jrm4

jrm4, 25 days ago to mastodon

I'm calling it

Threads is the actually evil thing you imagine Twitter is

Twitter's actually still doing okay

#mastodon #fediverse #socialmedia

jrm4, 3 months ago to mastodon

know what, this is probably worth some other hashtags as well

Someone wrote more about it and I'm glad.

I respect if you decided to leave twitter.

But entirely too many of YOU need to
fucking learn to respect those of us who are staying

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-post-elon-musk-x/

#mastodon #fediverse

jrm4, 3 months ago to random

Someone wrote more about it and I'm glad.

I respect if you decided to leave twitter.

But entirely too many of YOU need to
fucking learn to respect those of us who are staying

https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-post-elon-musk-x/

#BlackMastodon
#blackfedi

jrm4, 4 months ago to fediverse

Calling it

Threads is the hellhole that we thought Twitter was going to be.

it's SO bad yall

#fediverse #mastodon

jrm4, 5 months ago to mastodon

On threads:

Right now, it sucks and it's aggresively stupid.

The biggest question on the table here: How much do we believe in the power of the idea and practice of federation.

I'm optmistic and believe it's entirely possible that the best thing happens: Meta doesn't take over, but the opposite, "federation" infects threads and the like and we win this thing.

(again, I'm a fediverse maximalist, I want it to be the new twitter)

#mastodon #threads #fediverse

jrm4, 5 months ago to mastodon

Let me double down on a thing.

The vast majority of "reading" snobbery is 100% justified; reading lots of books far outpaces ANYTHING in terms of growing smarter.

(It's POSSIBLE video is beginning to catch up but we're still VERY much at the beginning of that)

#mastodon #blackmastodon #reading #books

jrm4, 5 months ago to mastodon

RIGHT NOW

Twitter is dumb, but not boring
Mastodon is boring, but not dumb
Threads and bluesky are both

#mastodon #fediverse

jrm4, 6 months ago to random

The difference between the racism on Twitter and Mastodon is exactly like the difference between the racism in the North vs the South

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 6 months ago to HipHop

Love me some Andre 3000, but the first "genuine-contender-for-literally-greatest-rapper-ever-goes-on-to-do-not-rap-but-some-very-artistic-weird-stuff-that-ill-try-to-get-into-but-i-dont-know-about-all-that" would be Jean Grae

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #hiphop

jrm4, 6 months ago to random

I know, so many want the Marvels to be good or popular or whatever, and yeah, maybe there's some sexism going on there too but, real talk, the whole thing MCU thing 100% crapped out when they chose not to recast T'Challa.

Literally the worst movie superhero decision ever; the exact OPPOSITE point of what superhero movies are supposed to be about.

and now they're paying for it

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 6 months ago to HipHop

I mean, I'm probably not gonna cop a ticket, but paying money to try to see Lauryn Hill even if she might no-show still makes a hell of a lot more sense than paying money to definitely see, I don't know, just about any top 10 chart rapper after her

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #hiphop

jrm4, 6 months ago to retrocomputing

Okay, fediverse, something happened yesterday in a class that blew my mind.

How do you pronounce

Apple IIgs?

I had a student SWEAR up and down tell me that he said "eegs"

Not "two gee ess"

EEGS

I was there and I ain't nevah evah heard this. I legit accused him of trolling me. Has ANYONE ever heard this?

#retro #retrocomputing

jrm4, 7 months ago to random

funny how things are relative

it was just yesterday that I was clowning the corniness of Drake and Budden. never thought something would so quickly make me side with Drake

but wow -- the absolute gall of many non-black people (eg. that vulture DJ Vlad ) DEMANDING -- not requesting or suggesting -- but DEMANDING that Drake "do /say something" re the horrors in the middle east

NOT YOUR DAMN LAPDOG

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #hip-hop

jrm4, 7 months ago to HipHop

Your generation: Guy who cry-disses unrelated girls over awards after getting washed by a real happer vs. other guy who quit rhyming to do gossip

My generation: our softest guy bitchslapped a dude in front of thousands on stage for talking shit about his girl, with nearly zero repercussions

WE ARE NOT THE SAME

#blackmastofdon #blackfedi #hiphop

jrm4, 7 months ago to random

Def a gaffe, but these goofs out here trying to claim "Joe Biden is racist "because he referred to LL as "boy" are trying too hard.

no actual racist white man could play second fiddle to the first black president for that long without their angry little racist head just exploding

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 8 months ago to HashtagGames

Qui-Gon, you absolute idiot -- go back to that rat-ass planet, scoop your boy's mom and put her up in an apartment or something this is not hard

#GiveAFictionalCharacterAdvice
#HashTagGames

jrm4, 9 months ago to random

I like hillary clinton. I voted for her

but y'all need to STOP gaslighting people who weren't into a white lady who used to pal around with Trump, who literally said "all lives matter," who was so politically inept as to call people who might vote for her deplorable, who HAD NO TROUBLE IMPLYING OBAMAS assassination when it suited her

Again I would STILL absolutely take her as President. But she was deeply flawed in ways y'all can't just call "sexism"

#blackmastodon #blackfedi #uspol

jrm4, 9 months ago to random

Shout out to the heroes here doing their damndest to make #blackmastodon as cool and funny as #blacktwitter.

We aint there yet, but it's getting bettter

LIFT EV'RY CHAIR AND SWING

jrm4, 9 months ago to random

Gotta double down on this one too. Here at Mastodon, so much talk about "safety" and "harm" from language or whatever, and the great Montgomery boat thing just puts it in perspective for me.

Brother was just trying to do his job and nearly caught a bad one. THAT'S where you need the language of harm and safety etc.

This is just a VOLUNTARY APP/WEBSITE. Yes, don't say mean things. Etiquette and not offending people is good. But "safety" is the wrong word.

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 9 months ago to random

#AlabamaRiverBoatBrawl

Just doing my part to spread...awareness?

Seriously, it's simultaneously hilarious and dead serious, esp given Montgomery's history.

but right now i'm trying to determine the important question of which is funnier:

"blacquaman" or "fade in the water"

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 10 months ago to random

Touchy, difficult but important conversation going on over at twitter right now re: the (IMHO most often dangerously false) presumption of homophobia in straight black male spaces, namely "the barbershop."

I can't exactly put my finger on why -- but I literally can't imagine that conversation happening at all here on Mastodon

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 10 months ago to random

US Politics: My time here at Mastodon is making me increasingly grateful and appreciative for Democrats, esp the Black ones, and all the souls who are actually doing shit to try to make things better

and giving me reasons to generally gloss over most people using the word "fascist" to describe US politics -- it's not that the word is entirely inaccurate, but the people who use it seem to not have much useful to contribute to the conversation

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 10 months ago to random

One of the Twitter competitors that black (black?) folks are talking about is called Spill.

It presently has no android version, which makes me 100% comfortable in saying Y'ALL ARE ABSOLUTELY ABOUT TO GET PLAYED. GET OUT.

#blackmastodon #blackfedi

jrm4, 10 months ago to mastodon

Hey folks, looks like we're getting another wave of people to #mastodon.

Those looking for #blackmastodon and #blackfedi :

Well meaning lefty types who pioneered this space still have a LOT to learn about actually being welcoming to black folks.

I genuinely wish us all the best, this is the best model and we should try to get everyone here.

jrm4, 10 months ago to random

If you're the sort that says "Biden could ___ with the stroke of a pen," I am now aware that you are not a serious person

#blackmastodon #uspol #blackfedi