Twitter C/D

I don't know who Alix Aharon is but she comes across like a 1970's era sex-terrified feminist who thinks penetration=rape and who has never once encountered (admittedly over the top) pornography

Yeah I was trying to use the mute button even more liberally than before their latest downgrade but it’s just pointless, now I’ve given up on “For You” completely.

(I don’t use the app anymore, deleted it a while back likely based on recommendation from this thread.)

Always be blocking anyone who's annoying, stupid or both.

i only use twitter on desktop browser now since they have ruined the mobile web interface in an attempt to force people into the app (where you can't block ads)

Milo Z otm. Or anyone who’s just is too verbose tbh. Guess that qualifies as ‘annoying’ but it’s more just about awareness of social media etiquette imo. (Akm I don’t find the mobile site much worse than the desktop, I don’t really see any ads, have them all blocked.)

The net effect of me completely abandoning ‘For You’ recommendations is that I drill down even deeper into my well of politics because political media accounts post the most consistently (and professionally really), and it’s basically the only thriving media ecosystem left on Twitter.

And I probably would never really have been active on Twitter but for its role in the London pirate radio scene, probably fifteen years ago — and of course when I finally jumped onboard the site I was a decade late.

(I was active on Reddit before that, it did actually have its moments for someone like me. Now it’s completely trash of course as has been noted many times. Still worse than Twitter imo but we are likely approaching shit-singularity there.)

https://i.imgur.com/mLqND5g.png

Congrats y'all, he quit Twitter! pic.twitter.com/gxDOMLBHRb

— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) March 15, 2023

If anyone else is missing context: https://www.intomore.com/impact/gender-clinic-workers-sent-trans-patients-names-to-an-anti-trans-whistleblower/

very weird dude doing bad stuff

didn't know that our own ice cr?m is obnoxious twitter personality ben dreyfuss

― mh, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 10:10 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think this is thread-relevant; why is Ben Dreyfuss's Twitter presence so viscerally annoying? I can't figure it out. His opinions are pretty garden-variety. But there's something about him that makes him 100x more irritating than the average poster and I can't figure out what it is. Or is it just me that's allergic to this guy?

no everyone hates him lol

He didn’t use nepotism to become an D-list actor or assistant head coach, he wasted it on being a poster.

Singal's 'explanation' for the Twitter departure (from earlier this morning): https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/time-for-a-twitter-break

Who cares what that guy says

not me, he and Reed and Bari Weiss can all go fuck themselves

probably best not to link to substacks of hatemongers. quoting or paraphrasing should be enough if it's a worthwhile dunking opportunity

every fourth tweet is an ad now. yesterday i blocked my second ad for devices that set up dominoes so you can knock them over. just now i blocked my second panama hat ad. the other day i had one for sink strainers.

oddly, my second account sees no ads at all.

Yeah I dont ever see ads on Twitter? Is it because I never use it/only have 50 follows? Is it my Adblock? idgi.

I use it heaps and never see ads. Whenever I saw them in the past I would always block them on principle.

no doubt this is weak-minded of me but i don't really consider "this account doesn't exist" as any kind of per se admission on singal's part, let alone a defeat or whatever: lots of ppl switch off their accounts for a while when they want or need to take a pause when the Discourse™️ gets too intense or distracting

(i mean he's bad and wrong and he *should* very much log off and shut up on this issue -- does he even write abt other issues now? -- but that is not yet what this is)

idk exposing your source to legal jeopardy is an L is how i break it down to an extent

Is it my Adblock

yes, using twitter via a browser with an adblocker keeps them from showing up and is now the only tolerable way to use it

lmao

Jesse Singal logged off twitter yesterday and then read all your mean tweets about him and wrote about how it made him feel. No, I am not joking. pic.twitter.com/cbIg2DySuZ

— Ari Drennen (@AriDrennen) March 15, 2023

pretty gross that the entire reason that dude continues to write bad articles on select topics is that it draws clicks and he's taken that particular stance is he has insanely thin skin and doubles down on his slanted perspective and hate every time someone calls him an asshole

the reason he's taken that stance, I mean

his initial work was wrong-headed and bad and it just keeps getting worse

he shouldve stuck to his previous normal obsession

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpCvBLhX0AAAE5n?format=jpg&name=small

his blog has the subhead "Singal-Minded" and this alone should be enough to condemn this guy to the Hague.

xp oh jeez I forgot about that

Between Jesse Singal and Jesse Watters, I'm feeling bad about my name these days.

There's always Jesse James

You could change it to Jussie

every generation gets the andrew sullivan it deserves

Every generation sends a hero up the challop charts

I logged out but kept some lists public so I can keep up w/ sports, etc, etc. When I visit the site (in a private window blah blah blah), the suggested tweets (not ads) at the bottom are just awful -- anti-"woke", anti-trans, anti-biden, anti-Dems, climate-change denying...just gross.

https://t.co/WhRsxxMkPs pic.twitter.com/RJ9rP9GWRo

— jenny_tightpants🪑 (@halomancer1) March 16, 2023

i dont use that feature but it seems like a lot of people do

that's one of those things that makes me thinking I'm using a different twitter. like I'm in an episode of the Twilight Zone where some of us or maybe just me are using an app that doesn't actually exist any more

I do use bookmarks for the stuff I want to save and want to find later, I like too much stuff to use likes for that.

I just have 270 tabs on my phone where I’ve followed an article link or a band post or something.

Oh god, up to 312 now.

thats the way to do it

there has never been a product feature designed by fewer women than this https://t.co/CZoxSN2Nte

— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) March 16, 2023

lol this is so pitiful

Little scoop from me today: Twitter has been down-ranking the corporate accounts of its competitors, including 19 official TikTok accounts, 3 Snap accounts, and 2 Instagram accounts. This means their tweets won’t show on the For You tab for the most part: https://t.co/nz8XNGtIXb

— Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) March 17, 2023

I like that you killed your own mother.

— Glenn Danzig (@GlennDanzigReal) March 17, 2023

haa

Guess he had something to say

did Glenn's Twitter account get hacked by the Gravel Teens?

2nd best thing Danzig has done involving mothers.

— Ewan Ross (@Mentoch) March 17, 2023

Third. The first best thing was yours.

— Glenn Danzig (@GlennDanzigReal) March 17, 2023

Twitter is Good

he’s so vain

vein?

who itt wants to volunteer to explain the "bethany mandel killed her own mother" meme and what makes it funny