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https://twitter.com/cherthedev/status/1591257437033877505

One of my sons’ friends found me on twitter and he likes to mock me for being “twitter famous” pretty much every time he comes over the play with the boys. No matter how much I tell him I’m not. He insists on referring to me as “Matt Stratton of Twitter” constantly.

Matty Stratton 🐀 (@mattstratton)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 04:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/IanColdwater/status/1591251170651443201

people have this idea that being a niche internet microcelebrity means that we must think we're actually famous when in fact this has almost no affect on our real lives and mostly just makes some IRL interactions awkward

Kat Cosgrove (Rat Arc) 🐀 (@Dixie3Flatline)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1591233043075067907

For those who don't know, that's my inside tech joke. Naive developers love to talk about how they could build Twitter in a weekend. It has become a meme. If this whole thing wasn't horrific, it would actually be hilarious in tech circles.

Marco Rogers (@polotek)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:58 GMT

https://twitter.com/AnnatarTheMaia/status/1591286199129296896

Ah, that old gatekeeping chestnut that's also wholly irrelevant.

eximius (@eximius)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:53 GMT

People are starting to say Elon Musk isn't actually a real engineer. But he definitely said "I don't know why people think Twitter is so complicated. I could fix it in like a weekend." And then proceeded to fuck everything up. That's exactly like an engineer.

Marco Rogers (@polotek)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:54 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Multiple people who have tracked this data as a job have said this isn’t true

KING OF NEW ENGLAND (@calkins_colin)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 01:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Mike Rhone (@mikerhoneTM)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:40 GMT

https://twitter.com/justquitnow/status/1591596168961736707

Elon stans who haven’t paid for his ridiculous checkmark cannot be trusted.

fakelawn (@fakelawn)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:12 GMT

😂 yes, I suppose I am interested in my own #golang course.

Johnny Boursiquot (@jboursiquot)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:41 GMT

"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Judd Legum (@JuddLegum)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1591669014430126081

also didn't elon just lose like a hundred billion dollars

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:49 GMT

get fuckin owned

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"The entire $16 billion fortune of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has now been wiped out, one of history’s greatest-ever destructions of wealth." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Judd Legum (@JuddLegum)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:16 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:47 GMT

I’m just saying, if I were a recently eliminated twitter engineer with untransferred knowledge, my consulting fee would start at $50k/hour for me to come back to work

@deniseyu@ruby.social (@deniseyu21)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:01 GMT

“Terms of Service; Didn't Read” (short: ToS;DR) is a project started in June 2012 to help fix the “biggest lie on the web”: almost no one really reads the terms of service we agree to all the time.

You know this was back in the day because they had that credit card right up in the camera 😂 twitter.com/todd_spence/st…

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Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

Genie Lauren (@MoreAndAgain)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:52 GMT

I need to look at the org chart again because a few of them have been there a while because they're big ol' nerds.

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RT @rwidome@mastodon.social Here’s the good news: I think we have at least 6 months before your boss finds this place. mastodon.social/@rwidome/10933…

Jesse (@obra)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:30 GMT

brian wisti (@brianwisti)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 05:36 GMT

therapist? oh you mean my gossip doctor?

monika woods (@booksijustread)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:12 GMT

Sandra Bullock buying movie tickets on the net for the first time… for her movie THE NET

SPENCE, TODD (@Todd_Spence)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 00:23 GMT

I don’t even know how to quantify this but one of the weirder moments gotta be when dude live tweeted the osama bin laden raid without knowing it

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

ZuluHeavy (Parody) (@ZuluHeavy)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/aubrionna/status/1591678779545767937

not feeling miserable anymore rules nature is healing

aubri (@aubrionna)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:27 GMT

sometimes i'm like "what is wrong with millennial women" and then i remember how in the early 2000s special k tried to wipe us all out by telling us to replace breakfast and lunch with a cup of cereal and a splash of skim milk

emma lord (@dilemmalord)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 01:54 GMT

One of the benefits of the #Fediverse is I can use the system I prefer to post and you can follow and interact with any #ActivityPub system you prefer. Your choice of, say, a photo sharing platform doesn't dictate that I have to sign up too. It's like RSS you can reply to.

Simon Phipps (@webmink)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:13 GMT

tens of billions of dollars wiped out by a single polycule

Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:16 GMT

i gave a presentation

explodikid @ jess lackey's house (@explodikid)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/explodikid/status/1591585123623137281

This but not evil.

