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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Barron Harkonnen just completed a remodel so that he can put his home on the market and you're laughing?

Barron Harkonnen from Dune pt 1 sitting in an inky black bath looking summarily unimpressed.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I hope those 93 people weep bitterly about it for the rest of their lives.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Quote post this with a picture of the airplane you'll accept as a bribe

Various classical diagrams of Indian vimana.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

upload the 3rd photo from your gallery no matter what it is

George Bush Learning About 9/11, also known as Andrew Card Whispering in George Bush's Ear, refers to a photograph of White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card informing U.S. President George W. Bush about the September 11th attacks. Starting in 2020, the photograph has been used in image macro and caption memes in which Bush is notified about various unpleasant developments, typically with the captions beginning "Sir, A Second X Has Hit" or "Mr. President, X."

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Welcoming descendants of apartheid south Africa and attacking China over organ harvesting in the same breath.

Section 2 article 4 of H.R. 1503: Stop Forced Organ Harvesting Act of 2025 reading "to hold accountable persons implicated, including members of the Chinese Communist Party, in forced organ harvesting and trafficking in persons for purposes of the removal of organs."

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

End of discussion.

$Two panel meme. Top panel: A still from Marvel's Loki series. The Citadel at the End of Time, an asteroid looking construct floating alone amidst the iridescent backdrop of the sacred timeline. Pristine. Uniform. A caption at the bottom of the panel reads "git rebase". Bottom panel: A fractured sacred timeline. Branches reach out in all directions as the previously uniform sacred timeline begins to diverge into multiple universes (the multiverse). A caption at the bottom of the panel reads "git merge".$

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Visited the groomer and got a little bow for good behavior.

Milky the cat, a gray tabby, wearing a cute pink bow and staring directly into the camera while seated next to an open window.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Lucifer can crush me like a grape with her mind for all I care.

Lucifer is one of the main antagonists of Angel Cop. A product of an extensive military program to create psychic super-soldiers, she possesses an enormous level of telekinetic power. She can also absorb the memories, abilities and life force of others.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Historically, the assassination is seen as a turning point. Tensions followed the assassination, with fears that the country would erupt in violence. Nelson Mandela addressed the nation appealing for calm, in a speech regarded as presidential even though he was not yet president of the country:

Tonight I am reaching out to every single South African, black and white, from the very depths of my being. A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice, this assassin. The cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani has sent shock waves throughout the country and the world. ... Now is the time for all South Africans to stand together against those who, from any quarter, wish to destroy what Chris Hani gave his life for – the freedom of all of us.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hey, quick question; Since you're a nazi, why shouldn't you lose teeth every time you open your mouth?

The Three Arrows is a social democratic political symbol associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), used in the late history of the Weimar Republic. First conceived for the SPD-dominated Iron Front as a symbol of the social democratic resistance against Nazism in 1932, it became an official symbol of the Party during the November 1932 German federal election, representing their opposition towards monarchism, Nazism, and communism.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

You can always count on the New York Times to be on the wrong side of history 😒 www.nytimes.com/1964/06/25/a...

NEWARK, June 24—Huldah Clark, who in 1962 was sent to the Soviet Union by her parents for schooling, was arrested last night and charged with juvenile offenses.

Huldah, now 17 years old, is between school terms and is living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Clark of 64 Seventh Avenue in the Christopher Columbus Homes housing project.

According to the police, she tried to interfere when two radio patrolmen took her brothers, Samuel, 14, and Curtis, 10, into custody for exploding fireworks.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I went looking for info on Huldah Clark but couldn't find much of anything. Getty images provided the image here (check the alt text). If you know any more about her I'd love to hear it 🙂

Huldah Clark, a Black teenage girl, surrounded by her Russian classmates, 29th September 1961. Original Caption reads: 'Moscow: Huldah Clark (finger on chin), the 14 year old Negro girl from Newark , N.J. who is to receive her education in the Soviet Union, seems to be sizing up her new Russian schoolmates September 29, 1961. Huldah is in Russia because it was her father's opinion that the schooling available to the girl in the U.S. is not as good as that in Russia. Since the story came out, the Russian propaganda machine has been making hay with it, charging that Huldah was a victim of discrimination and had to come to the U.S.S.R. to get an education'.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Overt sociopath behavior detected. Prepare for destruction.

