Whiney, hashtags work by running words together like that.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:03 (five months ago) link
last night Jimmy Kimmel did a bit on this stuff during his monologue and he referred to it by it's new name, X. it sounds so goddamn stupid when said out loud like that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:05 (five months ago) link
bluesky should rebrand as 'sever'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:13 (five months ago) link
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 21:14 (five months ago) link
Elon starting to whine a lot about this one as well:
https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/november-2023/
― frogbs, Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:09 (five months ago) link
also their system should be flexible and intelligent enough to read concatenated words
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:14 (five months ago) link
What's that line, a hit dog don't holler?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 November 2023 16:20 (five months ago) link
Duh, hit dog will holler. Adolf Hitdog.
Death was my only wish for 10 years. Depression had me in an unbreakable choke hold. Giving thanks today that I now feel an insatiable thirst for life. Sending you all🫶🏻 pic.twitter.com/Yv8bO5e2gD— Zero (@bryan_johnson) November 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 November 2023 21:49 (five months ago) link
He says this while living a life that sounds absolutely joyless and hellish. OK then.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 23 November 2023 23:33 (five months ago) link
that statement/picture combo is a+
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 24 November 2023 00:37 (five months ago) link
there was that duty-free store billionaire who gave away all his money and lived in a modest apartment for the remainder of his life and never let anyone know he was doing it. and there’s this guy who probably could have just hired a dietician/chef and is putting his son’s blood in him and posting through it for clout and the former is respectable and the latter very funny
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 24 November 2023 00:41 (five months ago) link
Zhang Yong 张勇@zhangyong02·5h15 day no tsingtao
am please help mental peril
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 November 2023 13:21 (five months ago) link
My timeline is suddenly filled with accounts dedicated to robberies gone wrong and people falling off boats and similar
― anvil, Friday, 24 November 2023 13:26 (five months ago) link
a followed one diesel-train-a-day account a few days ago and now my feed is full of dmus and steam trains (and OO-HO models of same)
― koogs, Friday, 24 November 2023 13:48 (five months ago) link
Jonathan@readonlymike·8hBored of community notes. Just let me enjoy some lies
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 24 November 2023 18:06 (five months ago) link
twitter stringing along these terrible people by sending them random amounts of money is pretty funny
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qtopjld4jf72ekg4oyco3gft/bafkreibrxt6ishvpx6upgz6okspbkxpfqwuc45qnuqba32uo3ge6nlyvey@jpeg
― lag∞n, Sunday, 26 November 2023 01:51 (five months ago) link
speaking the cold late stage capitalism financial truth to those who aspire to have 800k followers
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:52 (five months ago) link
800k was my big dream. now i feel like i'm lost
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Sunday, 26 November 2023 02:53 (five months ago) link
funniest thing reading the responses to that post is that no-one is blaming elon for any of twitter's problems.
― visiting, Sunday, 26 November 2023 03:18 (five months ago) link
Dom Lucre - I see Martin Amis is still coming up with them from his grave.
― Alba, Sunday, 26 November 2023 14:37 (five months ago) link
This explainer on Myanmar was something, especially the role of...telescamming
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720022978350735417.html
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 November 2023 22:13 (five months ago) link
I've been relatively successful at staying off Twitter the last week or so, which means I am relatively uninfirmed about the latest super-racist tweet Elon has dropped.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Monday, 27 November 2023 09:32 (five months ago) link
Uninformed. Uninfirm is what I am.
css, nice
https://i.imgur.com/CCVKxOB.png
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:24 (five months ago) link
hell yeah
honestly it makes the site look better and it's more transparent
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:39 (five months ago) link
hah, Josh Fruhlinger is one of the few good guys still on there I see
― frogbs, Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
He's pretty active on Bluesky too
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 18:54 (five months ago) link
going great!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/technology/elon-musk-dealbook-advertisers.html
At least half a dozen marketing agencies said the brands they represent were standing firm against advertising on X, while others said they had advised advertisers to stop posting anything on the platform. Some temporary spending pauses that advertisers have enacted in recent weeks against X are likely to turn into permanent freezes, they added, with Mr. Musk’s comments giving them no incentive to return.Advertisers are “not coming back” to X, said Lou Paskalis, the founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy. “There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform.”
Advertisers are “not coming back” to X, said Lou Paskalis, the founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy. “There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform.”