Matthew Brown (@JustXillow)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 00:17 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591697602189627395

There’s also a world of difference between a community conference and a big corporate one.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:42 GMT

https://twitter.com/type__error/status/1591492424651919360

To clarify: no not all confs pay but they should at the very least cover travel & accommodation for speakers, and look after them. Seems like some don’t even do that. If a conf isn’t offering you any kind of compensation for the literal money you spend to get there, don’t do it.

Sophie Koonin (@type__error)Sun, 13 Nov 2022 07:40 GMT

Implementing (some of) the ActivityPub standard with Netlify functions, a post by Lewis Dale

Facebook Meta - like many other tech titans - has institutional Shiny Object Syndrome. It goes something like this:Launch a product to great fanfareSpend a few years hyping it as ✨the future✨Stop …

Decide exactly what you want to read and escape the social media algorithms. How an old protocol called RSS can give you back the autonomy about what you read.

Wow someone really did this

Lisa Lucas (@likaluca)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:33 GMT

This site now supports sending and receiving webmentions and surfacing structured data using microformats2.

RT @quentquarantino An anonymous tweeter pretending to be Eli Lilly & Co spent $8 to put out a fake tweet that insulin is now free. Eli Lilly lost $30 billion dollars in market cap today. This may very well be the best use of $8 in human history

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 13:29 GMT

RT @TheSamethyst I can't explain the energy on Twitter these days with words but it's this.

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:51 GMT

RT @jzux (me, still acting really weird) sorry i acted so weird the other day

Carol ⭐️ (@CarolSaysThings)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:10 GMT

https://twitter.com/coopercooperco/status/1591250467618959361

POV: you are an orphan who's just stepped out of a shipping container in Epstein island

Matthew Schroeder (@JoblessMatthew)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:53 GMT

Remember when people thought this was incredible or something

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Enough talk about the good times on this website, let’s talk about the dumbest moments on this website. I’ll start: that time people thought there were two drils and the second one was much less funny

AK Lingus (@aklingus)Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:06 GMT

🏜🔋, fka ☕️ (@coopercooperco)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 02:04 GMT

I love it when 400 private jets fly to Egypt for the UN Climate Conference to tell the peasants to ride bikes and live in tents.

Catturd ™ (@catturd2)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 15:32 GMT

The cognitive dissonance it must take to look at everything going on at Twitter and still feel confident that your Tesla is a quality product that isn’t made in a similar environment is astounding.

Tim Banks: Principal VibeOps Engineer (@elchefe)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 08:15 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol

Mitch Wright is still writing (@MitchWrites)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:36 GMT

https://twitter.com/phocks/status/1591549286999023616

Lol, account locked

Dump Ump (@DumpOnTheUmp)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 22:28 GMT

If you're at Twitter and you've been invited back after they fired you in error, here's a chat with one of the managers there, the Senior Director of Engineering at Twitter, aka @LukeEvansSimon

Joshua Byrd (@phocks)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:51 GMT

i know its trendy to hate jack dorsey but being a one day a week billionaire ceo of like 3 different things while spending the other 6 pounding ayuasca deep in the desert is likely to be the best we’re gonna get out of these lunatics

red (@thomas_k_r)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

honestly the fact that he almost never did anything is a real point in his favor

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i know its trendy to hate jack dorsey but being a one day a week billionaire ceo of like 3 different things while spending the other 6 pounding ayuasca deep in the desert is likely to be the best we’re gonna get out of these lunatics

red (@thomas_k_r)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:13 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1591570785000656896

as I've said before, twitter.com/ReinH/status/1…

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one thing that normal leaders can do that elon is totally incapable of is nothing, just not doing a thing

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 04:08 GMT

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:17 GMT

Victoria 🎀 🦃 (@EuphoriTori)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 23:16 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591505810911531008

And this is his fault. He failed to properly manage the transition by figuring out who knew what, mapping out coverage, and making sure there was time and motivation to hand everything off. So he is eager to fuck over these people to cover up his incompetence.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591503962385289217

The most obvious thing here is that he is planning to fuck over people he just got done fucking over. He just helped put these people out on the street in a recession. Now he wants to bring them back, get something out of them, and then fire them AGAIN.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:58 GMT

I want to dig in for a bit on this set of Slack replies from a Twitter manager talking about undoing some of the layoffs.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:44 GMT

https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1591503539935010816

Let me just get this out of the way early: he can go fuck himself. With the proverbial sandpaper dildo.

William Pietri (@williampietri)Sat, 12 Nov 2022 18:51 GMT