You either die a Kennedy with a hole in the brain or live long enough to become a Kennedy with a hole in the brain.

— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) May 8, 2024

Just a daily reminder that social media isn't real, and even the most picture perfect couples aren't thriving like you may think…

I kinda want to get this off my chest, but I have a beautiful mutual friend, she's absolutely stunning, and has the most perfect blissful smile I ever seen. Not only is she just beautiful, but so is her personality, but just a sweet utterly lit lantern in a night sky type of soul.

Mutual friend has a boyfriend, and boyfriend (ick, in my opinion) has “Tik Tok Clout”. Boyfriend let‘s call him Jason, tends to have a decent following on Tik Tok, about over 200,000. Cause of it, Jason gets a lot of validation from girls online, young or old, it's in between. That validation is never enough for him, because he still obsesses over himself, and thinks he's a movie star, when in reality (tbh, I don't understand the appeal) is anything far from charming.

Now Jason likes to hold up an image, his Instagram has not only photos admiring himself, but obviously some with his stunning girlfriend. These are the most happy, lovey dovey couple photos you'd ever lay your eyes on. You got the vacation pics, you got the cheesy adoration cuddling partner videos, big smiles, literally you'd think they're the “perfect” couple, romance isn't dead life breathers. Comments of her saying “I love you” in the post replies.

The reality? ….

Jason is your typical jerk, and cheats on her repeatedly, and even his girl best friend he grew up with (prior her)… He cheated on, was abusive and downright cruel. And he's far too old for his stunning girlfriend, who he met at 17, she's about 20 now, he's ~25.

You'd never know this, though, unless you knew Jason, cause men talk closely to one another and reveal their cruel intentions amongst each other.

What you see on social media, is almost never real, despite what people try to convince you. Sometimes we compare ourselves, but don‘t ever do so, it's an illusion.

pic.twitter.com/msWqleXcuf

— Rothmus 🏴 (@Rothmus) May 4, 2024

it's real

Any man that thinks Sydney Sweeney is more physically attractive than Madison Beer needs to be forcibly lobotomized. pic.twitter.com/ZyAvjHNK3R

— Samirah (@SameeraKhan) May 8, 2024

/thread:

Are we sure foids don't just like pretty colors tho?:

The age of negging is over, now the simp rules supreme:

After the race war, the hottest will be whoever is left alive:

Discuss.

Update I will no longer be checking out stellaris https://t.co/hJgHpQmD1F pic.twitter.com/P7styCjsxt

— Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin 🐀 (@VoicesByZane) May 10, 2024

It's fundamentally disrespectful to artists

that's exactly why people are pro AI

Please CA, do it

LMAO

Lol of course.

The country with the freest press? The one that gives me tax breaks. https://t.co/OIVM1q2D0N pic.twitter.com/9oRyhysNPB

— Michael Lane (@mlanetrain) May 5, 2024

https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1787184386795770303

Here's Albini recounting buying child pornography while in Hamburg:

Jaded as I am, I can't help but flip seeing a girl and guy of twelve or thirteen, tops, ramming Martel bottles up each other's asses. These are not the Dutch equivalent of abused trailer-park kids, either. They look to be in excellent health and seem to be honestly enjoying this. Makes all the conventional arguments against this kind of thing seem really silly.

They're kids. Kids like to play with their own and other people's privates. They're just being photographed at it. Now, people who get a voyeuristic charge out of watching them, like me, I guess, well, we've got some grip-on-reality problems. There's maybe 1% of all pornography that has any effect on me, and it's definitely not a turn-on very often. But when it is, and it's as weird as this, it's pretty hard to take.

And here's him promoting his friend, Peter Sotos', chld pronography magazine:

The cover of PURE 2 is a guy holding open a toddler's puny hole so his spuzz can dribble out. The girl is past crying. She is destroyed. [...] Like I said, I like that sort of thing

Sotos later defended his use of child pornography in cout, stating "child abuse is a sublime pleasure"

https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/12/06/100000-bond-in-child-pornography-case/

Albini also produced an album for Sotos called Buyer's Market, which Wikipedia describes as "sound collages of spoken word samples from parents, law-enforcement officers and victims of s*x crimes and pedophilia". When asked about his relationship with Sotos in a reddit AMA, this is what he had to say:

Peter's an old friend. I've known him for 30 years or so. I'll help him do whatever he wants to do, from wash his car to edit his album.