@whstancil.bsky.social; It's a serious policy question: what are we going to do with the (at least) tens of thousands of people out there who have been made into overt sociopaths by the internet?

Thembo @thembo.bsky.social:
I think you should probably have your internet taken away.

Will Stancil: I'm going to destroy you and your sociopath friends :)

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It's always some zionist in the comments putting their hate for brown and black people on full display.

Screenshot of @leatherguyd.bsky.social's bio showing Irish, zionist, and pride flags

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

When I accidentally click a reddit link in search results and have a good laugh because I have not had an account for half a decade.

A reddit mascot wearing a fedora standing with arms crossed with a login prompt reading "You've been blocked by network security. To continue, log in to your Reddit account or use your developer token. If you think you've been blocked by mistake, file a ticket below and we'll look into it."

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Augusta wrote to President Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, on January 7. 1863, offering his services as a surgeon:

Toronto, Canada West, January 7, 1863.

To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the U.S.,

Sir,

Having seen that it is intended to garrison the U.S. forts with colored troops, I beg leave to apply to you for an appointment as surgeon to some of the coloured regiments, or as physician to some of the depots of "freedmen". I was compelled to leave my native country, and come to this on account of prejudice against colour, for the purpose of obtaining a knowledge of my profession, and having accomplished that object, at one of the principle educational institutions of this Province, I am now prepared to practice it, and would like to be in a position where I can be of use to my race.

If you will take the matter into favorable consideration, I am given satisfactory references as to character and qualification from some of the most distinguished members of the profession in this city where I have been in practice for about six years.

I remain sir, yours very respectfully,

A.T. Augusta, Bachelor of Medicine, Trinity College, Toronto

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

You appear to agree wholeheartedly. When you reply to the original skeet multiple times rather than in a thread it throws off the balance of replies to likes. Some people might see that as a bit... enthusiastic.

A screenshot with markup showing the relationship between replies and likes often referred to as a ratio.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

It's finally starting to feel like the good ol' days over on hellsite before it became hellsite 😌 Praise the algorithm!

Two skeets stacked up on the skyline. The top skeet displays a thumbnail for a video about wrestling with WWE professional wrestler Bianca Belair - a particularly fit black woman wrestling professional - standing with hands on her hips looking to her right while wearing a highly stylized black micro top, hoop earrings, and elbow-length black gloves. Bianca looks like she means business.

The bottom skeet is simply a news headline posing the question "Why do Al company logos look like buttholes?" dated April 10th, 2025.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Yeah... Always keep receipts because zionists are fragile. Fuck you very much, @pooroldjohnnyray.bsky.social

Proud antisemite zionist @pooroldjohnnyray.bsky.social hiding behind the Palestinian flag.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Just think about how Karl Marx was right about everything.

Land Institute soil scientist Jerry Glover holding Kernza perennial grain and roots to the side above his head level while the roots extend to the ground at his feet. Photo ©Jim Richardson. The roots of the fully exposed Kernza grain are labeled "liberalism" while Jerry is labeled with "Marxist". The implication is that Marxists root out and expose liberalism.

In the background native Kernza grain is seen in a cross section of soil with healthy green grass shooting up above the soil and a root system extending far beneath the surface. This health grain is labeled "theory". The grass exists in its natural environment and can continue to be productive and healthy as nature intended.

In the background to the right is annual (as opposed to perennial) grain labeled as "neoliberalism". The annual grain has a shallow root system which does not extend significantly below the surface. It exists solely for profits and provides little benefit to the environment. Agriculture such as this annual grain lead to the creation of the dust bowl in the USA.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I forget the punchline but feel free to crawl back to wherever you came from, Ashwin.

