Twitter C/D

thank you for your service

Crikey. That would kill Twitter for me, basically making it a weak imitation of Instagram. (Which is horrible to begin with.)

The BBC nicely conflating free speech activism and Bitcoin promotion here:

“Jack Dorsey: Unpicking Twitter boss's passion for Nigeria”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57568370

I had no idea Dorsey was such a Bitcoin bro. I guess I should follow him just to see what sort of BS he’s hawking next?

Did they really mean to say “unpicking”? “Unpacking”, maybe?

i've gotten it a couple more times today, sometimes it goes away with a refresh, sometimes it doesn't and then goes away after a couple minutes. given that it seems more likely they're testing something than its a bug

yeah i read that they were testing that, so dumb just let the people who want the chronological timeline have it, im sure the vast majority of just use the default

seems like they just flipped the switch for everyone at once, literally everyone on my tl is complaining now

That’s just because the algorithm knows you like complaining

i use a plugin that blocks trending topics and removes RTs from the main timeline and they are slowly breaking it ffs

only use tweetdeck imo

never put twitter on your phone also imo

yeah i got the good timeline taken away fr a while today

FINALLY!!!! A terrible wrong is being righted- a miscarriage of justice is corrected! pic.twitter.com/NrGUdwr23c

— Phylicia Rashad (@PhyliciaRashad) June 30, 2021

this has to be the ratio record

There's really only one German word that perfectly encompasses a specific feeling that hasn't been verbalized in English, you can stop asking for every dumb feeling you come up with.

i think i….. like the algo

the new taboo

lol

to me, it’s more about what’s in the tweets than the order they’re presented in

🐾 We are heartbroken over the tragedy in Surfside FL, so many hoomans perished..  Some of the survivors’ pets are trapped in the rubble too. These are Mia, Daisy and Coco. Not pictured, Binks (same condo as Daisy), another cat Hippo and a chameleon named Grimlock. pic.twitter.com/C1j7OJqX6b

— The Oval Pawffice® 🇺🇸 DOTUS Fans (@TheOvalPawffice) July 2, 2021

There's,apparently cats stuck on the 4th and 10th floors that they can't get to, and a possible dog in a crate.

no idea where to put this apart from here - they found more Japanese fake baseball players!

We found additional pages of them! If you’d not seen them, you’re welcome!
I’ve wanted to get a Mets jersey with “Balloon” for a while now… pic.twitter.com/xzB4BVs5vO

— Shane Duggan (@SB_Duggan) July 15, 2021

jim milliams

SUGGEST GARY BANPS

dave glark

these are all gold, incredible batting average, if you will

no idea where to put this apart from here - they found more Japanese fake baseball players!

Fighting Baseball for Super Famicom: A League of Fake Americans POLL

ugh, the post going around about the pizza place in ohio with the owner that gave all the workers the "profit" (spoiler: it was not the profit) from the day to the workers, who then earned $78/hour for that day, leading to the conclusion that the owner could pay their workers that much every day if they really wanted to

all of that, so much of it veering toward something that is the truth, but it's all based upon shitty reporting, shitty headline writing, a screengrab of the article rather than a link to the real one, and social media.

If only someone had written some sort of theory, about labor and even maybe about value….a labor and value theory or something like that…ah! But alas! pic.twitter.com/Mjd1B3bIIs

— Middle Tennessee DSA 🌹 (@MidTNDSA) July 16, 2021

i looked at the original story to confirm that the headline was wrong. it was not the "entire day of profits", it was the entire day of revenue: sales + tips. this single paragraph tells you all you need to know to make an estimate for how much business they usually do and about how many workers they have:

On a typical Monday, they do about 100 orders. This week, they did 220 orders, which translated to over $6,000 in sales and over $1,000 in tips, all of which went back to the employees. Each worker made about $78 an hour for that shift.

why does this matter? because i've seen at least 3 people on twitter today, 2 that i know, saying this is a great example for the left, with "concrete numbers" that "prove" things bla bla bla. uggggggh, no, no. i mean, it is a good example, but it doesn't mean what you think it means, and $78/hour is

is....

is..

