Yeah I guess what I was getting at is that this quick pivot to stomping out actual discourse and reporting, and attempting to turn Twitter into yet another conspiracy-laden conservative echo chamber, if successful it’s a pretty big win for the right, and you have to look at who helped Elon finance his acquisition and wonder whether it’s really just him who is driving it in this direction. It becomes another piece of the new hegemony they are trying to create.
― epistantophus, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:01 (nine months ago) link
theres def some sort of movement, radicalization amongst the psycho silicon valley elite, but imo as far as the plan or just a thing that happening because its the kind of thing they like to turn twitter into a right wing platform it will prob not work because its incompatible with what people liked about twitter in the first place, as evidenced by twitter currently in its death throws
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:12 (nine months ago) link
what excuse do you all have still being on it, save for 'im a poster its what i do'
― imago, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:15 (nine months ago) link
It’s still full of really good people I follow who aren’t elsewhere, or if they are don’t post as much.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:19 (nine months ago) link
funny thing is twitter was already an excellent right wing echo chamber, real killed the goose who laid the golden egg type scenario
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:22 (nine months ago) link
reporting back to us obv, I'm not on there anymore and love to get my twitter news from this thread
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:24 (nine months ago) link
im personally not a big boycott x (haha) guy in the first place i dont think were going to shop our way to freedom, but also i was there before elon and now im supposed to leave just cause he has all the money in the world
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:27 (nine months ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:22 (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yep, v otm
― imago, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:34 (nine months ago) link
same, I mean I posted on SomethingAwful for a while and part of the game was always who could say the most shit about Lowtax without getting banned. to me "the owner of this place sucks" is just a natural place for a message board/social media site to be in. Musk is definitely a more obnoxious and infuriating guy than Zuck and the others but is he really that much worse? I dunno.
if I still check Twitter it's because there are still some people I really like on it. a lot of them are not American and don't seem to know a whole lot about Elon so they just respond to all the weird shit with "ha ha what is going on here". I used to be on there because it was really good for following sports, particularly baseball, but the timeline is constantly jacked up and a lot of the good accounts aren't really active anymore, so it's not really worth it for that either. idk I figured i'd check in every now and then but that stupid fucking "X" on my home screen now makes me really wanna uninstall the app from my phone
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:57 (nine months ago) link
theres nowhere else to get posts this good
My boyfriend told me about how when he was a teenager he would invite girls over to his house in rural Sweden and make them deli meat sub sandwiches, which he had learned about in the US, to impress them and they would tell him, “I never knew that a sandwich could be like this!” https://t.co/aIs9M8UXAR— Christin (@hexprax) July 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 13:59 (nine months ago) link
― lag∞n, Monday, July 31, 2023 8:27 AM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
we're not trapped in there with him, he's trapped in there with us
― mh, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:04 (nine months ago) link
where else would i learn about the existence of e.g. this house (17 Stanleylaan, ostend, flanders):
Architect: ‘What kind of windows would you like?’ Client: ‘Yes’ pic.twitter.com/9dMpH8bEQU— Ugly Belgian Houses (@uglybelgianhous) July 31, 2023
(20 years ago the answer was ilx!)
― mark s, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:10 (nine months ago) link
i love x the everything message board
― jaymc, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:20 (nine months ago) link
thats right
― mark s, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:24 (nine months ago) link
Yeah I was going to say, if this thread ends up being a default 'actually good tweets from the mire' location then hey. (At this point I am literally checking just two accounts for Ukraine news, one of which is associated with a site I can just check if need be, and that's it.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 July 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
Oh my god, the replies to that sandwich tweet are a MESS
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 31 July 2023 15:06 (nine months ago) link
The most insane thing people have tried to fight with me about on here is whether or not my boyfriend gave a girl a sandwich 20 years ago. And you’ll lose, pissants — every last one of you!! Because he gave that girl a sandwich!!!— Christin (@hexprax) July 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 15:11 (nine months ago) link
I think if it is this difficult for you to read about someone making a sandwich 25 years ago you should probably get off the computer— Christin (@hexprax) July 28, 2023
― mh, Monday, 31 July 2023 16:14 (nine months ago) link
genuine lol, she's got a great attitude.
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 31 July 2023 16:26 (nine months ago) link
The new X tagline “blaze your glory” is seemingly something that Elon Musk completely made up without consulting anyone and is only meaningful to him, which is basically the same as all of his decisions pic.twitter.com/cmIlmQkfEc— evan (@esjesjesj) July 31, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 17:38 (nine months ago) link
web sites are his passion
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:41 (nine months ago) link
set fire to your glory? take an axe and bite a chunk out of your glory?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2023 17:45 (nine months ago) link
*bon jovi voice* go out and blaze your glory
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 17:50 (nine months ago) link
this is going to be another 420 reference from this fucking prick isn’t it
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:15 (nine months ago) link
I dont think this dude even smokes
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:16 (nine months ago) link
he wants Bon Jovi to offer him weed
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
didn't he famously do so on a video podcast or something. Cringeworthy to the Xth degree.
― dan selzer, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:27 (nine months ago) link
smorking a blunt on rogan's show iirc
― mh, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:28 (nine months ago) link
and it was very convincing
― rob, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:29 (nine months ago) link
ya he hit the blunt like a teenager who's never smoked before
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:31 (nine months ago) link
X is a hole, where one can glory.
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:32 (nine months ago) link
“T, the Digital T-room”
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:33 (nine months ago) link
X is a holeplatform so small
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:36 (nine months ago) link
he microdoses
https://i.gifer.com/origin/e9/e9cd81c935d85d2b984b3cd3cae1a5c8_w200.gif
― mark s, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:39 (nine months ago) link
silicon valley drug use situation is pretty interesting
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:42 (nine months ago) link
I keep swiping past the Twitter app because the X looks like the logo to an Uber competitor I’ve forgotten about or something.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:44 (nine months ago) link
Why do I have an app that just says X? Is that how I got to the hotel in Fort Wayne? Ohhhh, right.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:45 (nine months ago) link
xps i assumed they were all on designer speed. no way does elom do anything other than crank of some kind.
― ꙮ (map), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:45 (nine months ago) link
apparently good sources have him on ketamine but yeah seems like a adderall user mostly
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:50 (nine months ago) link
good tweet from locked account about the new logo
getting a dm notification from the new x icon feels like i'm on a really janky dating app for sugar babies in miamican't even say hi to my friends without sounding like a 52 year old real estate newsletter guy asking if any hot babes wanna come for bottle service on my boat
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:57 (nine months ago) link
is this anything btw
They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 31, 2023
elon decided to tweet about taking tesla public at $420 while on acid, according to impeccable source azealia banks
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:06 (nine months ago) link
xp that one is begging me to reply and get my ass banned for calling him a fckwit
― mh, Monday, 31 July 2023 19:06 (nine months ago) link
hallucinogens and being one of the world's dumbest people is a helluva drug
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:07 (nine months ago) link
azealia is correct abt everything else that matters (= that grimes "smells like a roll of nickels")
― mark s, Monday, 31 July 2023 19:09 (nine months ago) link
grimes is never gonna live that down
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:09 (nine months ago) link
the phrase 'blaze of glory' only ever occurs in the context of "attempting to do something big before failing"
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:10 (nine months ago) link
it's obviously meant to be a terrible weed joke on that phrase
kill me
― mh, Monday, 31 July 2023 19:11 (nine months ago) link
what's the story blaze yr glory
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 31 July 2023 19:12 (nine months ago) link