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Charlie Stross
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SF author. NOT MY PRIMARY ACCOUNT, see @cstross — this is going away soon.
I have no idea who created @[email protected] —it wasn't me!—but it's not one of my accounts and you shouldn't trust it.
Max KennerlyMarch: Elon Musk reaches out to The Babylon Bee and makes what is apparently the first reference to buying Twitter, then posts a poll asking if Twitter "rigorously adheres" to the principles of free speech.
October: The Babylon Bee files an amicus brief with SCOTUS arguing "parody shouldn’t be stripped of constitutional protection just because it’s not clearly labeled as parody."
November: Musk bans parody on Twitter unless clearly labeled. 🙃
Over on twitter I am seeing how long it takes the mods—if there are any left—to hit on me for hurting Elon Musk's feelings by renaming myself.
Currently I'm up to "Elon Musk swives goats" (having skipped "fuck" because that's low-hanging fruit for bluenose bots), having started with "Elon Musk sucks goats" and, well, you get the picture.
Am thinking of ramping up to "Elon Musk swives goat clunge" tomorrow morning.
Any suggestions for where to go next?
Tom TomorrowAnyway if I could add another 500 subscribers before Twitter becomes useless as a platform, it would *really* help me future-proof my living expenses for awhile. And knowing that people are willing to support my work helps make that work worthwhile. https://thismodernworld.com/subscriptions
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has already incurred a class action lawsuit from the employees he fired (by a mechanism that's flat out illegal in the UK, by the way), and is spouting neo-nazi talking points (hint: "free speech" as a cover for dumping moderation is a neo-nazi objective).
/2 (ends)
Welp, that was exciting!
Took me 2-3 hours to figure out how to log into mstdn.social again. Because this system is really not intuitive ...
Meanwhile, back on the blue tweety bird site, I am exporting my profile. Just in case shit eventuates (as seems increasingly likely, given that the Muskrat has taken leave of his senses, is pissing off both the advertisers and the blue tick users, /1