― frogbs, Friday, 1 December 2023 15:13 (five months ago) link
Elon’s going to have a full time job documenting in great detail all these companies not advertising on Twitter.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Friday, 1 December 2023 16:02 (five months ago) link
It's no rush. Earth can wait.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 December 2023 16:03 (five months ago) link
I can’t remember the last time I saw a legit advertiser. They’re like random ai blue tick accounts that tweet the account name now. Would love to know who’s paying for them.
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Friday, 1 December 2023 16:08 (five months ago) link
Gotta say, Musk complaining that advertisers leaving Twitter are killing Twitter gives me hope that Twitter can be killed, and that we can all at least indirectly play a role in its downfall.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 December 2023 17:28 (five months ago) link
sounds like he's looking for a way out
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 1 December 2023 17:37 (five months ago) link
I can think of a quick way out.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 December 2023 17:56 (five months ago) link
But if Xitter folded what would Musk do with all that time on his hands? How would he communicate with his sycophants?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 1 December 2023 17:59 (five months ago) link
don't let Earth hit you on the way out
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:00 (five months ago) link
he's done with earth, time to go explore space on one of those rockets he's building
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:09 (five months ago) link
Twitter should hire Santos. As CEO, as mascot, brand ambassador, whatever.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:22 (five months ago) link
me-- the last one to duh, finally have the epiphanal "oh, there's a one-ness in trump desperately trying for acceptability in nyc society and failing mega, and elmo (i kno u HATE IT) failing at sv cool" (tho mebbe i'm wrong does anyone in sv think elmo (ditto) is smart and cool?). anyhow, both found the same angry resentment filled dipshit fans, and the same pointy-headed, justice optimizing, smarty-pants, better-than-you enemies. among other eminies, many which are fine, clean-souled leftists.
go to mars and take trump with you elmo, (yah, i know y'all hate it, nmte, but he always be elmo to me). fuck elmo in his stupid-ass cybertruck. damn i wish i could make an elmo_drivin_cybertruck gif and no i ain't, or looking.
i think i'm drunk. and it ain't noon yet. mercy
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:35 (five months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/GE4rRPi.png
― z_tbd, Friday, 1 December 2023 18:43 (five months ago) link
my eyes lol
― digital chirping and whirring (Hunt3r), Friday, 1 December 2023 18:48 (five months ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, December 1, 2023 11:28 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
tbh I had my doubts about this but lately I'm actually convinced that Twitter is dead, "X" may remain but it's rapidly going to morph into some hybrid of 8chan and Truth Social. of the 500+ accounts I follow, a third have just left, and a third just exclusively post about how much Twitter sucks now. those who are still business as usual are either bots or sports accounts, which have become more useless as the auto-updating gets worse and worse. its kind of a pain trying to look everyone up on Bluesky but imo worth it
― frogbs, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:35 (five months ago) link
What's funny about it is I really don't think Elon anticipated any of this. I know he wanted to make some radical changes but still thought the site would remain as active as always. I think he knew the "radical left" or whatever would be unhappy but that they'd ultimately stay on. He really thought he could strongarm the advertisers and keep the site running with 20% of the staff. He thought this because he's surrounded himself entirely with people who lick his boots 24/7. I'll miss the place but its kind of a beautiful thing to witness
― frogbs, Friday, 1 December 2023 20:39 (five months ago) link
Walmart has stopped advertising on X, telling Forbes it found alternate platforms to engage its customers, marking the first large company to depart from the platform after X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a string of disparaging comments toward advertisers leaving the platform in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday.
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 1 December 2023 23:26 (five months ago) link
I don't even look at Twitter that much anymore, but whenever I do I invariably see this ad
🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀Queen's Blade 1.5th Anniversary🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀🎀Over 100 Beautiful WarriorsOver 200 Beautiful IllustrationsThe Beautiful Warrior Creed:1. Thou shalt not be attacked.2. Thy clothing shall not be torn.3. Thou shalt not whimper.▼ Play now ♡♡♡— Queen's Blade Limit Break - Official Account (@queensbladeLBen) November 2, 2023
― jaymc, Saturday, 2 December 2023 05:53 (five months ago) link
more like feet-to-play
― polyamerie "it's more than this 1 thing" (m bison), Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:39 (five months ago) link
play now, my lord!
― z_tbd, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:13 (five months ago) link
never losing is not an option, good life lesson sometimes you just have to take the L
― lag∞n, Saturday, 2 December 2023 17:26 (five months ago) link
never.....
losing
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 2 December 2023 18:31 (five months ago) link