Talia LavinFeb 11, 2023
RT @headfallsoff
biden personally intervened to stop the strikes that were ringing the bell on this exact thing happening and now this exact thing has happened like ten times worse than anyone would expect and obviously exponentially worse than they're letting on
Show threadGregory HaysFeb 11, 2023
@swordsjew I don't understand what this person is trying to say. What is "this exact thing"? What are the bells that are being rung? Maybe this made sense on Twitter, but it doesn't make any sense on Mastodon.
Show threadWarren Terra
@aristofontes @swordsjew
I'm not one of the people that denounces accounts set up to simply mirror their posts from Twitter to Mastodon, I think it's a reasonable option, but there are better and worse ways to do it. These reposts don't preserve any link to the original, making it hard to look up the answers to puzzles like this.
Feb 11, 2023 at 1:49amWeb
Show threadGregory HaysFeb 11, 2023
@warren__terra @swordsjew Yes. I revere Talia, but I don't like having my feed filled with unintelligible stuff like this.
Show threadWarren TerraFeb 11, 2023
@aristofontes @swordsjew
In any case, the retweet was from this thread, about the Ohio rail disaster
https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1624130903852056577?t=6Jnx-WkHFKmxF6BMZUJXgQ&s=19
yuuko from nichijou on Twitter

“not to put any stock in liberalism's ability to police itself but the disaster in ohio should be a presidency ending level scandal and it's pretty bleak how it's barely a story beyond some tweets. nightmarish situation that will be causing suffering for decades”

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Show threadsamFeb 11, 2023

@warren__terra @aristofontes @swordsjew this is why is reconfigured my ifttt setup to only cross post items with a specific hashtag - it keeps my feed from getting cluttered with confusing things.

Of course, Twitter is cutting off ifttt access with its api lockdown on Monday, so no real point in setting things up now.