Alf Hog and the Bluesky X-odus (ft. Faine Greenewood)

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Show Notes

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Last month’s Loser Election prompted an X-odus from Elon Musk’s crumbling app to Bluesky, which grew by 1 million users per day toward the end of November. Despite the grim news cycles, Bluesky is far from all doom and gloom. It is, in fact, putting the social back in social networking.

This week, Katelyn and Christine chat with Faine Greenwood, who created the “Alf hog” meme that caught the attention of everyone from AOC to Jeri Ryan to Jake Tapper in the early days of Bluesky. Katelyn, Christine, and Faine have fun with verbal shitposting and Internet shitposting and give credit to the nascent trans accounts that helped shape Bluesky, which they hope will remain a safe and fun space amid an influx of anti-trans and anti-abortion trolls.

In Flytrap news: Subscribe to read Christine’s first essay about her colonoscopy for Christ, “The Red Mass Went Up My Ass,” edited by the inimitable Katelyn herself!

Links:

• Faine Greenwood on Bluesky: @faineg.bsky.social

• Follow Katelyn at @katelynburns.com and Christine at ​​@yourombudsmom.bsky.social on Bluesky! ‬

• Gael Cooper for CNET: Bluesky Climbs to 22 Million Users, and Luke Skywalker Is One: Should You Join?

• Faine Greenwood: The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions

• Memes, Memes Everywhere: Tom Bombadil with boobs, and  https://lychgate.tumblr.com/post/699130356376403968/i-have-painted-the-fellowship-of-the-big-naturals and https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gandalf-big-naturals

• Gita Jackson for The Aftermath: For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website

• Elon Green for The Awl: Topless Geraldo

• Furry art by Biohazard

• Bluesky’s trans origins—some trans people are now leaving due to harassment

• Simon’s Rock closing

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Cancel Me, Daddy is a Flytrap Media production. Edited by Maria Paleologos. Graphics by Eden M-W, music by D Peterschmidt. Transcription by Andrea Kszystyniak.

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