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

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

California Rep.-elect Katie Porter reads a book in the House Chamber during the fourth day of voting for speaker of the House.

(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The last time a Speaker wasn’t elected on the 1st vote was re: 100 years ago. Before that in 1856, it took > 130 votes to elect a Speaker due to extreme polarization over slavery. In the process, 2 congressmen assaulted reporters. (1 “catawompously chawed up” a reporter’s finger)

What’s important here: being unable to elect a Speaker shows severe dysfunction. It’s easy to overlook the highly problematic & potentially dramatic implications of our Speaker problem.

#SpeakerOfTheHouse #politics