The pattern has repeated itself with LiveJournal and even Twitter. Actor and investor Ashton Kutcher appeared on CNN in 2009 and challenged the network to see whose account could hit 1 million Twitter followers first. (Kutcher won.) The stunt led to a rush of users flooding the microblogging platform.

Lubchansky thinks this moment presents an opportunity for people to examine their reply etiquette.

“Read the whole post before you respond. Take a moment to respond. And if you're going to respond with a joke, and we're not friends already, go look and see if somebody's made it already,” Lubchansky says. “Because there's a really good chance they have.”

Meanwhile, Brown considers the block function on Bluesky to be a favor to its recipient.

“If someone comes into my comments and they just really, really don't understand, usually I just block them so we don't run into each other again,” she says. “No hard feelings.” It’s a different approach than the norm on X, where quote-tweets viciously insulting the original post are part of the platform’s noxious fabric.

“I'm not trying to repeat the part of Twitter where the internet makes me mad every day,” Brown says.

Satirical site The Onion has the fifth largest Bluesky account, with over 1.2 million followers. Onion CEO Ben Collins doesn’t mind people replying to jokes in earnest. On the contrary, he says it’s “the funniest part of the internet.”

“It means more people are seeing your jokes,” he says. “If everyone is immediately breaking out into uproarious applause at your joke, your audience is too small.”

As someone who regularly used and posted on Twitter for years, I share the frustration when one of my jokey posts is misread or taken as fact. But it also strikes me as unfair to shame someone because they haven’t been slamming their head on the same wall of the internet that I have.

Not everyone crawled here from the radioactive sewer of X dot com. As we all get settled along with our new neighbors, it might be helpful to remember that. If not, at least Bluesky has very robust blocking features.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Here's a joke for ya. Ever heard the one about low engagement and avoiding paywalls?

Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke.
By Ashwin Rodrigues, who has become the punchline.
9 - 11 minutes.

Amy Brown was not screaming. She was not crying. She was not throwing up.

But on Bluesky she said that she was doing all three, simultaneously. Brown’s husband visited a Walgreens while he was on a business trip in Ohio in February. He told her the prices were cheaper than in California, where they live.

The price disparity led her to post that she was screaming, crying, and throwing up. Several Bluesky users responded to tell her she was exaggerating, and that nobody could possibly care that much. They were right. She didn’t. She was referencing one of the internet’s common sayings, one used so often that it’s the name of a Spotify compilation.

What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue. Some users are unable to decipher jokes, or they are deliberately trying to miss the point to make a different one. Many Bluesky users migrated over from X, where the top DOGE who did Nazi-like salutes on television is live-tweeting the destruction of American infrastructure. That’s a different and much more serious problem. Still, the seeming obliviousness-slash-self-seriousness of many Bluesky users is grating when you’re not used to it.

“They're speaking a completely different language than me,” Brown says. “We're both speaking English, but I'm speaking internet.”

Brown, a former social media manager for Wendy’s, joined Bluesky in 2023. Her X account was banned after she impersonated Elon Musk for almost two hours on November 4, 2022.

The lack of humor detection is made worse by tech: algorithmically curated content, à la Bluesky’s Discover feed, surfaces random posts to random people. A Maddow referral on Bluesky might see an ex-Twitter user’s vivid description of what they’d do to the Hamburglar if they saw him in person and react with genuine horror and confusion. It’s also PEBKAC issue—problem exists between keyboard and chair. You cannot force a person to understand a joke. The only action more futile is to get mad about it.

If these disparate groups have anything in common, it’s disgust with gigantic tech companies led by unpalatable CEOs, paired with a yearning to post in the lingua franca of their previously beloved platforms. Everyone’s brains are broken in different ways. I empathize with those who don’t get the joke. But I empathize more with the people trying to make them.

To paraphrase an Axios story from last year, America is in the midst of a gullibility crisis. People can’t tell what’s AI, a manipulated screenshot, a joke, or a lie. Many of us have opened up our relationship with reality. And the political climate has exacerbated the issue, according to Josh Gondelman, a comedian who previously worked as a producer and writer on Desus & Mero and wrote for Last Week Tonight With John Oliver.

