To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.
It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .
I have a theory that Musk is actually bipolar to some degree, at least prone to mania. He seems to go from simply being a jerk (not a bipolar or autistic trait, just who he is) but not crazy, to doing utterly bizarre things for a period of time, then calm down a bit. Certainly a fascination with a letter and tearing through a business over it without regard to the consequences seems like that. If so, presumably he only manages to do it without intervention because these aren't listed companies, since surely others would get wise to what was happening,
Hi from bsky. You need an invitation to get here. The website link is published through telepathy. We have twelve active users and a nightly circular firing squad. You can’t link to posts anywhere, but you can verify yourself by visiting your favourite domain registrar with your compsci degree.
Today we will be talking about why fediverse is so hard to use and why it will never be popular with its fifteen million users.
Bluesky is developing a very weird dynamic. In the day it fills up with shitposts and then I got to bed and wake up, and the bodies of the circular firing squad crew are all over the place. It’s like two entirely different social media sites and which you get depends on your time zone.
It's a deep rot. Heck, if the centre ground ish politicians in Europe had *any* sense of self preservation, let alone decency, measures like votes for all residents would be much, much higher up the political agenda. But the average European social democrat, centrist-liberal, or christian democrat politician still consider giving us votes more off the table, more beyond the pale, than letting actual fascists into government.
so-called left wing parties: we're uhhhh anti Brussels? we want affordability? hold corporations """accountable""" in some vague undefined way? anyway sorry can't talk about immigration, nationalisation or climate collapse because guess what, greedflation's happening so it's time for more austerity
The LGBTQ+ charity also appears to have softened its stance on the issue of single-sex spaces, as Mr Anderson said he supports exemptions that can be used to exclude transgender people from women's prisons and toilets.
I never got why it's ok to refuse someone to use a toilet based on their gender. It should be about being polite and leaving the space safe and clean for the next person, instead of all this gender stuff. Where did the idea for gender based toilet access come from anyway? Isn't it just daft and ignorable?
Forty years in the tory party. I suspect someone has rattled one of his skeletons. He was interviewed by Nick Robinson in February. thepinknews.com/2023/02/13/lgb…
IIRC I think that was when Ben Summerskill was CE. They were as transphobic AF. Summerskill weirdly was opposed to marriage equality for LG people too 🤪
I had a horrible feeling that Nancy Kelley's resignation was to do with backsliding on trans rights.
Anderson was involved with the Tory government until recently.
I think it took a very heavy toll on her. I have a great deal of respect for Ruth, and I think her force of will was maybe more important than any of us (her included) realised.
How is it that people like this look at how right wingers act and treat them and think they’re willing to be compassionate, empathetic or decent human beings? The right thinks queer people have no place in society. Nothing that you do is going to change that. This stance is suicidally stupid.
I got the impression (but didn't confirm) from the way someone was taking a photo of it that perhaps they'd just got through the trap but damaged the car in the process.
@ajlanes @Cassandra There are a load of golf courses in Tucson too - though I believe they're required to water them with some variety of waste water at least.
@jugglerchris @Cassandra US suburbia is mad. It’s practically designed to make people live so far from each other and anything else that they can only be dependent on cars.
So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.
And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.
And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.
And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.
So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.
I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.
She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.
I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.
I would like to reassure the Lib Dem Parliamentary Party that I do not in fact have access to any launch codes, so I cannot in fact nuke the lot of you from orbit.
Definition: Richard Foord MP (Lib Dem), who thinks there is intolerance on both sides of the issue of trans rights, and thinks that parents should know if kids change pronouns at school.
@antinomy Indeed. It'd be nice if kids felt they could tell their parents everything, but you can assume that kids have a better handle on their particular parents than the school does.
@pseudomonas I’m genuinely boggled that it isn’t obvious to these people that the safeguarding risk to a questioning child with possibly homophonic / transphobic parents or other family adults is not *at school*.
What is the deal with Kettle Chips? They act like they’re a premium brand, but they’re actually very bad crisps with a relentlessly disappointing taste.
It’s the way they try to make out that they’re lovingly hand made by artisans dropping slices of potato one by one into a cauldron with a skimmer which gets me. When they say ‘hand made’, the hand will press the button which lowers a basket of 20kg of potato into a vat for a precisely timed period.
