luv2see #brands desperately prostrating themselves before governments on social media, very cool
― pee-wee and the power men (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 12 January 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
just wait for govts prostrating themselves before brands, coming soon to a social medium near you! #trench
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
btw how the fuck can i have blocked someone's retweets on this gd piece of trash website and i still get their likes randomly dropped into my feed??
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I went down the rabbit hole
apparently this is what set it off
Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e— Friends of Tibet (@friendsoftibet) January 9, 2018
― mh, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
oh snap
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
oops lol
― lagโn, Friday, 12 January 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
the rare trifecta
this is extremely good
The Hierophant: exploration of sacred truthTAke a look, y'all: pic.twitter.com/dY14XIlPwY— matt ๐ lubchansky (@Lubchansky) January 16, 2018
― frogbs, Thursday, 18 January 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
this too https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/twitterstorm-2018?utm_term=.kybv2bbA6#.cswg7PPwY
― stet, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:01 (six years ago) link
Joanna Whatley ยท London, United KingdomBut, ummm... many of these tweets are dated March 2018, which make the whole thing a scam since itโs only January. Or have I fallen into a parallel universe?
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
wow that's surprisingly good
"buckle up, it's time for some bayesian inference"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
i did particularly lol @ that
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 18 January 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
that article is the best black mirror episode yet
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 18 January 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link
staggeringly good article. sometimes buzzfeed rises above being buzzfeed.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
ugh that sounds wankier than i expected it to
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 January 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
it sounded as wanky as i expected
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
amazing, including the made up tweets, twitter handles, everything spot on
― k3vin k., Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
i didn't even pick up on the joke til Fergus McContrary, founder of an online journal looking sceptically at facts
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
need a trigger warning for satire plz
― flopson, Thursday, 18 January 2018 22:45 (six years ago) link
Good piece!
― mag gerwig! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 19 January 2018 01:46 (six years ago) link
Oh no, the liberals have been TRIGGERED again. pic.twitter.com/DXKIp1HsYv— The Liberated Brain (@Liberated_Brain) January 18, 2018
― lagโn, Friday, 19 January 2018 05:25 (six years ago) link
that was pretty good
so is this but not as funny
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2018/01/12/birdcage-liners/
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
that guy is way more sanguine about the future than he probably should be
― maura, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
Well, he played a major role in the creation of Microsoft Excel.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 January 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
oh so that's the guy i need to put on my death list for excel-related crimes
― grim-n-gritty hooty reboot (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 19 January 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
Iโm amazed he made an argument for longer posts providing better context, made a dumb dog analogy, and then used the details of a very specific twitter meltdown (โby the time you get off the plane in Africa..โ)Iโm no longer thinking of dogs at all, Iโm thinking about this:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/22/pr-exec-fired-racist-tweet-aids-africa-apologylike yeah, you can fuck up context in 140 characters, but you just did it in thousands!
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 14:17 (six years ago) link
the best part about the buzzfeed piece is it's a sequel. apparently fergus mccontrary got fired from his columnist job.
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 19 January 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
as a guy who rage quit twitter in december this mike monterio post is..........................very relatable to me
https://medium.com/@monteiro/twitters-great-depression-4dc394ed10f4
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 19 January 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
One of the warning signs for me is when I canโt tell the difference between a big problem and a small problem. My brain stops prioritizing. Every problem comes at me at exactly the same size. This is depression taking away a major coping mechanism. And thatโs exactly what was happening on Twitter. Every outrage was becoming the exact same size.
bingo
― The Bridge of Ban Louis J (silby), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
that's really a good piece
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
This style of political tweet-writing is so awful:
Okay, politikids. Grab thyselves a beverage and settle in.I just careened through 180-pages of House Intel Committee testimony by Fusion GPS and it was just chockablock with tasty bits.Let's hit the buffet.1/— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) January 19, 2018
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
five tweets in and I'm still not sure if it's a parody of that style or real
― mh, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
subtle if parody
The Hoarse Whisperer@HoarseWisperer#StableGenius. I've seen this movie up close. A clinical narcissist in the White House is a profound danger which all Americans must stand and #resist.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Friday, 19 January 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
threb/>
― lagโn, Friday, 19 January 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Curious how ILX formats this;
The Capitalist Pyramid. ๐ ๐ช๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ท๐ท๐ท ๐๐บ๐ฐ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ป ๐๐ด๐๐ช๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง ๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฆ๐ก๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ต๐๐ค๐ฑ (โ)— ๐ IPM ๐ฏ๐ง๐๐๐๐ฉ (@IPM_Tweets) January 22, 2018
― Crazy Display Name Haver (kingfish), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
damn I didn't realize monkeys and large mammals were that powerful
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 22 January 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
Smiled at that twitter user choosing ๐ฐ to represent military when it's just a magnet that beginning drivers slap on the hoods and trunks of their cars in Japan to alert other drivers of their lack of prowess.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 22 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
I think that's the badge for the cops above
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:31 (six years ago) link
The first 10 lines represent five things with two lines each
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 05:32 (six years ago) link
i have moved Twitter off my home screen and am loving it so far tbh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:01 (six years ago) link
Zing is the only social app left on my home screen now
― stet, Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:02 (six years ago) link
@youtubeartifact is a good bot to follow
― marcos, Wednesday, 24 January 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
i wanna start a twitter art history bot that posts images from this 16gb torrent of paintings that i use as my screensaver
― flopson, Thursday, 25 January 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
Wow did someone scrape Artstor
― direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
This is one of worst genres of tweet.
Congrats, guys. You invented a MFing bus. https://t.co/D2QO59FGqe— Chris Wetterich (@ChrisCinciBiz) January 26, 2018
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:10 (six years ago) link
It's a microgenre that I can't believe everyone hasn't seen by now in its many, many repeats.
― Alba, Friday, 26 January 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
whenever I see โyou invented a Xโ I hear it as a movie title like โwe bought a zooโ(have not seen that film so not sure if this holds up)
― mh, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
they did buy a zoo
― lagโn, Friday, 26 January 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
In pretty much every case itโs a new invention/technology. Iโm the case of โOrganic Pools?? No dummy thatโs a pondโ a few people explained how it was an actual thing in the replies but were ignored.
― Nerdstrom Poindexter, Friday, 26 January 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
*In the case of