i am not calling twitter fucking x

im deadnaming that shit

this is what i said literally

wrong this is what i said

NO NO NO TUMBLR I DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WANT TO SEE WHAT MY MUTUALS LIKED. I WANT TO SEE WHAT THEY'VE REBLOGGED. IF IT WAS WORTH SEEING THEY'LL PUT IT ON MY DASH 37 TIMES

Talking to myself out loud like a point and click protagonist

Losing it over some of y'all's tags btw Here's my favorites

and lastly.

good night

stop believing that you ran out of time to shape yourself into who you want to be! stop believing that its ruined! stop believing you don’t have potential! you are not a fixed being! you have endless opportunities to grow.

Any time I feel the grip of anxiety that I’m too old or don’t have time to do something with my limited hours after work, I just remember the wisdom of the ancients:

Look. My mom is 65. She just divorced my shitty dad, is in therapy, wearing what she actually wants, cutting her hair how how she likes, and is exploring her gender and sexual identity. She went from being stuck in the middle of nowhere watching fox news 24/7 to a guest house in the city where she paints and reads, goes to dance classes and botanical gardens, and has started playing D&D with her kids and our friends. She says this is the life she always wanted and she has never been happier.

It’s never too late!

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Finding out that Elon Musk was forced out as CEO of PayPal in favor of noted vampire Peter Thiel bc Elon Musk was adamant they keep it named "X dot com" instead of Paypal unlocks so much. His space company, his literal child, and now Twitter: it's the world's most inane Rosebud. He actually bought back the URL, like a cherished childhood sled (owning the right to name a website the letter "X")

Some people told him it made more sense to have their banking company have a indicative name instead of generically being called "X" with vague allusions to being The Site For Everything, and he'll prove those fools WRONG by getting the same things yelled at him over a different website's name twenty years later

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Twitter collapsing does really feel like a modern day Tower of Babel situation: breaking lines of communication that connected the entire world.

Scientists used Twitter to do science communication and to work with other scientists. Twitter’s API allowed scientists massive access to data that could be used to track pandemics, bias, and other metrics that can be really hard to collect in such massive numbers (this isn’t to say that data collection doesn’t come with ethical issues, but that’s another story).

Journalists used Twitter for breaking news updates and to connect with sources. I saw quite a few Twitter journalists upset about restrictions to DMs because it was how sources often contacted them. If you had a newsworthy problem, like an unfair eviction, you could reach out to local reporters and maybe get them to pick up the story.

Artists and other creators used Twitter to spread their art and build small businesses. I have bought art prints that I have since framed of artists whose work I first saw on Twitter.

Activists have used Twitter to challenge institutional narratives and to make their movements visible and loud. All across the world, people who’s stories would have never been heard have used Twitter to make sure the truth is out there.

Social and cultural groups have used Twitter as a way to connect and build community. I am obviously not qualified to talk about the importance of Black Twitter so here’s a link to Doctor Meredith Clark discussing archiving Black Twitter with NPR.

To see all of that break in one day really feels like watching just this ability to communicate crumble. From the ability to translate Tweets, to the ability to collect data, to the ability to simply see what people are saying, all of it has crumbled. But unlike the story of Babel, this isn’t an act of God: this is just the whim of one man who took a look at this flawed but impressive communication hub and decided to tear it down.

Real talk: As much as I hate the website formerly known as bird site, it did provide uniquely valuable public services. What happens when an industry giant, "too big to fail" in the way it would negatively impact society, is failing?

It should be nationalized.

And I'm not joking. Congress should move to purchase Twitter from Musk—not for $44 billion, but for some amount that would let him save a little face as he unloads what has only been a massive problemfor him—and basically revert the website to how it was before.

Maybe a bit better, even. Better and more fair content moderation. Run it like USPS; make it self-funded. Make all US Twitter employees federal employees. (not sure how exactly this works for foreign offices tbh. I'm sure there's a precedent.)

If Twitter was supposed to be a bastion of global communication, let's put an actual responsible steward in charge of it.

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