sidcow Posted February 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2023 8 minutes ago, magnkarl said: If anyone needed any more reason to leave the hellhole that is Twitter, they've now started censoring anyone trying to report on Russia abducting Ukrainian children, as per the German ZDF journalist above. I guess Musk is trying to whitewash his viewpoints. Meanwhile people like George Galloway, Vance, Blumethal et. al. are continuing to spew out disinformation and litteral lies about their paymasters. What's Heston been up to now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 1 minute ago, sidcow said: What's Heston been up to now? This Blumenthal is known as Max Blumenthal, he's a vehement Putin shill that essentially spends all day spreading Russian propaganda wherever he is. Close buddy of George Galloway and saint Jeremy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted February 22, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 22, 2023 Weird thing is, I don’t see any of this shit on my twitter. I don’t get thought bulletins from Musk, I don’t get Russian propaganda, i don’t get this week’s celebrity giving their take on this week’s news story, I don’t even get porn anymore. I see Aston Villa, my local council, a couple of friends, random music, baby porcupines. Surely there is an element of the individual needing to understand and curate what they see, or we just close down the internet to protect stupid people. Twitter isn’t a hell hole. But there are people that look for shit and get served up some shit they don’t like. I guess? 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 13 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Weird thing is, I don’t see any of this shit on my twitter. I don’t get thought bulletins from Musk, I don’t get Russian propaganda, i don’t get this week’s celebrity giving their take on this week’s news story, I don’t even get porn anymore. I see Aston Villa, my local council, a couple of friends, random music, baby porcupines. Surely there is an element of the individual needing to understand and curate what they see, or we just close down the internet to protect stupid people. Twitter isn’t a hell hole. But there are people that look for shit and get served up some shit they don’t like. I guess? Tbh, twitter's descended back into hell after Elon took over. He fired anyone trying to moderate fake news, inflammatory bs, racists, totalitarian state shills etc. It's now just a channel full of the above, unless you spend ages trying to clean out your feed. I don't have the time or energy for that. I'd like to be able to see what people I'm interested in are doing without having ten idiotic posts about this week's conspiracy, how great Russia is or how NATO and the West is at fault for everything that goes wrong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 29 minutes ago, magnkarl said: Tbh, twitter's descended back into hell after Elon took over. He fired anyone trying to moderate fake news, inflammatory bs, racists, totalitarian state shills etc. It's now just a channel full of the above, unless you spend ages trying to clean out your feed. I don't have the time or energy for that. I'd like to be able to see what people I'm interested in are doing without having ten idiotic posts about this week's conspiracy, how great Russia is or how NATO and the West is at fault for everything that goes wrong. We’ll have to agree to disagree. It is only twitter after all. Mine isn’t full of all that rubbish, and I haven’t spent anytime cleaning it up. Perhaps it’s an algorithm thing and in the past I’ve been offered shit but didn’t click on it. Perhaps the people I’m following also aren’t liking or retweeting shit. I don’t know. Perhaps I’ve just got a far higher threshold for what I’d consider to be shit! Just start a new account and follow nice people that do gig listings, crochet bombing of letter boxes, and make trans aware ceramics and you’ll be fine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: We’ll have to agree to disagree. It is only twitter after all. Mine isn’t full of all that rubbish, and I haven’t spent anytime cleaning it up. Perhaps it’s an algorithm thing and in the past I’ve been offered shit but didn’t click on it. Perhaps the people I’m following also aren’t liking or retweeting shit. I don’t know. Perhaps I’ve just got a far higher threshold for what I’d consider to be shit! Just start a new account and follow nice people that do gig listings, crochet bombing of letter boxes, and make trans aware ceramics and you’ll be fine. I think my issue is that I'm on a VPN all the time, it confuses the AI and so I get the top 10 hits of crazy of whichever country of choice the VPN is connected to for the day. Just a theory... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 22, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 22, 2023 3 hours ago, chrisp65 said: We’ll have to agree to disagree. It is only twitter after all. Mine isn’t full of all that rubbish, and I haven’t spent anytime cleaning it up. Perhaps it’s an algorithm thing and in the past I’ve been offered shit but didn’t click on it. Perhaps the people I’m following also aren’t liking or retweeting shit. I don’t know. Perhaps I’ve just got a far higher threshold for what I’d consider to be shit! Just start a new account and follow nice people that do gig listings, crochet bombing of letter boxes, and make trans aware ceramics and you’ll be fine. It would depend how you use twitter and what for. If you stick to the timeline of just the accounts you follow, you are less likely to see anything other than what you want. However, if you search for particular topics and/or hashtags you will most definitely see an absolute shitfest of hate and fake