Aug 17, 2026, 5:42 AMYou can remove a huge amount of trash from your mastodong experience by skimming the replies to this post and blocking anyone visibly struggling with such esoteric concepts as irony, consent, room-reading, civility, or relevance. https://mastodon.social/@jwz/117106720849031751
Aug 17, 2026, 6:14 AM@rmi slopfondlers has entered my vocabulary 😂
Aug 17, 2026, 6:15 AM@rmi@cloudisland.nz Okay, I have to ask if "mastodong" is intentional or a typo? Either way I got a giggle out of it.
Aug 17, 2026, 9:29 PM@deathkitten Intentional, sadly. I wish I was that kind of funny naturally, but the truth is certain kinds of threads attract people whose entire online presence is centred around a complex genital-measurement game that only they understand, and they bring a certain energy I find distasteful. I don’t actually hate Mastodon, it’s the least shitty social network, I just hate the pedestrian takes from all the boring dong-wielders.
Aug 17, 2026, 9:37 PM@rmi@cloudisland.nz Absolutely fair! It was one of those things that could easily have gone either way. The Masto HOA gets blocked by me swiftly whenever I trip over their dick waving, and jwz is cursed with being dipshit bait, so most of his threads gives good block fodder. It would be more amusing if I didn't also think about how exhausting it must be for him to have to deal with.
Aug 17, 2026, 9:51 PM@deathkitten I’ve been enjoying the JWZ Internet Experience since literally the early 90s, and every day I give thanks for the indefinable magic that makes dipshits show their whole ass almost instantly. But yeah, it must suck.
Aug 17, 2026, 9:54 PM@rmi@cloudisland.nz I've been reading his Behind DNA blog since before I ever stepped foot into DNA Lounge (and hope it's still there whenever I feel safe enough in enclosed spaces with plague rats strangers again), but not as long as you! I think I was pointed at it by a friend who hadn't actually been to the club until I took her to a concert there.
Indeed. evacide and Matt Blaze's posts are also deep veins of dipshittery to feed your blocklist.
I'm just imagining how much worse it would be if jwz was female. Some kind of stupidity singularity, probably.
Aug 17, 2026, 11:26 PM@rmi @deathkitten It's like The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. So sad. [walks away]
@rmi well, that's true, do not poke the honey badger