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The one positive outcome of what happened at Twitter is we see what happens when you treat employees with contempt and disrespect. Don’t communicate with them, fire half, change working conditions with no notice, fire those who criticise you, then give them an ultimatum.

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:07 GMT

We should probably have a serious discussion about the ease with which a billionaire haphazardly purchased & immediately destroyed a company that employed 7,500 people and facilitated essential communication for hundreds of millions.

Avi Bueno (@Avi_Bueno)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:57 GMT

My friend at @Twitter says it's all running on @elonmusk's laptop now and he got the last engineer pregnant and they had a baby and the baby looked him right in the eyes and said "$8"

Jermaine Tong (@passionfingerz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1593501556858560514

We now have the playbook of how not to acquire a company, even when your goal is to cut costs. Nothing wrong with wanting to cut costs. A little empathy and planning would have gone a long way. And some - dare I say - leadership that motivates people positively?

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 07:12 GMT

last week: "what's mastodon?" this week: "let's spin up our own instance for the craic"

@skipcloud@inane.chat (@skipcloud)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 16:46 GMT

they just need one 7500x engineer

🍅 (@turtlekiosk)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:21 GMT

so long suckers! i rev up my motorcylce and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement

wint (@dril)Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:26 +0000

https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1593411889161273345

Really gotta hand it to the (possibly former) SREs and developers who built this place stable enough that it’s still running this far into Hurricane Elon.

Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 01:25 GMT

tumblr has completely crashed just now from all the people making new accounts on there lmfao

transgender marx (@JUNlPER)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:04 GMT

elon at the twitter 2.0 all-hands meeting

Dan Favale (@danfavale)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:53 GMT

I hope they forwarded all pagerduty alerts to him

malice ghoulpus (@alicegoldfuss)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:41 GMT

now yall see why I've been screaming for the past year that we *have* to DECOUPLE OUR DATA FROM THESE APPS! One bad sale and now we're all sitting around hoping we don't completely lose the networks and content we've spent years building! 😡

Angie Jones (@techgirl1908)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:34 GMT

RIP to everything in my bookmarks. I really planned to go back to it one day.

Morgan Elise Johnson (@MorganEliseJ)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 00:47 GMT

Oh shit lol. Twitter HQ in San Francisco tonight

Read Jackson Rising by @CooperationJXN (@JoshuaPHilll)Fri, 18 Nov 2022 02:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593365103331577856

Twitter’s Slack currently has hundreds of employees giving the 🫡 emoji, meaning they decided to not stay for Musk’s “Twitter 2.0” cultural reset. The company had just under 3,000 employees remaining before the deadline to say “yes” or not hit 20 min ago.

Alex Heath (@alexeheath)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:20 GMT

you think astrology is fucked up? some parents believe the shape of a baby's genitals predicts their favorite toys, hobbies, and colors

Willard Killmore (@willrad)Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:42 GMT

Learned that the Roomba is programmed in a dialect of Lisp. I guess that makes sense, because the hardware is optimized for garbage collection.

Dan Ports, @dan@discuss.systems (@danrkports)Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:49 GMT

um giant penis is a family name that means a lot to me

Amy-Leigh Gemstone (lolennui@mas.to) (@lolennui)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:56 GMT

Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes". Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy. I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay. Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't.

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Scoop: Elon Musk just sent an email to all staff outlining "Twitter 2.0", writing it will"need to be extremely hardcore". Long hours, high intensity. People need to click "yes" to confirm being part of this by 5pm ET tomorrow, else they get 3 months severance. More details:

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:46 GMT

Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

Elon is like a Frankenstein built out of every toxic trait I've ever experienced at a workplace. I feel so bad for the folks still at twitter ❤️

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Scoop: I am hearing far fewer than expected devs hit "yes". Elon sent out an email relaxing remote working from the former draconian policy. I'm hearing he is having meetings w top engineers to convince them to stay. Sounds like playing hardball does not work. Ofc it doesn't.

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Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:09 GMT

Josh W. Comeau (@JoshWComeau)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:08 GMT

If Royal Mail cannot turn a profit while providing the services it is legally mandated to provide, then its equity value is zero and it should be renationalised at no cost to the taxpayer twitter.com/bbcscotlandnew…

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Royal Mail asks to stop Saturday letter deliveries bbc.in/3hQ7K9u

BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:46 GMT

official (@alexhern)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:38 GMT

https://twitter.com/mjackson/status/1593361109729222656

Not new. Was Open Source before acquisition. Here is a tweet from that account on acquisition day referencing the repo under the old Birdwatch name twitter.com/CommunityNotes…

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In the spirit of transparency, Birdwatch makes everything and the kitchen sink public and open source. Today, we’re sharing a paper that details the research, analysis and outcomes that informed its development and helped us understand its performance. 📊 github.com/twitter/birdwa…

Community Notes (@CommunityNotes)Fri, 28 Oct 2022 00:42 +0000

Ant Parody Stanley (@IamStan)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:55 GMT

Just cranking out the retro takes like he’s Jeff Jarvis in 2006. Truly a visionary with his finger on the pulse.

buzz@andersen.social (@buzz)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:08 GMT

kink, including consensual non-consent, is not “produced by rape culture,” “sad,” or “scary.” we have been over this as, like, a society, multiple times. this is an effect of the pathologizing of kink & the criminalization of BDSM. & you’re making it worse with this kinda shit.

