based on their timelines miho12 def the top suspect
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:10 (seven months ago) link
linda deleted her tweet, so at least she reads the replies
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:16 (seven months ago) link
Twitter's last remaining user
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Thursday, 21 September 2023 16:38 (seven months ago) link
New York Times Pitchbot@DougJBalloonIn this Ohio town, it was a tradition: early mass, softball game in the park, then over to the airport for burgers, fries, and double scotch rocks. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.
― brownie, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:08 (seven months ago) link
It does seem apt that X's shiny new advert promoting the platform includes a conversation in which notorious antisemite, Bobby Fischer, is mentioned... https://t.co/RScgNO4GAj pic.twitter.com/fMFp1QZQJ4— Danny Morris (@DannyMMorris) September 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:08 (seven months ago) link
good job good effort
Why are there three "n"s???? pic.twitter.com/f0brWhvCXk— Johner Riehl 🦓 (@johnerriehl) September 21, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:10 (seven months ago) link
Elon’s probably a No Nut November guy
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:12 (seven months ago) link
The extra 'n' is for extra Nazis!
― nickn, Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:40 (seven months ago) link
If Twitter did a No Nazi November all the blue checks would disappear
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 17:43 (seven months ago) link
aah Nitter is not working today
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 21 September 2023 18:18 (seven months ago) link
the tweets on that advert were maybe just from the guy's personal feed and he maybe didn't notice because he was given all of 4 hours to make it as companies run by guys like Elon tend to do
― frogbs, Thursday, 21 September 2023 20:52 (seven months ago) link
BTW, that airport BBQ place responded to Brooks on Facebook:
Looks like someone was knocking back some serious drinks - Bar tab was almost 80% and he's complaining about the cost of his meal 🤔 keep drinking buddy - we get paid off everything.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 September 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
I kind of admire that Brooks just left the tweet up and didn’t comment
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:13 (seven months ago) link
There's nothing to admire about it; he's a persistent dumbass whose only survival strategy is knowing that if he admits he's ever wrong about something the rest falls in a house of cards. For all the Obama-starry-eyed moves of his once, he's more exactly like Trump.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:22 (seven months ago) link
*feels validated*
― you need magical thinking ay my name is david blaine (Hunt3r), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:32 (seven months ago) link
Tip: $0
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 21 September 2023 23:34 (seven months ago) link
The second most confusing thing about the tweet is that he apparently removed the tomato and lettuce from his burger and piled it onto his plate as a "salad"
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 September 2023 07:52 (seven months ago) link
the four empty ketchup sachets answer that: he has the taste preferences of someone younger than his wife preferences
― vashti funyuns (sic), Friday, 22 September 2023 08:09 (seven months ago) link
I'm absolutely buzzing on the idea that Brooks typed up a draft of a column that kicks off with this anecdote and then spins into his patented set of homilies and unsubstantiated condescending garbage, the plane lands, he checks his phone and just very quietly goes to his laptop and clicks "Close".... "Do Not Save"
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 September 2023 09:09 (seven months ago) link
welp
At least two of the people who helped create the much discussed promotional video for X/Twitter this week have been fired by the company, according to multiple sources.— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 22 September 2023 21:24 (seven months ago) link
glory: blazed
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 22 September 2023 21:33 (seven months ago) link
Advertisers must love being next to a viral slavery meme that's so racist and anti-Semitic I don't even want to post a tweet criticizing it.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 22 September 2023 23:04 (seven months ago) link
Why is no one talking about how shriekingly awful the music in that video was, dear god.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 23 September 2023 00:41 (seven months ago) link
mortifying to have to explain that you were joking and then apologize for the joke being in bad taste
.@nytdavidbrooks explains his recent post on X about the cost of an airport meal:"The problem with the tweet, which I wrote so stupidly, was that it made it seem like I was oblivious to something that was blindingly obvious.""I was insensitive. I screwed up. I should not have… pic.twitter.com/mPAEU4OlUa— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 September 2023 02:27 (seven months ago) link
"...gotten hammered on airport scotch."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 September 2023 02:35 (seven months ago) link
Yes, Linda, make sure this creampie joke is in high res lmao https://t.co/mW8UjeMJd0 pic.twitter.com/CRD4fLh6Wm— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) September 21, 2023
― vashti funyuns (sic), Saturday, 23 September 2023 04:06 (seven months ago) link
Still coming up with the goods.
