Isaac Alves

@isaacalves.bsky.social

Husband, father, marine aquarist enthusiast, designer, business owner

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I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

Techdirt@techdirt.com · last yr.

Cowardly Disney Caves To Brendan Carr’s Bogus Censorial Threats, Pulling Jimmy Kimmel There are multiple ways into this story, but almost all of the reporting on what’s happened claims that Disney pulled talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” over comments that Kimmel made about Charlie…

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

I hesitated to share this because it is so chilling, but I think it needs to be seen The most revolting post from a official government social media account I've ever seen

Benj Edwards@benjedwards.com · 2y ago

This is even worse than it looks. I checked on X, and the handcuffs image is a video--posted by the official White House account--that shows them chaining someone up and making them march shackled onto a plane x.com/WhiteHouse/s... IMO this is a huge red flag for potential human rights abuses

Okay, one more random tip for newbies: if someone quote-skeets (yes, they're called skeets, shut up) you in a way to dunk on your or annoy you, you can "detach" your skeet from the quote, so that it no longer shows. This is also useful in ending brigading attacks.