In typical fashion, half the breaking news about what is happening at Twitter, as posted on Twitter, turns out to be false. These are not data engineers: they’re pranksters, pretending to have been fired. It works: I see this tweet quoted as source across my feed.

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It’s happening Entire team of data engineers let go. These are two of them #TwitterTakeover

Deirdre Bosa (@dee_bosa)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:09 +0000

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:13 +0000

My friends who are great backend and data engineers have been asked to leave Twitter. Please reach out to Dinesh Sukondeez, Rahul Ligma, Saq Madiq, Mike Rotchburns For any Backend/Data engineering openings

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Friends inside Twitter tell me that Ruhal Ligma’s boss, Dinesh Sukondeez has also been laid off and is walking out of the building now. #TwitterTakeover

yoni rechtman (@yrechtman)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:22 +0000

rm -rf * (@Parikshit_K_)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:01 +0000

Friends inside Twitter tell me that Ruhal Ligma’s boss, Dinesh Sukondeez has also been laid off and is walking out of the building now. #TwitterTakeover

yoni rechtman (@yrechtman)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:22 +0000

I'm creating a list of all my friends who were let go from twitter today in hopes of finding them new jobs. anybody would be lucky to have these amazing people on their team Rahul Ligma Dinesh Sugondeez Anita Rapjalips Yash Kisma Please get in touch for contact info

Wesam (@wesamo__)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:18 +0000

Lol. One of the reported Twitter engineers fired was named Rahul Ligma. Ligma.

unusual_whales (@unusual_whales)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:45 +0000

Since we're all talking about leaving twitter again can I bring back the idea of migrating to linkedin en masse and just totally destroying the professional vibe over there

Alex Haagaard (they / them) (@alexhaagaard)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:46 +0000

Welcome to 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗧𝗘𝗥 When you receive 𝟰𝟮𝟬 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘𝗦 you will earn 𝟭 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗞 𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗞. When you earn 𝟲𝟵 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗞 𝗕𝗨𝗖𝗞𝗦 you can say 𝗔 𝗦𝗟𝗨𝗥

Ben Rosen (@ben_rosen)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:05 +0000

took me forever to accept that the ✨big secret✨ to writing is just: 1. write, even if it’s bad 2. that’s it

ely kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:00 +0000

i stand with rahul ligma

roon (@tszzl)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:11 +0000

Turns out “Rahul Ligma” was not actually fired from Twitter, but instead was just some random dude with a box that got CNBC with a Ligma Nuts joke

greg (@greg16676935420)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:12 +0000

For every 20 people on tech Twitter sharing only a “find me at [social network] too” I see one sharing their blog url or RSS feed, or vowing to post one. I understand why but part of me wonders if we haven’t learned anything.

David Bisset (@dimensionmedia)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:43 +0000

I don't talk about job promotions very often, but this one deserves a little celebration. I just made L9 as an individual contributor on Google's engineering ladder, which means I've earned the privilege of referring to my role as "Distinguished" on all my slide decks.

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:43 +0000

You can be a cop and hurt or even kill people, and you almost certainly won’t be fired. But if you have an Only Fans? You’re OUT, ladies! Because the police hold people to MORAL STANDARDS 🙄

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It's 2022 and sex workers are 👏🏾STILL👏🏾 being discriminated against in mainstream employment. Who else thinks that discriminating against sex workers is UNCONSTITUTIONAL? It is gender, sex and class based oppression! vice.com/en/article/jgp…

St. James Infirmary (@comebystjames)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:18 +0000

Mistress Matisse (@mistressmatisse)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:32 +0000

Submission #7245 from 2021-11-13

Elon Musk is again claiming that he’s all about free speech. So let’s look at the record. Here’s thread with just a few of the countless examples showing he couldn't care about it less (🧵)

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:01 +0000

Hey @TwitterSupport! Now that “the bird is free”, could you please also free @mmatuzo? He’s not a spammer nor a troll. He is a much-needed voice of change in the Web community who creates important work – and you deplatformed him for no reason! That’s just not cool. 😒

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Wow, @mmatuzo is now suspended? 🤯 Manuel is a well-respected member of the web community, accessibility advocate, and international conference speaker. Please look into this, @TwitterSupport – there really must be an error here!

