Marsha Maung
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽If it feels to you as though Twitter is being run by a petulant child, well, you're not alone.
Elon Musk has thrown multiple Twitter tantrums lately, including one tweet–now deleted–belittling the intelligence of a Democratic Congressman.
AngryYukkuri@georgetakei That's a narcissistic personality for you
3wombats@georgetakei I really don’t think he should be commenting on other people’s intelligence
Alchemist@georgetakei Musk is the captain of his very own flaming blue "Hindenburg."
amanda 🩷💜💙@georgetakei it’s frustrating and sad…
SanityNow@georgetakei
And proving he does burns as well as he does comedy.
And proving he does burns as well as he does comedy.
Hammancheez@georgetakei tweeting that Schiff has a tiny brain was peak projection from a man desperately treading water so as not to drown under the weight of his fuckadoodlery
MessagingMatters@georgetakei … who’s Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
Boomer@georgetakei and not to be mean but musky has that whole super villain look? Just saying
Annamaria Mitchell@Boomer @georgetakei he’s very much like one of those villains that want to be Iron man but end up being evil self centered failures that try to conquer the whole world. He’s too loser to be supervillain but sadly rich enough to actually do a lot of harm irl.
toaster 🔻
IF Fritzsche@georgetakei Isn’t he in a plane?!
Old Man Mike
Tanja in the Green@georgetakei It does. This place is nicer. The only thing I miss is some of the decent journalists (e.g FT's Peter Foster - please come to Mastodon!) and the smaller arty accounts not affiliated with anything that worked hard to gain a following.
Bxlnot to defend congressmen in general... but mr. musk is a rightie and mr. schiff is not.
Tiberius GracchusMuskrat is just jealous of Adam Schiff's jawline and singular chin
Cathy@georgetakei But if Twitter feels normal now, you have Axis II pathology!
Deb Harkness@georgetakei the Bird appears to be in meltdown this afternoon. Nothing loading. Hit refresh and it takes you to App Store.
MEATI don't see #spacekaren talking much about his beehatch slapping, rejecting him as CEO of Twitter.
PeterSoukup@georgetakei #Elon seems to be deleting a lot of his own tweets lately ... I guess it's a form of therapy and boy, does he need it ... Also, I think congressman Schiff has much higher IQ than #SpaceKaren
JustSayChalone@georgetakei just why I'm here. Don't know why it's so hard to deactivate?
McCarie@georgetakei This 👆🏻right here, is what has to stop. Respect, as we all should know is earned Mr Musk. If you show none, you will receive none
Coming Up Violets!@georgetakei I’ve read articles by people who’ve worked at some of his companies, saying that those companies had to dedicate significant company resources to just managing Elon.
John Pierce@georgetakei It's fascinating to me how many billionaires have the social grace of a 5 year old.
Raccoon🇺🇸🏳️🌈@georgetakei To be fair, I belittle Adam Schiff too. (I just don't do it over him feeling that laws should apply to me when I buy up a major communications medium)
h2500@georgetakei He’s a boy genius!
Kevin Gorman@georgetakei which is why I deactivated my account and now here :)
Cavetoad@georgetakei I’m really glad you’re here. I know you won’t read this but it’s so refreshing and inspiring to see you posting here and being able to do the things you do with such grace and determination. Live long and… never mind it’s not even about that anymore. Keep being an inspiration for us @georgetakei thank you.
Tofu Golem@georgetakei
What floors me is that there are still people clinging to the "Elon Musk is a genius" lie even after watching him set giant piles of his own money on fire at Twitter.
What floors me is that there are still people clinging to the "Elon Musk is a genius" lie even after watching him set giant piles of his own money on fire at Twitter.
Vijay@tofugolem @georgetakei There are two phenomena here that really bother me because they're related to radicalization and gaslighting...
