Not really safe for work. Still, an interesting use of social media scraping.
Patrick
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on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Thanks, hadn't seen that. So the French Scientist was randomly selected for screening and the TSA (m…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Are we talking about power responding to insults to power and limiting ourselves to that? Because, i…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25I was talking about lèse-majesté. You are free to talk about whatever topic you desire. on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Well, if stuff like that doesn't count either, I'm going to be stuck talking about prosecutions of p…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/24/25https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25That is more a problem with the application of qualified immunity than with anything else.
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Lee: The people screaming genocide were applying the very broadly defined Convention Against Genocid…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25...yes? https://www.newsweek.com/border-patrol-checking-phones-social-media-messages-us-immigration-… on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25Is censorshp for stuff like "Fauci funded the labs that leaked Covid 19" considered "prosecution" or…
on Open Mic for the week of 3/17/25We figured then. and know now, that Zuckerberg was classified in the wrong phylum. He does not belon…
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Wow that is interesting to look at. Boy that could get even uglier if you did that with some other words.Report
I’m surprised and saddened that the F word is trending so high. I’ve tried to get my nephew to see that “gay” and “no homo” are hurtful, but without much success.Report
Dumb yet sincere question, with no way to answer, but how many of the instances do you think come from actual gay people tweeting to other gay people, much like black people might call each other ‘my nigger’?Report
I’d say very few. You can see the the tweets — it doesn’t have that feel to it.Report
I didn’t have the patience to sit through much scrolling.Report
I’m not sure what offends me more – the potential homophobia or the confirmed illiteracy.Report
I always found “No Homo” to be an interesting phenomenon.
Essentially, it’s saying, “I’m going to engage in what might be a stereotypically gay behavior but I’m not gay!” Which you would think could serve to disarm stereotypes. It doesn’t seem to do that but I wonder if, over time, it is breaking down those stereotypes.
It doesn’t make it any less offensive, of course.Report