Twitter C/D

there were crazy lightning strikes over the hills Saturday night and yeah normally I would have searched twitter to see wtf was going on but instead I read a bunch of lightning articles on wikipedia

twitter used to be so good for weird smells

I miss earthquake twitter

nextdoor is the new twitter

Nextdoor is 95% catalytic converter theft content

It's really something that nextdoor is now the less racist of the two.

they never report the good news like when someone puts a second catalytic converter in your car at night

citizen app is good for that type of thing too. Also don't look at comments or anything but certainly good for those "why are there so many sirens?" moments.

I had to remove that app from my phone because, while it was useful for that stuff, it also liked to alert me to things happening over 30 miles away for no reason. also after a while, I decided I was better off not knowing every single 'incident' that happens in my 10000000 incidents a day metro area.

Ok

Super super thin sandwich pic.twitter.com/Xi1iQYjVZk

— The Best (@ThebestFigen) September 5, 2023

seems like you should just use a deli slicer idk

thats some nice slicing i give the guy his respect

Not very filling tho

was gonna say, "can I please order 47 thin sandwiches?"

I could never slice like that. respect.

damn let the knife do the talking

-Aerosmith

I don’t have any kind of alerts on for citizen. That would be a nightmare. I just open if Jo when I hear a bunch of helicopters flying around or whatever.

Oh they're just releasing Bill Gates' mosquitos.

citizen app is evil, i dont recall the details but i read some shit about them

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/citizen-public-safety-app-pushing-surveillance-boundaries-rcna1058

citizen was originally called "vigilante", beta tested deploying private security by app, and offered a $30k bounty on a man (falsely) accused of starting a wildfire. real scum of the earth.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-car-private-security
https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7evbx/citizen-app-private-security-leaked-emails
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/21/22447446/citizen-app-internal-slack-palisades-fire-arson-bounty-manhunt-los-angeles

now way to view quote tweets on web currently, yesterday they were hidden in the engagement menu today the engagement menu is gone, theyre trying to hide the good stuff (mean tweets)

*engagement/views button is visible in the main feed but not in single tweet view, but quote tweets isnt there anyway

ah wait actually there it is lol

just a heads up you can still see quote tweets under the new system but it's just put in an extremely stupid spot and you can't see the number of quote tweets anymore pic.twitter.com/LY1RxyIyKL

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) September 12, 2023

quote tweets are post engagements now

thank goodness for jennytightpants @aka halomancer1

thank you jennytightpants @aka halomancer1

Hold me closer halomancer
jennytightpants on the highway

I tweeted an obit for a jazz musician and the only like was from some blue check anti-trans doctor, so that's weird & fucked.

twitter before musk: music people
now: anti trans doctors

Emily Wilson, whose translation of Homer's Iliad is coming soon, is tweeting some great stuff.

https://x.com/EmilyRCWilson/status/1701687829523222556?s=20

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F52y_r-XcAAknab?format=jpg&name=900x900

😯

X (Twitter) stripped the UAW’s verification checkmark following the union’s decision to go on strike against the Big Three automakers.

Musk’s Tesla has overseen a slash-and-burn campaign against union organizers in recent months.

.@RyanGrim & I report:https://t.co/hwFBydwCft

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) September 15, 2023

musk is comprised entirely of conflicts of interest

Just so great to have everything run by the most petty ass manbabies.

that Luke O'Neil tweet also explains why x.com links don't turn into tweet embeds here on ILX

surely Tesla is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the UAW strike 🤔

but yeah very nice platform, very nice

X suspends accounts that violate the Our Rules pic.twitter.com/BSfUQxEWDz

— 🐕 l n h l g s n 🐕 (@DLNHLGSN) September 18, 2023

I have become a Twitter Main Character today for posting that a metal band I like should have dressed better to be on the cover of a magazine. It's kinda hilarious. If the people responding thought I was a woman, it would probably be a whole lot less hilarious and a whole lot more death- and rape-threat-y, but for now it's all good fun and has even included a reasonable and thoughtful exchange with a member of the band in question. Still, I haven't riled this many people up in a long time. It's exhilarating.

lol. I essentially agree with you, but also think rocking a Fido Dido shirt on a magazine cover in 2023 is some kind of weird flex.

which band and which magazine, we need to debate the merits of this post here on ILX, home of civilised discourse

I like the new Tomb Mold record a lot. But death metal bands really need to understand that getting your picture on a magazine cover fucking means something, and meet the moment. Death metal needs more Akercockes, and fewer examples of...this. pic.twitter.com/TqWIAPWYYb

— burning ambulance (sign up for the newsletter) (@burn_amb) September 18, 2023

I saw that tweet and I thought it was a joke tbh

Tomb Mold look like normal schlubs, and that's relatable

BTW Phil the Kate Gentile album you praised in last month's Downbeat is great

Tomb Mold look like normal schlubs, and that's relatable

I'm sure they're great guys! I've been going back and forth with the guy in the Resident Evil shirt, and he seems smart and cool. But metal band photos are not the time or place to look like normal schlubs. If you're in a metal band, and it's picture day, you wear denim and leather, you scowl at the camera... I follow Rob Halford on Instagram, and he posts tons of pictures of himself wearing shirts with cute kittens on them. But does he wear those shirts in the promo photos for the latest Judas Priest album? He does not. It's about embracing the showbiz of it all. You wanna be anti-showbiz? Join an indie-rock band. You wanna play metal? DRESS METAL.

'millennials are KILLING the metal promo shoot industry with this one weird trick'