1. In-group dynamics - once one is accepted in an "in-group", they distort all events related to that group to justify emotional buy-in
2. High price of ownership - as described by Dan Ariely, people overvalue something they possess, even if it is valueless, leading them to over-price letting that thing go
Gaslighting 101
@vijtable @georgetakei
Don't forget the backfire effect.
For a lot of us, showing us evidence that one of our conclusions is wrong will just cause us to dig our heels in deeper and cling to the wrong belief even more firmly.
Then there's confirmation bias, which I'm often guilty of, in which you accept or reject evidence based on whether it supports or refutes a conclusion you already believe.
Cheryl@tofugolem @georgetakei hummmm…sounds like the ilk that supports Trump. They all knew that he had filed bankruptcy several times, but still voted for him because they thought that a “business”man could better run the country
Thanh Nguyen@tofugolem @georgetakei can you be a genius and dumb at the same time?
beforewisdom 
@georgetakei Elon Musk should watch who he insults as being unintelligent. He is on way from turning himself from one of the one of the richest men in the world to being a multimillionaire.
Citroen_2CV_Rules 🇨🇦 🇺🇦@georgetakei I've been in #twitterpurgatory so sorry I missed his latest nonsense.
@georgetakei
I couldn't believe it when I read that tweet, but I guess I should have believed it.
I couldn't believe it when I read that tweet, but I guess I should have believed it.
SilverKat@georgetakei Congress needs to pull him in for testimony. Twitter affects millions of people all over the world.
arkstfan@georgetakei the Charles Foster Kane of our era is spiraling out of control and the sycophants around him are shoveling coal in a boiler nearing explosion because they don’t want to be yelled at or fired for pointing out the truth.
BamaBlueDot(she/her)🔵@georgetakei as far as I’m concerned he has no say in American politics! He wasn’t born here. Is he a U.S. citizen even?
Bill McDonald@georgetakei
It’s amazing that Musk has come out as a full blown fascist, repeating Putin and Christian Nationalist disinformation. People need to see him for what he is: the man who proved there needs to be absolute limits on the amount of money/power any individual can wield.
It’s amazing that Musk has come out as a full blown fascist, repeating Putin and Christian Nationalist disinformation. People need to see him for what he is: the man who proved there needs to be absolute limits on the amount of money/power any individual can wield.
Ivy RN BA JD@georgetakei it’s so sad that Elon is all about Musk winning and power. He could be helping this world.
Kai@georgetakei Musk is out of whack really.
Rich@georgetakei Based on some of the decisions Mr Musk has made since taking over Twitter, I feel like he's the last person to belittle another's intelligence.
Margaret@georgetakei poor Elon and Trump have more in common than they know. Insecurity running someone’s life must suck royally.
Fiona WebsterApparently Elmo hasn't read Adam Schiff's brilliant book, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.
Frogger from Twitter!@georgetakei Is it just me or does Elon look like the Phantom of the Opera without the mask?
Americulchie@georgetakei You got exactly right Mr.T.
Joseph George A@georgetakei Walter Mischel is not around. But self regulation is no trifle.
Andreapazell65@georgetakei he drips of grotesque.
Gil in fact Can@georgetakei Elon is an out of touch dudebro, if it weren't for his apartheid mine money he'd just be some asshole still living in his mom's basement
BarneyRCN🇨🇦⚓️🎓@georgetakei There’s not much doubt about the state of mind of Musk…I think
Oakwalker@georgetakei picked the wrong target there!
Connie Christian@georgetakei Elon Musk is the Bernie Madoff of Dunning Kruger.
Jeff@georgetakei very disappointing to see him acting like Trump after thinking he was intelligent. Money doesn't equal brains.
@georgetakei I've had both Twitter accounts frozen for daring to call out fascists like Boebert and MTG. So much "free speech" LOL.
ChaChaCha👀@georgetakei now the whole world has no doubt #elon is a D-bag. He won’t be able to up his image on SNL this go around.
Steven@georgetakei This can only mean the extremely capable Congressman Schiff has gotten under the man baby’s skin.