So Musk took away blue checkmarks from people who didn’t pay, then two days later gifted checkmarks BACK to people, living OR dead, who have at least a million followers…but who never paid or asked for them back. Because the alleged purpose of selling the blue checks in the first place was to make Twitter more…egalitarian.
And when you click on Anthony Bourdain’s or Pele’s checkmark, Twitter tells you those late individuals have paid and given a phone number.
If Twitter was a Space X rocket, it would have exploded by now.
It's amazing that any of this is in any way important. Even pretend important. This is how the richest man in the world spends his time? Collecting Beanie Babies would be more momentous.
Adding an emoji to anything immediately trivializes it.
Good column - Anytime Jason " Weebil with a neckbeard" Miller takes a knock is fine with me.
BTW Roy, as of 9:00 AM I haven't had this post emailed to me, I accessed it by going to the Substack link in your Twitter profile. Comments/likes seem to be a little light, so it wouldn't surprise me if this impacted a group of us. No big deal, probably just another Substack glitch, but just FYI.
Meanwhile, those lame, old, tiresome liberals, who wouldn't know how to properly use a poop emoji in online combat if their lives depended on it, just go around registering people to vote and turning them out for school board elections [barf]. Don't they know the war will be won by the dankest memes?
Too bad Twitter can’t crash like a self-driving Tesla or explode like a Space-X rocket but has to implode like the end of TS Eliot’s world. Meanwhile, greetings from Nogales where El Zarape serves the best breakfast this side of the border.
I got on Twitter the other day for the first time in years and the first thing I saw were tweets from Musk and Andrew Tate. Not my kind of cesspool. Why are legitimate news organizations and other businesses still supplying free content to a far right hate site?
"in lieu of a chin"
For lack of a chin the Internet was lost!
So Musk took away blue checkmarks from people who didn’t pay, then two days later gifted checkmarks BACK to people, living OR dead, who have at least a million followers…but who never paid or asked for them back. Because the alleged purpose of selling the blue checks in the first place was to make Twitter more…egalitarian.
And when you click on Anthony Bourdain’s or Pele’s checkmark, Twitter tells you those late individuals have paid and given a phone number.
If Twitter was a Space X rocket, it would have exploded by now.
Had to confirm that Roy *doesn't* have a blue checkmark. Can confirm!
Speaking of Roy, hope he got it all, blue checkmark/Elmo-wise.
As for those people, vileness-wise, so hard to tell parody apart from the real alt-right, Neo-Nazi incels. And (of course) not worth the effort.
It's amazing that any of this is in any way important. Even pretend important. This is how the richest man in the world spends his time? Collecting Beanie Babies would be more momentous.
Adding an emoji to anything immediately trivializes it.
Good column - Anytime Jason " Weebil with a neckbeard" Miller takes a knock is fine with me.
I remember "Clutch Cargo".
I might willing to pay for the tag that says I represent a government agency. You figure it could be any government you want? Zembla? Freedonia?
BTW Roy, as of 9:00 AM I haven't had this post emailed to me, I accessed it by going to the Substack link in your Twitter profile. Comments/likes seem to be a little light, so it wouldn't surprise me if this impacted a group of us. No big deal, probably just another Substack glitch, but just FYI.
Meanwhile, those lame, old, tiresome liberals, who wouldn't know how to properly use a poop emoji in online combat if their lives depended on it, just go around registering people to vote and turning them out for school board elections [barf]. Don't they know the war will be won by the dankest memes?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/apr/21/school-board-elections-illinois-wisconsin-republicans-lose
So if I get this right, the Elon fanbois are now the Blue Meanies. Funny, they don't look bluish.
Spinner and Paddlefoot are disappointed they weren’t called out with Clutch.
Again, this one of Roy’s scenarios I would love to see produced. The limited-animation Lone Skum would be absolutely, hysterically funny.
Thanks to Roy I now have bongos playing in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ExD2DQMes
Too bad Twitter can’t crash like a self-driving Tesla or explode like a Space-X rocket but has to implode like the end of TS Eliot’s world. Meanwhile, greetings from Nogales where El Zarape serves the best breakfast this side of the border.
I got on Twitter the other day for the first time in years and the first thing I saw were tweets from Musk and Andrew Tate. Not my kind of cesspool. Why are legitimate news organizations and other businesses still supplying free content to a far right hate site?
"'R you Bluish?
Y' don't LOOK Bluish."
-- Yellow Submarine
>It is as Lao Tzu said in ["]The Art of War["].
That sums it up pretty well.
"A beard isn't a substitute for a jaw line, no matter how you trim it!"
—Henchman 24 to Henchman 21, "The Venture Brothers", "Hate Floats" (S02E02)
Oh man, I fear you're 100% correct with this.
How can I possibly trigger any conservative in Mama's basement now??!!