this is it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJczLlwp-d8
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
The funniest, most accurate explanation of why a blue checkmark is Elon's mark of death. pic.twitter.com/ejUGYeVLvM— Cooper (@Cooperstreaming) April 25, 2023
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
nothing about the conspiracy theory that elon is running an alt account posing as his 3 year old kid?
he's weird and seemingly on drugs enough that i could believe it
If you are dumb like I am let me explain: Elon showed a screenshot which included him logged into his alt which is a very disturbing alt at best. https://t.co/5m8fnRIm2p— barbarism critic 🛸 #StopCopCity (@SxarletRed) April 24, 2023
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:06 (one year ago) link
bit of it on the elon thread, i dont think its a true alt/sock its more what it says in its name a test account for elon, prob particularly to see what twitters like for a normal user that doesnt have millions of followers, some weird posts def tho lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
i mean if youre trying to have a secret account you usually dont put your name in it
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:13 (one year ago) link
Unless ... you're an attention craving moron?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link
yea the most charitable reading is that he's using it to see what content a minor might see/a normal user but the replies are fucking weird
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:17 (one year ago) link
I was thinking about the Sneetches the other day too, but the big difference is that the huckster in the Sneetches — Sylvester McMonkey McBean — knows the stars he's selling (and later removing) are worthless, and he makes a ton of money off of them. Elon thinks most people are as blue-check-obsessed as he and his sad fanboys are, and he is losing cash hand over fist because he misunderstands what's actually valuable about Twitter. Or what was, anyway. Should've called McBean.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
feel like this mad man might actually have destroyed twitter with $8 tweets at the top of replies.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:31 (one year ago) link
yeah, it was fun blocking them, but there are just too many dummies
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
thinking back to before elon owned twitter watching him and his cronies convince each other that a subscription service was a no brainer "id pay $5 month for twitter" theyd say to each other
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:39 (one year ago) link
Show me a Shakespeare play that had lewdness or sexual behavior. I'll wait.— Xxarna Z (@xxenna66) April 24, 2023
honestly it’s very funny to me that tweets like this are getting promoted now
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 18:44 (one year ago) link
why did I read the vile responses to that thread, jfc.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
I mean he appears to literally be logged into it in that screenshot so I don't think it's a 'conspiracy theory' per se
also this is exactly the kind of shit he posts under his main account so why wouldn't it be
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:01 (one year ago) link
i've never had a twitter account, but i sometimes read certain accounts, and click through from ILX twitter embeds sometimes. just clicking around a teeny bit today, this thing of the blue-check people getting bumped to the top of the replies means every single post is just instantly encrusted with hateful right-wing garbage. like, that was always there, but now it's pushed up past any kind of response that even had the potential to be worthwhile.
and then those awful replies, being more visible, seem to attract more replies (and thus, i think, algorithmic juice) from people trying to argue against them. which maybe comes from a good place, but it means that almost all of the energy being put into the site is either trolling or engaging with trolls. like, great. great job. great website. the only question is how long it takes for its status as horrendously unpleasant right-wing cesspool to really proliferate in the public consciousness and displace whatever conception folks already have when they hear the word "Twitter." but it'll happen.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:49 (one year ago) link
tbf most tweets on my tl even ones from pretty big accounts still dont have any blue check replies, but then the ones that do yeah its real bad
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
maybe i'm rate limited or something but on a musk post it's not possible to scroll to the non-verified (i.e. actually funny) replies. the infinite scroll site breaks before you get there.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
yeah, there are certain types of posts that attract the blue checks-- the Kevin Bacon one is a prime example. Hillary tweeted her support for Biden and I don't know if it's possible to scroll past the blue check replies.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
Doc otm, it's incredible how Elon took the one aspect of social media that everyone hates - the nonstop bickering over idiotic right wing disinfo - and made it the main feature of the site.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 April 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link
Particularly sucks to be a woman working for a company that was bought by a guy on a post-divorce woman-hating binge.
