Instead of tweeting these over and over, I am going to pin them. 1. Don’t treat real people like fictional characters nor characters like real people. 2. Never trust someone to explain their enemies. 3. I will try to respect your pain. I will never respect your resentment.

Wish I could say it's been real, but nothing about this site ever was. Take it away, Elton John. Peace.

RT @ctrlcreep: The apocalypse wasn't as bad as you expected—blankets remained soft, and there were plenty of them; fire remained warm, and….

RT @LotteMakesStuff:

The first Twitterers never asked to be international arbiters of truth, bearing responsibility for the fate of nations. They were just building a cute little website where people could tell everyone what they had for lunch.

I’m friends with some guys who helped build early 4chan, who all bailed when the site went full Nazi. When the Charlottesville thing happened, one of them was inconsolable. “We never wanted any of this, man,” he said, choking back tears. “We just wanted to see some anime tiddy.”.

I feel genuinely bad for Jack Dorsey. It’s hard to imagine now, but you know, Twitter used to be the most innocent, whimsical, frivolous web toy conceivable, run by young engineers with big, improbable dreams. Sometimes success is worse than failure.

RT @jack: nobody knows anything.

RT @RuthZakarin2: @kyliebytes Here’s what kills me - there are amazing people doong amazing grassroots work who get no funding and no resou….

RT @textfiles:

RT @mattdpearce: If this bird app goes down because all the workers keeping it alive quit over crappy working conditions, just know this: 🫡.

RT @DriveInMob: #driveinmob

RT @TrevorMahlmann: If there was one sound-activated image to have worked, this is the one I hoped for. A super-telephoto view of the busin….

For all the real idiocy in local news site comment threads and print editorials, it's telling that a certain style of idiot is peculiar to reader responses to politically embarrassing viral mainstream media articles on FB and Twitter. "No one could possibly be that dumb." True.

I've noticed a slow drop in both quantity and convincingness of clueless replies to US journalists' Twitter threads since March, and a rapid drop since late September. It's almost like a big chunk of the paid sockpuppet labor pool just. vanished. 🤔.

Authentic Elon brown-nosers usually have actual tech industry experience. Rule of thumb: If you find yourself arguing tech with a tech professional on Twitter who doesn't know the tech at all, and covers by attacking your credibility, you've blown an underpaid PR shill's cover.

It's one thing to see the usual Silicon Valley techbro simps (like the ones on Reddit), it's another when every viral thread about him is hounded by a horde of Johnny Bunchofnumbers with randomly generated profiles who are clearly not paid enough to even read a Wikipedia page.

I had my suspicions, but didn't expect they'd be confirmed by a single Google search.

RT @BretDevereaux: One of the things in visual representations of the past, especially a 'fantastic' past (e.g. fantasy medieval Europe) is….

RT @debarghya_das: Tech layoffs affect immigrants the most!. 5–15% of the 100k+ layoffs are H-1B holders. In 60 days (30-45 in practice),….

RT @Volod_Ishchenko: For decades, social scientists questioned the ideological argument that there are "good" civic inclusive pluralistic a….