Trying to point that kind of error on Twitter is zero fun, partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages. The social part of social media means it is not accuracy's friend.

the rare success story! the person I pointed it out to was very nice about it, just now! which is very rare! i was like "sorry, i feel like a wet blanket..."

because

partly because you look like a dick and partly out of fear of people thinking you're in favour of shitty wages.

this is absolutely true.

I think some Tweeters indulge a fetish by inviting public abuse.

Hey, @DoorDash, I had a really cool interaction with a Dasher yesterday. They showed how unprofessional and inconsiderate they are, and they represent your company. Top notch service. #DoorDash #delivery pic.twitter.com/ADXljOSQMj

— TanMan (@tannerburks) July 16, 2021

Tan Man

Wow, now that’s a ratio

Tan Man whole timeline is retweets of basketball clips
Seems like a bro

the tanman has predictably deleted the tweet

it blows my mind when people think the delivery person has anything to do with it. I ended up getting a wrong order last year, texted the deliverer to make sure they hadn’t accidentally dropped off the wrong bag, and they said that was the only delivery they’d picked up from that restaurant. end of interaction! absolutely nothing else has to do with them

twitter poll:

do you regularly interact with strangers?

i posted that before getting this message from twitter, lol!

https://i.imgur.com/l7vQodQ.png

i guess what set me off last night was that hannity did the bare minimum human thing and told his watchers to take COVID seriously. that led to lots of applause for hannity's noble efforts, since we should be thanking him for his transformative effects on public health

The Twitter Left+ will virtue signal the shit out of this, but @seanhannity likely saved a hundred lives tonight.

and I say: Thank You. 👏

— Dennis Herring (@dcherring) July 20, 2021

then this good guy stranger was like "hey! fuck you pramsey342!!"

Here’s a fuck you signal. Did you give a shit about the ones he’s helped kill until fifteen minutes ago?

— Peter Ramsey (@pramsey342) July 20, 2021

and that's when i leapt to the aid of good guy stranger with some personal spice to make it real for pramsey. at least, i think that's what i was doing.

do you regularly interact with strangers?

or wait, the good guy stranger was like "hey! fuck you dennis herring!"

herring breath

it sucks because i've made a couple REALLY good twitter posts during the last 2 hours, forgetting that i was still banned for another hour or so. and when you hit submit and see that you're still being punished, and you hit back and the perfect tweet isn't saved...you can see what caused 1/6. oh wait, twitter didn't ban trump until the middle of 1/6. that's the day he became president

u shd get a burner

i am going to burn the shit out of twitter once i'm back, they will regret the day

some of these unseen twitter posts, i made, also - they were life-affirming. i can't show them to you now, of course, i lost them, and to be honest i don't really remember what they were about. but i remember thinking while typing them, "you know this is kind of cool that i'm coming back to twitter in this positive way". now i remember nothing. i have no positive feelings, toward twitter or otherwise. twitter, you took away my patriotic freedom, but you also took away my freedom of liberty. and for that, i will never forget. 1 hour and it's on @jack

did you guys read about the elderly man that died of a heart attack because of swatting?

https://www.techspot.com/news/90483-grandfather-died-heart-attack-after-minors-swatted-over.html

it involves twitter, discord, and video games, of course. it's so sad.

Y'all still follow Jonathan Swift? The man who literally supports eating babies?

(some time later)

Obviously the whole time I knew he was joking but it's still not okay. Here's why [1/20]

— atrophy wife 🎀 (@zuza_real) July 21, 2021

the Topics thing is just terrible.

that's when i leapt to the aid of good guy stranger with some personal spice to make it real

btw Karl pramsey342 is one of the directors of Into The Spider-Verse, you might have been able to get a gig painting backgrounds for the sequel if jack hadn't silenced you

goddammit jack, i was trying to develop connections on social media and now this

#Bitcoin will unite a deeply divided country.

(and eventually: world)

— jack⚡️ (@jack) August 9, 2021

What a maroon