Twitter C/D

Joyce Carol Oates is really tearing it up on Twitter lately, getting ratioed left and right. The latest outrage involving some speculation about non-binary pronouns’ acceptance in English

that was painful to see

she did title one of her great novels Them. They is not much of a stretch

love how she has an open mind about isis but considers halloween decorations an absolute insult to life itself

she’s a literary-minded 83 year old

i mean so am i but that doesnt stop me from correctly ranking isis and halloween on the evilness chart

lot of self confidence from the literary sect on all fronts

don't hate her, she has written some pretty great novels

i dont hate her most of her tweets are pretty funny, part of what makes it work is shell have some harebrained idea but then the tweets are really compellingly written because obvs shes good at writing, and its also funny because shes a famous writer basically just out there shitposting, and shes old too lol, its all pretty delightful, the transphobic ones are actually bad tho

I guess her most jaw-dropping tweet to date, for me, was the one from several years ago where she suggested that clinically depressed people should simply read some Ancient Greek drama.

Tbf god knows I’ve made some terrible tweets (normally quickly deleted) and I generally appreciate people who don’t filter their thoughts too much or apologize too freely

lmao its so loony how could you even be mad

hey good news i cured depression its called sophocles your welcome

tbh my eczema cleared up after reading antigone that's called science

pretty sure that's not what she was saying but i found another tweet where she gave a rave review to ricky gervais' after life so i'm not gonna go crazy trying to defend her.

this is the funniest addendum this app has ever put on one of my tweets pic.twitter.com/I8QWUAcVeq

— lauren (reformed arc) (@ActNormalOrElse) October 6, 2021

lol I wonder if you put the right combination of names in a tweet you get that warning

Donald Trump Epstein Lula Orban Bernie Tony Blair

"Conversations like this can be stupid"

Try clearing your cookies. I've been dealing with that in incognito only for some reason (still get the popup in normal chrome but can just X out normally) and even then, if you open the tweet in a new tab you should be able to scroll normally. This is for PC only, I can't get it to work on mobile.

― ✖, Tuesday, August 17, 2021 9:25 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

i have to do this multiple times a week on desktop and mobile, for some reason chrome just doesn't register the "never allow cookies" setting. annoying

― ✖, Sunday, September 19, 2021 4:49 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

i have resorted to installing a chrome plugin that performs a quick cookie removal of whatever site you're ​on

dud

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the way Twitter phrases their trending topics is so weird and oftentimes hilarious

And with this we can now close Twitter and possibly the whole human experiment

I like the early Beatles, early Elvis, early Bob Dylan and early Rolling Stones. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel is a great album. Nirvana did some good stuff.

— John Hinckley (@JohnHinckley20) October 21, 2021

😬

I like early-80s Hinckley.

lmao

lol Pareene made same joke

this photo of a Kroger remodel from 2018 keeps showing up followed by a million credulous responses about how the US is facing soviet-style food shortages

"capitalism is doing great, you should worry about cuba instead" pic.twitter.com/Ev8IGeuYWS

— weston (@westonpagano) October 25, 2021

I know it's fun to believe anything you see on the internet, but it really isn't that difficult to step out of your house and go to a supermarket and see that you can buy whatever you want at any time.

new update is godawful. seems built to highlight promoted tweets, i’ve been muting brand accounts left and right

dud

was not expecting today’s discourse to feature ‘nancy reagan gave magnificent head’

i refuse to believe it, she obvs just gave a lot of head

Practice makes perfect

My paternal grandparents spent a lot of time in pre- and post-war LA and like most of their friends there, hated the Reagans. They knew about Nancy’s adventures in kneeling and my grandmother had a copy of that Kitty Kelley book, which delighted her because it verified a lot of old gossip.

Sorry Kentucky. Maybe if your 2 senators hadn't spent decades blocking legislation to reduce climate change, you wouldn't be suffering from climate disasters. If it's any consolation, McConnell and Rand have f'ed over all of us, too.

— Noel Scovell (@NellSco) December 11, 2021

Make the Purge real but only for Twitter blue checks.

i refuse to believe it, she obvs just gave a lot of head

― lag∞n, Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:08 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Practice makes perfect

― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, December 11, 2021 12:09 PM (four hours ago)

even a blind squirrel finds the nut

this is the second moronic tweet i've seen from this noel scovell character in a week but i can't remember the first one

i'm sure amy mcgrath would have stopped the tornado with her fighter jet though

jfc twitter i DID NOT need to know that about nancy reagan ffs

Is Twitter blue ad-free?

i don't know but i can't believe it only has one calorie!

you just encounter so many beliefs on this website. too many. pic.twitter.com/V5aZO6q06n

— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) December 26, 2021

It was all reflective garments around here...

2021 was a good year for tweets. Gonna post a thread of some of my favorite. I know it’s gonna seem like some of these are a joke but I promise you they were tweeted in earnest. Going chronologically:

— willem dafriend (@spaghetti) December 31, 2021

No! No!!

is my clear favourite

The Joyce Carol Oates skeletons one wins

it's hard to pick one, there are a lot of gems

it can go away this is better!

hamilton insurrection tweet is one of the worst ever imo, hall of fame bad tweet

Yeah the first 10 are really cringey but there are some really funny ones after that

i will seed your eggs