Groan plus maybe a computer blooping?

Arctic

Wow, that’s a really long travel

What is your metric for grooviness?

How do I tell my kids that I can’t give them a firm handshake goodnight anymore?

Cultures enduring a plague

Oh no, don’t threaten them with passivity

Kiss?

Whenever anybody makes a threat to elections, it’s best to ████ them.

Where in the world is it standardized to write times like that?

People are still confused about it.

Yes, I did originally think of describing it as “common knowledge” but opted against that phrasing.

If I understand this correctly:

• Face masks are decent if the wearer is sick, but are not effective if the wearer is around sick people

• Respirators are effective if the wearer is sick as well as if the wearer is around sick people

I think this was public knowledge since around 2020.

Wolverine has a belly button but he has not regrown his umbilical cord

My guess is that it’s an offshoot of the Scunthorpe Problem. My theory (without hard evidence) is that Bing/DDG have a blacklist of terms to completely filter out from results, but a whitelist of words that contain those terms which are exceptions to the filter. This would explain why “torpedo” is ok but less common terms like “Sharpedo” wouldn’t be individually flagged as ok. You’d have to find other examples with other blocked words to test this idea.

It could have been me

Oh yeah, it could have been me

Why didn’t I say, why didn’t I say

No, no, no

She’s so swishy in her satin and tat

In her frock coat and bipperty-bopperty hat

Oh God, I could do better than that

Life hack: turn the doorknob to open a door

Conservatives and their woke rebrands, too soft and sensitive to hear words

Sounds like a cross between the Streisand Effect and a very very mild and/or subjective information hazard

Edit: the phrase “Cutting off one’s nose to spite one’s face” also comes to mind

Engagement bait?

Edit: Or in even more general terms, “counterintuitive”?

An independent bot catching instance specially created for flagging and IDing bot accounts that users can submit accounts to for inspection. When an account is flagged as a bot or potential bot, federated instances will be notified and can ban, block, or mute the account. Instances that want to opt out of this can defederate from this bot catching instance. Instances with a high rate of bot accounts can be defederated from.

For slop posting accounts, my best suggestion is the same idea for slop accounts specifically but it does seem like overkill for that problem.

Pinging @Rimu@piefed.social since they’re doing a great job of working to make the Threadiverse a better place and experience

Monday’s made with mematic