one guy playing musical saw reasonably well
Is that where you're locked in a room and forced to listen to Dave Matthews?
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 16:58 (nine months ago) link
"i wanna play a SONG"
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:11 (nine months ago) link
deleted my 2 accounts. first full day without twitter in a while (I had an account for many years but only started really actively using it around 2018). does this mean I have to go to primary sources for my news now and not get it delivered to me by angry 12 year olds?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:12 (nine months ago) link
“I don’t like being harassed at my private home. I’ve been doxed so many times by the left and right, I have a constant flow of people pulling over, taking pictures, even leaving death threats in my mailbox,” Buchanan wrote.
NEW from me: I spent five days in Wewahitchka, Florida, the home of Catturd. There I learned that the mysterious MAGA influencer is essentially unknown in his own backyard--and heard from the man himself, Phillip BuchananThe debut of Hi-Res at @dailydot https://t.co/Ha4lWHPEHv— Claire Goforth (@claire_goforth) July 25, 2023
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
his followers are claiming the writer "doxxed" him.
...
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:20 (nine months ago) link
litterdoxxed
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
Ok what
Eventually he fronted a rock band with an extremely silly, fruit-themed name, which gigged at establishments like Bullwinkle’s Saloon in Tallahassee and Bubba’s Pizza in Panama City Beach, and was reportedly on the radar of the Dust Brothers, producers who worked on Beck’s Odelay.
Surprised(?) RS would publish this without confirming with the source!
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:49 (nine months ago) link
wondering where this was reported
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 17:58 (nine months ago) link
app keeps crashing on my phone, they must be trying to push an update for the logo
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 19:02 (nine months ago) link
It's common to have "shita" in a Japanese name, so naturally people use it for their account name. Apparently "X" didn't take that in account when they decided to mass suspend users that has "shit" in their account name and so many Japan users are getting suspended. pic.twitter.com/oXtJRQcNoh— ハイガイ / AJ (@highgai) July 25, 2023
― chihuahuau, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 20:16 (nine months ago) link
why would they be banning that at all?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 20:57 (nine months ago) link
Does anyone know a really, really good copyright lawyer
― ✖, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:02 (nine months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:04 (nine months ago) link
booming
― 龜, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:05 (nine months ago) link
hahahaha
― frogbs, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 21:07 (nine months ago) link
Waitwait so "cat turd" is fine but "shit" is not? FFS.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:21 (nine months ago) link
Banning "shit" in user names after 17 years of it being fine is exactly the kind of BS I would expect from this "free speech" advocate.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Tuesday, 25 July 2023 23:48 (nine months ago) link
make my words
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F16-dY6acAEJGoo?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:38 (nine months ago) link
I am become X. Destroyer of birds.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 01:42 (nine months ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/hxIAAOSwj1Njy40I/s-l1200.webp
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:11 (nine months ago) link
I'm guessing the "shit" ban came after he saw a post by @ElonShit or some such
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 02:56 (nine months ago) link
the twitter bird may be gone but we’ll always have our state bird 🖕— New Jersey (@NJGov) July 25, 2023
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 03:15 (nine months ago) link
looks like Elon just gifted the original @x with this snazzy brand new, easy to remember handle https://t.co/lTiJyPY11Z pic.twitter.com/mLmpOqDbds— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 26, 2023
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 03:35 (nine months ago) link
Weird to read a blue tick correcting a piece.
Oh my god. The @Guardian needs to issue a correction here, as quickly as possible, for this sloppy reporting.https://t.co/J6AOSw5Azt— Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy) July 25, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 07:01 (nine months ago) link
idgi, why is that weird?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:07 (nine months ago) link
Not 2025, studies suggest 2050
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:41 (nine months ago) link
I understand Foley's critiques of the article, what I don't understand is why it's weird to see a "blue tick" issue them. (Fwiw, Foley was verified before Elon came along.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:45 (nine months ago) link
Weird because 99.99% of blue ticks are insane climate deniers who wouldn't know a fact from a cat turd, is what I think xyzzzz is getting at.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 23:54 (nine months ago) link
yeah that's the nu-blu-tick and not OG-tick though, which she is, I guess. I dunno because again I deleted my profile and hate X. why am I even reading this thread still?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 27 July 2023 01:08 (nine months ago) link
Man, calling it "X" and that logo are like the most basic bullshit I've ever seen. It looks like a first year college graphic design/marketing project.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:17 (nine months ago) link
best case scenario was that people slowly forgot Elon owned the site and continued posting, this ain't exactly helping the cause
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 July 2023 02:36 (nine months ago) link
like seriously everyone knows what a Tweet is in fact like half the value of that company is how it just entered the common vernacular. you could say "did you see what LeBron James tweeted", because "tweeted" is an accepted verb. no normal person is gonna say "did you see what LeBron posted on X", in fact you can't even really refer to the app at all now without sounding like a dipshit. oh and you took one of the most recognized app logos and replaced it with something that looks like a link to a porno site. this is like Nathan For You level shit.
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:29 (nine months ago) link
It'd be akin to changing "photoshop" to "picblaster3000" and insisting everyone start calling them "blasties".
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:34 (nine months ago) link
oh and you can also use it to order groceries online
― frogbs, Thursday, 27 July 2023 03:37 (nine months ago) link
mods pls hatdump all future references to tweets into BLASTIES!
― serving bundt (sic), Thursday, 27 July 2023 04:55 (nine months ago) link
This would rule tbrh.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 27 July 2023 05:26 (nine months ago) link
― jaymc, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 bookmarkflaglink
What James said. My understanding is that you have to pay to keep your blue tick. Many people verified before have lost their blue tick.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 July 2023 07:04 (nine months ago) link
He also says it’s also not the Gulf-stream that may collapse, but something called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The thread goes into details.
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 27 July 2023 08:52 (nine months ago) link
Without twitter we might have Blue Sky or Mastodon but there aren't enough posters.
These couple of posts by Tracey Thorn made me think that the bad Guardian Obit might have been one of the few sources of 'tribute'.
I think what's so hateful about that Guardian Sinead obit is the way it frames her whole life in negatives - "she lacked the obsessive drive needed…never had another hit…inability to edit her pronouncements...constitutionally unable to compromise…" Talk about removing agency😡— Tracey Thorn (@tracey_thorn) July 27, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 July 2023 13:05 (nine months ago) link
if they don't use the name 'twitter' for a certain amount of time, do they lose the copyright?
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Thursday, 27 July 2023 13:24 (nine months ago) link
Oh it's an AI lmao pic.twitter.com/eBGK2zjnpN— Tyler Glaiel (@TylerGlaiel) July 26, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:54 (nine months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1-bcbyaYAALsO0?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Thursday, 27 July 2023 19:55 (nine months ago) link
when do we change the thread title
― c u (crüt), Friday, 28 July 2023 00:15 (nine months ago) link
we cant give into x
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 July 2023 00:20 (nine months ago) link
FKA Twitter
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 July 2023 01:04 (nine months ago) link
X, X, XAlexI'm your only friendX, X, XAlexYour love will sing for you
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 July 2023 01:17 (nine months ago) link
^Melody of Certain Damaged Elons
― jaymc, Friday, 28 July 2023 02:46 (nine months ago) link
can’t we just call it Twatter?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 28 July 2023 03:38 (nine months ago) link
Amazing design - where I would normally click the top right of the embedded tweet to view on Twitter it’s now a black X that looks like I’m closing down the embed
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 28 July 2023 10:06 (nine months ago) link
kudos jaymc! :)
― NickB, Friday, 28 July 2023 12:25 (nine months ago) link