🌬Doctrix Snow (she/her) (@MistressSnowPhD)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 19:48 GMT

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Best of Dying Twiter (@bestofdyingtwit)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:10 GMT

I can’t hear you over the sounds of their big meat double penetrating me twitter.com/zombienation10…

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https://twitter.com/marinaxdove/status/1593313580904071168

Congrats on finding two incredibly weak men with no self respect who were willing to participate

DP (@ZombieNation108)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:48 GMT

marina 🌿 (@marinaxdove)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:52 GMT

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Daily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, it’s merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in. Break them up.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:35 GMT

SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:57 GMT

American healthcare is fun because I feel like I’m in a Game of Thrones style story of political intrigue between the warring factions of my doctor, my insurance company, and the manufacturer of my medication who all disagree with each other and meanwhile my colon is like

Hank Green (@hankgreen)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:28 GMT

At Web Summit, @ben_mckenzie and @molly0xFFF were on stage with Charles Hoskinson, talking about how much retail investors had lost. Hoskinson said, I lost $2 billion and that on the path to mass crypto adoption they'll break some plates. "Those plates are people," Molly said.

Jacob Silverman (@SilvermanJacob)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:37 GMT

Win or lose. It’s his way out. John Wick: Chapter 4 - only in cinemas & IMAX March 24. #JW4

Lionsgate UK (@LionsgateUK)Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:02 GMT

https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/1592917584390680576

Update: Twitter HR is now telling everyone who does not sign the ridiculous new pledge they have resigned. Employment law does not work that way. You cannot deprive people of unemployment benefits and wrongful termination cases by saying that they resigned. Nice try though!

Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:29 GMT

https://twitter.com/gigiflacko/status/1592806765233868801

It might be more they are doing the makeup to display best on the cameras & screens that existed at the time. They weren't to know HD would come along!

That Guy With The Thing (@andrewfinney79)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 11:42 GMT

Is this country Greenland?

Terrible Maps (@TerribleMaps)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:32 GMT

This week, I started a new role at AWS in S3 as a senior principal engineer. Shoutouts to my high school guidance counselor who said I’d never amount to anything. You gave me the courage I needed to get this far.

Bryan Liles (@bryanl)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 23:26 GMT

"I'm also speaking as a woman of God" And I'm so so sorry to hear that babe

j ❄ (@silvergelpen)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:33 GMT

https://twitter.com/brad_frost/status/1593237992545521665

I'm fairly confident that a deranged billionaire won't maneuver a hostile takeover of my website, so I'm planning on continuing to share my thoughts there.

Brad Frost (@brad_frost)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:43 GMT

Santa Claus in coming to town…and he means business 👊 🎅. Starring David Harbour as Santa, don’t miss #ViolentNight in cinemas December 2!

Universal Pictures UK (@universaluk)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:17 GMT

Can I suggest Liz Truss for CEO and Kwasi Kwarteng for CFO?

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BREAKING: @elonmusk says he plans to find someone to replace him as acting CEO of Twitter

Stock Talk Weekly (@stocktalkweekly)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:30 GMT

Phil Nash | @philnash@mastodon.social (@philnash)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:08 GMT

White Cis man screams into a void about cancel culture after cancelling all his employees freedoms.

Jonathan Kingston (@KingstonTime)Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:29 +0000

White Cis man continues to scream into a void about cancel culture after being a known advocate of cancelling employees.

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White Cis man screams into a void about cancel culture after cancelling all his employees freedoms.

Jonathan Kingston (@KingstonTime)Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:29 +0000

Jonathan Kingston (@KingstonTime)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:14 GMT

https://twitter.com/Brunty/status/1593186592625405953

The same people who spout stuff like "fuck regulators" are the first to go to regulators to try and get their money back when it all goes wrong You wanted unregulated, this is what you get Actions -> consequences

Matt Brunt (@Brunty)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:19 GMT

Getting “my neck my back we need a fair contract” on the real strike chant list is moving to the top of my reasons I’m going to hell

Norris! (@NorrisButNoChuk)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:08 GMT

Goodnight #IndieWeb. Tomorrow is another day. Tell me something kind.

If you’re not familiar with the term, the act of flying in, making a lot of noise, shitting on everything, and then flying off again is called “seagull management.” twitter.com/culturecrave/s…

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Elon Musk intends to reduce his time at Twitter and find someone else to run it

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave)Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:45 GMT

Mike Laidlaw (@Mike_Laidlaw)Thu, 17 Nov 2022 01:00 GMT

TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY’RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-

Stone Cold Jane Austen (@AbbyHiggs)Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:32 GMT

Elon going from “Comedy is legal again” to “Parody accounts of me will be suspended” in a week is just more proof that when people complain about political correctness ruining comedy, it’s always just a cover for wanting to mock people with less social power than them.

Aaron Hoyland (@aaronhoyland)Mon, 07 Nov 2022 02:44 GMT