Twitter C/D

i did it

should have drafted it all out first to proofread and add BUT and MORE EMOTION

this is the worst tweetshower i can recall seeing, i mean come on dude

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/806619518340648961

an andy rooney cosplay account is tweeting at me rn jfc

― lag∞n, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 8:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah patton oswalt is pretty tiresome

lol

just saw all this, not sure how kevin k would have much idea about my intelligence anyway - in the case of jeet i'd say self-awareness is a vital part of intelligence, though that's just my opinion.

fwiw i also thought manthreading was a fairly silly way of describing it but the main thrust of the article, that there are lots of really poorly constructed threads, was pretty sound. it's not just political threads either, i'm starting to see people do long threads about their lives or their childhood or something. the fact that jeet calls them "essays" is fairly off too - i'd say a thread on twitter is more similar to a speech or a rant, or a presentation maybe.

these two tweets were a p comprehensive takedown:

https://twitter.com/AlbertBurneko/status/810840899471245312

Somehow a tweet of mine made it into a Twitter Moment™ despite the fact that it didn't have any likes or retweets. (It's accumulated a few since.) Weird.

those are made by people so someone prob just searched the topic and thought it was a good tweet

what was yr good tweet?

People! Imagine.

This was the tweet:
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/814483133798240256

lol awesome

Wow, so Morgan Fairchild, Martina Navratilova, and David Fahrenthold himself retweeted it, and now it's my most popular tweet ever.

first xls, then jeopardy, now this? u lead a charmed life

Cory Booker
@CoryBooker

Hate is a prison
And you won't jail me
I'm gunna love you
And
Set us both free.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/815054471634026496

lol
this has been up for 4+ hours now and he's trying to play it off as intentional???????????

Yes, this is magnificent.

Lmao.

a happy ending after all

hahahaha

basically nobody with a job should be on social media is what I learned

― a Warren Beatty film about Earth (El Tomboto)

what i learned is that spending lots of time on social media is a great pathway to not having a job

LMAO

hooooo boy

the other lesson to draw is perhaps that working from home will always be a bad idea one way or another

the joshtpm saga is hilarious

how in the fuuuuuuck

don't really know how to feel about his attempt to brazen this out and claim he posted the video on purpose

it is brazy

I've watched it upward of fifty times now but I still don't think either of the women is kellyanne conway or w/e

so many replies

ts https://twitter.com/spliced_/status/814874495773278212

decent concept

everyone's missing the point w/ joshtpm... that is obv the sort of tastefully banal vid someone would intentionally select to attempt a risque take, but in order to be able to make that informed selection at all he has outed himself as the wild degenerate porn head

Lindy West: I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators

can someone explain the phenom of people changing their first name to "punished" -- like "Joe Smith" becomes "<Punished> Smith".

Is this a reference to something that i'm missing? it must be.

those r ppl who are punished

I'm trying to catch up on the Chapo podcasts and... they're so long

everyone's missing the point w/ joshtpm... that is obv the sort of tastefully banal vid someone would intentionally select to attempt a risque take, but in order to be able to make that informed selection at all he has outed himself as the wild degenerate porn head

After thinking about it for an extremely long time I have decided JoshTPM is not a kink double agent. He is a genuinely boring "tasteful pornography" enthusiast who also enjoys his moderate amounts of wine and liquor. There is no top-secret WAM+pegging cache. He's just a hard working Ph. D. with his own small business. He loves him some Bob Dylan. He's boring as fuck!

pretending he posted on purpose instead of deleting it is pretty funny

he never apologized, blamed readership for being prudes, tweeted thru it, and now nobody cares. tough!

LibDad Mindset

twitter - [journos of any kind] = perfect twitter

eh journalists are pretty central to my twitter experience. if you just care about your buddies and weird twitter i don't see why tumblr can't fulfill that need

bc they're not on tumblr

no one is on tumblr

tumblr was cool kind of sad to see it die, though there are still some good ones

Apart from the occasional fix of arty smut tumblr never served any purpose for me. Not been on tumblr for years. It doesn't exist anymore in my world and I have no idea what the hell, if anything, is going on there these days.

Twitter without journos though: where's the fun in that?

journos on twitter is actually how you get the arty smut fix these days

That is not entirely wrong :)

they did say a close relationship

I think it sucks that Twitter has turned out to be a real boon for, more than anyone else, a coterie swho already write for a living, already has a venue for its work, already has a following . Of ourse I can, and have, curated my feed to exclude all but a few, but the Big Thing on Twitter will always center around a journalistic figure and here new piece/latest beef etc. I like to imagine a Twitter where these already prominent figures (good as many may be) were not allowed to step in and take over.

ack, sorry for errors, it's late