What Grinds Your Gears? :)

[IndigoErth]

Twitter? The site a Musk Ox bought to let terrible people have their accounts back? What, were you accidently the most terrible person across the entire global internet for a second? lol

Ironic that they'd ban anyone anymore and for seemingly no reason...

[tmntpower1988]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

What did you do? Twitter even allows people to post racist stuff and not get banned.

I'm trying to figure it out, I still can't get on. One of the people I usually chat to on Twitter also has a Tumblr account and he told me that he couldn't understand it either that I never posted anything offensive. I would talk about horror movies and my favourite kills in the movies but a lot of horror fans did that This is a mystery to me. Someone had put up a post about being pissed off with people who say "I'm so OCD about this." and that they don't really have OCD then I was agreeing with her.

Originally Posted by Zulithe

Move to bluesky or threads.

I prefer bluesky though. Threads is a bit busier for now but I think bluesky has a chance to win that audience in the end.

The way things are going with Twitter, it isn't going to exist in its current incarnation for much longer anyway. It's hemorrhaging money like nothing else out there.

I might give Bluesky a try, one of my friends from Twitter recommended it to me.

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Twitter? The site a Musk Ox bought to let terrible people have their accounts back? What, were you accidently the most terrible person across the entire global internet for a second? lol

Ironic that they'd ban anyone anymore and for seemingly no reason...

I read online that they've banned people's accounts for posting too much on it that they see them as spammers. When I was reading through the rules it said that they could ban you if they think your account was hacked. I used Twitter on the computer in my mother's house, some times I would use it on my phone, I'd use it on my uncle's iPad and then I'd use it on my computer in my dad's house. Any time I'd log in using a different device they would bring up a message about my account being logged into with a different device and that they suspect that my account was hacked.

I had taken videos with my phone of parts of episodes of the TMNT series I was watching on my TV and uploaded them to Twitter. Would that have counted as breaking rules? Then again I've seen plenty of people put up videos they took of shows they were watching on TV.

I had self-harmed when my OCD was really bad and I talked about it to people on Twitter who suffer from OCD too. One of the rules on Twitter was not to encourage self-harm, would they have thought I was encouraging others to self-harm?

I was checking out Reddit and it appears other people are having a similar problem to me. Someone said he got suspended for making a joke comment about strangling his friend for making some comment. Twitter thought he was being serious about strangling his friend. My younger brother said that there were a bunch of people being suspended too because Twitter thought their comments were offensive.

There was a 2 minutes and 20 seconds limit on videos that could be uploaded to Twitter if you have a basic account. I had downloaded videos from YouTube of TV/movie scenes and used a video editor to cut out bits so I could make the length of the video 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

I had put up a GIF from Terrifier 3 too, I know people are offended by that movie. I'm not sure what else to think of.

There was a guy claiming to be Elon Musk sending me DM's on Twitter asking me details about myself and I ignored whoever it was and I think he got annoyed. I doubt the real him would even give a **** about talking to me.

I'm going through a list of possible reasons in my head but I'm baffled by it. It's driving my OCD nuts too over thinking it.

[IndigoErth]

That sucks. Can send a message to a mod or something on Reddit about it? Or make a new Reddit account? Twitter, I dunno if it's even worth it anymore.





Slight grind... Anyone else notice this forum periodically not working lately? Sometimes it won't load or submit and I have to just stop and let it sit for a bit and check back to submit something. Not doing it constantly, but way more often than usual.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I hate taking my cat to the vet. She is a great cat, but she hates her travel crate more than anything else in the world. I have to trap her in the bathroom and wrap her up like a burrito in a towel. Somehow she hurt her own eyeball this morning so I have to go through this process this evening. I am not looking forward to it. I think she accidently scratched her own eye.

[ResidentEvil7]

I love my male cat, but I'm getting real sick of cleaning up after all his messes lately! He pukes under my bed (I can't imagine what it must look like under there by now), he's pissing and crapping outside the litter box that has fresh litter, he begs for food and water after just feeding him! Like I said, I love my cat, but getting a bit sick of being his maid and servant.

Thank God he's never been majorly sick or injured to the point I ever had to take him to a vet in all the 10 years I've had him. Even if I had to take him to the vet, do you know what it'll take to get him in his carrier, because he refuses to be picked up and runs away if he suspects you're going to pick him up.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by ResidentEvil7

he's pissing and crapping outside the litter box that has fresh litter

How high are the sides of the box? Supposedly it's extremely common for cats to have some arthritis by age 10 and going outside the box can be a sign of that if the sides of the box are high enough to hurt to get in and out of. Doesn't look high to us, but for a small-ish animal much lower to the ground it's more of an obstacle.

Just a thought. There's usually a reason for it if they'd previously done their businesses in the proper place before.

Edit: Male cats can also get a blockage in their narrower (than female) urethra. One of ours ended up with that and wasn't peeing normally, and barely.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

Indigo is right. Usually if a cat is going to the bathroom outside of its litter box it's an indication that something isn't quite right. Is the cat experiencing diarrhea? Sometimes cat's can't hold their stool if it's not solid. It took awhile for me to find a good dry food for my cat. I now only give her the Blue Blissful Belly cat food. It comes in a pink bag. Try that out.

