@feloneouscat Ha ha ha! Trump read 271 pages? And probably all words, not pictures.

I think it was Borowitz who said 271 pages of Vance problems - must have been a condensed version.

@scottyorange Imagine how fact checking will work.

Excuse me Mr. Trump, but that statistic you cited regarding job growth is actually true. Would you care to restate it? ;-)

@JV3MJD @ecksmc @th3j35t3r "Kamala trolls Trump" J noted it was a parody account. Believable, since actually K has trolled TFG. E noted the handle was a giveaway. I noted that on Xitter you can't trust anything anyway since "verification" means only that you paid. E noted that anyone can mistake parody for real, and suggested some ways to check.

Anyway, thanks again for helping ensure that I don't have to gaze upon the X cesspool.

@ecksmc @JV3MJD @th3j35t3r You're right.

But then if the user name were Real Verified Actual Pope Francis all it would tell you is that someone handed Musk $5.

@th3j35t3r @JV3MJD Which is the obvious problem of quoting people from Xitter, that most of them are verified (paid) fakes.

Nevertheless as I told JV3 earlier, I do appreciate his work wading through that swamp to bring us the rare bits of useful information.

@JV3MJD (Far too many) people of note still say things on Xitter. But one cannot hear them without being subjected to the ceaseless barrage of misinformation, bots, trolls, racists, and scammers.

I'd just like to say thank you for wading into that swamp for all of us, and bringing us occasional highlights, so we don't have to.

@feloneouscat Everyone* who uses the term Welfare Queen should watch the series Maid.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11337908/

--
*Of course you used the term to disparage it.

@ExecutiveFunction404 @AverageCitizen Another almost audio book is a Kindle book. Read on an Android phone or tablet you can enable text to speech. If you pick the right robot voice then its monotonous quality might possibly lull you to sleep. Or you might strain to understand and wake more.

I loved the old Kindle, switching back and forth between reading myself and being read to. Phone or tablet are worse to read on, and I don't think Kindle devices now supports speech.

@scottyorange Politics aside, chain letter memes like this are usually posted to dupe well meaning marks into spreading them. It lets the scammer identify and target people for their next con.

@DavidSalo Iran, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the emails, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.

@IronButterfly He's not innocent. He's orange.

Lies matter. #twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/09/uk-far-right-riots-elon-musk-x

@Bix How many tries did it take TFG to pass the bar? Oh, or how about Wharton? What was his GPA? Who did he pay to take his tests? Did he actually graduate 6th grade?

https://verywelltech.com/en-us/education/does-trump-have-a-college-degree-fact-checking-trumps-education-history/

@AverageCitizen @ExecutiveFunction404
Gaiman fans might like these bedtime stories which are not quite like the ones your parents read you.

Listen to Bedtime Stories for Cynics by Dave Hill, Jessica Conrad, Sean Keane, Matt Lieb, Gretchen Enders, Guy Branum, Brent Weinbach on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B07RFSLF4J