Twitter C/D

Threads like this are a wild ride

I haven’t spoken with @TheEllenShow and can only speak from my own experience. She & her team have only treated me & my team w/ respect & kindness. She never pandered to celebrity which I always saw as a refreshing honesty. When things aren’t right she handles it and fixes.

— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) August 5, 2020

the only good take

“they’ve always been cool to me,” the statement nobody ever needed and yet people continually write for some reason https://t.co/ABo2sBDvqD

— jes skolnik (@modernistwitch) August 4, 2020

Still kinda blows me away when people like Ashton actually get into the responding to the replies like that. Although I thought it was hilarious whenever Seth Rogen did it to specifically tell all the MAGAs to fuck off.

just a couple of blue check liberals having fun online pic.twitter.com/q7qyfq0y1o

— kylie brakeman (@deadeyebrakeman) August 18, 2020

that's pretty accurate

and then you look and somehow they host a podcast and have 330,000 followers

I started using Twitter and I feel 100% more insane and angry all the time.

nice

I think that is Twitter's stated goal

being insane and angry is bad not good. diagnosis delete twitter

twitter haas the unique ability to make me hate people I like

every time i click on a twitter link i either learn something new or hate someone new

Y’all are following the wrong people on Twitter. Never follow a blue check, for a start.

whats wrong with sad people from the czech republic haha

^now this is the content i log onto ilxor.com for

The checks are actually white, btw.

Most Czechs too, fwiw.

“This account owner limits who can view their tweets”?? OK, how do I join the tweeter’s exclusive private club?

That's what it says when someone has blocked you, right? It's what I see when someone quotes or replies to Emily Nussbaum.

it's also what you see if they've set their account to private

Oh, right. In which case, you can just click to Follow them, but they have to approve it.

the blocked message just says "youre blocked" lol

No, I think they changed it!

i just checked, on web at least

it says you’re blocked when you navigate to the profile page but “unavailable” when it’s quote tweeted or in a reply chain

just got one that said "this is not available to you"

Yeah, it's only their profile where is says explicitly that you are blocked. I've only ever been blocked once that I know of, and by Tom Scharpling, of all people. I made a stupid, badly formed joke about wrestling in response to something he tweeted and he made fun of me for only having 40 followers and then blocked me, all within like 30 seconds.

It really only sucks because now, five or six years later, I never get to see the rare times he shares big news on Twitter and all I see are blank retweets from other Best Show guys and FOT.

What was the joke

I honestly don't even remember. It wasn't really a structured joke, but an attempt to be humorous in response to something he tweeted about all wrestling fans being dumb and he didn't like it.

if you dont tell me the joke im gonna block you >:[

lol

I made fun of Prodigy of Mobb Deep for only like 50 people buying H.N.I.C. 3. he thought it was funny.

RIP Prodigy

The checks are actually white, btw.

That's like saying Green Lantern should be called Black Lantern With A Green Light Inside It

except that the lanterns are green

A book review by Max:

https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171

What if the urge lurking behind our compulsive participation in the Twittering Machine is not the behavioralist pursuit of maximized pleasure, but the Freudian death drive -- our latent instinct toward inorganic oblivion, destruction, self-obliteration, “the ratio”? What if we post self-sabotaging things because we want to sabotage ourselves? What if the reason we tweet is because we wish we were dead?

On the one hand, that sounds like Freudian mumbo jumbo. On the other hand, speaking as a frequent user of social media, that . . . seems about right to me.

if you dont tell me the joke im gonna block you

Haha, I genuinely wish I could remember it. It was so stupid and ill formed though, just bummed me out that of all the people to be blocked by on twitter it was someone I genuinely really liked and not some hack I was trying to get a rise out of.

Brisk God nudging it toward C these days

pic.twitter.com/o1ia31MOfD

— Brisk God (@brisk_god) September 7, 2020

i know its a known and hated death-drive machine (citation: sigmund freud, ilxor max) but i just lolled at ilxor jess calling krugman a "giant pampered clown" so who can say if its good or bad

the krugman tweet was pretty bad

I'm trying to prune who I'm following down to stable adults without checks or strong political opinions. bird watchers, etc

i try to follow only insane people

I've found my groove on twitter. It is way less terrible when I limit my exposure to "politics" on there, to only very local people & to writers on African politics. I hate English-language "media twitter style" writing, think I also hate "I'm so wacky" stuff too, but sticking only to my most core interests (I'm not following anything about music there, ILM is sufficient), I get how twitter can be good & useful.

i need to unfollow a lot of politics/sjw people and follow more gay artsy people because twitter is really making me feel like the world is ending lately, not good for my state of mind.

i have a couple dozen common US politics terms/names muted (e.g. "trump","democrats","republicans",etc) and don't follow anyone whose primary posting subject is politics, and i still get a decent amount of political tweets on my feed, so i have to imagine the normal twitter experience for people who don't take those measures is like drinking from a firehose

yeah that (xp and xxp) sound like good ideas, big mass (North American at any rate) politics talk on there is awful, but other stuff can be great!

on the other big blue social media I've hidden all the crappy politics memey #resistance & obv pro current us president crappy crap & I don't have any problem with the site anymore. like "conservatives are destroying our future" or whatever, like, duh, & there were a million of those, just have to keep hiding them, after a few admittedly tedious weeks it ended

i need to unfollow a lot of politics/sjw people and follow more gay artsy people because twitter is really making me feel like the world is ending lately, not good for my state of mind.

― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Friday, September 11, 2020 11:28 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

In theory you can set up lists or whatever twitter calls them and then only read specific groups of people when you feel like it. I never got into that and I have an entire second account where I almost exclusively follow musicians, artists, writers. I tend to look at it less because it’s lower volume but reading through a backlog of a week of arts/cultural tweets and filling up my reading and music backlog that way is very soothing

choosing not to opine publicly on the controversial netflix movie

isn’t it great to just not have opinions on things? skipped an entire conversational thread on twitter this morning because it seemed like a lot of drama and I absolutely am not obligated to care either way

I find that artsy people tweet about politics just as much as politics people, just in a less informed and more depressed way

"choosing not to opine publicly on the controversial netflix movie" my wife watched it last night specifically because everyone on twitter is so mad about it (and also none of them have watched it). dunno what she thought, I went to bed.

I'm on twitter all the time now, it's very clearly not good for my health, but then neither is ingesting 30mg of edibles a night, or speaking to my family, or walking outside, so what do I care