happy sixteenth birthday to elon musk
― Clay, Thursday, 6 July 2023 02:18 (ten months ago) link
as a real fucking degenerate Twitter user, I cannot fathom this idea that what was fun or addictive about the site was debate, that was never true! it was always the surreal humor and dunking on idiots and also finding people that were interesting or knowledgeable, debate was never what was good about it even in the best daysthough I guess for dudes likw Elon who are incapable of being funny or clever or interesting debate is all they have
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 July 2023 02:21 (ten months ago) link
lol at "read 762 replies" on that tweet. Psych!
― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Thursday, 6 July 2023 02:23 (ten months ago) link
This is correct afaict https://www.garbageday.email/p/paying-to-use-a-site-you-cant-use
The reason for its success, if you can argue that it was ever really successful, wasn’t that it was cooler than Facebook. It was because of its proximity to power. The reason it was so popular with activists, extremists, journalists, and shitposters was because what you posted there could actually affect culture. The thing that ties together pretty much everything that’s happened on Twitter since it launched in 2006 was the possibility that those who were not in power (or wanted more) could influence those who were. And I don’t think it’s an accident that a deranged billionaire broke that, nor do I think it’s accident that we’re suddenly being offered smaller, insular platforms or an offshoot of a Meta app as replacements. The folks in charge clearly don’t want that to happen again.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 July 2023 02:37 (ten months ago) link
Scrolling through twitter tonight is absolutely gut wrenching & it’s not bc of the bored ape floor price. It’s bc so many OG apes I’ve grown w/ since mint are getting their apes liquidated via loan protocols. I want to help, we should all be extending hands to help right now.— Spiro.eth (@spiro___) July 4, 2023
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:06 (ten months ago) link
I'm extending a part of my hand
what is the ilx version of so many og apes i've grown with since mint
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:11 (ten months ago) link
You will never find that kind of comedy on another site, except maybe Something Awful in its prime.
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:11 (ten months ago) link
I don’t understand half of what that guy is saying but I know he’s sad about his stupid cartoons that were supposed to change the world and make him a billionaire.
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:13 (ten months ago) link
if I was a kid in the 90s and some stranger from 2023 entered my home via time machine portal and left a printout of this tweet on my desk, my imagination about what 2023 would be like would be pretty fucked up.
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:13 (ten months ago) link
hell fuck the 90s, if you showed me a printout of this tweet in *2005*
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:16 (ten months ago) link
“You maniacs! You blew it up! Damn you!”
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 July 2023 05:14 (ten months ago) link
every time one of his tweets gets posted here i say to myself that cannot possibly be real
and no matter how asinine 38k+ simping losers have liked it
― serving aunt (stevie), Thursday, 6 July 2023 08:32 (ten months ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 July 2023 09:18 (ten months ago) link
so many OG apes I’ve grown w/ since mint are getting their apes liquidated via loan protocols.
I don't remember this part in Neuromancer.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:21 (ten months ago) link
it’s from Pynchon iirc
― mh, Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:24 (ten months ago) link
hold my vape as they liq my ape
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:28 (ten months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0PCjC4X0AACOVT?format=jpg&name=900x900
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:33 (ten months ago) link
I joined Threads, my feed is 100% people I don't follow, so pretty much useless for now.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:36 (ten months ago) link
so many OG apes I’ve grown w/ since mint are getting their apes liquidated via loan protocols, starving hysterical naked
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:37 (ten months ago) link
looking for an angry ForEX
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 6 July 2023 12:48 (ten months ago) link
is it funnier that we don't have a BlueSky thread or should I start one?
― rob, Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:00 (ten months ago) link
🖼
― Crabber B. Munson (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:48 (ten months ago) link
I've been able to find a few of the people I follow on Twitter on Threads, and now my feed is mostly the people I have followed. On Bluesky I'm not able to find anyone because I'm on a wait list.
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:52 (ten months ago) link
How many apes must a man have liquidated via loan protocolsBefore you call him a man?
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 13:53 (ten months ago) link
Bananaman Begins wins this one for me, A+
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 6 July 2023 14:49 (ten months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0Wq1AzXoAAKEhS?format=jpg&name=large
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:30 (ten months ago) link
Remove Bookmark from This Threads
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:43 (ten months ago) link
i think it's time to abandon social media
― ivy (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:45 (ten months ago) link
i'm going back to ICQ
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:52 (ten months ago) link
I'll happily accept a Bluesky invitation now that they're the old new thing now
― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:53 (ten months ago) link
hmm I do still remember my six digit ICQ account number
― mh, Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:53 (ten months ago) link
Bluesky was so next week
― Alito Bit of Soap (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:56 (ten months ago) link
the only way social media will work anymore is if you're required to change your username and avatar for each post
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 16:57 (ten months ago) link
RIP Twitter
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 6 July 2023 17:58 (ten months ago) link
micro blogging business drama
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Thread, @maxwelltani reports (also he's on Thread, same handle) https://t.co/IVVZsCwyrf pic.twitter.com/89rZPTU9it— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 6, 2023
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 18:53 (ten months ago) link
he's saying that zuck has been reading ("scraping") my good tweets
― mark s, Thursday, 6 July 2023 18:58 (ten months ago) link
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”
lol maybe dont fire everyone
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:00 (ten months ago) link
got something for u to scrape, Elon
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:01 (ten months ago) link
lmao what trade secrets would they need? this is the Instagram comments section.
also pre musk employees are not subject to NDA.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:18 (ten months ago) link
they hold the ancient knowledge of how to craft a microblog post
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:19 (ten months ago) link
He really did set 44bn on fire. Parag the greatest CEO of all time for shareholders.
Meta execs rebutting twitters claims in its legal threat over on threads https://t.co/nf6WrZLb17 pic.twitter.com/AlBp35cAoY— rat king 🐀 (@MikeIsaac) July 6, 2023
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 6 July 2023 19:39 (ten months ago) link
"Quit poaching the employees that I said were completely useless "
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 20:04 (ten months ago) link
This is something I enjoyed reading, correctly focussing on the point where "you're talking to the world" became the thing. "Everyone is a columnist" was a mistake.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/
Also the fact that Threads doesn't have a website is a bit of a dealbreaker for me.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:20 (ten months ago) link
poaching 'former' twitter employees.... that would be unemployed engineers looking for work, no poaching
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
kind of like Ronaldo celebrating a goal he didn't actually score
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:24 (ten months ago) link
do non-compete clauses carry any weight in this case?
not that this isn't just mini-Facebook or text-instagram, is not like they weren't already doing similar things at scale
― koogs, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:39 (ten months ago) link
Every time I think I’m out they pull me back in
Children conceived when the mother didn't have a climax, are not ensouled btw. When it dies, its spirit neither goes to heaven or hell, it is just destroyed, like that of animals.— Anna Komnene ☩❤️🔥 (@Baezantium) July 6, 2023
― JoeStork, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:41 (ten months ago) link
damn did not know that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:55 (ten months ago) link
time to ask my parents some uncomfortable questions
― mh, Thursday, 6 July 2023 21:58 (ten months ago) link