New: Twitter used to offer employees 20 weeks of paid parental leave. That’s being changed to whatever is required by law in the region where the employees work, along with a “top up” of two weeks of leave, per internal docs.— kate conger (@kateconger) April 25, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
Or a guy, for that matter, assuming "parental leave" means either parent. Still feels overtly "fuck women" tho.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:05 (one year ago) link
tbf most tweets on my tl even ones from pretty big accounts still dont have any blue check replies Same.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 25 April 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
i mean the breakup was kind of divorce-like with the weird two kids angle but they weren’t married
― mh, Wednesday, 26 April 2023 00:56 (one year ago) link
xps but surely the kid's going to be with the nanny from 2 weeks on anyway?
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 01:11 (one year ago) link
If books exist 20 years from now, I want to read Grimes’s kids’ tell-all.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 01:13 (one year ago) link
Right sorry, post-breakup woman-hating binge.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
I don’t think there’s many women left. Not one of the women I worked with survived the layoffs the first week after he took over. There’s a class action (among many) asserting those were discriminatory, which seems self-evident.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 26 April 2023 01:57 (one year ago) link
yesssssss
Bluesky’s first main character incident is currently happening:4/27/23 - “dril, who cannot get the username ‘dril’ on Bluesky for some reason, is anti-sex worker because of the #BlockTheBlue hashtag” pic.twitter.com/iEE6kYebce— Ryan Broderick (@broderick) April 27, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:37 (one year ago) link
hmm looks promising, run by jack just the incompetent weird to make it work
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:39 (one year ago) link
its happening pic.twitter.com/bmYvcH4mQU— 🕳⚰️💨 (@hedlike_a_hole) April 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
deepfake
― mark s, Thursday, 27 April 2023 17:49 (one year ago) link
new platform aside, this kind of clumsy dialogue happens when you enter a discussion regarding a clear example of intersectionality, and instead of actually wanting to discuss it, instantly imprint your hot take and indicate that those who don't accept it as canon statement are bad people.
man dril leaving is awesome. want more hi profile twitter celebs to bounce now too.
― Cthulhu Diamond Phillips (Neanderthal), Thursday, 27 April 2023 18:19 (one year ago) link
are they replacing twitter with twitter
― imago, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:13 (one year ago) link
The invite only thing feels like a real Google+ throwback.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:23 (one year ago) link
pretty normal for new services ramping up just dont want to overheat the servers and so forth
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:25 (one year ago) link
yeah to be fair i don't think this is a marketing thing. running a twitter-like service is hard operationally. they've set up invites so they will double in users every two weeks, which is already pretty fast.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:27 (one year ago) link
wild to release a site without dms the one thing all sites need
to be clear bluesky doesn't have dms or a way to block people yet, so it's not actually ready for primetime— your himbo boyfriend (@swolecialism) April 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
i'm in @mlw.bsky.social
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
plz send me invite
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
like 10 bots already follow me wtf
― 龜, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
i don't have one yet but you will get my first i promise u. i think poster 龜 is in too (via simping to the same poster as me).
this is the one dril post so far (nsfw)
https://cdn.bsky.social/imgproxy/98ORHULVqkGefqHmDO2Dmkc3z5rRfxFIHEu82vh_m9Q/rs:fit:2000:2000:1:0/plain/bafkreicm7dn4m766jbnt4fo3dhzpxb24vsokoc6zmqbdwq5lrxsxlgo43y@jpeg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
i’m @smashedmcdouble.bsky.social
― 龜, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:04 (one year ago) link
i am kirkcameronofficial.bsky.social
― z_tbd, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
https://media.tenor.com/bHGUqVIKzhoAAAAC/let-me-in-eric-andre.gif
― mark s, Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
lmao first post the algorithm recommended to me was "thoughts on 9/11" and a picture of the twin towers on fire.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 April 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
They're gonna have to change a bunch of this if they don't want to get dragged to hell and back through the regulatory ringer in Europe. https://t.co/Kiz02LHKXg— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 April 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link
not falling for this again no ones gonna take my @ early anyway
― ciderpress, Thursday, 27 April 2023 23:56 (one year ago) link
i don't have one yet but you will get my first i promise u
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, April 27, 2023 4:03 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
thanking u friend
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 April 2023 00:04 (one year ago) link
You can’t screenshot it? What kinda bullshit is that? (Also, can apps disable screenshot?)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 28 April 2023 00:06 (one year ago) link