“Since Trump’s run for the presidency, there has been a rapidly accelerating not-getting-jokes on the internet,” Gondelman says.

By Gondelman’s recollection, Bluesky hit a point where it was populated enough with active users to be both fun and useful at some point within the past six months. “But that also means it hit the tipping point where it’s populated enough to be annoying,” he says, laughing.

Mattie Lubchansky, an Ignatz Award–winning cartoonist, author, and illustrator, describes herself as “a primarily joke-posting kind of person.” The humor-detection issue of Bluesky is part of a broader phenomenon she has observed, which she calls “riff collapse.”

The day after the 2025 Oscars, Lubchansky posted: “i haven't seen any of the oscar movies this year, nor have i seen any movie ever made. i'm afraid that the people trapped inside the screen will be angry at me for not helping them escape; and once they are out i will be punished. anyway, here's how the awards validated an opinion i already had.”

The replies that followed were earnest opinions and arguments about Oscar-nominated films. Some people asked for movie recommendations. Some unironically recommended she check out The Purple Rose of Cairo. Only a handful of people seem to have understood that she was joking. Lubchansky says she sees this type of “riff collapse” happen daily, and she thinks it’s because of the influx of new users from Meta and X.

But the frustrations around new social platforms isn’t new. Networks will continue to pop up, ideally, and longtime users will continue to be annoyed by newbies.

In the early-to-mid-1990s, people often first accessed the internet when they arrived at college. Around September of every year, a bunch of new users would log on to their university’s network and start poking around the forums and discussion groups.

“The internet old timers would be very frustrated, because the new people didn’t know the social norms,” says technologist, writer, and former WIRED contributor Anil Dash. “Exactly the phenomenon we’re seeing right now.” September, for the most online netizens, was a dreaded time of the year. AOL opened the floodgates, allowing anyone to access the internet at any time. AOL’s bloom coincided with the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which deregulated the telco industry and brought internet connectivity to homes and institutions across the US.

This period was called the Eternal September, with “wave after wave of newbies getting online,” Dash says.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

He described the character as not being "anyone's sidekick" and "his own hero, his own man", saying that "In the space of 15 pages, black people moved from invisible to inevitable." Of other African-American characters in comics, he later said:

A photo of Dwayne McDuffie at the Paley Center for Media with quote "You only had two types of characters available for children. You had the stupid angry brute and the he's-smart-but-he's-black characters. And they were all colored either this Hershey-bar shade of brown, a sickly looking gray or purple. I've never seen anyone that's gray or purple before in my life. There was no diversity and almost no accuracy among the characters of color at all."

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Ah yes. There's the takeaway. We just need more directed hate to fix this...

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

April 1st used to be my annual "grab a random lightly melanated person from thispersonnotexist.org and pretend things aren't so bad" celebration since before moving to bsky from hellsite. Given how things are going I think I will forego the annual festivities. It's rough out there. Stay safe y'all

A screenshot from thispersonnotexist.org showing presumably "white" people between the ages of 35 and 50 with a neutral facial expression though the options do not appear to work.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Check your followers. Update your lists. Etc. @methyog.bsky.social in case you've already done the needful.

A screenshot of @methyog.bsky.social celebrating being rightfully called out for using a photo of an individual with Down's syndrome as an insult.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

without downloading new pics, describe your gender with one image.

Full frontal SpongeBob staring down at you proudly from atop a cliff. A few blades of grass stand between SpongeBob and your desire for an answer.

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Pit two characters against each other in a fight who are played by the same voice actor.

A fan poster depicting Samurai Jack (left) and tortured, future Samurai Jack (right) voiced by Phil LaMarr.

Static Shock (Virgil Hawkins) voiced by Phil LaMarr

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🕵🏿‍♂️4th Wall Support Group🫆 @4thwallguide.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"There's no way that these three are D tier" a concerned narrator could be heard commenting over the predictable sounds of a troubled internal dialogue.