@parkermolloy In Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways,” he answers. “Gradually, then suddenly.” We are now slowly entering the “suddenly” phase of this platforms demise.

@parkermolloy Yup

@parkermolloy I viewed his takeover as a way to remove a tool that people used to organize against him because he's so thin-skinned. Banning the ability to reference replacements and avoiding consistency in rule enforcement seem to align with that goal.

@parkermolloy He’s such a broken dipshit. Feels like this is step one of two before they remove the link altogether. Long live the personal domain name.

@parkermolloy its called "chickenshit"

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Now I'm thinking about what "think-skinned" could also mean 🤔
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think-skinned = thin-skinned + in your own head too much?

@parkermolloy Thin-walleted too, soon enough.

@parkermolloy doesn’t the new policy also prohibit usernames without URLs?

@parkermolloy and apparently even banning links in bio sites that are a collection of other links. And per a TechCrunch article they are going to suspend accounts with links in their bios until those are changed.
Utter insanity and abusive as it gets. Going to sweep up and ban a ton of accounts (notable also what social networks they didn’t ban - like TikTok)

@parkermolloy it's embarrassing.

@[email protected] even tells us to add a website!

@parkermolloy the random journalist bans are what did it for me, but then this next step is even crazier.
I was preparing to screen shot my masto profile page and share it there, but I'd hate to violate that rule 😅

@parkermolloy no kidding. Seems to me almost all social platforms offer the ability to show your followers some or all of your other socials right in your bio/profile. Elmo is such a baby.

@parkermolloy It is surreal how at every point he has made a mistake and gotten appropriate negative reaction to it, he has come back with a new stupid mistake to compound on top of it.

@parkermolloy how long until he blocks Wikipedia?

@parkermolloy Is that thin-skinned?
Or is #ElonMusk just terrified of being proven a laughingstock?
Or is this all part of his plans with the Saudis and Republicans?

@parkermolloy This tweet reminds me of all of the tweets of Donald Trump in the past warning himself about himself in the future. Only it’s Elmo and it’s not that long ago.

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IMHO, he knows there will be a huge wave of major accounts (journalists, news figures, influencers etc) leaving soon and he wants to make it as difficult as possible for them to communicate where they are headed. The dude is such an ass.

@parkermolloy or scared.

@parkermolloy I love the smell of desperation in the morning

@parkermolloy “In my marketplace of ideas, the one idea that cannot be tolerated is the idea that there are other marketplaces.”

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That or totally insecure and are too worried that people will quit your platform for the competition if you allow it- no confidence they will choose to stay if you give them a choice
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