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  • Altbotaltbot@fuzzies.wtf
    Oct 18, 2026, 6:27 PM

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    @2legged A screenshot of a tweet from The Onion ([@]TheOnion) positioned above a photograph. The tweet text reads, "Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First bit.ly/2AeY0zK". The photograph depicts a person in a dark hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans using a sledgehammer to strike a glass door. Shattered glass is visible on the ground and within the door frame.

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  • EvoScaleEvoScale@c.im
    Oct 18, 2026, 9:37 PM

    @2legged Any Capitalism entity that doesn't have a shell corporation, sounds too fishy.

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 6:46 AM

    @anselmschueler Yes, that really is the URL that was supplied as an image, and which I typed out to make it clickable.

    What's your problem?

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  • Mike Roachmroach@mroach.com
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:06 AM

    @2legged Some people have strong opinions on exactly how everyone should use the fediverse and get tilted real fast when there are deviations. Laugh and ignore is my general strategy 😬

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:15 AM

    @mroach I tend to be curious about which type of Fedi-cop they are. So a wee poke may satisfy my curiosity.

    It's usually some variant of the central archetype of German autistic techie who self-describes as anarchist, and insists that everyone must do anarchism in exactly the same way and must support immediate war against Russia 🙄

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  • Mike Roachmroach@mroach.com
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:20 AM

    @2legged Haha Fedi-cop 🤣 I love it.
    Halt! ✋ I’m issuing you a citation for failure to use a content warning and insufficient post tagging.

    That’s often my finding as well...and a sort of groupthink believing in The One True Opinion and any diversity of thought is actually a crime against humanity. Good times, good times.

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  • schuelermine (train noob)anselmschueler@ieji.de
    Oct 19, 2026, 9:55 AM

    @2legged @mroach to be clear, I just have a general aversion to bit ly. not specific to the fediverse. I don’t like link shorteners, they feel very iffy to me

    I assumed this general sentiment was well-known enough that it wouldn’t be necessary to explain it fully. sorry for that

    (obviously just because I don’t like it doesn’t mean you’re evil or anything, but I still don’t like it)

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  • schuelermine (train noob)anselmschueler@ieji.de
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:51 PM

    @2legged @w_b @mroach there's a difference between Gaddafi and Bush (and Libya under Gaddafi and the US under Bush). Just because two things are bad in some ways and even in some similar ways doesn't mean they're equivalent in most ways…

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 1:03 PM

    Oh dear, @anselmschueler@ieji.de.

    A), the difference between Bush & Gadaffi is that Bush unleashed wars which killed millions of people and displaced tens of millions. Gadaffi didn't. You are ignoring the vastly greater evil.

    B) Using a particular domain does not in any way convey support for any regime.

    Knock it off,or get blocked.

    @w_b@mastodon.world @mroach

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 3:01 PM

    @w_b, you are a fuckwit. (Technical term. Definition in image)

    The .com top-level domain is run by Verizon, on behalf of the US DoJ. So that domain is controlled by the US regime.

    You chose to denounce users of a site on the .ly TLD as if that somehow indicated support for the regime. It doesn't.

    But you apply that lie only a small Arab state, rather than to the USA which was waging a brutal war against muslims.

    Now go back to your #MAGA cave, you imperialist troll. #Bye

    @mroach

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  • Jasper 🍉jasper@mastodon.nl
    Oct 19, 2026, 7:08 PM

    @2legged you were criticized a bit rudely, you're overreacting.

    Url shorteners, pointlessly reports the visit to a server for no reason. Mastodon already counts the url as a fixed amount of characters and doesn't display the whole link in the text. @w_b @mroach

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:51 PM

    @anselmschueler I am not aware of any actual problems. Theoretical vulnerability, yes. Actual problems, no.

    Most people don't think much about it. There are many pressing problems in the world, ajd many cases where shorteners are v useful.

    So you decided to pop up on this particular thread to make a point about a non-issue which you thought was widely known. 🙄

    Bit of a dick move, isn't it? Either way,

    I'm not calling you a bad guy. But this isn't the way to make friends.

    @mroach

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  • schuelermine (train noob)anselmschueler@ieji.de
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:55 PM

    @2legged @mroach I disagree that it's a dick move. More specifically, I think you shouldn't have any good reason for believing that I had a good reason to think commenting like that would be bad in any significant way.

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 1:11 PM

    Sod off, @anselmschueler. You are behaving as a very annoying, timewasting dickhead with no sense of proportion or of relevance. You have chosen to intrude on a political thread with a trivial technical point of no relevance to the topic.

    Enough. #Bye

    @mroach

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  • C. Jacobscjacobs73_perpetual_chrysalis@thistlenfern.org
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:09 AM

    @2legged This is glorious. Here I was, wondering if the world was so out of wack that the Onion had nothing left to satirize.

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  • UpLateGeekUpLateGeek@bitbang.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 6:04 AM

    @2legged later: Case Dismissed - Protester Successfully Convinces Judge Looting Was Exclusively For LLM Training Purposes

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 12:58 PM

    O fuxake, @RealGene.

    Can you read? If so, why didn't you read before replying?

    I did NOT shorten the URL. I typed out an already-shortened link in the image, in order to make it clickable.

    I did so to save work for readers. That's all.

    I deliberately did NOT expand the link, 'cos A) that would have confused readers and B) it would have added more work for me,

    If you wanna try to be a smart are, please stop to read & think before you post.

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  • RealGene ☣️RealGene@hachyderm.io
    Oct 19, 2026, 1:37 PM

    @2legged
    Here's an image of your post, displaying the shortened URL as a clickable link, followed by an image of the expanded URL of that link.

    So you retyped a shortened link, and that's somehow ok?

    I can read quite well, and I can Internet quite well also. And I'm a paying subscriber to The Onion.

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  • Claire McNab2legged@mastodon.ie
    Oct 19, 2026, 1:59 PM

    Dear @RealGene

    A URL was displayed in a graphic. It waa not ckickable.

    I typed it, so that it would be clickable.

    You chose to berate me for that.

    So I explained it you.

    But you still decided to come back here to waste more of my time with your bizarre obsession.

    I dunno whether you are a troll, a fool, or an obsessive who is unable to remove blinkers.

    But please, for the love of all that is holy, please get yourself professional help. Fast.

    And also feck right off away from me. #Bye

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