MELTDOWN MAY #1: SKEET SKEET
A month of delights
It’s finally here, MELTDOWN MAY!
We’re chucking the Meltdown Monday newsletter in the trash this month and instead celebrating the Month best known for spectacular meltdowns.
31 Days, 31 Posts
Niedermeyer and I are throwing down 31 sick posts, memes and and rants for this most sacred month.
#1 : Skeet Skeet
The hot new social media site, Blue Sky, is taking the world by storm. Let me break it down for you: the website looks like garbage, performance is sluggish, you cannot send direct messages, upload videos or even post gifs.
But… it kind of feels like a Twitter time capsule from a decade ago and, importantly, is not run by the saddest divorced dad on the planet worth hundreds of billions of dollars. So, naturally, posters are flocking to the site.
There was no obvious names for posts (they’re tweets on twitter and toots on mastadon), so people just mashed “Sky” with “Tweet” to get “Skeet.” Skeet also happens to be a rather vulger term for ejaculated semen. It’s silly and also kind of gross, like an edgier and more graphic “69” joke. So Musk has got to be furious.
Not sure what it is exactly, but I feel excited to log in to my account, skeet a bunch and crack jokes with the growing community of shitposters, journalists and various C-level celebrities. It feels like a winner as a post-twitter social media hub in a way that Mastodon or other Twitter clones haven’t to date.
Musk has got to be furious, and you know he’s just fuming, screaming at his engineers to devise a way to destroy BlueSky. “Destroy some load-bearing code at Twitter if you must!!!!” he cries.
Everyone will be pleased to hear that Musk is taking recent developments well because he’s now shooting the shit with notoriously toxic and controversial Anti-LGBTQ Trolling Account, Libs of TikTok. Musk has subscribed to the account as well. Subscriptions are Musk’s newest hare-brained scheme for turning around Twitter after scaring most advertisers away by posting weird shit and inviting Literal Nazis back to post on Twitter.
In a hilarious twist of fate, Blue Sky was the brainchild of former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and was being funded by Twitter as a decentralized open source experiment. Musk canceled the contract with BlueSky shortly after acquiring the company.
If that wasn’t enough, Jack Dorsey was shit-talking Musk on the new hot app:
Dorsey made his comments in response to a question from a Bluesky user who asked, “Do you think Elon has proven to be the best possible steward for the platform? Answer earnestly.”
“No,” Dorsey said on Friday. “Nor do I think he acted right after realizing his timing was bad.”
Dorsey also blamed Twitter’s board, which sued to enforce the company’s acquisition deal with Musk in July 2022.
“Nor do I think the board should have forced the sale,” he continued. “It all went south. But it happened and all we can do now is build something to avoid that ever happening again. So I’m happy [Bluesky CEO] Jay and team and nostr devs exist and building it.”
lol and also lmao, Meltdown May is great.
reckon this is going to be sick and also make me sick
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