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Global pandemic starting and spreading? Active genocides? Active war zones? Famines?Nope! 2019-2020 Twitter was the "most miserable place on earth". It's like a Drama Queen and 1st World White Privilege somehow made a baby and didn't love it enough.

Also Elon's friend Peter Thiel literally pays his salary ...

When did he leave Twitter?

I wouldn't dunk on him. I'm 5'7 and can't jump. But I'd throw a sweet alley-oop pass for someone taller and more athletic to dunk.

An unerring ability to be wrong

I have saved my first block on Bsky as a treat and I would love nothing more than to make Nate my first

He would not get approved by @gaysof.bsky.social and write an op-ed in the New York Times about it.

“It’s a living”

exactly-- less noise, clutter, BS and real connections. I'm newb (should have been an early adopter but was not really on social when all that went down), but glad to be here now :)) refreshing. Real conversations.

Jesus, that’s a good line.

He’s not even on BlueSky yet he’s already on hundreds of blocklists somehow

The odds of being popular here are against him.

The not an asshole lane.

The sheer irony of that tweet

i put nate silver in my van and i am the winner

props on that line, if I’d thought of that I’d retire from the insult game, job done

Good.

It’s kinda weird, because he could easily block the dunks if he wanted to.

burst out laughing when i read your tweet thank you

Lol! So true! Words to live by for sure.

he is annoying but at the end of the day, his model was right

I’ve met him in person. He’s a shit.

we must imagine sisyphus salty

He'll join when he needs it to boost his income to support his gambling habit.

He’s also a gambling addict

Dude wants to go back to 2012 when he was kinda right about something one time

Well put

Not our fault: he's ruined his own reputation, all by his little old self.

Yes, because Nate is a maverick, a free thinker if you will, one who refuses to be boxed in by conventional thinking. That's why people don't praise him.

excuse me, it's spelled bluek*y

No dunking unless it’s Geoff Garin or Nate Silver. Then lots of dunking.

Oddly, I have to come across a post where someone misses him and wishes he were here

he's not joining because there are no draft kings ads here

Also? He doesn't have a clue about what the twitter good years. No one wants 2020 Twitter back. It's sucked since then!

That’s interesting, because I thought the most miserable place on earth, was the place folks that believed in his predictions lived.

He is right about 2019-20 Twitter though. The site was already on a downward trajectory, it’s just Elon got in the cockpit, aimed the nose toward the ground and then kicked in the afterburners

I think he saw Taylor Lorenz's post and drew a conclusion.

I'd agree with you if I believed he could predict anything

Now if only google could take the hint. . .

Yet not so funny! But ya, I get it.

We’re getting the band back together

“this site really does feel like the depths of hell but in a good way”

Tbf 30-50 feral hogs was 2019 and trump got COVID in 20 and those were fun days, but definitely not the same vibes

It's so strange remembering how it was

He's never had fun online. He's enjoyed being a popular wonk and being a data pervert. There is no joy in his work and now he can't even pretend he knows things.

Like hey man maybe this particular shift is more personal than you realize, maybe social media was happier when people were happier with you instead of mad at you for “missing” a forecast

I mostly agree, but think a difference for him in specific is that he wants to be in with the 'cool' crowd and well, most of us are living in 2024 now. So its 2012 vibes with 2024 maturity. He's still stuck in 2015 maturity at best, so he's been left behind and is sad about that.

There is nothing stopping people from coming in and setting up their own communities (lib-grifters are doing it as we speak). Like you said it’s not that they can’t build an audience here. It’s that they hate the thought of their posts not being forced on people who don’t want to see them.

You misspelled indolence and complacency

There is all that, but with no "left audience" he wouldn't be happy. We just don't give a rat's ass to his awful takes. He doesn't like speeches to his choir much; only when they dogpile. He has nothing to say to them.

horsey books

"everything happens so much" has never been so true

Someone get him to join....

How dumb. The best day ever on twitter was a hen trump caught Covid and almost died. Pure euphoria.

I appreciate that he is blocking himself to save me the two seconds

With a chorus of toga-clad Dicks Vitale singing "give him the rock babybeeee"

Nate silver is f’ing insufferable. Agh

Yes just before we all block his dumb ass.

