not a news thing but a kind of announcement!
DamageReport
not a news thing but a kind of announcement!
not a news thing but a kind of announcement!
DamageReport
which is to say, that I'm not quite done running this plurk yet
DamageReport
I started this plurk back in January 2017 because i knew, FUCKING KNEW, that Trump and the MAGAs were going to try to gaslight people as much as possible by throwing as much at us as they could so we'd forget what was happening
DamageReport
other people have done more thorough and well-researched jobs of keeping track of the disaster the four years of the Trump presidency has been
DamageReport
but my main concern was making sure people didn't fall for a lot of the disinfo campaigns that were prevalent during the lead up to the 2016 election. and the best way to combat against that was to have many many people looking at the info and vetting and finding either corresponding or conflicting messages
DamageReport
and you guys have been REALLY GREAT these past four years
DamageReport
all i did was set up the platform, y'all carried a lot of the efforts to make sure that everyone was keeping consistent, were checking their sources, and helping each other out when times were worse
DamageReport
during the protests and the elections, everyone has been really excellent in putting out information and contacts and advice for people who have been in the more volatile areas
DamageReport
we still need that
Rogal Dorn
Keep it going at least through the inauguration
DamageReport
so i'll be continuing to run this plurk a little while longer
DamageReport
hell, i might go another 4 years if only because i want to help as much as I can for the 2022 elections
DamageReport
and getting as much progressives into Congress as possible
DamageReport
that's the new goal, folks
DamageReport
excise the QAnons and Nazis
angstspecialist
oY
angstspecialist
It's a great goal!
duck bastard
Thank you!
angstspecialist
... that was a typo but I guess it worked out
'Sail
thank you!
thank you!
Exacerangutan
thank you so much!!!
DamageReport
so yeah, everyone get to partying, get to planning! come Monday, it's gonna be a shitshow of a lameduck season!
Exacerangutan
having one place where all this stuff was collected and could be discussed and analyzed among us has been invaluable
DamageReport
people in the states that flipped and in red states: STAY SAFE and reach out to your blue-states friends for help
DamageReport
we are here for you
Exacerangutan
even just freeing up the bandwidth otherwise dedicated to searching through dozens of plurks trying to find the thing someone had talked about
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
the centralized nature of the crowdsourcing was hella useful
wo ai ni ★
Fuck Nazis, here for it
thaneon
Thank you!
mango diequiri
thank you for all your hard work!
HOOUS POOUS
thank you for your service!
Jay
I wish I'd found this plurk sooner, glad you're going to keep it up and running
ColorOfBOOM
Thank you - it has been great having a central place to look for all this news
cacopheny
you're amazing, and thank you so much for everything. ALL OF YOU who contribute and analyze and come here in the spirit of helpfulness, THANK YOU. I'm so glad it's still going to keep going
ғᴇᴇʟs⭐ᴛᴇʀʀᴏʀɪsᴛ
Toitally agree with everyone here, thank you THANK YOU for doing this for all this time.
Any Day Now
Yeah, you really should be proud of this. You've helped keep this going for 4 years as much as we have. 
𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐑𝐃!!!!!
like if the past 4 years have taught me anything is... you have to stay aware of the news even when it's dull or boring because... you don't want it to be exciting.
𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐑𝐃!!!!!
and this plurk helped me with that, so thanks!
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
DamageReport
hahaha i saw that image and bOY
DamageReport
"May you live in interesting times" is, in fact, the curse it says it is
skerple
I never understood that curse when I was younger but hoo boy now I do
CricketMomJenn
Yeah, we've still got the winter to go through
誓い
This plurk has been an amazing resource, and I was hoping that you would continue running it, so I'm very happy to see this. Thank you so much for all of your hard work!
CricketMomJenn
^ Ditto
Cinnamuffin
thank you so much for everything, everyone! I’ll still be following this Plurk just to do so, but this has been such a good thing, despite all the crazy news it had.
Cinnamuffin
𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕤.
thank you for the hard work so far
thank you for the hard work so far
Aquifoliaceae
I've relied on this plurk so much for news the past 4 years, since I've barely been able to take radio/TV news - thank you so much!
CHARISMA SURFER
God thank you so much for keeping this plurk going for four damn years and everyone who contributed to it. You're all champions.
little prince
Thank you!
FETCH ⚔
yeah this has been a huge help
ʙᴇᴄᴋ 🍂
Thank you for maintaining this plurk. I know the work is far from over, but still
ʙᴇᴄᴋ 🍂
I always appreciated having a platform for information and discussion
Iʟʟᴏɢɪᴄᴀʟ.
thanks for running this plurk! I'm not always here, but when I am, it's been a great way to be able to get a glance of what's going on, both on big and smaller scales in a community of sane ass people <3
Moire Opie
haven't seen this before, not quite sure how it works.
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
usually there's a daily plurk for the day where all followers are able to plurk news/current events - allows for a centralized crowd-sourced newsfeed that people can check on plurk without having to trawl through the nine hundred other sites
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
it can skew a little america-centric but some contributors try to keep some international notes happening
Pteryx
While the plurk skews towards a left-wing clientele, sources are requested to be kept as neutral as possible, as I recall.
