So, what you don't read in the NYT obit: beloved author Julie Powell had covid 6 weeks ago (she tweeted a bunch about it). There are countless men and women getting heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots following their infections. The covid public health disaster is infinite.

Dr. Sarah Parcak (@indyfromspace)Wed, 02 Nov 2022 01:01 GMT

https://twitter.com/aubrionna/status/1589106790871928833

nice

aubri (@aubrionna)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:24 GMT

I don’t want to post beautiful photos or collect myself enough to record videos of my face or write thoughtful newsletter—I want to scrape the foam off the top of my brain several times a day and fling it somewhere

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the problem with twitter alternatives is they facilitate meaningful discussion when what i want is to feel like an ant surrounded by other terrible little ants

i n n e s (@innesmck)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:09 GMT

Lilly Dancyger (@lillydancyger)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:38 GMT

Take whatever energy you have about twitter to the polls next Tuesday, please. It's a big country, and only some of it is this website.

Hank Green 🧦 (@hankgreen)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:29 GMT

https://twitter.com/bitandbang/status/1589049340663721985

Watching Arcane & how artistically gorgeous that series is definitely made me interested in their lore more!

blank (@kefimochi)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:31 GMT

me every single time Elon announces a thing that will make Twitter 200% worse

miley 🐡 (@MilesKlee)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:25 GMT

https://twitter.com/tef_ebooks/status/1067787788710539264

the people who talk about 80hr weeks and 10x engineers are just trying to rebrand unpaid overtime as masculinity

tef (tired) (@tef_ebooks)Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/ubiquity75/status/1588932780209352704

“I hired too many of those people working on accessibility, human rights & ethics too fast and the manchild who wants to extend the light of consciousness got rid of them and he’s right.” Can we abolish billionaires yet?

Timnit Gebru is on Mastodon (@timnitGebru)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/jack/status/1588913276980633600

Does this mean, @jack, that you feel the specific ways in which the “company grew too fast” was in the form of teams like META (ethical AI), Human Rights, Curation (working to stop the flow of global election-related misinformation)? Curious as to your take.

Dr. Sarah T. Roberts ubiquity75@mastodon.social (@ubiquity75)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:34 GMT

The Ruby people I know are some of the coolest. If only you could read a day of messages in one of our Slack channels 🙃

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"the Ruby people, strange people" - Linus Torvalds #damnright source: youtube.com/watch?v=0m4hlW…

David Teren (@davidteren)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 08:51 GMT

Fatih Arslan (@fatih)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:41 GMT

that’s blogging. elon threw a hissy fit and then spent $44 billion to reinvent the blog. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

hannah gais (@hannahgais)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 22:20 GMT

every billionaire is bad but some of them _really_ suck

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:59 GMT

ウロウロターーーイム #秋田犬

秋田犬専門犬舎竜華苑 (@ryuukaen1)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 03:16 GMT

has anyone called him brony stark yet

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:09 GMT

OMG plot twist! Ligma is married to Johnson!

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Touching base with my husband and wife

Daniel (@growing_daniel)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:38 GMT

David Wells (@DavidWells)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:03 GMT

Touching base with my husband and wife

Daniel (@growing_daniel)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:38 GMT

https://twitter.com/ReinH/status/1589119919119269888

just let me tweet as him one time

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:04 GMT

for the remaining twitter employees, just know that twitter will fail no matter what you do and elon will blame you no matter what you do so, you know, what do you have to lose

Senior Oops Engineer (@ReinH)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 04:58 GMT

in lieu of joining a new platform I will be disappearing into the night sky in a hat carriage pulled by bats

Owl! at the Library 😴🧙‍♀️ (@SketchesbyBoze)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:04 GMT

In the middle of moving most of my follows into lists to wean myself from the hellsite, but I guess the twitter API is fighting back

John Hawthorn (@jhawthorn)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:23 GMT

Everything happens so much

Horse ebooks (@Horse_ebooks)Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:23 +0000

I worked at Grindr when they tried to do Grindr for straight people and the men running it were shocked to learn that women didn't want to broadcast their exact location with a "come get me" signal

