is). Ziz advocates for a ruthlessly enforced altruism towards all living creatures, and to follow the principle that it's never valid to surrender. She promotes the punishment of "non-good" people, particularly those who are not vegans.

2022

February 2022: Jamie Zajko, a close friend of Ziz, claims that Ziz threatens to kill Jamie, if Jamie does not kill Jamie's girlfriend and provide proof of it.

April 2022: Gwen Danielson, one of the protestors, stops appearing for court hearings, and their lawyer suggests they have died.

July 2022: A different friend of this group commits suicide and cites ideas from Ziz's blog in their suicide note. Ziz appears to suggest their ideas caused the suicide.

August 2022: Ziz fakes her own death in a boating accident and stops showing up to court hearings. The Coast Guard conducts a search for her, but finds no body. An obituary is released.

November 2022: Emma Borhanian is killed by Curtis Lind during a violent altercation at his Vallejo property. Somni stabs Lind with a sword, and Lind shoots both Somni and Emma. Lind is stabbed dozens of times and loses an eye. Lind's account is that they had been threatening him for some time, and one day requested he come fix a leak. They hit him from behind, and when he woke up they were attempting to cut off his head (he has scarring consistent with this claim). He then shot Emma and Somni in self defense. His friend claims upon entering the trailer afterwards he found surgical equipment and chemicals he believes were intended to dissolve Lind's body. Somni and Suri Dao are arrested. Ziz and Gwen are seen at the scene, alive. It seems likely Gwen had faked their own death earlier to escape court appearances, much as Ziz had.

November 2022: Somni attempts to escape from jail (twice).

2023

January 2, 2023: Richard and Rita Zajko are found dead from homicide in their Pennsylvania home from gunshot wounds. Their daughter Jamie Zajko was associated with Ziz, and we suspect the homicide was an attempt to gain money (several million dollars) from inheritance. Police also suspect Ziz is involved in the murder. Police also suspect Daniel Blank, an associate of Ziz, is involved in the murder. Blank has not been seen since and we suspect he's dead.

January 13, 2023: Ziz is arrested in Pennsylvania for "obstructing administration of law" and "disorderly conduct." Ziz eventually makes bail (in June) and stops showing up to court. We suspect that the arrest was indirectly related the murders, and that the police didn't have enough evidence to make a full charge.

2025

January 17, 2025: Curtis Lind (who was set to serve as the primary witness in his assault case) is stabbed to death outside his Vallejo property. A man named Maximilian Snyder is later arrested for this murder. The previous year, he applied for a marriage license with a woman named Teresa Younblut, who was in contact with Ziz.

January 20, 2025: Teresa Youngblut and a man named Felix Baukholt are stopped while driving by U.S. Border Patrol in Vermont. They end up in a shootout, and Baukholt and a border patrol agent dies. Police find tactical gear, firearms, and burner laptops in the car. According to the police, an unnamed person who purchased the firearms used in this shooting is also a suspect in the Pennsylvania Zajko murders. We think this is likely to be Jamie Zajko, given that the shooting is in the same town that Jamie Zajko has a registered address (Coventry, Vermont).

That's it so far. We still don't know the whereabouts of the people in this story who aren't either dead or in custody, and we sort of expect them to continue doing murders.

1. If you're a journ*list and want to get in contact with people around the community/rationalist scene who knows the people involved, you can fill out this form and your contact info will be shared around our networks

2. My friend, trying to interview Lind about something else, ended up getting a bunch of footage of him talking about the attack. If you're a journ*list or documentarian interested in this footage, please reach out to him here

3. The above timeline is collected from sources the community has accumulated here.

It also has some high-confidence guesses made by people familiar with those involved. Please doublecheck all claims yourself.

There is nobody that will give more credit to Elon Musk's involvement in the technology of his companies than his biggest detractors. Nertea, a prominent KSP modder just deleted all SpaceX parts in his mods and from the way he words it, you'd think Elon personally designed it lol pic.twitter.com/HoHtwNZVeu

— SpaceBasedFox (@SpaceBasedFox) February 12, 2025

!coomers @Discuss

!schizomaxxxers

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Milei refuses to apologize for $LIBRA memecoin scam: "If you went to a casino and lost money, what's the complaint?"

On promoting the scheme: "I didn't promote it, I spread it... I used my personal account"

"But you're the president"

His lawyer then interrupts the interview pic.twitter.com/ojncW9jVDo

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) February 18, 2025

!incels this longpost is for you brocels, also will someone ping soyteens for me?

Dungeons & Dragons: The Xueen's Cradle

To start, you should know that I have never played D&D nor will I ever waste my time playing D&D. It might be fun with the right group of people, but the only groups you can find as a single neurodivergent smell like butt and are full of r-slurs so annoying being around them has been classified as psychological warfare in Geneva. Did I mention s yet? They tend to conglomerate there too. So for me, this is just generic fantasy story set in generic fantasy setting and that about sums it up. Its very generic. To summarize the plot, a party of adventurers find a boy that is supposed to act as a sacrifice for evil dragon so they try to save him by bringing him to good dragon. The voice acting is eh, the story predictable and the character design

Yeah...

Besides that you have George Dwarf, Imane Khalif the Paladin and Druid who is a Druid. Would I recommend it? Not unless you are some huge D&D fan, also the ending is abrupt and very anticlimactic.

