@Rob_Bransfield - Lol I couldn't work in a mouse joke. Long weekend.

Really hoping the same-old celebrities and mainstream media pundits don't start flocking to this app and clogging the servers with their weak LinkedIn-style nonsense. Get your own Twitter, blue-checks.

@Rob_Bransfield - I just hope they can keep up the act when they have to speak Russian to some mole.

@OneLillieSpark - I hope one of them is named Frank. Every spy agency needs a Frank.

Love how the CIA budget is always secret, so we have no idea what wacky stuff they're thinking. The latest is they're investing in bringing woolly mammoths back from extinction because, oh, you know, because!
"Woolly Mammoth Undercover Agents" sounds like a 1990s comic book series. Boy, the CIA people are such little rascals, you know?
https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/cia-extinction-woolly-mammoth-dna/

@Susandoyle - Lol I know, it's not like I have this crazy urge to post something just to see if I can get away with it.🤡

@barbaraedelman - The suspense was killing me!

@FranklyCurious - NICE

@pennyphilosophy - Glad to help.

@AkomoCombine - Someone once said "Twitter is LinkedIn for journalists." I think that's very true.
With any luck, someday all celebrities and virtue-signaling pundits will be banished to their own corner of the Fediverse, where they can waste their own time instead of everyone else's.

Someone posted yesterday about how nice it is that they don't spend a lot of time doom-scrolling on CoSo as opposed to Twitter. I agree.

One thing that's off-putting about Twitter is that its overall vibe is that of a never-ending competition in which celebrities and one-note tweeps work tirelessly to get people depressed and outraged, not focused on strategies, solutions, or mature debate. Rarely do they inspire cooperation or action, just increased negativity.

Have a great day all!

@QueenOfEverything - Yes, somebody just posted the below piece about his Saudi partners. Odd, being that he wasn't too keen on the Saudis after they murdered Khashoggi in cold blood.
Tesla's got serious EV competition from the Nissan Leaf ($27,400 as opposed to $46,990 for his lowest-end Tesla Model 3) and others.
I think he's a giant moronic child and will eventually bankrupt himself. YMMV (pardon the pun).
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/10/elon-musk-free-speech-absolutist-is-silent-about-his-saudi-partners/

From The Intercept: Twitter is a crummy business. It's only been profitable in 2 years: 2018 & 2019. In 2020 it lost over $1 billion, rebounding to lose a mere $222 million in 2021.
Musk’s deal to buy Twitter involved taking out $12.5 billion in loans, which means Twitter will have to come up with an additional $1 billion a year to service that debt.

Takeaway: Like Trump's presidential victory, Musk's Twitter "win" was something he didn't actually want to happen.

Moar:
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-twitter/

@MidnightRider - Lol no argument there.

@Daryl_Knee - I hear you and respect your opinion. On this matter I have to echo Eli Klein, who tweeted to Anderson "You and Angela Rasmussen are too politicized and have been wrong on too many Covid issues to be seen as credible sources on this important matter."

Not doing a douchey gotcha there or whatever, just saying. NYT also had some thoughts on it:
https://t.co/0trJ0kfc9c

@MidnightRider - Right, it could have happened anywhere at any time. Problem was that it wasn't "woke" to blame it on the obvious, being as how that idiot Trump said it and hyped the racism of it. We were doomed from the start when Trump made it about identity politics.

@Sunshine1970 - They knew it would happen and they really, really believed people would fall for the bat soup theory. I mean, wow.

Vanity Fair:Breaking: A new Senate report concludes that SARS-CoV-2—the virus that causes COVID-19—likely resulted from “a research-related incident.” The report includes evidence of alarming biosecurity issues at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

That's what I've said from Day F--king One. Some young lab tech was late for a date and skipped some part of his decontamination. They'd been expecting this to happen for literal decades.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/10/covid-origins-investigation-wuhan-lab

@Uno2much - Totally.

@RollNine - Good evening!