#Fuck Twitter

[hermioneismyrealname]

This is a brilliant example of why I am not there.

I really wish LITA fans* would not be weirdo assholes about the Japanese adaptation. This adaptation is supported by MAME and MeMindY, and its success is good for them and the actors in that studio. Which is clear because they’ve been participating in promo events for the show! There’s really no need to pit the shows against each other or tear one version down to prop up the other. It’s a good thing that we got both! They bring different styles and strengths to the same story. If the adaptation does well we’ll likely get more Japanese shows for MAME works, and MeMindY will have another revenue stream that will support them developing more Thai shows. Fans should stop and think for literally two seconds about who they’re actually helping with this nonsense.

*not talking about anyone on tumblr, the mess is mostly in other corners of the internet

[ilta222]

due to block & TOS tomfoolery, lots of artists have started to move from twitter to 🦋 bluesky 🦋

if you want to get started on bsky yourself as either an artist or an art enjoyer, there's a 'starter pack' feature where you can follow a curated list of people; it's a great way to find artists! you can either follow everyone with one click, or selectively go through them and decide who you want to follow.

here's some i've found:

women of the pixel art community by @ilta222 (me)

recommendations 1 & recommendations 2 by @tofupixel

cute/cozy art starter by @byjessicaelena

black artist accts BIG MIDDLE & SMALL by @titea-art

art merch artists by @zandraillustration

TTRPG artists & horror artists by @nheiraashford

art streamers by @shiinareii

there may be ns---fw accounts within here (i don't have time to check them all sry) so be aware of that!

[kittydragondraws]

I'm not used to my posts blowing up so getting 2,200+ votes on the last one was a shock

can we go even higher?

rb and all that jazz

Quick someone post a screenshot of this to Twitter and tag Elon in it lol

[silvermoon424]

I just saw someone make a really accurate point about why right-wing social media sites fail, and why Twitter will inevitably fall now that's it's rapidly becoming a right-wing exclusive social media site. It also explains why right-wingers are so pissed about the mass migration to Bluesky:

MAGAts want an audience they can indoctrinate and radicalize. Normal people who don't care much about politics are not going to go on explicitly right-wing sites like Truth Social, but they will go onto sites like Twitter and Youtube and can be radicalized there.

MAGAts are, at their core, bullies and abusers. They want to have a steady supply of punching bags they can hurt. Of course there's infighting on sites like Gab and Rumble, but it's not the same. This is why they get so upset when someone blocks them; they claim it's about "free speech" (lol) but in reality they're just butthurt that one of their victims has cut off their ability to harass them. MAGAts are losing their minds over the Bluesky migration because Bluesky has much better blocking/moderation practices than Twitter (where Elon has stated his intent to remove or at least weaken the block button). So yeah, the conservative reaction to the ongoing Twitter exodus literally is just "how dare you leave and not let me use you as a punching bag?!?!!"

[mintykeeks]

gonna try & start minty posting on here too just in case as well!! u can never have enough minty after all,,,,

[himbocorgi]

So the Twitter 𝕏 comes from a random font pack. It's also Unicode. So he can't copyright it and you can put it anywhere you want lmao.

𝕏𝕏𝕏

[jasondamien93]

[unfabulous-news-politick]

addie: Verizon, New York Telephone, Bell Atlantic

[wilwheaton]

Probably the best way to understand Musk is that he’s another rich middle-aged divorced guy whose hot new girlfriend is white nationalism.

Inside Twitter’s Extended Weekend of Doom

Fuck apartheid nepobaby Elon Musk, and the system that allows him to have any influence at all.

[baobhanlore-art]

Hot take: the same people who complain about Chaggie being hardly a romantic relationship would accuse Vivziepop of queerbaiting if they weren't explicitly romantic.

Also for the people who didn't recognise they were together, Vaggie only ever letting her guard down around Charlie, singing half a song in episode three about how she's dedicating herself to fighting for her, and literally growing her wings back by recognising her cause in life is to fight for her love for Charlie is so blatant that you have to be watching it in bad faith to not recognise it.

Basically, stop telling a sapphic creator her sapphic characters aren't the right kind of sapphic and don't even count as sapphic because you don't personally like it.

(Btw I should probably say despite being a huge critic of Helluva Boss, I really fucking enjoyed Hazbin Hotel and I will discuss why eventually.)

[iamespecter]

I fully fucking forgot I had BLUESKY GRRRR

anyways follow me there I might revive it pretty soon :3c

[luclraven]

Hey, so, for anyone who still uses Twitter, if you haven't seen this:

I'd recommend just getting a bluesky instead.

Please reblog so any other leftover Twitter users can see this.

Edit: Addition from the tags courtesy of @weaselytedious (as well as alt text for the original image and the new one i added)

[kittydragondraws]

i need to know...

rb and all that jazz

new poll

[t0esniffer69]

i have an idea to get a bunch of people to make burner twitter accounts and just spam elon musks replies on literally everything with gibberish and keysmashes and random emojis, i feel like it would be really funny if elon musk just woke up one day and had thousands of replies that were just “nueniunuheijndinjdgdyftyyvsbhjsbjh” and “🗼📝📝📁📏🖊️✂️🛌🛌🛌🛌🚰”

[vavuska]

Elon Musk is threatening a Brazilian Supreme Court justice after the court issued a summons to him which threatens the suspension of Twitter if he does not comply within 24 hours.