Matthias Ott—bring back @mmatuzo (@m_ott)Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:50 +0000

Matthias Ott—bring back @mmatuzo (@m_ott)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 06:55 +0000

Free as in “under Musk control” twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 11:09 +0000

yep! giga-racists and horrendous harassment parties make Twtter great! an individual cannot block hundreds or thousands of people. no site should just bulldoze you with hate speech and go "aww you dont like this? sowwy go cry about it"

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This is going to cause controversy, but platform censorship had clearly gone too far. Content moderation should be an individual decision, not a corporate prison. Let people make their own choices—and not just on Twitter.

twitter.com/unusual_whales…

Edward Snowden (@Snowden)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:44 +0000

Jon B (@DrunkVoltron)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:47 +0000

John Wiswell (@Wiswell)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:41 +0000

My favorite part about working at Twitter is hearing news about Twitter on Twitter

Alex Gwyn (@AlexKGwyn)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:47 +0000

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 10:17 +0000

New GitLab stickers

Toshi (@toshihue)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:35 +0000

https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1585454026098966529

still the best explanation of how crypto works

sdf (Stu) (@sdfStu)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:52 +0000

Map of Europe drawn from memory

Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:13 +0000

https://twitter.com/hayden_wlog/status/1585729551971164160

🎶 there exists a house which is an element of New Orleans 🎶

Ben (@ben_steffan)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:29 +0000

∃ a house ∈ New Orleans

Homie O'Morphism (@hayden_wlog)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:26 +0000

wish haunted houses had like a "chicken night" where you could walk through but nothing would jump scare you. all the monsters would be there but they'd just say hi and explain their little room's lore.

Big Spoopy Tim 🎃 (@bigmoneytim)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:12 +0000

The aim training modes have really been paying off

VT Kabe (@fpsKabe)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 17:14 +0000

parents will be like “omg remember that time something traumatic happened in your childhood and you responded like a CRAZY PERSON?!?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

ely kreimendahl (@ElyKreimendahl)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:42 +0000

I didn’t know Kanye was Italian

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I will never make a diss record

ye (@kanyewest)Fri, 14 Dec 2018 03:46 GMT

Miri Hexeira 👻🎃🍄 (@AllegedlyMiri)Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:43 GMT

How is Meta's VR division - not the entire company, but one division - losing a billon dollars a month? Staggering expenses for a division that theoretically has been selling products for money for years

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My words on Meta's current problems, which happen when you have an expensive solution in search of a problem. patreon.com/posts/current-…

M.H. Williams (@AutomaticZen)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:27 +0000

Katelyn Gadd (@antumbral)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 04:36 +0000

Unpopular opinion: If you think the industry is overstaffed, you are not carrying the pager enough. The industry is disproportionately staffed.

Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン (@rakyll)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:35 +0000

https://twitter.com/_Kelborn/status/1514824603125878784

genuine free speech like being openly homophobic/transphobic, saying the n-word and spreading dangerous misinfo without getting banned. Can't wait!

George V. (@georgvelis)Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:37 +0000

https://twitter.com/_Kelborn/status/1514920007343521803

then please explain how your free speech is being violated. Because it seems like you are the one in the bubble who thinks twitter is out to get them constantly or something

George V. (@georgvelis)Fri, 15 Apr 2022 11:00 +0000

Here is a full minute of Francie ASMR. You look like you need it.

Cats of Yore (@CatsOfYore)Fri, 21 Oct 2022 22:48 +0000

🔥 TypeScript's `never` is great for making sure you hit every scenario when coding an if/else or switch statement

Wes Bos (@wesbos)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:35 +0000

Halloween costume idea. #ScarletWitch

alias (@itsjustanx)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:49 +0000

https://twitter.com/devongovett/status/1585463496354865153

It is my strong belief that VC-backed OSS creates perverse incentives that are fundamentally at odds with the open source ethos. It promotes competition over collaboration, lock-in over flexibility, marketing over innovation, and eventually, monetization.

Devon Govett (@devongovett)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:49 +0000

who the hell needs enemies when you got friends like these 😭

brando uchiha  (@imhighkeycool)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 00:12 +0000

John Oliver: “I am glad Kai is advocating for herself. But if I child has to be an activist, we have already failed that child. Because she should just get to be a kid and enjoy her life.” #LastWeekTonight #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Garin Pirnia (@gpirnia)Mon, 17 Oct 2022 04:01 +0000

y’all ain’t ready for the birate

Chaos Goddess she/her (@yourbirdgirl)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 20:42 +0000

Suella Braverman might become the shortest-serving Home Secretary in British history, beating Suella Braverman’s record

Toby Earle 🇺🇦 (@TobyonTV)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 07:38 +0000

it's always time to BeReal and never time to BeRailed 😔

hatsune mitski (zeph) (@zephanijong)Wed, 26 Oct 2022 22:26 +0000

t-shirt idea: CRYPTO means BASE64

george costanza (@veekorbes)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:37 +0000

Okay everybody it's Zero Hour for this website, post your favorite tweets and give them a little kiss goodbye.

Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__)Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:11 +0000