My Usenet haunts back in the day was alt.techsupport.recovery and aus.gothic.
Years worth of inane dribble, lost to the ether. Well not completely lost - its all still there in Google Groups but the weird formatitng makes it impossible to follow really.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:45 (ten months ago) link
sorry it was aus.culture.gothic. Confusing my Usenet and my IRC!
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:46 (ten months ago) link
alt.music.pearl-jam babyee
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:52 (ten months ago) link
bendy and i were on alt.music.chapel-hill
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 November 2023 16:12 (ten months ago) link
man rec.bicycles.racing got increasingly astonishingly hostile and weird and insider-y after i'd been around there for a couple years, like late 90s, it def made me unlikely to branch out or stay.
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:14 (ten months ago) link
this is true of literally every usenet group I ever saw tho
― stet, Friday, 10 November 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
bsky-social-qxllh-e2xbtbsky-social-pneey-yi5vabsky-social-d2s76-n5vpgbsky-social-xbqaa-icpvobsky-social-rjd7f-a27gi
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 11 November 2023 23:05 (ten months ago) link
maybe those two groups are complete but google only archived a fraction of Usenet posts overall (another reason that following threads is often impossible)
― vashti funyuns (sic), Sunday, 12 November 2023 17:21 (ten months ago) link
Yeah sorry when I say its "all still there" it of course likely isnt, but I've certainly been able to find plenty of the 99-2002 era I was posting. And yeah a lot of threading's broken/mucked up.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 November 2023 05:08 (ten months ago) link
Unfortunately for years now it's all been a wasteland of spam and porn and porn spam.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 13 November 2023 05:10 (ten months ago) link
congrats to Ned on doing numbers
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 00:20 (ten months ago) link
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 02:35 (ten months ago) link
It has been a DAY.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 03:52 (ten months ago) link
i think youre forgetting about whos really important here, the christian baby
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 04:05 (ten months ago) link
very disappointed Ned's first plug wasn't ilx
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 13:08 (ten months ago) link
how is christian babby formed
― rob, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 15:11 (ten months ago) link
blimey, now albini is moving in on the parachuting baby chaos.was a weird 5 mins when i woke up and checked my bluesky app this morning to say the least.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:01 (ten months ago) link
Roffle.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:20 (ten months ago) link
wait is the baby parachute thing really based on a quora question? like that's some content starvation stuff
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:30 (ten months ago) link
yeah and apparently its a series
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mxbft4m75i7frqznbpvimsza/bafkreiddmslo366z3ey4o4inpdvht6yfkr5522mmnuclfh3qgcrerckjya@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:32 (ten months ago) link
the wording is a bit unclear but it appears to be asking if you would it a home run with a christian baby or just a sac fly
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
the original via ned for those not up on the latest blue sky news https://bsky.app/profile/nedraggett.bsky.social/post/3ke5ypctefc2o
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kqdyhnklmmv34nmml6btyqv6/bafkreibenzfhi547b2xtqcv53af3vuisvls3lum5f2emchmra2aw6cduau@jpeg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
these are the dumbest things and I really wanna expound at great length on how poisoned the view of God they propose is. the "for money" one is a no-brainer and so's the other one. God's omniscient. he knows you renounced Jesus because the baby made you do it to save both of your lives, He's not mad because He's not a child. Godalfuckinmighty this shit chafes me. I did what I had to do and when the kid grew up he apologized, we're square now.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:39 (ten months ago) link
those aren't the baseball words, I'm reasonably confident
― rob, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
Supposedly the original poster of these and similar nonsense is a really vicious and hateful troll, which sounds about right, sadly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
Lie to the baby to get it to pull the chute, then explain how this proves there is no God once safely on the ground.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
id be like sure whatever you want skydiving talking baby ive never seen any shit like this before
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:42 (ten months ago) link
smh why not try engaging the baby in rational debate
― rob, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
j/k, I don't negotiate with babies
― rob, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:45 (ten months ago) link
to be fair, most parents don't.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
yeah this. oh wow mr. baby you just exploded the whole concept of reality and there's no way we're not living in a simulation now, sure, I renounce all gods high and low, I sing the body electric, what fuckin ever
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:48 (ten months ago) link
I’d be all “how are things at E*TRADE these days”
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:51 (ten months ago) link
"hello are you the boss baby"
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 18:51 (ten months ago) link
quora's always been a trip to look at for different reasons but now there seems to be a whole lot of trolling
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 20:44 (ten months ago) link
Yeah it’s jumped the baby shark
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 20:51 (ten months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3ked2oybdjf2k
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:36 (ten months ago) link
crazy idea
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:37 (ten months ago) link
You'd think they'd prioritize some other stuff.
― Phair · Jagger/Richards · Carl Perkins (morrisp), Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:42 (ten months ago) link
got my first bluesky like from an egirl bot today, its becoming a real app
https://i.imgur.com/DqkayP9.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:20 (ten months ago) link
ask a beginner question and get a reply from a legend of the field, the promises of twitter and its clones is still alive
https://i.imgur.com/d1UTGPt.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 19:10 (ten months ago) link
This kind of happened to me recently, re: a Twin Peaks question someone idly asked (I looped in a podcast guy, who mentioned Mark Frost & Harley Peyton; then someone looped in both those guys, who are apparently on Bluesky; and Peyton addressed the question).
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 2 December 2023 19:36 (ten months ago) link
siick
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 19:37 (ten months ago) link
what was the question
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 19:49 (ten months ago) link
This was the original post in the thread
― This field is required (morrisp), Saturday, 2 December 2023 20:10 (ten months ago) link
nice
― lag∞n, Sunday, 3 December 2023 05:12 (ten months ago) link
https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3kh3ndyijp52o
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 22 December 2023 00:34 (nine months ago) link
They should work on letting you edit posts… after getting used to that function on Threads and Mastodon, not being able to do it kind of stinks!
― I wanna key his car, I wanna make him lunch (morrisp), Friday, 22 December 2023 00:37 (nine months ago) link
do anyone want invite or have we hit ilx saturation
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:16 (nine months ago) link
i have an invite! does your ilxmail work?
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Friday, 22 December 2023 02:33 (nine months ago) link
lol read that too quickly and thought you were looking for one, nvm
(i have the codes)