Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”
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Ken White
@Popehat@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Lawsplainer and podcaster.
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Okay. Migrated from masthead.social to mastodon.social. Meanwhile, here's the Substack on my decision to leave Twitter.
Deeply concerned that I'm in an echo chamber now where nobody will scream GROOMER at me or tell me to take my meds or explain how ACTUALLY the FBI orchestrated 1/6
Here is how to distinguish Elon Musk’s new X.com from 1994 computer strategy gaming classic XCOM: one involves a brave struggle against freakish, hideous alien intelligence seeking to undermine world civilization with advanced technology and the other is a computer game
I’ve been incredibly angry — furious, even for ME — about the most loathsome and contemptible defamation suit I’ve ever seen in my career, and now Mike Masnick at TechDirt has written about the despicable case and about my anti-SLAPP motion to dismiss it. Reading it just makes me angrier.
What if I told you there is no end point to Elon Musk’s insecurity, emotional brokenness, and spastic egotism
I just want to point out that my rule “It’s not RICO” refers to the federal RICO statute and is not intended to refer to any state statutes and offer may not be good in Georgia
I am tolerant of many things -- some things -- okay at least two things.
But people who don't Google things that obviously can be Googled and instead come to me like the Oracle of fuckin Delphi or something, without even the common goddamned courtesy to bring be a donut or something, are not one of them.
Permitting child labor is the current Libertarian Party’s top policy goal. Second is easing laws against workplace sexual harassment.
To be fair, Chad’s my client and he can be a bit much.
Remember, on your site, the First Amendment gives you free speech and free association rights to ban whomever you want for whatever petty reasons you want.
Republicans sure are snowflakes.
BU President whines about dissent, calls it "cancel culture"
https://popehat.substack.com/p/speech-or-cancel-culture-at-boston
@MiriShuli@mstdn.social @Pope@mstdn.social I appreciate the effective illustration.
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@arossp@mastodon.social How many libs does that own?
Also that seems classic libertarian. Current Libertarian Party thought seems to be you have a God-given right for the government to protect you from disfavored groups they don't like.
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@AriCohn@masto.ai The very annoying part is that there’s a bipartisan support for this sort of thoughtless dipshittery.
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@matt@oliphaunt.social @MiriShuli@mstdn.social @Pope@mstdn.social But see, you give yourself away with “can’t handle criticism.” Your expectation is that faced with obnoxiousness — say, the sort of self-serious white person who routinely calls other white people white as an insult, or the accusation of “colonizing social media” — people will thank-you-sir-may-I-have-another. I’m laughing in your face instead. I am handling criticism - just not the way you feel entitled to be handled.
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@matt@oliphaunt.social @MiriShuli@mstdn.social @Pope@mstdn.social A careful — or honest — reader would see that didn’t say I was not coming back, but that I didn’t post or monitor much.
But that’s the precise sort of smug but clueless scoldiness that’s part of the ethos here I find unpleasant. My role is to sit respectfully while insufferable bien-pensants instruct me? No thank you.
@markhughes@mastodon.social And I appreciate you and others here illustrating what it would be like if an HOA ran a social media platform.
@aadriasola@ruby.social yes. Feel free to email.
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@Trevorgoodchild @bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org see, to you, someone with a weird Jack Dorsey obsession posting it at me is normal, but making fun of the culture that produces that is not normal. Sure?