Wittes rules, sorry haters
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
Lmao poor fucker
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
No more airplane rides for you, Twitterman
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 12:38 (six years ago) link
buy inflight wifi, boom
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
deleted from my phone for the sake of sanity. and not allowing myself to look at it during work hours
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
i need to the same
― marcos, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
*do
there is like... nothing of value there. it brings me no meaning or happiness. it is just noise that i feel compelled to tune into sometimes
I hate that thing where I randomly start to get invested in whatever the controversy du jour is. Makes me feel like such a mark.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
i was tipped over the edge by a controversy over a passage in issa rae's 3 year old book when she says black women should date asian men - but not filipinos because they're the blacks of asia or something - which yeah obviously that's dumb as fuck and racist etc. but who the fuck cares? i certainly don't
― Daniel Johns Hopkins (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 17:42 (six years ago) link
― marcos, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:31 PM (three hours ago)
you have to be judicious about what you choose to engage with! I gave up on trump news and outrage culture over a year ago and my life is better for it. there are lots of communities on twitter that make it worthwhile
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link
feel like kanye going maga is the biggest clusterfuck in the history of the platform and is on a very deep level 100% caused by it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:53 (six years ago) link
I hate that thing where I randomly start to get invested in whatever the controversy du jour is. Makes me feel like such a mark.― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 5:31 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they are talking about peas in guacamole
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link
xpost i would say it's at least second to our president, but yeah, it's really messy
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
Was about to say, gosh, bet this will be the one to make Kanye drop out of the race.
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
saw this as a promoted tweet in my feed lol
We educate and unify #Millennials & #GenZ on the #2ndAmendment ‘s imperative role in our freedom; because before we know it, this country will be in our hands. Are you #triggered, yet? #TriggeredMillennials #2A #2ADefenders #2AShallNotBeInfringed pic.twitter.com/IHYxZhdxdK— Triggered Millennials (@TriggeredWakeUp) May 2, 2018
― marcos, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Watch LIVE As @KanyeWest Clarifies His 400 Years Of Slavery Comment 📡 Tune in M-F 11am-3pm central at: https://t.co/OQtch0tDED <<#AlexJonesShow #infowars 🇺🇸#USA #1A #IfSlaveryWereAChoice #WednesdayWisdomBackup Video: https://t.co/88KVJsTBwOhttps://t.co/btc54a1NGH— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 2, 2018
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:55 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 4:00 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
trump is bigger in "the world" but on twitter this kanye situation cuts deep man
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 20:29 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DcNdVgvXcAEiA5g.jpg
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 9:53 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This seems a popular opinion but it lets Kanye off the hook way too much imo. Twitter is the megaphone that Kanye picked up, and apparently millions are willing to listen. I find it hard to blame twitter - which is the absolute worst, yes, and yet - for that. In the end his stupid musings and opinions are his, not the platform's.
Whiney otm: Trump (ab)using twitter, raining down his stupidity on this platform, amplifying it, takes the cake.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
hmm seems like u guys dont really understand twitter, feel bad for u
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:30 (six years ago) link
kinda dont get ppl who are like 'damn gotta get off twitter for my sanity' like what wellsprings of meaning and joy are you failing to tap into cuz you were online posting your still gonna be depressed when you log off
eric garland is like an escaped character from a delilo novel just making up shit like "provokatsiya" and posting it on the t/l, just always impressed by that dude
― (° . ° )― (Lamp), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Enlighten us, lagoon.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:02 (six years ago) link
the kanye situation is more ~twitter culture~ than trump, like hes going specifically alt right, where trump tho he is very good at tweeting basically just uses twitter as a way to broadcast his message and is culturally really "fox news", also kanye is roiling twitter more cause he crossed ideological lines (on twitter, specifically twitter ideological lines)
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:07 (six years ago) link
Precisely because the Kanye situation is ~more twitter culture~ makes it all the more bizarre and weird that Trump (who is *not* good at tweeting, come now, he's an illiterate monkey) ruffles feathers the way he does. Kanye just plays into the twitter game. He plays by the rules, keeps tweets nicely at about the old 140 chars. Bite-size stuff, like or RT plz. I don't see how that is - apart from very sad - in any way remarkable. Nor how the platform is somehow to blame for it, as you state.Trump abuses the platform with brash irrationality and brain-dead thought farts. He's bad at twitter, which probably makes him good at twitter. Still a huge stretch to blame twitter for both of these idiots being on it.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:30 (six years ago) link
everyone is dril sometimes on twitter, but kanye is definitely dril
― mh, Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:42 (six years ago) link
true that
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
can’t even begin to tell you how good quitting twitter has been for my mental health but i guess i’m just regular depressed instead of having my depression and anxiety constantly activated by a feed of bullshit, really no difference
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link
unless you’re talking about people who constantly talk about quitting twitter but never do, in which case: otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
High five for logging off, I haven’t been on at all for three months and that was just a one-day check in to make sure I was in touch with some folks about my birthday party.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 2 May 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
emphasis on /some/ apparently
ahem
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
wow, rude
― mookieproof, Thursday, 3 May 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
fun party btw silby
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
oh, my delegate was there, continue as we were
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
La goon, how would someone with a private account understand Twitter better than those of us who once got a like from @infowars? #thatsright #imsayingit #hashtag
― pplains, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
is infowars itself actually good at twitter though, or just their personalities
that britisher basement-dweller guy seems to be their twitter pinnacle
― mh, Thursday, 3 May 2018 01:49 (six years ago) link
I dunno, I don't follow it.
― pplains, Thursday, 3 May 2018 02:22 (six years ago) link
Ive never followed political stuff or read or got into any discussions/debates (the short form seems entirely the wrong format for that), and the idea of even thinking about what Kanye thinks is not only alien to me, but counter-productive.
It seems to me that following that kind of stuff, combined with twitters 'endlessness' is hitting same part of brain as eg fox viewers watching endlessly and getting more riled, a form of radicalization (not necessarily in any direction but how that affects perception).
― anvil, Thursday, 3 May 2018 05:24 (six years ago) link
eel like kanye going maga is the biggest clusterfuck in the history of the platform and is on a very deep level 100% caused by it
― lag∞n, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 3:53 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
isn’t it caused by him watching alt right videos on YouTube? he doesn’t even follow anyone on twitter
― flopson, Thursday, 3 May 2018 08:09 (six years ago) link
kanye uses lists
― ||||||||, Thursday, 3 May 2018 08:27 (six years ago) link
more like kan'tye amirite
― Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 3 May 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
All this talk about how quitting Twitter was the best thing you ever did, you guys must’ve been following some depressing-as-fuck people.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
Journalists mainly :(
― nashwan, Thursday, 3 May 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
That would definitely explain it.
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 3 May 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link
librarians
― marcos, Thursday, 3 May 2018 11:14 (six years ago) link
academics
― marcos, Thursday, 3 May 2018 11:15 (six years ago) link
on a long enough timeline most people become depressing-as-fuck people
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 3 May 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
twitter is def psychologically agitating, its just a lot of info/opinion to be exposed to
― lag∞n, Thursday, 3 May 2018 13:40 (six years ago) link
I just started worrying about far too wide a swath of people; I can’t do anything to ensure the safety or well-being of random strangers having a bad time and that would make me very agitated.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Thursday, 3 May 2018 14:18 (six years ago) link
Seems like a stable platform:
Twitter says all 336 million users should change their passwords
http://money.cnn.com/2018/05/03/technology/twitter-password-bug/index.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 3 May 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link