It's really wild watching Twitter die in real time.

There have been a lot of "this is probably it" moments, but pulling blue checks from notable accounts and simultaneously giving an algorithm boost to the junk accounts buying blue checks just destroyed the whole thing.

I'm not seeing the accounts I want to see, my followers don't see me.

In 2011, the Times warned that Thomas’s relationship with Crow and Gianni’s activism were undermining the court.

2011! Nothing was done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/02/supreme-court-clarence-thomas-partisanship/?itid=ap_philipbump

Lmao ay whole time! This is a great illustration of how that thought process works.
#BlackMastodon #blackfedi

From: @codinghorror
https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/110299717828407544

@Syphilia @Are0h @BlackAzizAnansi @mekkaokereke When I was young, the Dutch were certain that we were the most tolerant nation in the world. We weren't racist! We dealt with that at the end of WW2. Racist parties would never get more than one seat in our parliament. Also, we were a merchant nation, and racism was bad for business, so we'd always been this tolerant (let's not mention the slave trade, okay?).

Then, about 20 years ago, one racist party after another kept popping up. Suddenly racists were coming out of the woodwork everywhere. Every time someone pointed out something was racist, racists would quickly deny it and demonstrate their racism.

Maybe we were just good at pretending we weren't racist. Or at least good at fooling ourselves.