Tom Coates
@tomcoates
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New product strategy & development. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded some stuff. Bluesky:
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@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
Oh I would teach my daughter to *always* show disrespect for racists, autocrats, islamophobes and women grabbers.
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@ZsoltWilhelm
@elonmusk
Yeah, but in the former case it’ll be after he’s been publicly humiliated, so I think that one is much better.
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More vandalism from
@elonmusk
. Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. Thats - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service.
For example, here’s a search of my media tweets from before 2014.
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@ConSelfOwns
This is so bizarre. Are we really so disconnected from each other than they think this makes them look *good*?! I feel like I could have posted that exact meme.
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@TwitterDev
(3) However, one week’s notice and no indication of pricing shows Twitter is chaotic and unreliable. No one’s going to build a business on that;
(4) So you’re basically just shutting down the API and causing massive damage to Twitter in the most labour intensive way possible.
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@LindseyGrahamSC
@realDonaldTrump
Democrats won’t compromise to build a wall. Trump won’t compromise either. Arguing that the President should simply declare a national emergency if democracy goes against him, so that he can do whatever he wishes... that’s the language of dictators, not of the rule of law.
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@elonmusk
No, Elon - Twitter has a massive drop in revenue because of PEOPLE EXERCISING THEIR FREE SPEECH about you joining the company, trolling the Pelosi family, talking about ‘free speech absolutism’ and there being a 500% increase in racial slurs in days after you arrived.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
Go fuck yourself. As a Londoner who lived through the IRA, anti gay nail bombings and 7/7, this is not the time to be cock.
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@realDonaldTrump
Are you kidding me?! You've had access to all the same intel and information that Obama had for months!
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@realDonaldTrump
Jesus. They're refugees. And Obama agreed to take them in, so they're not illegal.
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@elonmusk
@anothercohen
By “big payout” I’m assuming you mean the money he’s legally entitled to because you fired him after Twitter acquired his company. In acquisitions like this the staff of the acquired company normally get paid the acquisition cost over a few years and normally have protections…
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@realDonaldTrump
This is what happens when your party sets a new standard for obstructionism - the other side has to escalate to compensate.
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@realDonaldTrump
And frankly after you appoint a series of LGBT hating, unqualified billionaires to dismantle every part of the government.
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@elonmusk
Is it just me who finds this ‘bit’ a little creepy and uncool given the actual 7000+ people you did fire in the last couple of weeks? Feels Ike you’re mocking people you’ve fired. Certainly it’s not going to make Bay Area technologists more keen to work with you.
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@realDonaldTrump
To be replaced with the "No healthcare for twenty million people" Act, which somehow you think is better.
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@realDonaldTrump
The courts are telling immigration to CONTINUE to check people coming in VERY CAREFULLY rather than BREAK UP FAMILIES.
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@realDonaldTrump
And let's remember, with substantially more than half of the country thinking you're appalling and incompetent...
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@realDonaldTrump
The courts are also telling immigration to OBEY THE LAW rather than perform acts that may be UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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@realDonaldTrump
No, the real story remains that you knew Mike Flynn had mislead the VP and may be compromised by Russia and did nothing.
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@GMB
@piersmorgan
@susannareid100
This is insane. How can you think this shows you in a good way? He asks a question of a guest and then refuses to let them answer. Thank god she has the presence of mind and strength of character to fight back. This is *appalling* TV, appalling journalism. An appalling interview.
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@LindseyGrahamSC
@realDonaldTrump
You should be ashamed of this and of the precedent it sets. What if the next President is a Democrat? Do you really want to say they should simply ignore congress by declaring a national emergency? This is a profoundly dangerous act!
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@realDonaldTrump
Like most Democrats, I'd prefer that we didn't have to do things like this, but after 60 attempts to repeal obamacare?
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@realDonaldTrump
You understand that Republican districts also have liberals in them too and independents?
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
Khan is right. These things happen. We fight against them. But we don't wildly over-react or let them change our way of life
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@elonmusk
Literally the first indicator of a competent CEO would be that they fire you from running the software and servers teams. You’re clearly not qualified for the job.