I find myself yearning for trn's thread navigation when reading fedi posts, Slack threads, Facebook threads, ... In fact, just about any online discussion. Even given the vagaries of Usenet threading, it Just Worked(tm).
Sarah Ditum and Louise Mensch turned up in Bluesky, made one introduction post each, and then there is just page after page after page, full of replies telling them to fuck off.
And it's utterly glorious to behold. Gives me a bit of hope for humanity.
Oh, this is funky! Reading a book with the multi focal contact lenses in. If I close one eye, the page has blurred and sharp bits in a chessboard type pattern. If I open both, the whole thing is sharp.
@Rachel Lawson Yeah. It’s different to glasses where you can look around to change which bit you get. With contacts, they move with your eye, so, looking around makes no difference. You get distance vision in some bits and close vision in others. After a while, the brain sorts this out.
Oh I see, so the lens varies in a pattern over its surface and just relies on binocular vision and your brain to sort it all out? That’s absurdly clever (and suggests these contacts wouldn’t work for me). I think when I first saw you describe this I assumed the chessboard was an artefact of your brain rather than of the lens. (Like the weird kaleidoscope patterns you get when you rub your eyes too hard.)
Argh. The results for my OU module are out, but I can’t read them because the website isn’t coping with the load of all the other students trying to get their results 😢
I mean, Hanlon's Razor is a thing, but someone who was actually setting out to destroy Twitter would likely be behaving indistinguishably from Space Karen right now. Just saying.
@kianryan I suppose therein lies a problem. While I don’t agree with much of anything Twitter does these days, I can kinda understand the idea that businesses using the platform to offer customer support while not paying does seem like a thing that should have been monetized. There are so many services out there monetizing that exact functionality elsewhere on the web.
@kianryan "As per Musk, the apparent big catch is that verified users only make money off of other verified users, creating what amounts to the combination of an MLM and conspiratorial echo chamber."
@cykonot @kianryan that’s kinda the point I guess. The business should be expecting to bear the cost of that interaction. The fact Twitter didn’t seek to monetize B2C interactions is part of why they’re where they are right now. They never grew the platform into a true business tool and got bought out by a Aparteid Clyde
people can compensate for a fair amount of retinal damage without being aware of it. E.g. I seem to have a fairly large blank spot in the right visual field of my right eye & I cannot make myself consciously aware of it. I only know it's there because of stuff suddenly becoming visible (like moving cars <AHEM/>) that I ought damn well have seen.
Expect the orca people will be along to explain about how he was a billionaire and deserved it any moment now.
Seriously, I think the main thing determining whether dolphins (including orcas) attack humans is whether they think they can get away with it. Nasty little twats, they are. asahi.com/ajw/articles/1495829…
Weather's been bloody awful though so I haven't been able to try them out on the bike, which is why I bought them. Need to see the road *and* my GPS device.
@Jason Bennett-Brown So I'm short sighted but also old as fuck. I need correction for driving, but with distance correction I can't read. My uncorrected reading vision is perfect.
As a result, I mostly don't wear the contacts at all.
But these, I think I will wear. I can see what I'm typing just fine.. I can see the horizon. It's like being 20 again!
I have varifocal glasses but the temptation to take them off when reading text is too strong. I guess multifocal contacts remove that temptation at least.
@Sarah Brown Multifocal (glasses) make a huge difference. I started needing reading glasses, but eventually had to take them on and off so often that my eyes couldn't catch up. I can still drive safely without them, but barely read a book. Now with these, I'm wearing them all the time. It took a while (a month or so) to get used to but I wouldn't want to be without them.
@Maria Karlsen so I was mostly just using distance glasses to drive, and nothing to read. It-s easy to take driving glasses off, and I don't mind the world being blurred.
But obviously that's harder to do with contacts. These, however, seem like a much better solution.
@Tobias I had to visit an optician (not sure if that's the right term in English) for mine. That included getting my eyes checked to get the right strength and also to make sure there wasn't any medical condition causing my problems.
Seminal "Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria" crap study, largely determined to be bullshit but often used as justification to abuse trans kids withdrawn on account of how it's nonsense: medscape.com/s/viewarticle/992…
convenient how the headline omits the fact that it's being withdrawn for violating standards of informed consent. Or that those were far from the only criticisms. No, it's all just "backlash."🙄
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This *will* be entertaining.
Meta appears to hold the rights to 'X,' could complicate Twitter rebrand
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.
It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .
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