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
oh yeah, obviously - fair and balanced always, any analysis/op-eds labeled as such
Pteryx
Under normal circumstances there's a no-replurk policy, because that's triggered lots of blocks and gotten the account suspended thereby before.
DamageReport
the requirements for news is basically "if you can't find another source citing this news bit without citing the first news source, don't drop it in"
DamageReport
there was a big problem during the 2016 election where news media was citing each other without doing their own investigations
DamageReport
example of recent things is the Putin news: that was originally put out by The Sun, which is a tabloid. but now every smaller news media has put it out there, citing The Sun's article
DamageReport
but bigger news media, especially long-form investigative pieces, haven't said anything about it
DamageReport
so as fun as "Putin's stepping down" is to have dropped at the same time as "Destiel is canon", it's still just rumor-news, not news-news
𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐑𝐃!!!!!
wait, the Putin story isn't true?
DamageReport
it's unconfirmed
DamageReport
but that's basically why i tell people to mind sources and mind leanings
DamageReport
if you cite a source with very overt far-left leanings, see if you can't find other news sources with different leanings
DamageReport
news is very biased
DamageReport
the truth in the news is in what remains consistent throughout the different leanings and spins
DamageReport
and yes, uh. don't replurk unless I specifically state a plurk can be replurked
DamageReport
very early on, we got banned and a good friend of mine had to reach out to Plurk.Com and say "hey, this isn't a spam bot. please reenable?"
DamageReport
so that's why this plurk only has fans, no friends and we don't replurk unless specified
Pteryx
How about this plurk? It's turned into a decent "mission statement" plurk.
DamageReport
i'll allow it
DamageReport
generally, i try to keep the replurkable plurks down to Action Items and big PSAs
DamageReport
especially when protests and elections are going on
DamageReport
also, as someone noted: if you do want to share an op/ed piece, just note that it is an op/ed
DamageReport
there has been an uptick in long-form media thinking that op/eds are news
DamageReport
example: WaPo's "perspective" pieces can lean a bit that way
DamageReport
oh, and we content warn before dropping links with content warning-needed articles
DamageReport
embolden the CWs
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
i think also it's like. discussion is cool but the plurks are mainly for news/links? so if the commentaries/debates get long then best to take it elsewhere so that others can just kind of check in and read what they've come for
DamageReport
yes. most times people are good at knowing when commentary/discussion is starting to crowd up news space. i think there's only been like 3-4 times i've had to be like "hey, kids..."
DamageReport
(not that y'all're kids but like... mod things)
Moire Opie
So where does one find this plurk? I think I've been here 2 years and have not come across it anywhere.
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
.....this is it lol
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
damagereport
Pteryx
Yeah, just follow the OP's account.
DamageReport
\o
autumnal li
thank you so so much, again, for setting this up. thanks to all the people who post links and updates.
thank you so so much, again, for setting this up. thanks to all the people who post links and updates.
Exacerangutan
actually addressing what was just said above, one of the great things about this plurk series is everyone source-checking, verifying, and reviewing one another's articles
Exacerangutan
since it's easy with even the best intentions to get caught up in your own head or wrapped up in hype, etc
Exacerangutan
so props also to everyone who's shared links and everyone who's provided context or corrections related to links
dragillionaire
ahhhhh this is a good plurk
little prince
Over the four years I’ve had fun being a regular DR commenter and I definitely think a lot more critically about my media consumption thanks to this account.
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
^ same tbh
curieosity。
yes, thanks to DamageReport and to all of its contributors.
Hooded Figure
^all of this 
TurtleTrash_Fru
Ditto on the mission going forward FUCK NAZIS AND FUCK QANON
FAFO FOMO
Thanks so much for keeping this going for the last four years (?!?)
FAFO FOMO
It's been extremely helpful and often comforting
HOOUS POOUS
in the midterms the qanons were despairing. wonder how they're coping now
little prince
I follow a couple of accounts that keep track of Qcumbers.
little prince
Some of them are still clinging to “the plan.@
little prince
Some are despairing.
little prince
Most are moving to Parler.
little prince
Because of Facebook and Twitter “censorship” (read: fact checking).
HOOUS POOUS
last time a few jumped ship
Moire Opie
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
: 😆😆 need an emoji for things going whoosh
𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔢
𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔢
^ will this work?
NekoInc, MSPM
Ive seen some decide Q was a liberal plant to keep Trump supporters down somehow
autumnal li
lmao
𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚
dammit wrong DR
Moire Opie
𝔞𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔠𝔢
: love it, but it's not in my emoji library for hendy use next time!
Moire Opie
NekoInc, MSPM
: funny thing is that's closer to reality than the current line. Q is certainly a method of keeping people down by distracting them with fantasyland narratives. At this point "liberals" has just become a free-floating signifier to apply to anything perceived as a threat. Bogeyman, scapegoat, etc.
Exacerangutan
oh yeah on the right it just means "the people I'm programmed to hate for their ideas"