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Vice President JD Vance’s Bluesky account was suspended within minutes of him joining the platform. His posts criticized medical treatments for transgender youth and claimed pharmaceutical influence over healthcare decisions.

https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/jd-vance-suspended-from-bluesky-minutes-after-joining-what-was-his-first-post-article-152105999

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

sealioning

Damn, didn't even touch my coffee and already learning something today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] knightmare1147@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did... Did the word get invented because of a meme that has nothing to do with sea lions? Language is amazing.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

It does have to do with sea lions?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's that all the way down. For multiple centuries the word for gay women in multiple languages has been the demonym of a small island in Greece because their most famous resident was a queer poet in antiquity.

The word "guy" as a common noun comes from the proper noun (fun fact Julius Caesar was a Guy, well, a Gaius) because someone with that name tried to kill parliament and language is weird

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

I would like to have a civil conversation about your statement.