Twitter C/D

https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril

I remember so vividly the first time I ever saw tweets on a local news program. So lazy.

feel like @dril and @WWESubway basically justify Twitter's entire existence

i like @clipart1994bot

BBFRANK.BMF pic.twitter.com/G1MTsXRtL2

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019

DRUG.BMF pic.twitter.com/n41tVBvwYh

— Corel Gallery 1994 (@Clipart1994bot) March 25, 2019

I saw that one yesterday and died laughing. I am actually, literally dead.

very trench

CNBC, retweeting year-old articles for the rage clicks

Here's a budget breakdown of a couple that makes $500,000 a year and still feels average. https://t.co/mauqIGvcRw pic.twitter.com/eh7xBwvMV1

— CNBC (@CNBC) March 26, 2019

https://theoutline.com/post/7245/give-the-nobel-prize-to-dril?zd=1&zi=43lpmvpp

that piece is way too fucking online

they should rename the site The Online

sorry brad online is now the only idiom we have left

"I wouldn't be at all surprised if Dril ends up making as significant a contribution to the English language as Shakespeare."

I'm grasping for a way to read this charitably

dril deserves it more than bob dylan does

"I wouldn't be at all surprised if Dril ends up making as significant a contribution to the English language as Shakespeare."

didn't actually know the "please help me budget" snowclone was a dril and when i saw it i did think "ha it's like how shakespeare is all cliches"

that piece is way too fucking online

― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:37 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i do find remarks like "We live in an age completely dominated by the fact of the internet" fatuous. thought the same thing about the lockwood piece

no idea why tom whyman keeps getting commissioned - fatuous is exactly right. his pieces are always one paragraph on some internet thing, a paragraph of surface level reading of some philosopher, paragraph or two of inane personal anecdote, and then a "so in the final analysis it's all political" conclusion

he wrote an article on that thing about throwing cheese slices at babies the other week that makes this this dril article (which is a rewrite of one he's already written at least once) look like kierkegaard

why, man

"We live in an age completely dominated by the fact of the internet" fatuous. thought the same thing about the lockwood piece

― difficult listening hour, Tuesday, March 26, 2019 1:50 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting because the lockwood piece is not about this at all

i enjoyed the lockwood piece but felt it framed problems of human consciousness and communication that date to the invention of text as phenomena emerging from the author and her buds' doggo posts; halfway thru it explicitly acknowledged this and then was literally like "look this up lol?" before returning to a few more thou words of "the portal brought the dictator". nb tho i read it on acid.

also kinda think there is a media class that thinks everyone is on twitter all the time, and they aren't.

it was much more interesting than this clickbait about dril, to be clear.

Twitter users with "Eater of chicken" in their bios

Showing 1 - 50 of 133 results

better or worse than 'slicer of bagels'

nb tho i read it on acid.

wow, otm

This is how you do twitter

Ive been on this Earth for a long time & have found most people to be kind and good hearted which is the reason i dont think they’ll vote for Donald Trump again. Also the first version of Myst was released in 1993 & I think its still one of the BEST video games

— Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) March 26, 2019

Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist.

— Britney Spears (@britneyspears) February 10, 2011

A universal basic income would do wonders for so many people. And how about A Medea Family Funeral? It's a treat.

mia OTM re: myst

hahaha that mia tweet, yes!

hate this website so much

s/o to haiti & all the african countries and peoples who france (and western countries, in general) has spent countless years terrorizing, colonizing, pillaging, robbing, and raping. 🖕🏾🇫🇷 https://t.co/7ZRaVdZ11w

— stolen person. (@queersocialism) April 15, 2019

the normal internet place

Dud

THE GLOBAL VILLAGE...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D4TX-fWXkAEJDFq.jpg:small

wtf

irie!

she's not joking

seth abramson currently on tweet 160, predicting final count now at 325

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) April 18, 2019

Worlds collide.

(My other good ex is @mattyglesias, prob bc we dated for less than six months in college and he’s been a tireless cheerleader for my work and a source of support ever since.)

— Nicole Cliffe (@Nicole_Cliffe) April 19, 2019

whaaaaa

my initial misreading that yglesias was a college cheerleader is an alternative, yet compelling, angle imo

i’ve always liked him

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5HUIQ_UUAALUIy.jpg

#jesuishelldude

fela kuti, might delete later pic.twitter.com/lVfkiznTB5

— f (@ardowsa) April 27, 2019

I laughed so hard at this

p good

I swore off Twitter last year but my new phone had me right back into it - after culling my follow list and muting a few words it was just about ok.
But today I think I'll delete it again. What I've realised is that the problem is all the basically nice(?) people on there who I see

* constantly quote-tweeting arseholes to tell them to fuck off (which means I'm effectively following said arseholes)
* on constant fucking cancel-watch and treating it like some sort of fun game we can all play
* non-stop low-key sniping at each-other over minor political differences because complaining about Trump/May/Brexit has been done to death now
* always having to have an opinion about everything, whether they are informed about it or not

Only exception to thins is a handful of comedy accounts, and I can live without those.

all things i've noticed creep onto ilx politics threads over the years -- twitter really is leaking

on constant fucking cancel-watch and treating it like some sort of fun game we can all play

what is fucking cancel-watch? when someone fucks up and twitter sentences them to death?

mordy otm

honestly the idea of shadowbanning conservatives is hilarious to me, I wish they actually did it