Twitter C/D

Trying to limit myself to only follow books people and animals stuff, but politics keeps creeping back in.

twitter rules if you just follow cool people, imo

I dont follow any of the political lads on twitter, or the ones where they find a mean-spirited cunts tweet and say imagine being this cunt. Nothing wrong with that for those that want it but it doesnt brighten my day

On the political side of things , Big Nev Southall is good though, for using it in a positive way

funniest ppl on twitter dont know it imo

Muted RTs on a friend because he kept RTing the president's tweets, usually with a comment of "Whatever, Cheeto."

Now he's reposting screen grabs of the president's tweets.

oh for sure, it's take policing. actual issue is not so important

― mh, Monday, June 11, 2018 10:56 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it’s so frustrating

it's not that frustrating, k3vin. you just don't want to face the important minutiae of discussion
(twenty post thread occurs)

haha I'm kidding it sucks ass

Can you really not tailor your notifications to notify you only of replies and retweets of your own tweets (plus dm's, follows/unfollows etc)? Is it true that you are forced to deal with notifications about various convos people you follow might be engaging in? That is outrageous if so. How do you guys handle this.

i have not gotten those notifications

I don't have notifications turned on at all.

xp huh... Google tells me it was part of a rollout of new features from early last year. On my phone it'll just say that I have a new notification and I have to click just to find out if the tweet(s) is even directed to me, it sucks. I do see how it drives more traffic to the site though.

the ones i can't get rid of are on my phone. the "user_X tweeted for the first time in a while, check it out!" kind. i get one every single morning. clearing it out is part of my wake up routine

I get so indignant when shit like this is forced on me. Then I remember it's a private company and they can do whatever they want, but if tens of millions of people are forced to do this kind of housecleaning on a daily basis, the ultimate toll on people's time and productivity is staggering

My notiifcations are all like this

ReactDOM and 3 others liked a photo from Barack Obama
Reactiflux and DorsetWildLife followed Artsy Open Source
Recent Tweet from Jennifer

xp Twitter is of course a policy held company, I meant "for-profit entity" or whatever

*publicly

We are announcing a wide set of changes to make it easier to find and discover what is *happening now* on Twitter - be it breaking news or events.

— Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk) June 13, 2018

no u dont understand i go on twitter to read people with bad depression say "i go to chonch"

maybe I was chosen to beta test these changes, here's my review, they sukk

.@pareene would like everyone to know that he he has "been locked out of twitter and that IF people want to register their anger about that they should text Jack” and also that he thinks my tweets are all good and extremely funny

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 20, 2018

brief update pic.twitter.com/ixrz7BNOyo

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 20, 2018

Some crypt0 dingus replied to a thread i was in a week ago and I’m still getting notifications from bots liking HIS tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/06/twitter-is-sweeping-out-fake-accounts-like-never-before-putting-user-growth-risk/?utm_term=.e371f501210e

*yawn* get back to me when the POSPOTUS has been banned

he will never be banned bc @jack is a nazi sympathizer

p much

that british tv comedy writer going nuts and thinking anyone talks about TERFs is an opportunity for him to chime in is wild

Irish. It’s beyond me why he thinks that of all the people in the world who might comment on gender issues, his contributions are necessary.

However, massive props to him and his wife for their work lobbying to repeal the 8th Amendment banning virtually all abortions for Irish women.

too late, already FP'd mh for racism

whoops phrased badly, meant to say he's written british tv comedies

i'm sure there are irish tv comedies but i've not heard of them. shame, very whimsical people

He does technically write British tv comedy

Xp!

He is absolutely despised by Irish feminists & repeal campaigners, not least because of his vile terf shit, and his tendency to only quote tweet men who oppose him while ignoring women criticising him.

His story, while sad and sadly common, made far less difference than the grassroots efforts of Irish campaigners and he doesn’t deserve any recognition given he’s demonstrated time and time again how he feels about the wrong sort of women.

xp yeah "writer of british tv comedies" would maybe be a better construction, my bad

wow that escalated quickly

Linehan has always been an arsehole but the way he’s all day every day with the transphobic shit is intense yeah

fwiw there were several threads that came to mind but this "HI THERE DID YOU SAY TERF" one killed me yesterday. it's about halfway down the thread

i always thought "feminazis" was something invented by weirdo reactionaries until i made the mistake of wandering into TERF twitter

— Rich Lather (@muhmentions) July 9, 2018

holy shit linehan can eat shit forever

as like... a huge fan of black books this bums me out considerably

Drives me nuts too, like many media guys I knew in the ‘90s who were ~basically OK~ back then, has somehow become some shade of centrist dad.

The repeal thing: his wife should be recognised for her work helping to repeal the 8th, at least she’s not everywhere with that TERF nonsense.

No more than anyone else who spoke out; in fact I’d suggest that any random ordinary woman deserves more recognition for doing so given the longstanding stigma and death threats sent to many of them.

I could really link to any one thread but here’s a particularly awful one.

@Glinner why do you continue to support British feminists who do nothing to support Irish ones other then attack #repealthe8th groups for being trans inclusive?

I thought you were better then this.

— James Brophy (@jamesfbrophy) May 30, 2018

Feel like “centrist dad” doesn’t quite cut it at this point, or is at least less important than the “active bigot” part of his bio

I've definitely gotten a little too invested in issues, for a moment, that didn't carry a lot of personal weight. But why the hell some middle-aged completely cis/hetero dude is insanely into this one particular issue is so weird.

also the issues I've briefly engaged with never involved being insanely transphobic

Linehan has been conducting ludicrous feuds and outrage attacks on twitter 23/7 for a decade, he's just finally found something that people aren't shrugging and walking away from

turf is a slur
are you not a trans exclusionary radical feminist
a slur!

xp lol fair

You’re sapiosexual if you come to a realization

— wint wenders (@ICELEVEL) July 27, 2018

lol

Dumb question but is there any reason there's been a huge upswing in errant spaces in tweets this year, or is it just some byproduct of more people composing tweets on their phones nowadays?

i found out yesterday that i was blocked by a person in my field who i don't know personally and have never interacted with in person or online but who participates in the same twitter circles i do, shares interests/followers, know a lot of the same people, etc. idk why i am dwelling on this but i really want to know why. i also want to figure out who else has blocked but it looks like there is not a way to easily do that.

there are mechanisms that autoblock accounts if those accounts follow certain other accounts. like you can autoblock anyone that follows Trump or something. so it might not be personal.

Wish I could quit twitter. Aren't we due for another SNS to pop-up that's hopefully less crass?

We want to provide an update on the conversation over the last 24 hours around why and how we enforce our policies. As we indicated yesterday, tweets from Alex Jones and InfoWars are not currently in violation of our Rules.

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) August 7, 2018

“Rules” *j/o motion*