Aaron Parecki

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eve6 https://twitter.com/Eve6

Blue checks used to mean you were a mild to severely annoying public figure or journalist. In a week they’re going to mean you don’t believe in age of consent laws and you’re running a crypto scam

London, England • 53°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:23pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 3:36pm +00:00)
Dave 🧱 https://mastodon.design/@DavidDarnes

Twitter's verification: Either jump through all these hoops and cross all your fingers, or wait for a man-child to buy the entire company and spend $8 on something that will eventually lose all meaning.
Mastodon verification: Add your website to your profile and then your profile on your website as a regular HTML anchor link with `rel="me"` and you're done.

London, England • 58°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:05pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 1:10pm +00:00)
Janus Rose 🔊 https://mastodon.lol/@janusrose

❌ we should have daylight when we go to work in the morning
❌ we should have daylight when we come home from work at night
☑️ we shouldn’t have to work so many hours that we have to ration The Sun

London, England • 57°F

Tue, Nov 8, 2022 12:13am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 10:43am +00:00)
Steve Krenzel https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel

I wound up meeting with a Director who came in huffing and puffing.

The Director said “We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.”

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 7:26pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:41am +00:00)
Steve Krenzel https://twitter.com/stevekrenzel

To set the stage, this was the 2015-2016 era. @dickc was just ousted, though he was wonderful and made us feel like family. @jack came in as part-time CEO. Twitter had been near death for a while and was desperately trying to find a buyer. Facebook and Google both refused.

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 7:26pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:40am +00:00)
Queens of the Stoner Age https://twitter.com/Katabassist

guys you've gotta stop liking this tweet twitter doesn't have enough engineers left to handle this many interactions you're gonna break it

London, England • 54°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 5:13am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Nov 8, 2022 8:30am +00:00)
🌻✨️Lauren Dombrowski🏴‍☠️🍊 https://twitter.com/callmekitto

being on Twitter right now is like playing the violin on the titanic except we are also making fun of the iceberg and the iceberg is getting genuinely mad

London, England • 58°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 11:59pm +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 11:22pm +00:00)
𝕞𝕖𝕘𝕙𝕟𝕒 𝕛𝕒𝕪𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕙 https://twitter.com/betterthemask

if you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth

London, England • 57°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:33am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 11:05am +00:00)
anildash 🤪 https://mastodon.cloud/@anildash

When it came time to reckon with social media’s failings, nobody ran to the “web3” platforms. Nobody asked “can I get paid per message”? Nobody asked about the blockchain. The community of people who’ve been quietly doing this work for years (decades!) ended up being the ones who welcomed everyone over, as always.

London, England • 57°F

Mon, Nov 7, 2022 1:45am +00:00 (liked on Mon, Nov 7, 2022 10:34am +00:00)
iJustine https://twitter.com/ijustine

I once said Teslas should have a front camera (because that only makes sense being able to see under the front of the car) and they told me to use my eyes and that’s what a windshield is for (and also to go kill myself)

London, England • 51°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:33pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:42pm +00:00)
Brian Campbell https://twitter.com/__b_c

Hey look kids, there's Big Ben, and there's Parliament.

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:44pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 10:01pm +00:00)
Brett Slatkin https://twitter.com/haxor

Decided to write a small web app using vanilla JS, no frameworks, and only querySelector() & friends for DOM manipulation. Works surprisingly well! Why does it seem like everyone is over-engineering frontends these days?

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:42pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 9:59pm +00:00)
Brianna Wu https://twitter.com/BriannaWu

Currently employed reliability engineer at Twitter explaining why the site is going to collapse soon.

Says that it may work okay for now, but major news events like Queen Elizabeth’s death will knock it over like a house of cards.

London, England • 50°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:06pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:41pm +00:00)
Jim Redmond https://twitter.com/jredmond

So close. There are actually about eight of those tiny little pieces holding everything up, and yes, all those teams got slashed.

London, England • 50°F

Fri, Nov 4, 2022 11:31pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:41pm +00:00)
Andrew Thaler https://twitter.com/DrAndrewThaler

Twitter Blue is rolling out. Regardless of where you stand, I am urging you not to upload personal or financial data to an interface that was rushed into production this week by disgruntled engineers that will almost certainly be under some sort of attack on day zero.

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 12:12am +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:38pm +00:00)
Ryan Barrett https://twitter.com/schnarfed

Agreed! The CMS plugins, eg WordPress's and Drupal's, don't. For even less technical people, we recommend http://micro.blog. Choosing and registering a domain is as easy as choosing a username on Twitter, DNS is automated and invisible (!), webmention support is built in.

London, England • 50°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:26pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 8:36pm +00:00)
kapowaz@mastodon.social https://twitter.com/kapowaz

This is called gaslighting, kids.

London, England • 53°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:30pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:31pm +00:00)
Zack Bornstein https://twitter.com/ZackBornstein

You simply must admire the fact that Elon could do anything he wants every minute for the rest of his life, but instead he dutifully logs in every morning to get kicked in the dick and balls all day by his $44 billion group thread

London, England • 53°F

Sat, Nov 5, 2022 7:23pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 4:24pm +00:00)
eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

it's interesting but feels far too coarse-grained. maybe masto needs something like public groups of related accounts so you can use those as a foothold instead

London, England • 55°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:32pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:36pm +00:00)
eevee ❎ https://twitter.com/eevee

"i hate that mastodon is siloed. they should really rethink that"

boy do i ever have great news for you

London, England • 55°F

Sun, Nov 6, 2022 2:36pm +00:00 (liked on Sun, Nov 6, 2022 3:32pm +00:00)

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