which is not to say there hasnt been some increase in some anti social behaviors but seeing the crime panic shit just ramp up in the most predictable ways is depressing
― lagโn, Sunday, 7 May 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
Smokers should be executed
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
Twitter also seems to amplify people's rage due to the insanely heated culture wars that have played out there or years, particularly the hate-filled crew that are on there to hate on libs, minorities, women, woke, and trans people. feels like accelerant on the fire atm
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 May 2023 22:58 (one year ago) link
Much internet communication, in my experience, tends to magnify the negative and minimize the positive.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:01 (one year ago) link
and the fact that none of the real inflammatory shit gets taken down any more.
ran into this one tweeter who had tweeted threats to shoot, rape and kill two different people and listed the weapon they'd use to do it, and these tweets were like a week old, still sitting out there. crepey shit will always sneak through social media but when your CEO basically says anything goes, the already slow response time for reporting these things is pretty non-existent now, the bots seem to do all the hunting and killing of bad content, and only if you use the right combination of words.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Sunday, 7 May 2023 23:02 (one year ago) link
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 May 2023 06:19 (one year ago) link
<--- insert long boring-ass story about getting kicked off a Los Alamitos conspiracy & software piracy BBS because they thought I was a Fed trying to infiltrate them. Seriously! They stopped inviting me to their BBQs --->
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 May 2023 06:22 (one year ago) link
Only 50% a Twitter problem (50% legalizing sports betting via apps) but it's annoying to see so many gambling idiots (or grifters trying to grab business for their pick site) posting screenshots of their bets on any big sports news.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 8 May 2023 06:56 (one year ago) link
Indistinquishable from /r/wallstreetbets types who post screenshots of their RobinHood trades.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 8 May 2023 08:16 (one year ago) link
confused why you haven't all left yet
― imago, Monday, 8 May 2023 08:30 (one year ago) link
looking at who Elon is replying/boosting this week, might be time to stop posting if youโre still on there
โ ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Saturday, 6 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Twitter pre-Musk has always struggled to keep the worst kind of far-right crap away from the site and I still don't see a lot of it.
Most of the people I follow haven't left and still post some good stuff on it. So no.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 08:42 (one year ago) link
Despite the lack of any murders, this was possibly the grimmest episode yet.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 8 May 2023 09:04 (one year ago) link
Well, this is not the thread I thought it was.
lol could've fooled me
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 8 May 2023 09:13 (one year ago) link
Lol
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
Community Notes are a joy.
We received intelligence that indicated people were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession - with concern from the military that this would scare their horses and cause significant risk to the safety of the public and their riders.Read our fullโฆ https://t.co/G1xPZVJ45F— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) May 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 10:54 (one year ago) link
Look at stamps instead.
pic.twitter.com/YOIBH3lPq8— Stamps Bot (@StampsBot) May 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 10:56 (one year ago) link
Love how the ppl who post crap on it have to put a tweet below to reply to dispute community notes now.
The WHO might define adolescence as up to the age of 19. But other scientists disagree and define it up to the age of 24. The context added to my tweet is disputed @Twitter. https://t.co/vmOrVojT2O pic.twitter.com/J6ViKbHqH7— Dr Charlotte Proudman (@DrProudman) May 8, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
meeting of the brain geniuses
https://i.imgur.com/sgOcvGQ.png
― lagโn, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
lol I'd like to see the unhinged leftist equivalent of that tweet
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
the unhinged left tweets are people telling him he sucks shit
― lagโn, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
xpost "everyone should be working out nude in public"
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
i kind of assume MY means more like "it's ableist to call people on the phone" type tweets. but those are fun to laugh at while there's nothing absurdist about "women are the property of their husbands"
― rob, Monday, 8 May 2023 14:53 (one year ago) link
xyz I know thereโs lot of good stuff still on Twitter. Iโm saying it might be time to stop posting
in spite of that
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:18 (one year ago) link
lol sorry for quoting my italics
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:23 (one year ago) link
i was there first and i will be there after, maybe
― lagโn, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
Just because an asshole buys the mall it doesnโt mean the teens are going to stop hanging out at the food court
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
and the mall is dying
you literally can't click a link on twitter right now. it's wild how this site is slowly degrading— Tim Marcin (@TimMarcin) May 8, 2023
― lagโn, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
it's sort of like if all the anchor stores turn into gun ranges
― ๊ฎ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
xyz is like i only shop at the sunglass hut
― ๊ฎ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
did any of you ever see The Wave? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(1981_film)
― rob, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
lol
Weโre purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 8, 2023
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
oh man I hope that doesn't mean a handful of the weird twitter accounts that stopped posting over a decade ago like @UtilityLimb and @tree_bro get nuked
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
elon not understanding twitter once again
― lagโn, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:56 (one year ago) link
people were good at posting back then
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:57 (one year ago) link
tree bro & utility limb will absolutely get nuked
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 8 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
going through and liking and replying to all their tweets in an attempt to register activity
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 16:59 (one year ago) link
even his blue check toadies don't like this move based on the replies to that tweet so I hope he will walk it back like he has consistently done for many, but not all, of his moronic decisions with this site.
― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:23 (one year ago) link
hope he nukes me
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
it's going to be funny when the dead celebrities who got an involuntary blue check then get their accounts deleted
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
it's probably just elon looking to cut costs and choosing the absolutely wrong place to do it
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
it's not a cost cutting measure. he's trying to force people to play with him.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:36 (one year ago) link
otm
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 8 May 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
the old inactive accounts likely existed before you could really post video, so even if they're image-heavy they're probably shifted off to cheaper storage by this point. there's little savings there, I'd think
― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 18:58 (one year ago) link
On the bright side of Twitter, @JayCuda has been killing it lately with his bizarre (but factual) baseball statistics/infographics
― Josefa, Monday, 8 May 2023 18:59 (one year ago) link
search seems increasingly useless, I was trying to find some tweets I posted in 2018 and advanced search couldn't locate them
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 8 May 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link
โ ๊ฎ (map), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
That's right
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
Iโm sure you still see good stuff on there. You will do as long as people keep giving musk free content that he uses to maintain a platform he uses to promote white nationalism very openly.โ ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
As opposed to the other guys who owned twitter pre-Musk, who were being given free content in a platform which ended up promoting Donald Trump and his gang?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/thrawn.movie/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/vsTS8X4.gif?fit=851%2C315&ssl=1&is-pending-load=1
― nickn, Monday, 8 May 2023 20:41 (one year ago) link
xp.
sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 20:46 (one year ago) link