Shoegaze Dad 🇵🇭 (@yeoldedad)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:02 GMT

Um. I was sharing the server I joined on mastodon. How is this harmful @twitter? Ffs

Lauren N. Roth 🇺🇸 (@lauren_n_roth)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:44 GMT

"Mastodon won't have any meaningful impact on Twitter." Twitter: Hold my beer Lol

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Um. I was sharing the server I joined on mastodon. How is this harmful @twitter? Ffs

Lauren N. Roth 🇺🇸 (@lauren_n_roth)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:44 GMT

David Chartier (@chartier)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:23 GMT

https://twitter.com/cherthedev/status/1589130361715707910

yeah, mine has been like this since I enabled that and I hate it. so useless.

Tierney Cyren (@bitandbang)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 05:40 GMT

Twitter is about to go offline. See you soon!

Twitter (@Twitter)Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:12 GMT

Twitter: “You sign up for Twitter and start tweeting.” Mastodon: “In order to use Mastodon, you must face three challenges. First, is the Path of God: Only the penitent man shall pass. Second, is the Word of God: Only in the footsteps of God, shall he proceed. Third, is the Brea

Frank Pallotta (@frankpallotta)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 01:57 GMT

some girl just told me to join this if twitter dies

laura 🦠 (@ecto_fun)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 19:17 GMT

lots of frustration being directed at elon but it's also pretty weird that the twitter board just hot potato'd the company onto a dude who clearly did not actually want to own it

Law Boy, Esq. (@The_Law_Boy)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 22:54 GMT

If you need the reminder, tonight or tomorrow is a good time to re-oil your wooden spoons and cutting boards.

Sara Fowler (@SaraLFowler)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 03:30 GMT

i remember at an old job we got acquired and the new CEO showed up for a tour and part way through he just unplugged a bunch of datacentre servers without telling anyone because "they weren't doing anything and were using too much power" posting this for no particular reason

emma 🔞 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@emmadaboutlife)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 23:39 GMT

the problem with twitter alternatives is they facilitate meaningful discussion when what i want is to feel like an ant surrounded by other terrible little ants

i n n e s (@innesmck)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:09 GMT

Multiple sources and Twitter Blind chats now saying that the company has begun to reach out to some people it laid off yesterday asking them to come back. Whoops! 🥴

Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton)Sun, 06 Nov 2022 02:01 GMT

Just to be clear, he *also* fired the team who *built* and *shipped* this. twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…

sillyrobin is a fmr Tweep (@SillyRobin)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 21:51 GMT

https://twitter.com/JamieTanna/status/1588980906672488453

Works! Followed you :)

Tymscar ⚙️ (@Tymscar)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 20:02 GMT

Do y'all remember that one guy who got rich by investing his family's blood emerald money in one shitty website, shot a car into space, and then lost all the money buying another shitty website?

Welcome to the 22 new users to this instance TONIGHT, and & for many of you, welcome to the #Mastodon & the #Fediverse. Promise this will be different than Twitter for those of you migrating on the …

acquired C A T. You put the C A T in your K E Y I T E M S pocket.

ⓒⓐⓣⓢⓣⓨ (@blastycats)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:37 GMT

https://twitter.com/blastycats/status/1588571209482252295

TheOnyxGuy (@TheOnyxGuy)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:31 GMT

https://twitter.com/YoderSecreto/status/1588724639181967361

I didn’t lose my job mate but enjoy running around the internet being mean to people. Interesting life choice.

Cassie Evans (@cassiecodes)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 08:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/trostcodes/status/1588557779736096768

Someone remix this meme to be on fire

Cassie Evans (@cassiecodes)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:00 GMT

https://twitter.com/JorgeEscobar/status/1588620301419835392

It sounds like you've never actually refactor a system, let alone rebuilt an entire platform without downtime 🙄

Lincoln W Daniel (@LincolnWDaniel)Sat, 05 Nov 2022 03:06 GMT

Ok, I’ve joined #Mastodon but also this

Sinéad Crowley (@SineadCrowley)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:37 GMT

Man there’s really an xkcd for everything

Cassie Evans (@cassiecodes)Fri, 04 Nov 2022 14:00 GMT