someone in the UK threw eggs at Charles and was arrested and has been banned from openly carrying eggs in public and has since been sent death threats but their statement on the matter was so fucking good
My GOD the twitter drama is exploding. As of today, here are a couple updates for anyone interested:
The “insulin is free” tweet from the fake-verified Eli Lilly account tanked the company’s stock, along with the stocks for two other major BioTech firms, by up to 4%
The “we’re suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia, the United States, et al” tweet from a fake-verified Lockheed Martin account tanked Lockheed’s stock today
Since 8:00AM this morning there has been a tweet claiming Elon Musk was starting a program called “Elon’s Tots” wherein he would pay off people’s student loans
Numerous politicians and pundits have been targeted by trolls leveraging verified accounts to fuck with their public images, and many of them aren’t being addressed nearly as fast as the fake-verified Elon Musk accounts
Twitter is allegedly worth ¼ of what Elon bought it for
Tesla’s stock has allegedly fallen by 50%
Elon has said Twitter may have to declare bankrupty
I joked a few minutes ago about how in internet discourse anyone over 25 is a “queer elder” but come to think of it most of these young discoursers don’t even believe such a concept exists. Gay men who watched their entire friends groups perish to AIDS are “privileged cis gays,” older trans women who use dated terminology to describe their own experiences are problematic, elders are just a conservative old guard to rebel against, and anyone over thirty who speaks to you at all must be a predator. The first time I heard the phrase “okay groomer” online, it wasn’t coming from self identified conservatives but from tiktok teens reacting against leather at Pride. You guys are ignorant and uncultured and proud of it!
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