Absolute Waingro ❄️
Joshua MarshallWatching this all unfold it’s like a mix of a Howard Hughes biopic and the Truman Show. You get to the see the breakdown unfold on camera, in real time. He is quite literally live tweeting it.
Steve Lichtman
Tim Clancy@joshtpm and an SNL skit youtu.be/B81U7Vunhuc
Gina@joshtpm It’s so entertaining I can’t look away
Gary Hyslop@joshtpm It’s perversely fascinating but horrifying.
Jim ParsonsJust a few days ago you were (intelligently) encouraging people to stay on #Twitter and fight the good fight using ridicule and mockery of the wealthy & powerful as a protest tool (and that was fantastic advice).
Then: #JohnMastodon landed in #fediverse town ;)
Since noon yesterday I've been laughing harder and longer than I have *anywhere* over the past 3 years.
Hope TPM posse lands a commercial instance here soon. Thanks for all you do
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hopeless wanderer@joshtpm endless amounts of "keep posting through it honey, you're doing great"
Todd@joshtpm I finally bailed. Hope you’re cross posting everything over here.
@joshtpm Ok reactivated just to vote in his poll.
Michael Gemar@joshtpm @Dahlialith If he’d only kept that sled…
Steve Lawton@joshtpm DoD saw Howard Hughes as a national security threat, so spun out his key rocket engineers into a start-up that became TRW.
Lesson learned?
Argot_Robbie@joshtpm @Dahlialith Next come the precisely-worded Musk-cult essays explaining that profound inability to run a tech company is not a general indicator of intelligence; that narcissism, a bunker mentality, compulsive nanomanagement and basic stupidity in no way indicate Musk's unfitness to lead Tesla and SpaceX.
Cameron Campbell 康文林@joshtpm Henry Nicholas, John McAfee, and Tony Hsieh, all at once and compressed into weeks instead of years
A L Katz@joshtpm Let's hope he captures it live - on video - when his head finally explodes. The question is: what will explode forth from within?
Sad Tomato
Sadie@joshtpm
I’m starting to think Kanye is sharing whatever mushrooms he’s been enjoying🤷♀️
I’m starting to think Kanye is sharing whatever mushrooms he’s been enjoying🤷♀️
bdonnelly@joshtpm There’s a non-zero chance he Cobain’s himself before this is all over.
M Schommer@joshtpm @jeffjarvis I've been saying this for weeks: Aviator in 5.. 4.. 3..
Rebecca M. TownsendIs it at all possible this is the outcome he wants? Or benefits from in some way unbeknownst to others?
@RMTownsend I don't think so. I think we have to remember that he tried really hard to get out of buying Twitter a Delaware court basically forced him to do it. I think that tells us all we need to know.
Thank you for the response.
All true.
I am looking for a somewhat understandable reason for this behavior and it's likely not there.
@joshtpm I see that Paul Graham, who up until recently was playing the role of Robert Maheu in this Howard Hughes remake, has thrown in the towel and joined Mastodon. We're gonna need a bigger popcorn boat.
Tim Palmer@sheldonrampton @joshtpm
It’s very weak sauce. Graham is only upset at the link ban. If musk rescinds it, Graham says he’ll be back. He’s fine with everything else musk has done or said he will do.
It’s very weak sauce. Graham is only upset at the link ban. If musk rescinds it, Graham says he’ll be back. He’s fine with everything else musk has done or said he will do.
@timpalmer @joshtpm Well, now that his ownTwitter account has been banned, maybe he'll wise up further.
Chris Geidner@joshtpm Quite a thing. But also, like, we're all on the plane? And getting off the plane? But, also on it?
@chrisgeidner really surreal
@chrisgeidner I feel like he really has to do a lot to get everyone to leave. But I think he may be pretty much there.
Take a look at the enormous community of bros who mostly tweet about sports.
They're completely unbothered, and almost completely oblivious.
@joel_hanes @chrisgeidner that's the thing. there are huge additional communities besides current affiars/news that basically aren't paying any attention to this at all
Lulu@LuluTheCalm lol amazing
hasenpfefferTwitter is just everyone getting hired...for no wage whatsoever, by Twitter itself...to give a talk for Twitter! That is the very essence of free speech and the public square (and, uh, Section 230's protections for websites not acting as publishers???). Wait...
Ç'thûłhů👾Rants! 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇨🇦@joshtpm
It's schadenfreudelicious!
It's schadenfreudelicious!
Aneela Mirchandani
David@joshtpm I think it's pretty obvious the last Twitter rules are just to justify banning Taylor Lorenz. Every time we get a new dumb Twitter rule, it's after Elon bans someone he doesn't like but can't justify.
Peter Principle@joshtpm "The way of the future."
Andy Pearlman@joshtpm It is straight up Citizen Kane
robyn@joshtpm it's quite sad that you can have all the money in the world and just spend all your time being angry on twitter
Steelhoof aka Billelonmusk needs a white coat and a room custom padded in back velvet
Kee Hinckley@joshtpm Funny. I was just think yesterday that the next thing ie ass going to do was try to rebuild the Spruce Goose and finally end up going into isolation...the eccentric former billionaire.
DoodleDad@joshtpm pretty soon he’ll be collecting g his urine in Mason jars