They must love it; there’s finally proof of their initial story that he left the Saudi embassy alive and was only missing, not dead. I mean, if he’s on twitter and verified he must still be alive and not have been murdered and dismembered by them.
Can I be Andy Kaufman, but weirder? Or will they just say I never really died?
Fuck it. $8 bucks will buy me 2 Chiladas. Much better deal.
Who knew Elon was a Mormon.
A good book, as I recall.
My thoughts for the card:
Cost: 1 M€. Tags: event, science (!)*. In addition, in order to play this, you must discard two science tags that you already have in play (Musk makes you stupider!)
Effect: Gain 1 M€ for each science tag in play by anyone, including the 3 that were just discarded and played (Musk buys companies and takes credit for their inventions.)
*(I concede it would kick off science tags. However, it can’t be a space tag because, while he is spacey, if the player had atmospheric braking, if would gain 3 heat which is appropriate but also 3 M€ which is not. It might be Jovian because it’s close to Uranus, and that’s around Musk’s level of humor.)
ETA: let me know if there’s a way to shrink the image to show in preview…
Earlier this month Elmo declared it FAKE NEWS that his family owned an emerald mine and decided to post a challenge;
Guess who he might have to pay?
Somehow, the guy who married his son’s little sister is the sensible one in that family.
Okay, figured it out…
Interesting–thanks. ‘Reconditioned’ but presumably guaranteed to work for some period of time.
His one genuine talent.
Has psychosis been ruled out?
I would guess that some rich people employ lawyers assigned to making sure that their clients are never given any actual assessments by psychiatric professionals.
I’d imagine–quite easily–that Elmo might be one of this particular group of rich people. I mean, the ‘let’s give blue checks to dead people I don’t like so their accounts will be blocked’ strategy seems something well short of “sane.”
Everything is going swimmingly.
My take on it: the goal is to establish firmly that everything and anything you see on socials is equally credible and that you cannot count on that anything is. So never mind if CNN debunks you, how do you know that’s true or that’s the real CNN, just pick the one that makes sense to you! Never mind if Kim or Lebron or Stephen deny that was them who were quoted saying that, nobody can possibly know who’s real, believe what you will! (and yes this affects ALL socials since part of the point to spread is “how do you know THEIR owners are not fucking around with their sources?”)
…Twitter is broken.
Check out this thread. Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick do a nice little dance in support of drag performers and the LGBTQIA+ community.
Scroll down the comments. Look at all the blue-ticks. Look at how hateful, bigoted, and nonsensical most of those posts are.
The blue-tick trolls are rampaging. Especially on any subject related to transgender people. Its the worst I’ve seen in all my time on Twitter. They are brigading accounts, many that I follow are locking down, I’m locking down myself for the next few days.
I’ve resisted moving on from the platform because I’ve got over 600 followers and I’m part of a local community that’s held up quite well considering the circumstances. But I don’t think it comes back from this.
Every once in a while I drop into the “For You” timeline, and it’s a trainwreck (though occasionally entertaining). I mainly stick to “Following” which still has the occasional nutter and more ads than ever, but at least it’s more sane.
I’ve seen that too – you can see thoughtful or at least not that stupid replies from non-blue-check posters, and a tsunami of hateful trolling from blue checks.
I have a handful of people I follow, most of whom (so far) haven’t attracted the attention of the hate-spam-bots, so I continue to read and very very rarely reply, but if they begin to get swarmed also, I’ll just close my account and quietly depart. I’m currently a mostly inactive member of Post News but it isn’t the same experience.
As per the Sneetch business model, the next step is to charge the subsidized people to get their check marks removed. Fire up the star off machine.
I generally follow only two topics on Twitter: Airline travel, and pop music. So far the trolls have not invaded those areas, at least not more than before. So my feed is, for the moment, still usable.
In particular I do not follow any accounts related to politics. I’m sure that’s a mess.
Hi, Suranyi or Current Resident!
Come fly my new private airline! I’ll be on every flight, personally handing out hot towels (and playing live, mostly covers of my favorite songs)!
TAYLOR SWIFT
The legitimate Of Course It’s Moi! account…
Huh I wonder why they made this decison?
“Oh, you provide useful content to my platform for free that brings in views from over a million people? That will be $50,000 a month please.”
Make this make sense. How is Elon this clueless about who his customers are?