To combat disinformation, Brazil gave a Supreme Court justice sweeping powers to order social networks to take down content he believed threatened democracy. Here's how the experiment led to a ban on X, the social network owned by Elon Musk.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/world/americas/brazil-x-ban-free-speech.html?smid=threads-nytimes

Elon Musk claims this is a censorship, because previously he was ordered to ban and close a lot of far-rights account that spread fake news and hate online by that same judge. As protest, Musk closed X offices in Brazil - which means people losing their job or their income.

When free speech is interpreted as anything which matches the law (and viceversa). Under Elon Musk's Leadership, Twitter has approved 83% of censorship requests by authoritarian governments globally. The social network has restricted and withdrawn content critical of the ruling parties in Turkey and India, among other countries, including during electoral campaigns.

Since Musk assumed control in October 2022, the platform has received a total of 971 government requests, a significant increase compared to the 338 received between October 2021 and April 2022.

Prior to Musk's takeover, Twitter had agreed to 50 per cent of such requests, as indicated in their last transparency report. However, no transparency reports have been published since October 2022, making it challenging to assess the current situation. Nevertheless, data from the technology information portal Rest of World suggests that the compliance rate has risen to 83 per cent following Musk's leadership, which again contribute to detect what Elon Musk REALLY think about free-speech: this right is granted only if comply to what oppressive governments and far-right politician approves. Discrimination and criminal behavior are allowed and protected under Musk's Leadership, because targets minorities, immigrants and political oppositors. Musk is a conservative and apply censorship, he isn't the victim of a 'woke' complot lead against him. Musk is receiving the payment for his unlawful action.

Source: El Pais English

As far I can understand, without having many clues here, this order of summon says that Elon Musk refused to appoint a legal rapresentative for X Brasil. For some typology of corporates Brazil require a % of residents in management or a legal rapresentative, with power to vote and deliberate in meetings, to operate online in the country. Yeah. Law apparently seems to be applied to everyone except him.

Summons with translation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/technology/brazil-x-ban-elon-musk.html

Edit: A legal rapresentative is more a managerial position than what do you think of. Yes, it could be an attorney or a lawyer too, but still isn't simply the guy who defend the corporate's interests in court. In Brazil you need a % of residents in management position to operate. This was a problem issued also with WhatsApp and Telegram.

Edit 2 - 31th August 2024: I was curious about the consequences of Musk's decision to close X's offices in Brazil for his employees. Have they been fired? Suspended with or without salary? I didn't find anything. However, I found this article that adds some informations, like Musk declaring he did this to "protect his staff". However, his legal rapresentative is impossible to be found.

Edit 3 - 31th August 2024: Another article of NY Times that analyzes the matter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/world/americas/elon-musk-x-brazil.html

Update - 31th August 2024: Brazil has turned off Twitter. Musk’s genius is again on glorious display in losing the 7th most populous country in the world. Oh well. At least the Cybertruck is doing awesome.

Another Update - 31th August 2024: Musk is freaking out right now. He knows if he gets blocked in Brazil it is just a matter of time before other countries follow suit.

However, someone forgot to tell Musk that you get fined for using VPNs to access Twitter in Brazil before he posted this.

Also seems that for a tech genius Musk isn't very smart though, doesn't he know using a VPN will worth the same with apps as it does with a browser?

However, The Brazilian Supreme Court has moderated its first rule. First, even the VPN apps were targeted and should be banned from App store and Google Store to prevent people getting access to Twitter exclusively. Now, the Court realized that banning VPNs is too extreme, so they will only apply a 50k (about $8,900) fine for those caught accessing the platform.

Basically, you don't get fined for using VPNs, that would be too 1984. You might get fined if they FIND OUT that you're accessing X via VPNs, and this is exactly the kind of thing VPNs are designed to prevent.

Just a reminder, you can always access better platform than X, even on your phone. No app is needed.

VPNs are great tools to use worldwide to get around authoritarian and abusive government surveillance and blocking. Zero to do with Musk. And they can only catch you if you aren't savvy.

In a perfect world you shouldn't need to download any VPNs to access innocent contents, because democratic countries will never block a platform that gives informations and entertainment to people. In a perfect world you won't be stuck with platforms that are not free from disinformation and neo-nazi posts.

3rd Update - 31th August 2024:

Musk owns more of SpaceX than Zuck owns of Meta or Bezos owns of Amazon, fwiw. For all intents and purposes, Musk is Twitter, SpaceX, Neuralink and X.

I'm gonna add some technicalities here:

In Brazil there is something called "Corporate Personality" that protects the shareholders patrimony from the company's debts.

But... If you hide behind legal shenanigans in a fraudulent manner, "corporate personality" is bypassed and thus the court moves into your personal patrimony.

Elon is, personally and fraudulently, removing X office from Brazil so they don't obey Brazilian laws.

So the judges target him on his other shares: SpaceX and Starlink.

[barzfrommarz]

Cannot believe we had acephobia on twitter on the last day of pride