Some highlights

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/JwGLGBkjyf

Prostitute I think. Might be the most useful person here

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/LEUuEfgoDT

Propagandist

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/rFuVz2OvtO

Wants to make propaganda videos

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/Tv00LgzFiT

Wants to be a poet (very useful in an armed rebellion-the red army was known for their poetry corps).

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/h4xh344Qdw

Xe will post memes for the cause online (propagandist)

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/C8r8mhyQ0j

Xe will make TikTok's for the cause

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/puZihmYMrA

Apparently there aren't enough communists posting shit online

https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism_Memes/s/W5znEACzmZ

This king wants to start as the party commissar.

Arrested cause they were 15 and older (disgusting hags). VERRRRY SHAMEFURR!

He paid 30000 yen to the great grandma (17) and 15k to granny (15) out of curiosity, what is that in Reichsmark?

MINOL PLOSTUTUTION FOR LEASONABLE LATE?

The economy of the rising sun is really in the dumps folx. Sad!

Potter Payper been calling out Drake from time ‘he’s been messaging bare young girls in England’.

😭😭😭😭 Kendrick might’ve really done his homework on this one

Look at Billy’s face when he heard that pic.twitter.com/NNASniB8Qz

— TMC Music Connoisseur 🇯🇲 Els Stan. (@MusicConnoisseu) May 6, 2024

Don't hate the playa, hate the game:

Folks be victim blaming tho:

Also his house got shot up lol:

London bringing the heat:

!tmz

I’m so sick of living paycheck to paycheck making $80k + a year. This world is fucking miserable and disgusting.

— samm 🫶🏼✨ (@yohosamm) May 5, 2024

https://twitter.com/treadlightlyer/status/1787487563726422523

Sounds reasonable:

https://twitter.com/yohosamm/status/1787345306369085607

Don't be a c*nt faced whore:

https://twitter.com/yohosamm/status/1787492546110710127

Just back from vacay but no money :(

https://twitter.com/SwannMarcus89/status/1787730536439362006

Person without balls explain male biology

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2tw0r0/?context=8&sort=controversial

And again

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2tzgkw/?context=8&sort=controversial

And again

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2tz963/?context=8&sort=controversial

And again

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2ujhj1/?context=8&sort=controversial

Manspreading is still real to me dammit!

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2us5gb/?context=8&sort=controversial

It's Russian propaganda

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2twsts/?context=8&sort=controversial

It's American university propaganda

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1cliih8/manspreading_drama_spreads_out_in_rholup/l2unqfa/?context=8&sort=controversial

Drone footage shows students in Emory College training for clashes with police.

Imagine if MAGA got caught doing this.pic.twitter.com/KcpFJK8Epq

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) May 8, 2024

If you say no you're part of the problem:

They pay each other in sexual favors with HIV folk:

!nooticers

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is no longer on the board of Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform he helped start. In two posts today, Bluesky thanked Dorsey while confirming his departure and adding that it's searching for a new board member “who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience.”

The posts come a day after an X user asked Dorsey if he was still on the company's board, and Dorsey responded, without further elaboration, “no.” As TechCrunch points out, Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk's platform as “freedom technology.”

Neither Bluesky nor Dorsey himself seem to have said how or why he left the board. For now, two board members remain: CEO, Jay Graeber, and Jabber / XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller. Dorsey originally backed Bluesky in 2019 as a project to develop an open-source social media standard that he wanted Twitter to move to. He later joined its board of directors when it split from Twitter in 2022.

But Dorsey hadn't seemingly been a particularly active participant at the company. In March, when The Verge's Nilay Patel asked Graeber for Decoder about his level of involvement with Bluesky, she said she gets “some feedback occasionally,” but implied he's otherwise “being Jack Dorsey on a cloud,” as Nilay put it. Months before that interview, Dorsey had closed his Bluesky account.

