Twitter C/D

Very reminiscent of Trump reposting memes of himself as Rocky and Superman

what’s the eye of Sauron meme

Yeah I’m not familiar w that one tbh

Have you guys not seen Lord of the Rings, just referencing the CUT TO GIANT FLAMING EYE shots of Sauron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOBVwZI7z6s

right yes but a meme? am unfamilz

I went for months feeling like Twitter was going to basically stay the same for normal users even while Musk kept getting weirder and bitterer but I have to say, in the last few weeks there is really noticeably more right-wing troll content in my "For You" tab, and just plain LESS in my "Following" tab, presumably because a lot of people I follow are no longer posting.

As long as the fascist neo-nazi content is saturating the rest of the platform, but isn’t right on my feed, I’ll keep using it, eh?

i’ll keep drinking that garbage

yea I opened it last night what with Sunday Night Football and a MLB playoff game going at the same time, usually it's pretty active then but I'm getting like 5-6 new "posts" every 10 minutes, nothing like what it used to be

already grinding my teeth at now seeing media using the "..posted on X, formerly known as Twitter"

twxttxr

what a terrible moment for twitter to have decayed so far into a feed of what basically one guy thinks you should see https://t.co/mtsHDwV3xM

— Kyle Chayka (@chaykak) October 9, 2023

one guy who *lowers sunglasses* is also an idiot and a bad person btw

elmo what if there are no objective or accurate words *elmo self destructs like fembot*

can we not refer to Elon Musk as "elmo", as a point of respect to the beloved former ilxor elmo argonaut?

Also it's too fucking easy to find him.

oh that's Waldo

having a harder time finding elmo... can you tell me how to get to sesame street

That's not the way, Mr. Noodle!

yeah idk how elmo is insulting.
you’re either not wanting to say his name, or you’re comparing him to a children’s character that was only publicly reviled when he was made into a popular toy but has otherwise been a beloved, empathetic character for several generations

ok from now on he's x

xlxn mxsk

pxdo guy

El No

Xlon

Nole Skum

Emerald boy

Bad Tesla

fun fact: Tommy Skeoch is the former guitarist for Tesla, and the current guitarist for Bad Marriage

"elmo" is like "drumpf"; funny for one second and then annoying forever

elmo mrumpf

St Elon's Fire

he made his first lump sum of money off a company called zip2, that has some nickname potential

my bf was taking my pics and his friend was like “portrait mode! use portrait mode!” and i was like “ew no!”………. tell me why he’s the person who created it………….

— 🎀 dove! 🎀 (@lovedoveclarke) October 9, 2023

Yeah it sounds like an odd request

think the current discourse has finally driven me away

calling it discourse is maybe a bit of a stretch

It's similar to the innovations e.e. cummings brought to poetry, but with a modern spin.

wau

this is going to sound like i'm joking, but i am absolutely not: no lag∞n, no credibility

it's the last straw

end of an era

interesting to see how Thierry Breton's stepping in and using the EU's new rules on online media to threaten Musk plays out. he's set his blue-ticks on them and is trying to stonewall, but my gut reaction is they won't be fucked with on this.

Twitter has mostly been pretty good on the week's events. Have seen pics/footage of pro-Palestine protests in many parts of the world, for example.

Many posters have done very well to counter the current narratives. It's certainly coming through to me.

i dunno. the number of beheading videos and astroturfed hashtags i've seen is higher than ideal.

atrocity competition

the level of warmongering on there combined with all the misinformation is too much for me, tho yeah there is more room for other views on there than say the tv news, also just the whole israel-palistine situation is so awful that i dont really want to consume endless info on it regardless of its political slant or quality

being reminded of usa post 9/11 also not super pleasant

all I see on there is stuff about Jada Smith and Joe Budden

that does sound nice

does it, though