Chuck WendigDec 16, 2022

New post at terribleminds --

THE BIRD SITE IS FUCKED

"Twitter right now is a live camera feed watching a highway in an ice storm — you tune in and watch car crash after car crash, the constant shriek of metal, the spinning out of vehicles, carfires burning effulgent in the whiteout blizzard, and when you get a clear moment, when you squint, you realize every last one of those burning cars is a fucking Tesla."

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/12/16/the-bird-site-is-fucked/

The Bird Site Is Fucked

It is, I think, the sensation of a phantom limb: it itches, the limb that doesn’t exist anymore, and so I want to scratch it even though nothing will ever satisfy or resolve that sensation. I…

Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
Show threadThe Gneech! Awww Yeah

@chuckwendig I tweeted there once, this past week, with a link to my Masto account. I've heard rumors since then that any links to my instance get auto-banned (on the grounds that people actually like it here), so who knows, I might not be able to log back in if I tried.

I miss Twitter c. 2007 or so. But it's BEEN a garbage fire for some time now, this is just the Visigoths finally getting around to sacking the place.

Dec 16, 2022 at 2:20pmWeb
Show threadChuck WendigDec 16, 2022
@the_gneech Right now it gives a msg that says Mastodon links are "unsafe."
Show threadThe Gneech! Awww YeahDec 16, 2022
@chuckwendig Well, in terms of the world's richest troll's attempt to stranglehold the internet, that's not wrong.