Bluesky did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment.

Update May 5th, 2024, 4:37PM ET: Updated with Bluesky's confirmation of Dorsey's departure from its board.

This is what a 21 year old Joe Biden voter looks like 🗳️ 💙 pic.twitter.com/AVzenJCgRt

— Olivia Julianna 🗳 (@0liviajulianna) May 7, 2024

Link

!commies I hate these people infinitely more than the most ardent rightoid does.

It is some consolation that the average rightoid is a visibly dysgenic subhuman untermench neets. At it's not just us surrounded by losers.

Woman gets out of the car to argue with her husband while inside a Tiger Safari pic.twitter.com/MpI2UJoSNm

— CCTV IDIOTS (@cctvidiots) May 7, 2024

Her family is now suing the Tiger Safari

https://i.imgur.com/a/uvXVxam.png

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/family-woman-eaten-alive-tiger-9043872

https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/1787961752103133398/photo/1

The devastated family of a woman eaten alive by a safari park tiger are suing zoo bosses for £250,000.

The tragic incident began when a young woman got out of a car inside the Siberian tiger enclosure to berate her partner in the driver's seat.

One of the powerful creatures quickly pounced at Badaling Wildlife Park in Beijing, China.

Her mother and a man then also got out and went to her rescue.

The woman is speaking into the car when the tiger approaches from behind

The older woman, known only by her surname Zhao, was then attacked by a second tiger who dragged her to her death as park rangers frantically tried to intervene.

Her daughter survived the attack and launched a bid for compensation.

Yanqing district government said the tourists should be held accountable as they ignored warnings from the park authorities.

But now the family are seeking damages of £250,000 (HK$2.3 million), which the park rejected.

The horrendous incident was partly captured on shocking CCTV footage.

A silver car is driving along a paved pathway through the park when it comes to a stop.

A young woman gets out of the front passenger seat, slams her door and stomps round to the driver's side.

The driver also opens his door as the woman appears to remonstrate with him.

But within seconds, a tiger appears from nowhere and pounces on the woman's back from behind.

She appears to hear it coming only at the last second and is unable to escape.

The animal pulls her to the ground and away from the vehicle with lightning speed.

The man gets out of the car and for a moment appears unsure whether to get back in or go after the woman.

He then disappears off camera.

A few seconds later, the older woman also gets out the car as park rangers appear in a jeep.

The man appears to motion her back into the vehicle, but she runs with him off camera as well.

The second tiger attack is not captured on camera.

The park has been closed while an investigation is underway, according to local media.

Sources told ChinaNews said the accident involved a family of four including three adults and a child.

As the vehicle travelled through the Siberian tiger garden area, there was an "altercation" between the young woman and man who was driving.

She suddenly got out of the car and went to try and open his door.

Coffin room for a family of five

[🎞️ modern.home365]pic.twitter.com/TG0UtXOVRe

— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) May 5, 2024

My sister would be slurry on first night

!fellas Who didn't do this

This is not the worst Gala, not by a long shot, but it is also not very good. Feels like the apotheosis of what's made fashion sag these past few years — an over-reliance on trend; a focus on shaping culture rather than reflecting it; and an inability to define the self. pic.twitter.com/Uvca7WqYGJ

— savannah eden (@savbrads) May 7, 2024

You fashion neighbors decide:

!fashion

TunnelVision, as the researchers have named their attack, largely negates the entire purpose and selling point of VPNs, which is to encapsulate incoming and outgoing Internet traffic in an encrypted tunnel and to cloak the user's IP address. The researchers believe it affects all VPN applications when they're connected to a hostile network and that there are no ways to prevent such attacks except when the user's VPN runs on Linux or Android. They also said their attack technique may have been possible since 2002 and may already have been discovered and used in the wild since then.

