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Maura QuintTwitter feels like the point in the party when all the cool people have left and you know you should have been gone hours ago because now it’s just you, a huge mess, a few fucked up people making bad decisions and one guy vomiting outside
Seth Masket@mauraquint Ugh now total FOMO
Chuck, just Chuck@smotus @mauraquint, maybe I’m waiting until I start to see the beams falling from the ceiling?
Barry Crain@mauraquint i have a sensitive stomach, maura
Bec Bradway@mauraquint you can almost believe Twitter is normal if you avoid the comments. But if you look, it's like falling into a burning pit of stupidity and hatred.
@leelacolorado @mauraquint it’s pretty bad over there.
Ewster at LargeYes but this time the guy vomiting outside also spent $44bn on kegs.
Sacha PrinsYeah, I'm late to the party but that guy is now also vomiting inside...
BILL@mauraquint you know the guy vomiting is Bannon ,SOMEBODY TELL ME WHO LET HIM IN?
Roxi Horror 💀🌸@mauraquint this is exactly how it feels atm
SinbadtheSailor@mauraquint I've been getting super right-wing promoted posts all day. I think it's finally time to call it.
NaradComments
youngarMKE@SinbadtheSailor @mauraquint that's how it was getting for me too. I deactivated yesterday.
Jose GarciaReading your tweet the first party that came to mind was this fucked up New Years Eve party where I wound up getting an earful from this conspiracy theory psycho and me chewing my arm off to get away from him.
Santa Claus@mauraquint sounds a lot like Boxing Day at my workshop
clairemation@mauraquint …but you’re still there because don’t want to miss anything
Doxy_cycling, MPH MLS
Headofgiskard@mauraquint
But there's that hottie in the corner and youd like to start a conversation ...
But there's that hottie in the corner and youd like to start a conversation ...
Phoebe Barton 
@mauraquint mood, but also, fully aware i'm a fucked up person making bad decisions
Jen Gall@mauraquint Yeah, I'm still there but frequently questioning whyyyy. It's a real mess now.
Odiseo@mauraquint It reminds me of my last days on Facebook, but worst. That thing is now Gab, but mainstream. I lost count of the words and people I muted and still was incredibly toxic.
Nona #DarkGranny@mauraquint and suddenly you encounter Jim Bob's cousin who you thought was still in prison but apparently is out now
citymom92@mauraquint yes exactly this.
rodley@mauraquint The toilet is clogged, there's nothing but Miller Lite left to drink, and the host is picking a fight with his ex.
peskypesky
Right the First Time@mauraquint
Apt. Very apt.
Apt. Very apt.
John Hayden@mauraquint I’ve felt exactly this way, and used a similar description: that my twitter-to-mastodon switch was like you were at a huge party that got taken over by angry brawlers , and you and your most cherished friends slipped out the back to go get 3am coffee at some bodega nobody knows about. It’s quiet and the lighting is on low, but there’s this sudden unfamiliar sense of peace
to the moon and back@jhayden @mauraquint I feel like most of my friends are still at the party, but it's fun to chat with nice and interesting strangers at the 3am coffee place. Figure some people I know will drift in as the evening goes on...
@mauraquint
I opened my account in Jan 2009. Closed it today. Twitter is becoming irrelevant. Thanks, Elon.
I opened my account in Jan 2009. Closed it today. Twitter is becoming irrelevant. Thanks, Elon.
Groovy Tasia@mauraquint I want to deactivate but it still won't send me the proper file for my archives. But I probably should lock it
Laurie Feinswog@mauraquint uh, vomiting inside…
Ted_Cville@mauraquint ah, so you are here.
@mauraquint well I guess that settles it.
jprestonian@mauraquint There are some people who stubbornly won't stop using it, and there's a couple-dozen I'd like to stay current on.
@mauraquint True. But post-Twitter it feels like the electricity was turned off. Pretty quiet.
PeteatKorogoro@mauraquint but Elon is vomiting inside
StarkRG@mauraquint Yeah, there's been a significant increase in racism and other bigotry over there. Musk's recent transphobia would seem to violate the Twitter ToS, not that it would actually be acted upon, even if he wasn't the CEO and fired everyone who would care about the quality of the service.
God 
@mauraquint fuck yea i knew i was cool but cooler than Elton by three weeks? holy shit!!!
Natasha Bates@mauraquint
A lot of cool people are still there and haven’t opened accounts on alternative platforms. Now some bird sh*t accounts are getting hacked. I’ll toot a thread about it tomorrow with screenshots. It happened to two well-known Canadian journalists.
🇨🇦 📰 🖊
There’s probably going to be a mass exodus this week. Tomorrow Muskmelon says he’ll get rid of bots; more likely a purge of his most vocal critics. #TwitterMigration #Musk
Chris O’keefe@mauraquint it’s going to turn into Parler or Truth Social extremely fast.
@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNote@nockee @mauraquint I’m worried that it won’t implode fast enough.
Gramma Heidi@mauraquint today was the day for me. I had hung around too long because there were still a few accounts on there that I’ve appreciated over the years. But now it was like watching frogs slowly boil. How could they engage in quality discourse while the water just gets hotter?
Ratatosk™@mauraquint But how would March Mammal Madness work here? #2023MMM is going to need to find a new home for its #SciComm. It was the only reason I didn’t quit The Bird Site years ago.
(Let’s be frank: Crypto Jack running The Bird Site had his own serious problems with bots & trolls, and actually praised EM.)
llywrch@mauraquint That sounds like a party I didn’t want to go to in the 1st place, & found an excuse to not go at the last moment. Later learned a couple of people had showed up & stayed way too long only because they wanted to say hi to me then leave. #twittermigration
Matt ⎊ 
@mauraquint well when you put it that way how could anyone stay away? 😮💨
@mauraquint but now it feels like being a teen in the 70’s driving around looking for the party. We had no cell phones.
Tom Bradley Jr. 📚🇺🇸🇺🇦@mauraquint
Nailed it.
Nailed it.
Evan Dower@mauraquint I just need Tony Hawk, Ryan Reynolds, Anna Kendrick, Trent Reznor, and CGP Grey to move over (and probably some others I haven't thought of).
Paranoid FactoidIsn't that when the real party actually begins!?!
Dennis Jernberg@ParanoidFactoid @mauraquint The afterparty. Which is right here. 😉
KWierso@mauraquint Me, I left with the cool kids because the party was already getting stale even before the gangbangers crashed it.
KenObee 🇦🇺 ✅@mauraquint And that guy outside owns the house.
Erin Conroy@mauraquint
And the vomiting guy just invited a bunch of coked up Nazis.
And the vomiting guy just invited a bunch of coked up Nazis.
Michael J. Orlando@mauraquint
he's vomiting inside.
he's vomiting inside.
OpenDNA⚙️@mauraquint I have the reputation of the last one to leave any party.
Twitter has the vibes of a party where someone's going to get shot. I'm too old to hang around for the denouement of that bad noise.
GNolanTwitter’s just no fun anymore. Glad I made my way to Mastodon
MagpieZero@mauraquint Also, there's this one guy who thinks he's really funny but isn't and he keeps trying to talk to you as you're trying to get to the door.
Daniel Daranas@mauraquint Not quite in my case. Most of the Spanish and Catalan language accounts which I follow just continue as usual and few people have moved. I try to post much, much less (especially not posting original tweets), but I feel I'm clearly in a minority among my followed accounts.
Coach Pāṇini ®@mauraquint I’m just lurking to point and laugh at other people