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Favourite summary of the current situation, from the Guardian and @firstdogonthemoon : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Those little doodles are so amusing!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks like it's cropped from something. Anyone have the original?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nevermind. I'm an idiot. OP linked the original

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No worries! Here is the full picture from the article anyway for anyone interested

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does the timeline look like on Threads?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bluesky, the app with a hate speech dial that banned someone for community guideline violations for saying "shut up cracker" has no nazis?

Methinks the comic is coming from inside the house.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Cracker" is an actual insult in the American southeast. I know to a Californian or a Brit it must like calling somebody a poltroon or some other absurdly out of date insult.

It's originally a term of abuse used by rich whites against poor whites in the south. Since been adopted predominantly by black users (and in my experience rich southern whites use "redneck" or "country" where they might have used "cracker" before.