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@realDonaldTrump
There is absolutely no way at all that you can have any effect on the National Debt in your first month in office!
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@realDonaldTrump
It's the equivalent of saying, "Obama inherited a mess, and I inherited a growing economy, therefore I am better!"
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@angel28kc
I can’t tell you the number of ways this is stupid. From it ignoring women completely, from its assumption that all gay men have anal sex, from its assumption that gay people get to choose, from thinking that straight people don’t have anal sex.
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@realDonaldTrump
You seem to think that just because you won the electoral college, the popular majority of us should disappear!
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@realDonaldTrump
Well, no. The real story is that you're still being investigated by the FBI for collusion with Russia.
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@realDonaldTrump
And yet you've said over and over again that it didn't even happen! Like this for example:
Russia talk is FAKE NEWS put out by the Dems, and played up by the media, in order to mask the big election defeat and the illegal leaks!
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
And we absolutely don't choose to scapegoat whole communities to make ourselves feel better. Now shut the hell up.
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@RickSantorum
Dear Mr Santorum, this is why we have invented 'batteries' which are magic boxes in which you can store energy.
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@TwitterDev
Short version:
(1) Developers add value to Twitter by helping people create content. They add value to the core service;
(2) Having said that, it is not unreasonable to want to find a way to charge those developers who extract more value than they contribute;
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@No42024787Karen
@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
There's his total lack of knowledge about civil rights movement and black leaders.
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@angel28kc
From its confusion of sex with love, from suggesting gay people can’t love each other. To suggesting that it’s up to you or anyone else what other people do in bed. I mean we could go on all day. The level of ignorance and judgement is absolutely extraordinary.
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@No42024787Karen
@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
There's his statement about how he likes to grab women's pussies
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@realDonaldTrump
You do get that those people also get to talk to their representatives and voice their concerns?
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@No42024787Karen
@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
Well there's the illegal ban throwing out people with jobs and lives in the US
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@realDonaldTrump
The only *possible* explanation for a change in the debt at this point is the previous administration's policies!
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@No42024787Karen
@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
And he threatens people with the National Guard or a lack of funding if they disagree with him
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@elonmusk
@anothercohen
… in the contracts so that the new company can’t just acquire the company and then immediately fire everyone without paying them out appropriately. Musk is likely to be trying to weasel his way out of paying the money he owes. After all he has form in this area.
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@theresa_may
This is like a statement from a piece of dystopian fiction. Human rights *matter* and Britain should always be on the side of defending them
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@realDonaldTrump
Meanwhile, Obama actually ejected most of the Russian diplomats from the country because of the interference!
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@GMB
That putting them on TV may result in gay kids killing themselves or being harassed by their families.
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@PressSec
No, Democrats are entirely legitimately asking about her running a Thai black site allegedly to torture people. Her gender is completely irrelevant to that particular question.
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@LauraPowellEsq
This is the dumbest argument. Lots of gay people *literally died* in the 1980s. And you don’t get rid of decades of fear and self-hate and the like overnight. I was sixteen in 1986, and it was *terrifying* being gay then.
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@realDonaldTrump
And this where you say Democrats made up Russian involvement in the election:
The Democrats had to come up with a story as to why they lost the election, and so badly (306), so they made up a story - RUSSIA. Fake news!
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I’ve been out for over thirty years. I was a teenager in the late eighties, a time of faggot jokes on TV, perpetual fear of being outed, and a generation dying of HIV/AIDS. For the last *thirty years* we’ve fought and fought and made substantial progress.
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@realDonaldTrump
For a start you've made no changes whatsoever in tax rates or spending yet!
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@piersmorgan
This “identify as” rhetoric you use to mock what you perceive as left-wing identity politics is pretty shitty. It’s generally used by trans people who have to deal with a lot of shit from people to indicate that fundamentally they feel at odds with the body they were born in.
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So let's be clear - LGBT people have a pride parade in order to be more visible, acknowledged and to campaign to get equal rights. Straight people are visible, acknowledged and have equal rights.
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I mean, if you're discussing it over dinner at a public club, then leaks are fairly likely to happen, surely?
