Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…

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    2 years ago

    It’s like a 15 year old got ahold of his mom’s credit card and bought a social media corporation, and now he’s up in his room, all juiced up on Doritos and Mountain Dew, banging away at his keyboard and giggling to himself.

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      mark is a robot, elon is a 15 year old, both wearing grown up suits! all signs point to yes tbh

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      I was thinking pretty much the same thing. He’s got the sensibility of a teenage boy. He thinks things like the letter X and the color black are totally cool, and he thinks naming his company “Space-Sex” and one of its spacecraft “Big Fuckin’ Rocket” is the height of humor.

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        I think black is cool. But only because I’m lazy and it by default looks good with every other color and doesn’t clash.

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      His parents should have been a little firmer with him. “Young man, I don’t want to see you on that computer until your comedy is at least at a Colbert level!”

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    Cool, can’t wait until they ban the use of the letter ‘e’ for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

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    I have a suggestion for him: wouldn’t it be a development cost savings if Twitter just provided an API and users could see it on their own clients?

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    He already backtracked because of public outrage, dark will be default, light will be an option, dim black (or whatever it was called) is no more. Like 15hrs later. Yet another clueless idiotic decision that backfired…

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        Seriously. People were talking about Jeffrey Dahmer a lot in 1991, but there weren’t any contrarian pimple-dicks jumping out of the bushes and shouting “He’s living rent-free inside your head!” Dahmer was news. People tend to think about recent events.

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      Gee, I wonder why. Could the fact that he keeps making unpopular changes to one of the largest social media platforms out there have anything to do with it? Nah, those hundreds of millions of people just don’t like his face or whatever.

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      Unfortunately, billionaires have an outsize influence on the lives of regular people. Like this shitstain buying one of the most important social media properties in the world and turning it into a safe space for fascists. He’s contributing to the downfall of human civilization and we absolutely need to talk about that.

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      We don’t like eating shit but when we’re forced to it’s the only thing we can think about.

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    Huh, I guess app users are fucked, but what for the website I bet there would be workarounds.

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      Yup. You can’t stop a browser that has the capability to pick and choose what elements it downloads, and can also insert its own.

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        Thank you for thinking about accessibility. I am unable to see white text on a black background for more than half a minute, or end up seeing just a blur.

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          I’m photosensitive and also contrast sensitive, so going from dark mode to light mode can trigger migraines in me, on top of astigmatism making reading on dark mode more difficult in general. Elon Musk, along with sadly a lot of folks, can’t see beyond his own experience.