Gary Gilligan

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Semi retired Londoner. Books, music, languages, chess, guitar. COYS. #FBPE. #GTTO. I love Mrs G. I follow back if genuine, not Tory or worse. @garygilligan on Twitter.

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Hi Carla! Tara Tinks on Twitter asked us to pass on best regards to you. She also asked if you have thought about joining Threads?

Threads: Twitter threatens legal action over Meta's new app

Its owner Elon Musk says "competition is fine, cheating is not" a day after the rival app launched.

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This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

It's only been 3 days since I did #TheWeekInTory, but that hasn't stopped them. It hasn't even slowed them down. It's an absolute blizzard of chaos.

(There's a mistake in this - I refer to Johnson's time as Home Secretary, I meant Foreign Secretary)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1674751880319123457.html

Thread by @RussInCheshire on Thread Reader App

@RussInCheshire: I did my last #TheWeekInTory at lunchtime on Tuesday. So this is just what’s happened since then. Pick your jaw up, Mabel: there’s nothing surprising about this level of mayhem anymore. (Long thread...…

Hi @SamanthaMalin.

I heard that you were sanctioned on Twitter. How are you doing ma'am?

I'm delighted to have been followed back by the wonderful @sparkly.

A truly wonderful human being.

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On Twitter just now and have been told that now I have "exceeded my tweet limit for the day". This is new, and not a good look.
Gary Gilligan #FBPE #BLM #FBPA #FBPPR #GTTO #3.5% on Twitter

“If anyone were ever qualified to say "Spend time with some of our families"...”

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13.12.2022, photos:

This is how #Russia "fixed" their horrible #crime - by covering #Mariupol #theater with portraits of Russian poets.

Hiding their true identity beneath a thin layer of culture. How metaphorical.

📷: Mariupol City Council