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@dustinmoris
@elonmusk
Well that feels like a decision you can make for yourself and probably shouldn’t make for other people.
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@JuliaHB1
That’s because you’re an awful, awful, cruel, pitiful little person who only feels good about herself when she’s being a dick to other people.
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@realDonaldTrump
There were 131 homicides in London last year. That’s out of 8.7 million people. The USA had 17,284 homicides in 2017. The USA’s population is 37.5 times that of London. Multiply 131 by 37.5 and you get 4912. London is nearly four times as safe as the US.
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@piersmorgan
You’re absolutely right, going from a bar tender to a member of Congress in eighteen months completely without family money just on the basis of your ideas and campaigning *is* more impressive than being a vacuous unelected airhead with massive inherited wealth and privilege.
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@elonmusk
And if they can’t fire you or overrule your decisions then you’re still the f***ing CEO.
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JK Rowling has now transitioned to denying that trans people exist. She is a bigot. She is causing immense harm. People of good conscience need to stop supporting her or her work.
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In the meantime, I found this tweet of yours:
Just as I predicted,
@BarackObama
has not allowed an independent investigation into the national security leaks from his cabinet.
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@realDonaldTrump
And here when you said Russians were laughing at the Democrat excuse for losing the election!
Russia must be laughing up their sleeves watching as the U.S. tears itself apart over a Democrat EXCUSE for losing the election.
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@realDonaldTrump
UC Berkeley didn't practice violence. Some protestors/students did. Many others protested peacefully.
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And - just a passing tip - if you're concerned about leaks about North Korea maybe don't handle the event in public?
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@elonmusk
A news story about you is not an attack. If you believe it is false then you are free to respond openly. I imagine you could dispel any issues here quite quickly by revealing all the documents associated with the allegations and freeing the woman concerned from her NDA?
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@realDonaldTrump
Your own press representatives have refused to say whether or not you believe Russia interfered!
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As a product designer by trade I honestly don’t think I have ever seen a more accurate or useful document (by
@frankrausch
@kekeritz
):
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@realDonaldTrump
That's a great graph that demonstrates the incredible work President Obama did from the depths of the depression to date.
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@elonmusk
Many of you guys don’t appear to understand what’s going on here so quick explanation - these two are actors/comedians who dressed up as fired employees and walked around outside Twitter the day he actually fired 3500 people. Since then he’s fired another few thousand contractors
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
So - hang on - this explicitly has someone say to you that the Russian government wants to give you information to help your father win?
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@JuliaHB1
Also, I mean, how pitiful to delete your tweet using autism as an insult *and* double down on how it should be fine to do so in the same tweet. You’re just a really nasty little person.
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A quick reminder to everyone that drag has been a core part of anglophone culture forever and that there is absolutely nothing inherently sexual or non-kid friendly about it.
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@elonmusk
We’ve been trying to tell you that for ages, but you still really really want power.
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@theresa_may
This isn't 1984, this isn't V for Vendetta or Brazil. We don't sacrifice rights for illusory security. We're better than that.
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@realDonaldTrump
No, they have simply accurately reported your statements talking about 'violence on both sides'
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@mfrass
@realDonaldTrump
Yup, that's right. And proud of it. San Francisco - producing the world's most dynamic new businesses...
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
This is the *definition* of colluding with a foreign power to influence the results of an election!
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@elonmusk
Apple doesn’t want their content next to hate speech. They cannot be compelled to give you money for something they think will hurt their business. And attempting to shame them in public is unlikely to change their minds on this issue.
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@No42024787Karen
@Yahschild
@chrissyteigen
So that's Islamophobia, Autocrat, Racism and pussy-grabbing...
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@realDonaldTrump
And the real question we have now remains what exactly is your off-books relationship with Russia!
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@davidmweissman
@elonmusk
@getpaidwrite
Yup. He’s 100% right wing and pretty damn far right wing too. When you talk about a ‘woke mind virus’ when all people want to do is fight racism, homophobia, sexism and anti-semitism then you’re right wing. There’s no argument there.
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