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lastfmuser
imagine if people still took last names from their trade like fisher, smith and fletcher. imagine some guy introducing himself to you as jonathan podcaster

scribblestheunicorn
It’s him,

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  • cheers_queers@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    one of the podcasts i listen to made a joke about Tim Onion buying Infowars and i am still cracking up over it.

    also I’m super upset that someone already took the handle tim_apple on everything😤

    • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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      4 hours ago

      It’s getting harder to discern reality from satire, but Tim Onion has actually been The Onion’s CEO’s name* ever since he bought that job. And he is trying to buy InfoWars. (And the company formerly known as Twitter has joined Jones’ fight to prevent it.)

      *(his bluesky display name, at least)