thinking about how the greatest trump impression of all time comes from some guy who only uses it to post videos of trump bullying walt junior pic.twitter.com/8jwOhEQ8FM— G*rre (@springbris) September 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 23 September 2023 11:11 (seven months ago) link
These are all good cases for why Twitter should persist.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:03 (seven months ago) link
heh
X changed their IOS app page description to “formerly Twitter”, likely due to people not knowing it used to be Twitter pic.twitter.com/F9iImeeNlI— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 22, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:23 (seven months ago) link
lol yeah I found that out yesterday when I was trying to get a screenshot of it to send a friend who hadn’t heard about the BYG thing
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 23 September 2023 13:57 (seven months ago) link
WTF is "blaze your glory" supposed to mean!?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 24 September 2023 07:53 (seven months ago) link
Former glory
― Alba, Sunday, 24 September 2023 08:16 (seven months ago) link
We hear for you.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 24 September 2023 09:46 (seven months ago) link
"Blaze your glory" appears to be a repurposing of the phrase "a blaze of glory", which was originally embedded in the phrase "going out in a blaze of glory" and was meant to evoke the image of a violent death involving self-immolation. So, perhaps unconsciously, Elon kinda nailed it.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:09 (seven months ago) link
the man's never going to be a poster and it's obviously something he thought was clever and immediately rolled out without focus grouping it on the site
or he posted it and got a bunch of engagement from the dumbest sycophants on the planet and was encouraged
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:10 (seven months ago) link
fact that they had to change it to formerly twitter shows that the name change must be hurting their downloads a lot, of course it wont help much, what would help is calling the app twitter
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:50 (seven months ago) link
loving the letter x is extremely gen x brained, it was slang for ecstasy which then became e for old millennials which is more neutral less trying to be cool, blaze of glory feels way older, tho there was the bon jovi song in the prime gen x years
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:56 (seven months ago) link
actually bottomed out (in books) during the formative gen x era
https://i.imgur.com/nVTAyrZ.png
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 16:58 (seven months ago) link
doubt elon associates it with ecstasy just an example of how it was considered a totally bad ass letter
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:00 (seven months ago) link
when i visited australia as a kid we saw a XXX sex shoppe and then we found out XXXX is queensland's beer and boy did we all have a laugh about that (this was like 1992 or somesuch)
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:08 (seven months ago) link
theres also the ol booze jug with the xxx
https://www.prosportstickers.com/wp-content/uploads/nc/w/hillbilly_xxx_jug_decal__59901.jpg
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:12 (seven months ago) link
reflecting upon it gen x is when the concept of being cool (acting aloof and wearing sunglasses) really ran its course
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 17:20 (seven months ago) link
Weird how much they put into advertising castlemaine xxxx in the uk when it's nearly unobtainable here
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:33 (seven months ago) link
it was big in uk pubs in the 90s iirc
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:35 (seven months ago) link
c’mon man the x-files are right there
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:37 (seven months ago) link
x-files yeah thats the stuff
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 18:40 (seven months ago) link
scully: victim died of multiple stab woundsmulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the knife alien— 𝔭𝔭 (@athleisure_monk) June 3, 2016
there’s an entire late gen x early millennial cohort who think the x-files were sexy and coolevery magazine article about the show or an interview accompanied by the hottest scully and mulder pics when they were too busy finding the knife alien or getting alien embryos implanted to actually do it
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 24 September 2023 19:08 (seven months ago) link
late gen x early millenial cohort otm tho
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 24 September 2023 19:15 (seven months ago) link
yeah i mean its a good show
― lag∞n, Sunday, 24 September 2023 19:46 (seven months ago) link