news There are many ways to use twitter, different people, different approaches 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 22, 2023 Moderator Share Posted February 22, 2023 8 minutes ago, bickster said: It would depend how you use twitter and what for. If you stick to the timeline of just the accounts you follow, you are less likely to see anything other than what you want. However, if you search for particular topics and/or hashtags you will most definitely see an absolute shitfest of hate and fake news There are many ways to use twitter, different people, different approaches This definitely. I only followed friends, internet friends, nature photographers, and some cricket and sports and music people really, but I think through clicking on tweets posted here, or whatever, I ended up getting a timeline with a load of unwanted and sometimes nasty stuff in it. I used to block and mute loads, but decided when Musk took it over to bin it off, as more trouble than it was worth. No regrets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Yeah, I just use ‘following’ I don’t use ‘for you’ or any search tags etc.. I also don’t follow thousands of accounts. If someone is retweeting stuff I’m not in to I’ll unfollow them. But I do also have a couple of accounts I follow that would be outside my bubble of beliefs so I know how some other people think. But even those have to play nice, or they’re gone. I’m a pretty simple soul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 22, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2023 43 minutes ago, blandy said: This definitely. I only followed friends, internet friends, naturist photographers, and some cricket and sports and music people really, but I think through clicking on tweets posted here, or whatever, I ended up getting a timeline with a load of unwanted and sometimes nasty stuff in it. I used to block and mute loads, but decided when Musk took it over to bin it off, as more trouble than it was worth. No regrets. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 5 hours ago, chrisp65 said: We’ll have to agree to disagree. It is only twitter after all. Mine isn’t full of all that rubbish, and I haven’t spent anytime cleaning it up. Perhaps it’s an algorithm thing and in the past I’ve been offered shit but didn’t click on it. Perhaps the people I’m following also aren’t liking or retweeting shit. I don’t know. Perhaps I’ve just got a far higher threshold for what I’d consider to be shit! Just start a new account and follow nice people that do gig listings, crochet bombing of letter boxes, and make trans aware ceramics and you’ll be fine. It depends a lot on what topics you follow. Some topics are relatively clear of nutters and spam, but plenty of interesting topics (eg Russia/Ukraine) have degraded badly since Musk took over. I used to think as you do that with a bit of effort you can make Twitter quite good, but I think for most of us it has got noticeably worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted February 27, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted February 27, 2023 Christ, he's jumping in on the Dilbert racism thing now. I'm beginning to think he just sees value in posting deliberately controversial things. Don't think his solitary account generating millions of responses is going to keep twitter alive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted February 28, 2023 Share Posted February 28, 2023 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted March 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2023 Wait, back up. Did someone say Liz Truss porn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 2, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2023 6 hours ago, il_serpente said: Wait, back up. Did someone say Liz Truss porn? Do other forms exist? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted March 2, 2023 Share Posted March 2, 2023 21 hours ago, il_serpente said: Wait, back up. Did someone say Liz Truss porn? It surely has to be called Pork Market doesn't it! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnkarl Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 (edited) Loving Chris Williamson's new twitter tag. Talking about democracy while working for the most fundamentalist regime in the world. Talk about hypocrite. In fact I think it's time to give Chris and George's friend JC his own tag, and Mark Wadsworth, Milne and the other shills too. There's some fairly epic responses to his tweet, if you'd like a laugh. Edited March 7, 2023 by magnkarl 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 (edited) Quite enjoyed this. We've all worked with some bullshit merchant who storms in, doesn't understand anything and assumes everyone else was an idiot and the project needs to be started again. Usually they don't get to run the company. Hours later, they accidentally blocked their own website from using their API. It's almost like you shouldn't alienate all of your best employees leaving your company in the hands of less experienced and demotivated people who can't find a better job. Edited March 7, 2023 by Davkaus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobsons Choice Posted March 7, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted March 7, 2023 On 22/02/2023 at 16:14, sidcow said: Whatever you put into Google to get that gif is going to get you tagged. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 7, 2023 Share Posted March 7, 2023 I’ve heard many business leaders talk about surrounding themselves with people more intelligent with them and the taking on their expert opinions. Musk seems to be the opposite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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