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I like the reference to D Trump further down in the comments: 'Dumpf'.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
FWIW, I'm seeing several comments that people are drifting towards Threads.
TBH, I'm sticking with Twitter for the time being, the experience not being too terrible as I've got Blue Blocker on (which rapidly and automatically blocks paid-for blue ticks with few followers), and have got people like Musk blocked, as he's just toxic. As much as I like not to close my mind to different viewpoints, life's just too short to waste time on arseholes like Musk.
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Yeah, I don't think you should feel bad about using it. The fact is Musk didn't own it when you started using it.
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I'm on it, but it's all a bit vanilla in comparison. I like Twitter for all its faults and chaos, but Musk's stewardship is trying my patience all the same, as he's obviously using it to promote his world view.
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To be fair though this was in/from the backdrop of the Great Depression, so capitalism/society was in a state of flux.
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I'm sure that @First.Aspect would approve of keeping non-scientists away from the levers of power.
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Ah, Meta's Threads is now functional on desktop, and several Twitter big names seem to be heading over there. I might be jumping the gun, but I suspect that if Meta can keep the extremists at bay on way or another, Twitter will die as Musk increasingly uses it to promote his Trumpist agenda at the expense of reasoned debate and respectful sharing of differing viewpoints.
Anyway, I've logged in using my Instagram account, and it looks OK. FB/IG might be old hat, but their ubiquity and the might of Meta ought to be quite potent as a on-Musk offering.
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Hmm, whilst I think there's smudging between Instagram and Threads, I think the latter is going to spell the end of Twitter, given the poison there that Musk encourages.
I suspect what will happen eventually is that Instagram will be subsumed into Threads, as I dont think IG really knows what it's there for any more - although Threads automatically followed the same people I follow on IG, most of them are just posting the same content on FB, IG and Threads, which is tedious and pointless.
I'll probably post very little on Threads, but will use it as a vaguely unfiltered opinions & news source. It'll be interesting to see if it works for public complaints about businesses too, which was why I started with Twitter.
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All you need is two very influential eejits in one room rambling bollox and licking each others @rses:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/12/trump-elon-musk-interview
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Same paymasters probably.
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Haha, Musk proving he's nothing more than a thin-skinned ignorant troll. Except he can't ignore people who call him out. He just can't, even if it's just a UK humourist screenwriter.
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It appears Musk gifted one of his ridiculous cybertrucks to Ramzan Kadyrov.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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That seems like an odd thing to do.
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Am not remotely surprised.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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Does the (R)Muskrat see himself as a Bond villain?
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
bond villains have more style
musk is even copying trump's grumpy face, if he's buddying up to the gutter thug kadyrov it'd be a new low
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True, but they also control the media, have rockets, and have ties to Eastern Europe/Russia. Does he have a secret lair?
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
He now claims to have nothing to do with it.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy47w9yndpo
Ironically SpaceX has saved the US having to go to Russia to bring back their astronauts stranded in space. Luckily no collision necessary.
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Musk is going further and further down the Trumpian rabbit hole, including behaving like a spoilt 9-year-old brat when he's told off. If you can follow the thread, it's worth it for seeing how Musk continues his tantrum.
Actually, I think I might be doing a disservice to nine-year-olds.
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He's such a crybaby.
And now pursued by every cod-science and marble head fashboy grifter to boost their engagement figures. He's almost become a famous idiot for hire.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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So two things from this:
Firstly, 'jokes' about assassination threats against Biden and Harris in the current atmosphere aren't terribly funny.
Secondly, he's finding out what a bad move surrounding yourself with the kind of people who will laugh at such 'jokes' isn't a good move, if you don't want to show the world that you are a complete and utter d!ck.
Genius.
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Hang on a minute Brian there were several people doing exactly this in the Biden and Trump thread. Also, weren't you just recently banging on about Stephen Fry and his speech on political correctness gone mad!?
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I didn't see you have a crack at them.
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I didn't see those, but also neither owns the world's largest social media account.
In case you miss the context of his 'joke', here it is. Weirdly similar to Trump claiming his most incendiary utterances are 'jokes'. Ha. Ha. Bloody Ha.
Sorry for you that your hero is just an utter knob. I couldn't care less if he weren't leveraging his $44bn purchase to promote Trump and incite violence and showcase dangerous cranks.
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Rubbish, yes you did you're always looking at the thread. To add on top of the irony you keep quoting his company.
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Jeez, you live for quoting his company.
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