one guy who *lowers sunglasses* is also an idiot and a bad person btw
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 15:59 (six months ago) link
elmo what if there are no objective or accurate words *elmo self destructs like fembot*
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:01 (six months ago) link
can we not refer to Elon Musk as "elmo", as a point of respect to the beloved former ilxor elmo argonaut?
― peace, man, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:06 (six months ago) link
Also it's too fucking easy to find him.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:07 (six months ago) link
oh that's Waldo
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:08 (six months ago) link
having a harder time finding elmo... can you tell me how to get to sesame street
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:12 (six months ago) link
That's not the way, Mr. Noodle!
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:14 (six months ago) link
yeah idk how elmo is insulting. you’re either not wanting to say his name, or you’re comparing him to a children’s character that was only publicly reviled when he was made into a popular toy but has otherwise been a beloved, empathetic character for several generations
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:14 (six months ago) link
ok from now on he's x
― i'd meet u where u are, but that place really sucks (Hunt3r), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:17 (six months ago) link
xlxn mxsk
― peace, man, Monday, 9 October 2023 16:18 (six months ago) link
pxdo guy
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:20 (six months ago) link
El No
― Look closely, that is all. (doo dah), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:24 (six months ago) link
Xlon
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:26 (six months ago) link
Nole Skum
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:38 (six months ago) link
Emerald boy
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:52 (six months ago) link
Bad Tesla
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 October 2023 16:56 (six months ago) link
fun fact: Tommy Skeoch is the former guitarist for Tesla, and the current guitarist for Bad Marriage
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:41 (six months ago) link
"elmo" is like "drumpf"; funny for one second and then annoying forever
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:21 (six months ago) link
elmo mrumpf
― lag∞n, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:22 (six months ago) link
St Elon's Fire
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:24 (six months ago) link
he made his first lump sum of money off a company called zip2, that has some nickname potential
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 9 October 2023 19:33 (six months ago) link
my bf was taking my pics and his friend was like “portrait mode! use portrait mode!” and i was like “ew no!”………. tell me why he’s the person who created it………….— 🎀 dove! 🎀 (@lovedoveclarke) October 9, 2023
― Alba, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 02:53 (six months ago) link
Yeah it sounds like an odd request
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 10:57 (six months ago) link
think the current discourse has finally driven me away
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:21 (six months ago) link
calling it discourse is maybe a bit of a stretch
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:24 (six months ago) link
It's similar to the innovations e.e. cummings brought to poetry, but with a modern spin.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:42 (six months ago) link
wau
this is going to sound like i'm joking, but i am absolutely not: no lag∞n, no credibility
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:54 (six months ago) link
it's the last straw
― symsymsym, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 03:55 (six months ago) link
end of an era
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 04:00 (six months ago) link
interesting to see how Thierry Breton's stepping in and using the EU's new rules on online media to threaten Musk plays out. he's set his blue-ticks on them and is trying to stonewall, but my gut reaction is they won't be fucked with on this.
― Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 08:17 (six months ago) link
Twitter has mostly been pretty good on the week's events. Have seen pics/footage of pro-Palestine protests in many parts of the world, for example.
Many posters have done very well to counter the current narratives. It's certainly coming through to me.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 09:19 (six months ago) link
i dunno. the number of beheading videos and astroturfed hashtags i've seen is higher than ideal.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 12:59 (six months ago) link
atrocity competition
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 14:37 (six months ago) link
the level of warmongering on there combined with all the misinformation is too much for me, tho yeah there is more room for other views on there than say the tv news, also just the whole israel-palistine situation is so awful that i dont really want to consume endless info on it regardless of its political slant or quality
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:12 (six months ago) link
being reminded of usa post 9/11 also not super pleasant
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:13 (six months ago) link
all I see on there is stuff about Jada Smith and Joe Budden
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:17 (six months ago) link
that does sound nice
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 15:21 (six months ago) link
does it, though
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:07 (six months ago) link
you know how much i love joe budden updates
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:27 (six months ago) link
I’ve always been very careful about who I follow or allow to follow me so my bad experiences so far have been limited to seeing TERF shite (which is bad enough) but I will not watch any of the horrible Middle East snuff clips doing the rounds or explore I/P stuff from bots/new accounts/trolls. I’ve had over a decade of figuring out who is or isn’t full of shit.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 16:58 (six months ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 11:13 AM (one hour ago)
this is a not-confined-to-twitter otm
― rob, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:09 (six months ago) link
Even after 9/11 there were cursory attempts to protect Muslims from collective blame
I’m not seeing that here
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:25 (six months ago) link
i've noticed my usage really dropping off in the last month or so. and not even for morals or mental health reasons, more just boredom with it, lack of engagement (I don't know if "shadowbanning" is real but I did notice that after I got banned for impersonating Elon Musk in the post-bluecheck mania and saying that the Twitter team was hard at work so "Two Against Nature" by Steely Dan would autoplay while you were using the app my engagements and views of my tweets were down radically)
which actually might be a worse sign for the platform, indifference is deadlier than outrage
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 18:52 (six months ago) link
yeah I just checked and I'm seeing all of one single tweet about the baseball games over the last few hours which given the people I follow is pretty surprising. its not at all like previous years. no one wants to tweet these days
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 October 2023 03:56 (six months ago) link
Ad tweets are showing up in my timeline again, I hope adblock and ublock can keep up with filtering those out. It took a couple of weeks last time Twxttxr made a change.
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:22 (six months ago) link
I got an anti-vax ad yesterday, don't recall the last time I reported an ad
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 12 October 2023 21:27 (six months ago) link
no one wants to tweet these days
The great X-it
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 October 2023 22:13 (six months ago) link
Threads seems to be picking up steam in the last couple days, posters are reaching out to find people with similar interests and the app added edit and voice functions
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 12 October 2023 22:50 (six months ago) link
bluesky still nice but this “Ned” is a main character on my feed?!
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 13 October 2023 02:22 (six months ago) link
Wish we could get to the bottom of who this Ned is
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Friday, 13 October 2023 03:12 (six months ago) link