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o, some thoughts: I joined twitter when there were mb 200K members (first account: ronindotca). Early twitter was mostly fun. People of Sweden! Funny games (ruin a thing by changing a thing), meeting people, Blacktwitter smacking folks about the head, Scottish/Irish twitter telling us how to swear, local politics..
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... and, as a big, angry cis white lefty fella, the ohter bits were fine. I lost the first account mb 2018 (good run eh) and then moved to one with the same tag as this. Then it got noticed (same phone number)... so I tweeted as one of my cats. And for me, it was toxic, and it did make me pissy (ask my wife) ...
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... but .. always butt.. the coms during the #chch #eqnz, the people I can stay in touch with back in Aotearoa, the new ideas, the better ideas, the silly shit, the victories, triumphs and sadnesses.. they were all there as well. Those things were amazing. Honest to god, I miss it. I will miss it when it's gone for real...
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... so here we are, in about 7 day or so not only has he managed to basically kill it (or wound it mortally) but he's also revealed what a lot of us have deduced: he is a very stupid, bad, venal man.
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@Camerondotca and all because his ex-wife was sad about Babylon Bee getting banned from Twitter.
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... about that: my sense is at Tesla there are a lot of layers between Elon and any decision making. At SpaceX they are so intertwined with NASA and so heavily regulated that he can't fiddle with things too much.. but no one in his circle was able to put a firewall up for twitter (or they just didn't think it was important.)...