Nah, he'd get blocked so hard. There'd just be tumbleweeds blowing through his skyline

'a very particular lane' aka 'having empathy'

The laugh I just laughed.

He just wants "one good day..."

His reference to a Web site as a.) a “place on Earth” and b.) the “most miserable” one in 2019* suggests he might not be the sharpest tool in the shed. 🤔 (*surely a surprise to more than a few Yemenis and Syrians)

The best part is he'll eventually have to join.

have fun with your Nazis, nerd

"In a very particular lane" you mean X lmao

Coward!

Nate Silver Degenerate Gambler is not someone whose takes anyone should care about anymore.

No surprising that Nate prefers the 2024 Twitter filled with bots and grifters.

I'm taking this to mean he did sign up and then got booted the second he started word vomiting and now he's butthurt

That’s more of an incentive than disincentive for him. At a psychological level he probably just doesn’t want to be so late to the party

A poll of who is happy he isn’t coming here would be his most accurate in a while.

Dude wants to go back to 2015 when his ass was relevant.

“I would totally go to that party but I don’t want to.” Was never asked and no one cared.

A particular lane, Nate Silver? This is the guy who changes lanes only to have the new lane he joins become the slower moving lane.

2019 twitter was great, there were still plenty of obnoxious dipshits all over the place then not sure what he’s on about

2012-15 Twitter wasn’t much better than 2019-20 Twitter. He just misses when he was relevant.

We don't want his hacky ass here anyway

Silverpus Wrecked

Feel free to stay away.

in 3-6 months he will be here saying it’s good actually

The disappointment with Mr. Silver continues, unabated.

I must be new. I have no idea who Nate Silver is.

I love that comparison. Congratulations on creating a new expression!

Oh, he'll be here, eventually. Even he'll get bored, once X becomes Truth X 2025 and all journalists are gone.

I have many regrets but one of most infuriating his buying his yellow ass book so long ago--just to have some baby boomer who just heard about him praise his skinny ass after reading his newest book--because he brags about poker, which she *thinks* her little prince is good at too. F_ck!!

Nah. We would just Threads him.... Blockety block

Blunderkind

Good riddance. And I'll block him if he does show up.

neonate is such a baby

Why do people dislike Nate?

🤔 what did Nate Silver do immediately following 2015 that may have made Twitter worse for him?

Why is Nate out here trying to threaten me with a good time?

It seems like the worst people in the world have a problem with #bluesky. Looks like I belong here, not on #twitter

Despite what Mr. Silver said in that tweet, it looks like he may have, in fact, already joined Bluesky. There's an account for natesilver538.bsky.social --although it's not active yet. It could be an imposter, I guess, but it has 9.5K followers, leading me to think that it is a legit account.

Yeah he got grabbed by one of the wallmasters from Zelda

If Nate Silver wants me to pay attention to him, he's just gonna have to post it here anyway. My attention, my rules.

look, he knows it’s the slam dunk contest over here and everyone is willing to hand out 10s and boy am I ready

Why would they dunk on him I thought BlueSky was the place for civil conversation?

well, now I *have* to parody him 🤔 wonder what I should rename him Nate Copper

I'm sorry but not one single person anywhere, even still on Twitter thinks it was good in 2020. And most of the people here are explicitly nostalgic for 2014 Twitter. He's inventing a reality as an excuse.

Every platform has a lot of issues

These dudes are like - I wanna be free to be nasty to you, but you are not free to block me, because that takes my freedom away. Also, little does he know that the best Twitter was before 2007-2012 (and it's kinda what BSky feels like).

He's not joining because Peter Thiel signs his paycheck.

Nate is butt hurt !

Friends of mine are saying it's like Twitter 2010, which was apparently a good vintage. Nate Silver hasn't grown in my estimation, rather akin to Twitter.

Nate ain’t got the stone to post anymore

He would get massive blocks, be hard on his ego.

What particular lane? Did anyone ask?

lol over here it's not bannable to ask him if he's paid back Joey The Thumb the five hundred grand he dropped betting on air hockey

Nobody tell him

Kid who doesn’t get invited to parties: “I don’t like drinking or partying. It makes everyone act so stupid.”

Most definitely