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Saturday, November 19, 2022

For the Birds


I keep reading more and more bad news about Twitter. Elon took over with, apparently, no other aim than destroying it. He claimed he wanted to make it ground zero for Free Speech™ but somehow failed to grasp that unrestrained free speech means that people are free to mock the shit out of him, his fellow right wing, greedheaded and soullessly incompetent biz and political buddies. It was never, ever gonna be just asswipian, dead-toad-brained incels shrieking the n word and praising the orange obscenity 24/7.

Poor little steaming pile of Muskox poo—he didn't realize that liberals can be incisively, acerbically funny and quick on the draw.

Snowflake boy can dish it out but he can't take it.The thing that makes me less thrilled about watching the richest man in the world light a $44 billion bonfire is this—I'm deaf, almost totally housebound (I can't risk catching COVID again) and there's only so much ellipticalling and book reading I can do. I like the small amount of chit chat socializing that I do on Twitter. 

I'm not alone here at home—Ten, Jen, Oni and the cats are all fab company (and Hillel and I often text back and forth) but I so enjoy the bird convos (even if I'm not active participant). I like meeting new people and, right now, I can only do that online.

Yeah sure there are other, similar apps BUT that means starting over. Puts in mind my childhood where I was always the new kid at school. This time though, we're all the new kid. A lot of my fellow twits (is that what people who tweet are known as?) are headed over to Mastodon. I've attempted to join but haven't succeeded yet. The site's set up is more complicated and I'm, at the mo, lacking the bandwidth to deal with it.

In the grand scheme of things, this is so NOT a big deal. Also, it's great to see a shitheel publicly exposed as the dimbulbed, spoiled rich boy he is. Too bad 45 didn't buy Twitter before running for prez—if he had, maybe he wouldn't have 'won' the election and hundreds of thousands would still be alive.

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  1. Is "Lone Skum" tanking Twitter on purpose or was he too high on DMT when he rashly made an offer for Twitter and now is well over his Fashy head?

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  2. He has earned every bit of the uproar and scrutiny. The 4,000+ employees/families whose employment and stability he has swept off the table with his tantrums and edicts are the real victims. Sadly, he will likely have to put the company into Chapter 11, leaving even more victims in his wake. What a jackass.

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    1. The only good bit about his catastrophic mismanagement is how he’s been so publicly exposed. The myth of his biz brilliance can die. At this point, he’s just a rich joke (one who’s left wide swaths of destruction in his wake but still…).

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