Ching Chong: It Takes a Life

So apparently Sifu is some Chinese beatemup? Probably only made it in to get ChingChong bux, fricking Bezos mang. To summarize, guy takes his revenge on Chinese mafia for murdering his father and uses a secret power to do it. Would I recommend it? Yeah if you have 8 minutes to spare its a nice watch, not a lot of talking just action with good choreography. What dialogue there is tends to be a little cringe (talking about the Granny Marvel quipping) but can be easily ignored.

Amazon shilling: The Once and Future BWC King

Appareantly this is some Amazon studio game no one cares about, but hear me out: this is absolute kino featuring Germanic BVLL Arnold BlackBIPOCs playing himself (again) and being great (as expected). Gigachad and his servant end up stranded on an island where everyone is immortal and nothing can permanently damage you and in an attempt to conquer it, Arnold challenges the local king and learns an important lesson about friendship (no really).

Definitely recommend this one, fun story you need zero context for. Also he definitely fricked the Babylonian tomboy and she is 100% built for BWC.

Unreal Tournament: Xan

I never played Unreal but after watching the episode I want to give it a try. Though the plot is again very predictable, this time it makes it up by delivering in the tournament department. Robots are mistreated (like g*mers and incels) so they rise the frick up and rebel against POC women in charge of gaming, just like in real life! This leads to them ending up as gladiators in the aforementioned tournament. If you are a nostalgiastrag, give it a try, if not, still give it a try. The bot is a cool character!

hammer 40,000: And They/Them Shall Know No Fear

KINO ALERT KINO ALERT KINO ALERT KINO ALERT KINO ALERT

TOTAL XENOS DEATH, TOTAL GAY BUTT R*PE DEMON DEATH, TOTAL TRAITOR DEATH

If you played Space Marine or have any interest in Warhammer 40k you should know who Captain Tinitus, lieutenant of the second company of the Ultramarine Chapter of the God-Emperors Angels of death AKA the fricking Astartes is. Besides serving as backstory for Titus who now has a old BIPOCsmurf as a mentor, its probably also a teaser for the up and coming Warhammer TV show in cooperation with the Amazon jew. If this is the standart they are going to maintain for the show I am all for it. To tldr the plot, gay heck demons do gay heresy shit so the Ultramarines have to clean it up because they are the Emperors finest. That's all you need to know, the rest is just Traitor-Ackening and TDD.

PAC-MAN: Circle

The entire premis of the episode relies on you expecting PacMan, but turns out there is a twist! So go watch it for yourself. Its a shorter episode and its alright.

Crossfire: Good Conflict

More Asiaslop no one in the west cares about, CSGO but gay and we aren't even talking about Valorant and thats all you need to know about Crossfire. Frick that gookshit, at least it has a decent snowbunny

!2dgooners bvilt for the most BIPOClicious vantablack mandingo nigerian BBCs etc. etc.

Armored Core: Keanu Chungus

Did any of you neurodivergents ever touch an AC game? I never did, but just like in Unreals case I kinda want to try it out now. This was besides the 40k episode the most anticipated one of part 1. I have no idea if it actually lived up to the hype, what I do know is that every time Keanu gets involved in a video game script they frick him over lmao. Yeah the writing could definetly be a lot better, but the action scenes are cool I guess. Schizo mecha mercanary actually doesn't refuse to pilot the mecha and goes apeshit on his targets. If you like Mecha and Chungus Reeves, go for it.

To summarize part 1 of Secret Levels

Its like a mediocre season of Love Death Robots. The shilling definetly cucked the writers in terms of creativity. The only thing that can salvage this series is coming soon...

POOPING ON CONCORDS GRAVE ONE LAST TIME FOR CHRISTMAS

Congratulations to every single person on the left who’s been campaigning to destroy women’s and girls’ rights. Without you, there’d be no images like this. pic.twitter.com/mzR7l5k1OW

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) February 6, 2025

We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system.

We are willing to take in only convicted criminals (including convicted U.S. citizens) into our mega-prison (CECOT) in exchange for a fee.

The fee would be relatively low for… pic.twitter.com/HTNwtp35Aq

— Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) February 4, 2025

They are REALLY proud of their gigaprison

Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android. pic.twitter.com/oIV1yaMSyE

— Clone (@clonerobotics) February 19, 2025

The Protoclone is a faceless, anatomically accurate synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and 500 sensors.

— Clone (@clonerobotics) February 19, 2025

Torso 2 with an actuated abdomen. pic.twitter.com/ciggvr7b06

— Clone (@clonerobotics) December 6, 2024

same vibe pic.twitter.com/CTgtgFDyDu

— Chansoo Byeon (@ByeonChansoo) February 19, 2025

!schizomaxxxers

Friends mom used to give her stuff that would make me cry and call my mom to come home. In college, there were "poop teas"—don't remember the real name, that made you feel like you were giving birth.

Fifteen years later, I looked for laxatives for unrelated reasons, and found everything to be "gentle" and "overnight"?

What happened to all of the good laxatives? I'm at the age where it might be functionally beneficial to have an exorcism of my butthole, and they've taken it from me.

are recreational laxatives a thing?

The Cat Returns (2002) pic.twitter.com/p2QkZNBqzE

— Retro Anime (@retro_twt) February 12, 2025

Pirate: https://nyaa.si/view/1225344

Period.

It's in the Constitution

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-9/clause-8/#:~:text=No%20Title%20of%20Nobility%20shall,%2C%20Prince%2C%20or%20foreign%20State.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.