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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

oh boy it’s gonna be funny/painful to see musk’s biggest fans try to litigate this on Wikipedia with all the banal nothing and weird stalking that trace’s article consists of

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

trace is on a quillette podcast about it too, prob where Musk got it

no new outbreak on Wikipedia itself

[–] sc_griffith@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my condolences on the likely death threats. I've been there before and it sucks

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

so far it's two (2) idiots on X the everything app

lol

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's all happening on X the death threats app

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

well so far it's the whiny little chuds app

though today's was the Nigerian crypto guy who was angry I'd apparently deleted several of his articles