Helen Kennedy

@HelenKennedy
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Twitter refugee. Cantankerous retired tab reporter. Foul-mouthed. Middlebrow but also elitist. New Yorker. Venetophile. #Sondheim worshipper. Newly learning watercolor and - fair warning - may post some bad paintings. I’ll think of other stuff later.
Visited Bicycle Heaven in PIttsburgh today: a place of wonder and madness. It’s a museum of bicycles, but also a warehouse of bicycles and a dizzying array of bicycles crammed into room after room. You can admire, but also buy or rent of trade bikes. And parts. All sorts of parts. Plus, various random cool bits of vintage ephemera. Such a fun visit. https://www.bicycleheaven.org/
Bicycle Heaven

Bicycle Heaven
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RT @HelenKennedy
This description of Elmo
Underrated Glass Onion treat: master puzzler Stephen #Sondheim’s final cameo. I squealed, I won’t deny it.
Best advertising Mastodon has had since ….this morning, when the Washpost and WSJ published guides to transferring over from twitter.

Twitter says you can’t bypass the new stricture against posting your screen name on another site by spelling out “dot” to avoid URL creation, or to share a screenshot of your handle on a competing platform.

THEY THOUGHT OF EVERYTHING GUYS

New edict from the increasingly desperate and embarrassing overlord at the birdsite: you are no longer allowed to link to or mention your username at these sites: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.
(Note that racist havens Gab and Parler are not on the list.)
There’s the Streisand Effect for you: A mystery buyer bought a Charlottesville weekly’s archives only to wipe them from the internet - apparently to erase several stories about rape allegations he faced in college. Now the Washington Post is writing about it. @mmasnick https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/14/hook-charlottesville-vanished-archive/
A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?

The Hook, a Charlottesville weekly, closed in 2013 but web archives survived until 22,000 stories vanished in June. Speculation swirls around a mystery buyer.

The Washington Post

A must-read on @[email protected] from Linette Lopez, one of the journalists that Musk has suspended from Twitter.

She has covered his business activities with a critical eye for years.

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-business-playbook-boss-visionary-jerk-spacex-tesla-twitter-2022-12

Elon Musk was always a visionary jerk, bad boss at SpaceX, Tesla. But it won't work at Twitter.

Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.

Insider