Do we need a Twitter thread?

DouglasDanger

Please vote.

3cl1ps3

No

With Musk's most recent outspoken racist bullshit at this point no one should be using or talking about twitter, it's just not really justifiable anymore. I deleted mine.

Delzhand

No

It's just a chat thread at this point anyway

I needed anime to post.

No

if we don't kill the twitter thread now it will become a thread where people talk about primaries

DouglasDanger

Larlar

Delzhand wrote: »

It's just a chat thread at this point anyway

Concerning

Maddoc

https://twitter.com/AIDRIVR/status/1730329405568995335

Crash test video of the cyber truck and how badly it's going to kill people!

At a 35mph frontal collision, the rear axle snaps, so you know the passengers are in good shape

Hacksaw

Yes

Better a Twitter thread than have it spillover into other, unrelated threads.

Captain Inertia

No

I needed anime to post. wrote: »

if we don't kill the twitter thread now it will become a thread where people talk about primaries

Red Blue and Yellow?

3cl1ps3

No

Just fuckin', like, ban discussion of the platform as far as I'm concerned. It's completely toxic at this point.

Styrofoam Sammich

Yes

Its the Tanuki thread. It stays.

Lanz

Yes

https://twitter.com/iidazoo/status/1730480424257012176?s=61

TWITTER

TANU

WINTER

WARMS

SageinaRage

Need? No

Deserve? Yes

Paladin

A twitter thread will probably exist as long as Twitter embeds work. When they go, it goes.

Lanz

Yes

I sincerely love that photographer’s compositions

https://twitter.com/iidazoo/status/1714826163045147115?s=61

https://twitter.com/iidazoo/status/1726418642160775510?s=61

Coinage

Yes

I gotta have my xeets

Delduwath

Hacksaw wrote: »

Better a Twitter thread than have it spillover into other, unrelated threads.

Why contain it? Let it spill over the schools and churches, let the tweets pile up in the streets. In the end, they'll beg us to ban them.

Depressperado

Yes

electronic old men

edit: why contain it? 's cool.

nightmarenny

Yes

The Twitter thread did not exist when Twitter was just a thing that existed. It came into existence as a place for people to discuss Elon Musk and the various ways in which his Twitter is collapsing. I don't really think there has been a noticeable change with regard to that. It continues to get worse but limp around. The fact that he is a massive piece of shit and can sit and use to reveal himself to be an even worse piece of shit doesn't affect whether there's something to discuss there. We have threads about a lot of bad things.

tynic

Larlar

nightmarenny wrote: »

We have threads about a lot of bad things.

yeah, like anime.

Chall

Larlar

Maybe just call it the social media thread, I like seeing the things people post

spono

Larlar

This thread reminded me I have a Twitter account and so I checked it and this was the first post I saw

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1730067821181407288

https://hard-drive.net/hd/video-games/heartwarming-players-camp-outside-spawn-to-keep-henry-kissinger-from-coming-back/

So it serves a purpose

Edited to add hard-drive link for the folks who can't see tweets

KalTorak

As long as Twitter exists, people need to be on it, bullying Elon and other billionaires as hard as possible. He's made it clear that he's incapable of ignoring it, and it may be only way for normal people to affect the lives of the ultra-wealthy in such a direct manner. It's our duty as humans to try to make Elon cry at least once per day.

The Lovely Bastard

No

yeah but i don't need a thread about it

Houk the Namebringer

we don't need a thread about anything, except maybe webcomics

Gvzbgul

Yes

If we end the twitter thread before twitter itself ends then we are the losers and Elon Musk is the winner. That was the objective from the outset. Can the twitter thread outlast a dying platform? Nothing's changed since the start. There's no new information that makes twitter worse than it was when we started the thread.

Lucedes

Larlar

i just come here for tanuki

HeadCreeps

Larlar

You did it all for tanuki?

DisruptedCapitalist

No

Tanuki! Tanuki! Tanuki?


Tanuki!

Polaritie

Larlar

Tanuki!

Lanz

Yes

https://twitter.com/tanuki_mum/status/1730558261760504136?s=61

Sweet potato time!

Paladin

Sporadically broken embed time

Sterica

No

I needed anime to post. wrote: »

if we don't kill the twitter thread now it will become a thread where people talk about primaries

It's okay, there's no real Democratic primary so we should be saf-

Breaking: Joe Biden has fallen and died from being unable to get up

Oh nooooooooooooooo

Lanz

Yes

Paladin wrote: »

Sporadically broken embed time

Sadly while I can quote text or rehost photos, vanilla won’t let me rehost video even if I could save it from the tweet

Lanz

Yes

Also the Twitter threwad’s other purpose: unremitting horror outside of Twitter!

https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1730606838213759185?s=46

New: you may have Palmer Luckey's defense startup Anduril has created a new autonomous aircraft that can carry explosive warheads. Multiple outlets had the news under embargo, were told Anduril can't reveal the customer. We found it's US Special Forces:

https://www.404media.co/anduril-roadrunner-us-special-forces-ussocom/

U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has paid over ten million dollars for a new autonomous aircraft made by Anduril, the defense startup run by Palmer Luckey, which is capable of carrying explosive warheads and taking down other aircraft, or re-landing itself if it doesn’t engage in an attack, 404 Media has found.
On Friday, Anduril announced the existence of the person-size drone called “Roadrunner.” In his own Twitter thread, Luckey said Roadrunner has been “operationally validated with an existing U.S. government customer,” but did not name the agency. Multiple publications which appeared to have the news under embargo, including Bloomberg and Defense One, added that the company is not allowed to say which customer bought the technology.
It took 404 Media around 25 seconds to find the customer is likely USSOCOM. 404 Media reviewed a procurement record that says USSOCOM signed for a piece of technology described as “Roadrunner,” and also found a reference to the technology in a Department of Defense budget estimation document for 2024.

404 Media is former Vice Motherboard folks

Palmer Luckey you may remember as the right wing tech bro who pivoted from making VR rigs with Oculus to making death machines for the government. In his spare times he literally wants to recreate Sword Art Online, specifically the part where your VR headset can kill you stone dead, because he is a fucking wealthy psycho.

Lanz

Yes

I needed anime to post. wrote: »

if we don't kill the twitter thread now it will become a thread where people talk about primaries

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1730712121627840971?s=46

We just officially put President @JoeBiden on the ballot in Florida.

FOUR 👏 MORE 👏 YEARS 👏

Here's the moment where the Florida Democratic Party nominated Biden. I'm told by a party member that it was not explained to people that by nominating him, that also would keep other candidates off the ballot. Even enthusiastic supporters of Biden would not have purposely canceled the primary...

Styrofoam Sammich

Yes

Its Florida Dems, any day they dont accidently walk into traffic is a winner for them.

Munkus Beaver

No

Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »

Its Florida Dems, any day they dont accidently walk into traffic is a winner for them.

Arguably a win for us if they do, though

Gustav

What if we just didn’t talk about the election this time

Styrofoam Sammich

Yes

Gustav wrote: »

What if we just didn’t talk about the election this time

Its not Beetlejuice

Lanz

Yes

Honestly most of that post was me wanting to make the joke that Gnome unwittingly invoked what happened into existence [hence the fake Yoshikazu Yasuhiko quote]

Gustav

Styrofoam Sammich wrote: »

Gustav wrote: »

What if we just didn’t talk about the election this time

Its not Beetlejuice

honestly it would be way more fun and funny and about as useful if all the forum rivalries and beefs had to argue about Beetlejuice instead