X -Where Twitter goes to die.

[Greatgrey]

[roadscholar]

That stance definitely restricts range of motion & initial reaction time, but it makes the arms almost look like they have muscles and, with the black shirt, helps hide his paunch & moobs.

Is that a thermonuclear katana?

[Frater I*I]

I believe that is the opening stance of Ainoshitsu

Ahh yes an ancient and revered ryu...

[Estiveo]

That stance definitely restricts range of motion & initial reaction time, but it makes the arms almost look like they have muscles and, with the black shirt, helps hide his paunch & moobs.

Is that a thermonuclear katana?

Pretty sure he only uses it to slice limes for his ketamine laced mojitos.

[raison de arizona]

Judge Mark T. Pittman assigned to Musk's thermonuclear lawsuit a Trump appointee.

Gateway Pundit is very excited by this news.

Pittman is the judge that suspended Biden's student loan program.

[bob]

Judge Mark T. Pittman assigned to Musk's thermonuclear lawsuit a Trump appointee.

There are only three federal judges in Fort Worth; all are Republican nominees.

Heck, there are only two Democratic nominated judges in all of N.D. Texas.

This venue, specifically this division, was the opposite of an accident.

[neeneko]

what the hell school taught him that stance...

Anime memes his followers use and he is trying to impress them?

[Estiveo]

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[Frater I*I]

what the hell school taught him that stance...

Anime memes his followers use and he is trying to impress them?

[Ben-Prime]

I practiced battojutsu for a decade in my younger years, what the hell school taught him that stance...

I believe that is the opening stance of Ainoshitsu

Which is, as I recall, the self-taught style of those who can't even work themselves up to the formal study of Bullshido.

[bill_g]

Moshi moshi

[raison de arizona]

What a shame.
https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/17 ... 68537?s=20

NEW: The exodus from Twitter is bleeding beyond just major advertisers. In recent days, a number of prominent media brands have not only paused their paid advertising on the platform, but have stopped posting on it altogether.

The flagship accounts belonging to Disney, Paramount, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery (CNN’s parent company) haven’t posted on Twitter in roughly 10 days, following Elon Musk’s disturbing endorsement of an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, for which he still hasn’t apologized.

[Sam the Centipede]

Most of the ads I see on Xitter (pron. "shitter") are for odd little amazing you-can't-live-without gadgets each with a short video and claiming to be from Boketu, Kafego, etc. shop – typically three CV syllables (like in Japanese), always a different account. They are clearly bot-generated, the name changes circumventing my rapid muting of each.

I don't know if they are genuinely trying to sell their tat, or if there is something darker going on.

Do others share my experience and bafflement?

[sugar magnolia]

Most of the ads I see on Xitter (pron. "shitter") are for odd little amazing you-can't-live-without gadgets each with a short video and claiming to be from Boketu, Kafego, etc. shop – typically three CV syllables (like in Japanese), always a different account. They are clearly bot-generated, the name changes circumventing my rapid muting of each.

I don't know if they are genuinely trying to sell their tat, or if there is something darker going on.

Do others share my experience and bafflement?

The only bafflement for me is that I have never seen an ad on twitter. I have an account and look at it while logged in but have never seen the first ad show up.

[neonzx]

Sugar, The ads are among the replies in a Xshitter thread. They look like any other reply except off topic from the convo.

[pipistrelle]

Most of the ads I see on Xitter (pron. "shitter") are for odd little amazing you-can't-live-without gadgets each with a short video and claiming to be from Boketu, Kafego, etc. shop – typically three CV syllables (like in Japanese), always a different account. They are clearly bot-generated, the name changes circumventing my rapid muting of each.

I don't know if they are genuinely trying to sell their tat, or if there is something darker going on.

Do others share my experience and bafflement?

Lots of them have warning community notes now.

[Estiveo]

I see those as well as investment "gurus" with a few hundred followers hawking their can't miss newsletters, and rare earth mining outfits seeking investors who will get rich quick just trust us. Sprinkled in between those are weird scripture mangling pretend xtians peddling various permutations of their own hate gospel, MAGAts who desperately want to be noticed by somebody/anybody, porn bots with enlarged...kidneys, and the occasional wannabe creator/influencer thirsty for a click or a follow.

I can't imagine they're adding much revenue to Elmo's coffers, but they're certainly annoying.

[MN-Skeptic]

Ads on Twitter show up on your Following and your For You tabs. Ads do NOT show up within your lists, another reason for using lists.

I'm annoyed by ads within Twitter when I'm on my iPad. However, I use FireFox on my Windows laptop. The FireFox add-in Adblock Plus prevents ads from showing up within Twitter.

A sample ad on my Twitter today - note the word Ad in the top right corner. Before Musk took over, it was much more obvious when you were seeing an ad instead of a real post.

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[Volkonski]

Elon Musk deletes ‘Pizzagate’ meme following widespread backlash

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4 ... press.coop

Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday took down a post from his account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that embraced a years-old false conspiracy theory about child sex trafficking after the tech and media mogul received widespread backlash and mockery.

Musk’s posts contained a humor-based sequence of images, informally known as a meme, promoting the debunked notion that a child sex ring had been operating out of pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.

“Pizzagate,” as the conspiracy theory became known across the internet, resulted in a man opening fire on the pizza parlor in 2016.

Musk posted that it “does seem at least a little suspicious,” in reference to the meme, which claimed “Pizzagate is real” and that the expert who debunked the conspiracy “went to jail for child porn.”

The billionaire’s post was met Tuesday with widespread pushback from media and technology watchdogs.

[pipistrelle]

Why have mainstream mega-advertisers bailed?

[pipistrelle]

[raison de arizona]

Not epic, self destructive. And it's not blackmail ya turkey.

BREAKING: Elon Musk tells advertisers to “go f**k” themselves if they are going to try and blackmail him on his own platform.

And this is exactly why Elon was the perfect person to buy Twitter

“If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go f**k yourself. But go f**k yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.”

Epic

[AndyinPA]

I don't think he quite knows the meaning of blackmail.

[raison de arizona]

It's a bold move, telling your clients to "fuck off," we'll see how that works out for him.

[pipistrelle]

I don't think he quite knows the meaning of blackmail.

What is he even trying to say?