Twitter C/D

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'

re2 shirt is dope

Guy on the left looks like an Albini wannabe

Is the photo on the left supposed to be the good photo iyo?

Cause it looks like a still outtake from Ghostbusters 2.

sorry, meant photo on the right

yeah i truly don’t understand why a band needs to show off except via their skills as a band.

one of the best poetry readings i’ve ever been to was given by a guy wearing kelly green sweatpants and a stained flannel shirt.

who gives a fuck.

You wanna play metal? DRESS METAL.

― read-only (unperson), Monday, September 18, 2023 6:39 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

give me a fucking break

On one hand, I obviously do respect the “street clothes as mission statement” which certainly did well for the Ramones, Run-DMC and, uh, Metallica. On the other hand these look less like street clothes and more like “I put on my flip-flops to do a 7-11 run.” Honestly I have no problem with Tomb Mold looking like schlubs but, as mag covers go, there’s not exactly a concept here and that’s not on them.

They look like an UCB improv team

the well dressed metal photo shouldve been more metal imo throw some spikes in there blood or whatever you know

the one guy looks exactly like a guy fawkes mask

It’s a bad magazine cover, but that’s on the designer / editor / photographer / production artist, not the band and whatever they choose to wear

its a nice photo of them tho, not really stylistically magazine cover material, but they good, engaged

certainly a better photo than mumftallica and sons

i mean the two guys on the left look like they went thrift shopping after a bunch of history professors died

Band on the right looks like the cast of a Dark Shadows remake.

Now people can make fun of unperson here, too, which I guess is what they wanted? Who needs twitter?

they?