Week of December 12

[dc2london]

Dec 15, 2022 19:33:07 GMT -6 richard said:

Well this is the beginning of the end for me. A number of journalists I follow are being banned because Elon didn’t like an account that tweeted public records of his private jet after the fact, the guy set up a Mastodon account and then these journalists have posted about it.

Thos does actually feel like The End.

[dc2london]

But also. Lisa Murkowski in an elf dress on the Senate floor

[dc2london]

The journos are openly revolting now, which feels like what Elon wanted this whole time

[fatpony]

The real sophies choice

[Minerva]

Dec 15, 2022 20:09:43 GMT -6 dc2london said:

The journos are openly revolting now, which feels like what Elon wanted this whole time

Are they heading someplace new?

I need you all to let me know where you all and the good Politics and Journalist Twitter accounts land. I couldn’t stand being on Elon Musk’s platform anymore and I’m glad not to be giving him clicks, but I’m also feeling very out of the loop without my Twitter feed. Reading actual newspapers just isn’t the same!

[richard]

There is a boy that scans your Twitter follows and shares their account on Mastodon. I found a good number of the journalists I follow that way. I even found Darth!

It’s helpful as apparently now Twitter is blocking any links to Mastodon. So if someone has their Mastodon account in their Twitter handle, you can’t follow the link.

[richard]

Omg, it’s a bot not a boy.

Now I’m picturing someone like this poring over my Twitter list:

[jaygee]

Dec 15, 2022 21:25:19 GMT -6 richard said:

Omg, it’s a bot not a boy.

Now I’m picturing someone like this poring over my Twitter list:

I mean I wasn’t going to be surprised if Twitter was employing child labor. Lol

[richard]

What an absolute dogshit baby he is.

[richard]

All of the suspended accounts are able to still join Twitter Spaces so they’re all hanging out and chatting online on Twitter. 😂

[richard]

Elon Musk is in this Twitter Space now. This shit is so ridiculous.

[richard]

Omg.

[jaygee]

Dec 15, 2022 21:10:41 GMT -6 Minerva said:

Dec 15, 2022 20:09:43 GMT -6 dc2london said:

The journos are openly revolting now, which feels like what Elon wanted this whole time

Are they heading someplace new?

I need you all to let me know where you all and the good Politics and Journalist Twitter accounts land. I couldn’t stand being on Elon Musk’s platform anymore and I’m glad not to be giving him clicks, but I’m also feeling very out of the loop without my Twitter feed. Reading actual newspapers just isn’t the same!

Same. I feel out of the loop now. And I don’t spend any less time on my phone - now I just read the dumbest crap on Reddit and watch any video IG serves me.

Thank goodness my radio talk show hosts have landed on YouTube after the local radio station fired them and changed formats. Otherwise I would really be out of the loop.

[jaygee]

It’s also intense here right now because basically every time twitter’s new owner sneezes we have to have a news report on it. I’m so over it all.

[byjove]

Apparently Twitter has also stopped paying its leases and may stop paying on its severance packages as well. Of course I can’t find a tweet about it now because of all the deleted journos has taken over (rightly so), but it was a big deal in my feed prior to that.

[blurnette989]

Dec 15, 2022 21:25:19 GMT -6 richard said:

Omg, it’s a bot not a boy.

Now I’m picturing someone like this poring over my Twitter list:

. 😂😂😂

Do you remember the bot name? I need to set up mastodon. So far I like the idea of Post but it is so, so white.

[blurnette989]

I also woke at 4 am ish my time and stumbled on the Twitter Space where the journos were talking and melon came on. I only was on for a bit when that bootlicker Jason whatshisface, kept trying to "gotcha" the journalists and it felt very like, no we are intelligent and you are not as clever as you think. It was a lot.

[justkeepmoving]

So I feel out of the loop… what is mastodon?

[fatpony]

I found this on mastodon. I'm not on it (also just looking at it confuses me)

mastodon.social/@tiffanycli/109521975075886371

Too bad it doesn't embed like twitter. Here's the copy and paste of the text.


Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:



Drew Harwell, Washington Post

@drewharwell



Donie O’Sullivan, CNN

@donieosullivan



Steve Herman, VOA

@w7voa



Micah Lee, Intercept

@micahflee



Tony Webster

@tony



Matt Binder, Mashable

@mattbinder



#freepress #journalism #journalists #news

[taconight]

Long wow to the newest grift. Like the senior citizen MAGAs who are likely to buy this shit are even going to understand a digital trading card.

[dc2london]

The House passed a bill to allow Puerto Rico statehood!!

www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121522-0

[richard]

Dec 16, 2022 6:46:36 GMT -6 blurnette989 said:

I also woke at 4 am ish my time and stumbled on the Twitter Space where the journos were talking and melon came on. I only was on for a bit when that bootlicker Jason whatshisface, kept trying to "gotcha" the journalists and it felt very like, no we are intelligent and you are not as clever as you think. It was a lot.

I was literally yelling at my phone when that Jason guy was talking. I had never heard of the man until yesterday.

[richard]

Dec 16, 2022 4:06:54 GMT -6 blurnette989 said:

Dec 15, 2022 21:25:19 GMT -6 richard said:

Omg, it’s a bot not a boy.

Now I’m picturing someone like this poring over my Twitter list:

. 😂😂😂

Do you remember the bot name? I need to set up mastodon. So far I like the idea of Post but it is so, so white.

Honestly, Mastodon is not much better on that score at this point. It does seem like more of the journalists I follow are on Mastodon instead of Post though.

Anyway, I used this one: fedifinder.glitch.me/ But I saw Ben Collins tweet yesterday about this one too: 

[richard]

I've also bookmarked this page but haven't used it yet. It lets you find journalists on Mastodon by searching name, outlet, etc.

www.presscheck.org/

I noticed this morning that when I try to follow people on Mastodon it doesn't do it right away and gives me a "pending." I think they are having some growing pains.

I don't know if this will embed but it's a post from Mastodon about the huge influx they're dealing with:

mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/109521750798907978

ETA (doesn't look like they embed here)

[willow]

Dec 16, 2022 8:34:41 GMT -6 dc2london said:

The House passed a bill to allow Puerto Rico statehood!!

www.speaker.gov/newsroom/121522-0

This is pretty much DOA in the Senate though right? Fucking filibuster.

[origami]

I'm on post but it's pretty milquetoast. I don't think I have it in me to try mastodon and hive until one app rules them all.

[elle]

Because of course.

[trueblue]

I got my invite to post.news today but deleted Twitter so long ago I don’t remember who I followed. Any recommendations?

[elle]

Dec 16, 2022 10:20:25 GMT -6 trueblue said:

I got my invite to post.news today but deleted Twitter so long ago I don’t remember who I followed. Any recommendations?

I haven't gotten an invite yet so I'm not sure who's over there just yet. I figure I'll just let the dust settle and see what ends up being the most popular place to relocate.

[elle]

This thread is chilling.

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