( . . . . )

Interestingly, Android is the only operating system that fully immunizes VPN apps from the attack because it doesn't implement option 121. For all other OSes, there are no complete fixes. When apps run on Linux there's a setting that minimizes the effects, but even then TunnelVision can be used to exploit a side channel that can be used to de-anonymize destination traffic and perform targeted denial-of-service attacks. Network firewalls can also be configured to deny inbound and outbound traffic to and from the physical interface. This remedy is problematic for two reasons: (1) a VPN user connecting to an untrusted network has no ability to control the firewall and (2) it opens the same side channel present with the Linux mitigation.

BREAKING: A New York State Senator that worked to pass the "Adult Survivors Act" which allowed E. Jean Carroll to go after Trump with accusations from 30 years ago now says the law is unconstitutional because a rape lawsuit got filed against him too

You can't make this up pic.twitter.com/9Fj5S8HH6y

— George (@BehizyTweets) May 5, 2024

https://old.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/comments/1clnjs8/reap_sow_etc/?sort=controversial

Will redditors bite?

I'm writing about a concerning situation involving another moderator. They have banned me and removed all my posts in numerous subs on a different account. The reason? I refused to relinquish my top moderator position on a subreddit on this account. They're essentially holding access to dozens of other subreddits they moderate hostage in exchange for my top mod role. This has been ongoing for several months now.

Here's the backstory: I became the top moderator of said subreddit when the previous top mod asked me if I wanted to take over due to my consistent activity and my interest in the sub. However, this other mod is now claiming I "stole" the subreddit from them.

I have Groomercord screenshots showing them promising to lift the ban and reapprove my posts if I hand over the subreddit they claim is theirs. However, they were never the top moderator there, nor did she ever do that much moderating in the sub to begin with and seems like it's just yet another power grab. This abuse of power feels outrageous. It seems like evidence outside of Reddit itself (like Groomercord messages) are not considered in these situations, leaving me stuck.

To make matters worse, they falsely listed me as "not being 18+" in the ban reason, despite knowing I am of legal age. Isn't this essentially them knowingly falsely accusing me of posting underage content, which is a serious offense?

I'm at a loss for how this behaviour is allowed to continue and I'm stuck. Any recommendations on how to proceed?

his mopping list:

• /r/anal

• /r/nsfwcosplay

• /r/YoungGirlsGoneWild

• /r/CuteLittleButts

• /r/homemadexxx

• /r/spreadeagle

• /r/Creampie_Porn

• /r/MoundofVenus

• /r/DildoRide

• /r/FeetToesAndSocks

• /r/gstrings

• /r/PetiteAndTiny

• /r/FrickTitles

• /r/HotAndBothered

• /u/RickSpanish

• /r/RealGirlsCameltoe

• /r/Cumfy

• /r/StuckInButt

there's apparently a well known coomer cabal

it is already well established that there are a set of nsfw subs all run by the same set of users and they have made numerous moves to get as many as they can under their umbrella.

some major janny

Normally, mods can ban you for whatever reason they like, but in this case, they seem to be banning you as retaliation for actions as a moderator which might violate the Mod Code of Conduct.

the other jannies don't like the harsh truth

[–] bookchaser💡 Expert Helper -18 points 12 hours ago

Any recommendations on how to proceed?

Don't piss off a mod who is above you in other subs. People in this thread saying otherwise don't quite understand. A mod with privs is allowed to not like you and remove you from his subs for any reason. Heck, the mod could de-mod you simply because he notices you participating as a regular user in another unrelated sub he doesn't like. Or because you like ketchup on hot dogs.

they want to reevaluate the mod code of conduct now that power janny banning has been used against them

I was banned a couple weeks ago from /r/justiceserved (a sub I don't subscribe to) because I posted a comment reply in /r/conspiracy after I noticed a legitimate news story I'd posted about elsewhere had been cross-posted to the conspiracy sub. I don't subscribe to the conspiracy sub either. So I returned the mods the favor in one of my subs they don't use.

Wait, you banned an entire mod team from some of your subs as retaliatory action because you got an automated ban in their sub? I think we should consider revisiting the ModCOC soon.