- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”
- deleted by creator - And how is this even about technology anymore? - It never was. - Seriously though, are there any better tech communities here? 
 
 
 
- Man, musk really fucking hates his daughter - I just realized I had no clue what her assigned gender was. Probably says something about the media I consume. - Don’t worry, it’s completely acceptable that you neither know about nor care about a billionaire’s daughter. 
 
- Nobody defies the musky chodelet! - You know how when you think of something so pungent you can kinda smell it? Well, I just smelled your comment. - Like day 2 roadkill in the summer, right? 
 
 
 
- This is a good time to remind people one of his kids is trans. What utter garbage he’s turned out to be. - One of his dozen kids with a dozen different women is trans and wouldn’t come out to him because he’s a piece of shit. He called her a communist and blamed schools. 
 
- Despite pushback from some users - Well there’s your problem. You’re still using the fascist platform. - Any active user who “pushes back” in an attempt to “fix” the fascist platform is either delusional or being disingenuous. There’s no fixing it, guys. Just walk away. - Imo the best pushback is to leave and make twitter irrelevant 
 
- Downvote Musk spam. - The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot. 
- Anyone who hasn’t moved on to mastodon at this point is a clown. 
- The film purports to feature young people who sought gender affirming care, but now regret doing so. - This isn’t anti-trans - Out of context, on its own, it wouldn’t be. But if you look at who is pushing it, that changes the picture. 
- Consider the source 
 
- Great “technology” article. 
- Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it. - X-formerly-known-as-twitter - I’ve also heard people call it “Twitter, desperately trying to be known as X”. 
 
- Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such. - We’ve got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address. - Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats. - Cats?? On the internet?! 
- You are the hero we need! ❤️ 
 
 
 
 














