Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

We still have time to mess this up!

Giving up is unforgivable.

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

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Late Night Open Thread: Piling On DeFaced Book

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Nobody is sad when the biggest bully goes down. Except for maybe the coatholders who’d been profiting off the bully, and they’re mostly smart enough not to lament too loudly amid the cheers…

Captain Obvious may have a point:

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  1. 1.

    Fair Economist

    Not the worst outage Facebook ever had – it was out for 24 hours in 2019 – but – Oh, the timing! Searing that 60 Minutes interview into everybody’s mind.

  2. 2.

    Tony Jay

    I don’t use Facebook and I slept through the bulk of the brouhaha, so this may already of been raised as a point, but am I right in thinking that:

    1) It wouldn’t be very easy to take down the Mouth of Sauron in this way?

    2) So either someone with the keys did this so they can ‘lose’ a shit ton of incriminating evidence during the curated reboot.

    3) Or someone without the keys did this so they could grab a shit ton of incriminating evidence before the curated reboot.

    4) It’s sad it’s back up and running.

    And good morning to you all.

  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    I went over to Facebook when I realized it was up and running again, and posted this:

    Oh, drat! Facebook is back.

    It got a few laughs.

    Seriously, though, people have been complaining for the past several months about suggestions of people to “friend”, groups to join, etc. and I felt kind of special because it wasn’t doing any of that to me. I wasn’t seeing any ads, either.

    I noticed tonight it is now suggesting people and stuff to me that I’m very much not interested in, and it’s really fucking annoying. I’m there only rarely, and briefly to visit with a carefully pruned collection of friends and family.

  4. 4.

    eclare

    @opiejeanne:  That sounds really annoying.  I joined Facebook at least a decade ago, and when I started getting friend requests from people I barely remembered, I stopped checking in.  No regrets.

  5. 5.

    Solana

    I have a friend who 1) does “her own research” and 2) admits she has no knowledge of science. This has led, of course, to all of the wrong conclusions about vaccines and pedophilia rings. She’s European, living in Europe where What’s App is a main communication tool. She’s in a complete panic and I don’t know what to say to her. “Don’t be a Qanon idiot” is not helpful advice. I’m stalling by using the fact that here on the Golden Shore it is currently just after midnight.

  9. 9.

    Ken

    I remember when a late night thread would get hundreds of posts before I saw it in the morning.  I blame Biden — people are sleeping again.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    Brand new industries always have these problems. There’s no regulations for them, and capitalism loves that!

    Obviously, Facebook is making it easier by being so blatant about it. Which makes me prefer Twitter, who seems smarter about keeping themselves in check.

  13. 13.

    germy

    We’ve spent 40+ years being told that government is the problem and allowing private companies to expand their power at any cost — and this is the result. It is time to empower government again. t.co/mrccfq8neR

    — Kaitlin Byrd: Apocalypse Diarist (@GothamGirlBlue) October 4, 2021

  17. 17.

    Tony Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    It’s the medium through which people share memes of Mo Salah scoring wonderful goals and Pep looking irked.

    Which doesn’t make up for the fascism, but it’s a thing.

  18. 18.

    Tony Jay

    @Baud:

    I swear I haven’t sent her another 20,000 word rantathon. I try to space those out to spare her mental and emotional issues.

  20. 20.

    Amir Khalid

    @Tony Jay:
    It being midweek with nothing much else* going on in football, the pundits have taken to pondering if Mo Salah is the best player in the world, just for that goal he scored on Sunday against the Emirate of Mancunia. Funny how it’s only ever forwards and sometimes midfielders in that conversation, never defenders or keepers.

    *Aside from the change of managers at Watford, that is

  22. 22.

    Tony Jay

    @Amir Khalid:

    I do love the way that the same pundits who were metaphorically humping the leg of Man City and Chelsea for trouncing Liverpool to win the Transfer Window Trophy are now chastising all of the ‘other people’ who failed to see the virtues of keeping a settled squad of proven winners together and (Pickford willing) fit.

    I’ll give the Guardian (spit) one thing, their weekly Football strip by Squires is always worth a read. Today’s epic covers the many lives and deaths of Watford’s ever changing Manager in the form of a Squid Game homage.

  23. 23.

    Richard

    @Amir Khalid:

    My friend in Vlora, a nice musician, can be found on YouTube. Ismail Shahinaj, if you want to go see. He plays excellent music .

    I don’t like Facebook. It seemed ok, i thought it would be fun, but it turned out to be a monster.  I went there to talk to my friends but now i am part of an algorithm.

  24. 24.

    Betty

    I was surprised to learn through this event that many small businesses have been depending on Facebook for business.

  26. 26.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Since we are crapping on Facebook. Now that anit-vaccing is starting the play out like Flat Earthism did, it’s on the the next conspiracy and it looks like “EMP conspiracy theory” Ran into several nut jobs lecturing everyone on how “their research” shows were all going to die from an EMP pulse from a solar flair.  It’s all nonsense because these steely eyed realist have clearly never heard of a faraday cage.

  27. 27.

    James E Powell

    @Richard:

    I also thought it was fun at first, but then I learned from facebook is that nearly everyone I went to high school with is an ignorant hateful bigot. Economically anxious country clubbers.

  28. 28.

    Ramalama

    Whatsapp is used by so many people in Yurp it’s not funny. This is how I speak with in-laws. This is how lots of pals I made in Guadeloupe communicate.

    I finally got kicked out of the Covid Survivors forum on facebook because I posted a photo & link of Idaho’s OWN WEBSITE talking about standards of care (rationing) due to the Covid explosion. Plus news of Alaska and Washington State. I took screenshots because the moderator was having the biggest meltdown with me asking him to stop being such a crybaby. And then there was silencio, because I became a non-entity.

    I admit that the group did a service to me when I got diagnosed, pre-vaccine, with incredibly helpful information. It took me a while, a long while, to realize that most of the talk had indeed turned to ivermectin and people getting re-infected. It freaked me out, thinking that they’d survived Covid, had gotten vaccinated, like me, and then got re-infected? No, Ramalama. No. 

  30. 30.

    Tony Gerace

    @Fair Economist: Ha.  I did’t know about the 24-hour outage in 2019.  (I go on there intermittently to see pictures of people’s babies and dogs.)   I would be shocked to learn that Zuckerberg has had a policy of cutting corners by not hiring enough of the right IT people who would implement appropriate redundancy in order to prevent such outages.  That would be shocking because every other aspect of Zuckerberg’s life indicates that he is not a greedy megalomaniac.

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