[ResidentEvil7]

This cat jumps off of a 3-foot high carpeted tree onto hard wood floor and doesn't seem hurt by it. Also no he doesn't have diarrhea; his poop still looks like tootsie rolls. I just keep thinking he just doesn't make it to the litter box on time and goes right outside it.

[Mad Dog McMutt]

I just got back home from a 2 hour long drive to visit my mom. One thing that grinds my gears is always seeing a whole bunch of dead animals that get hit by cars on the highway. It is so heartbreaking and it just doesn't feel right. This is their world just as much as it is ours. I wish that every highway had fencing along the sides to prevent animals from wondering. Maybe put a gate every half mile just for people to walk through.

[IndigoErth]

Microsoft killing the Edge browser spell check... Annoying that it points out misspellings, but then acts like it turned illiterate with no suggested corrections.

Edit: No wait, found another. WTF Imgur, why remove the images link? I want my organized folders back. It was bad enough I could no longer keep images sorted like that and now they remove that link all together.

[Autbot_Benz]

My NECA Haulathon Pee Wee figure still hasn’t shipped. I ordered him a week ago he has been stuck in preparing to ship and the delivery date keeps changing.

Target CS did give me a 5 dollar gift card as an apology for the delay though

[Coola Yagami]

What grinds my gears today...

I order a subscription box called The Finest Butcher. Package was supposed to come yesterday. It didn't.

Instead my tracking reads

Your item was forwarded to a different address at 3:43 pm on May 8, 2025 in [REDACTED]. This was because of forwarding instructions or because the address or ZIP Code on the label was incorrect.

The post office doesn't know where it is. I either get 'I don't knows', re-quote the above message, which doesn't tell me where it is, and any call I attempt to the branch in town goes to voice mail.

So unless by some miracle it gets here in the next few days, I think it's just gone. Friend of mine told me the above means they delivered it to the wrong address. Without knowing exactly where, I guess I'm SOL.

I'm still ****ing angry. Thank god it only cost like 22 bucks. I'm trying not to let it get to me, but I'm still very damned angry about this.

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by Autbot_Benz

My NECA Haulathon Pee Wee figure still hasn’t shipped. I ordered him a week ago he has been stuck in preparing to ship and the delivery date keeps changing.

Target CS did give me a 5 dollar gift card as an apology for the delay though

Pee Wee just shipped a little while ago

[Coola Yagami]

Crisis averted. Got the box today. Idk what the hell happened yesterday.

[Coola Yagami]

So ICE trucks have been seen in the area. Nice. Guess I'm staying in.

Born in America and still doesn't mean squat.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

So ICE trucks have been seen in the area. Nice. Guess I'm staying in.

Born in America and still doesn't mean squat.

Coola, stay safe. Have your drivers license and social security card in your wallet at all times. You can never be too careful, these ICE guys have been targeting any hispanics to meet their "quota."

You're "one of the good ones," Coola, if I ever see ICE I'll tell them to personally skip over your door. You hear that, Coola, you're "one of the good ones!"

As a white guy I have nothing to fear, but I'm concerned for my hispanics.

[ToTheNines]

Aren’t you Jewish? You might be next.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

. You can never be too careful, these ICE guys have been targeting any hispanics to meet their "quota."

I know you think you're joking but that's exactly it, hence my concern despite being a born citizen.

[IndigoErth]

Yikes, hope you stay safe and under the radar. It's insane the people we hear about that are wrongly nabbed by them and they just don't care.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Those people don't get deported, they just never get heard from again.

Possible it's human traffickers taking advantage...? Too scary.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

As a white guy I have nothing to fear

If they get their way with axing birthright citizenship, doesn't that create a loophole allowing them to potentially just toss any of us? Even if not now, still leaves an opening for future leadership.

Edit: At the rate the world is going, world leaders someday reaching for real world equivalents of "cartoon villainy" nearly feels slightly less like just a joke... If things are just increasingly a mess, well... good luck, future generations, sorry your parents (or authorities) will force you into the world.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Possible it's human traffickers taking advantage...? Too scary.

Yep. Those guys and some white supremacist groups doing white supremist things. Main reason they all wears masks. The irony is with the real ICE wearing masks you can't tell em apart. No badge number or anything. I laugh at the people posting stuff like 'they should unmask and identify themselves' as if they're gonna actually listen and not flat out grab you and take you in. That's pretty much like asking a burglar to kindly take their shoes off and wipe their feet as if they're not gonna bust in and attack you regardless.

Luckily I'm a homebody and barely travel alone but I shouldn't want to head out someplace with the fear of never making it back home. Also luckily I currently live in a mostly black area. It's the heavily Hispanic areas that are reporting ICE sightings today.

Still knocked the wind out of my sails today. So yes, this does pretty much grind my gears.