I haven’t left the house since Monday so suffice it to say I’m going a little stir crazy. As I type this I’m dying my hair somewhat purple. Fingers crossed it turns out alright.
Schadenfreude anyone?
Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Musk ultimatum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/17/twitter-musk-easing-rto-order/
She’s tough but it’s time.
Pelosi to depart as top House Democrat to make way for ‘new generation’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/17/nancy-pelosi-house-speaker-speech-steps-down
Take the L.
Election denier Kari Lake refuses to concede Arizona governor race she lost
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/17/kari-lake-refuse-concede-arizona-governor-election-republican
Did no one notice he was missing???
Officials have identified the partial foot discovered in one of Yellowstone’s deepest hot springs
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/us/yellowstone-national-park-foot-thermal-pool-identified/index.html
OMG, so cute.
Have a great day!
If that elephant trunk had attached itself to my face I would have gone into cardiac arrest. Imagine if you felt something similar aboard your space station while starring in a Ridley Scott movie.
Here’s something interesting, and since there is no FYCE today I’ll leave this here: In the UK (and maybe elsewhere) there’s another bout of bird flu, so eggs are hard to come by and are being rationed in supermarkets. This article (yes, it’s the Daily Mail) tells you how to make various egg-free egg dishes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11439843/How-cook-favourite-egg-filled-dishes-WITHOUT-eggs.html
Note that it’s in the “Femail” (get it?) vertical. It’s nice to see that “Women’s Pages” are still around.
One of the hassles of cooking in metric, if you’re an American, is converting amounts. There’s a recipe there for an egg-free omelet that uses two cheeses, 55 grams of each. Well, how much is that? It turns out that is the equivalent of 3.667 tablespoons, or 3 tbsp. and 2 tsp. That’s also kind of nonsensical so I converted it another way. 55 grams is the rather more prosaic 2/3 cup. Is the cup really unknown in the UK nowadays? I thought with Brexit they floated the idea of going back to the Imperial system. Whatever happened to that?
That mentions firm tofu for scrambled eggs.
There is already an FYCE for that…and it’s the BEST recipe!
YW
Avocado optional
Avocado mandatory!
…does this constitute gentrification?
…iirc cups as a measurement are not unknown in the UK…but might be different to the US measure(s)
…a bit like ton/tonne…sounds the same but isn’t?
@megmegmcgee I really must see the somewhat purple hair! Please!
The Twitter disintegration is truly incredible. What’s even more incredible is that I heard some morning DJs today basically chirping that “Elmo has a plan.” No, he does not. In case you can’t get past the WaPo paywall, I present this segment from the article:
“I know of six critical systems (like ‘serving tweets’ levels of critical) which no longer have any engineers,” a former employee said. “There is no longer even a skeleton crew manning the system. It will continue to coast until it runs into something, and then it will stop.”
Workers offered varying estimates of how many people remained employed at Twitter, ranging from 2,000 to 2,500, down from the 3,500 or so believed to have remained after an initial round of layoffs affecting roughly half the staff this month. Access cutoffs have been delayed, because they are not sure who is gone, because most of human resources left, according to one of the employees.
Among those who were said to have declined to sign the pledge was half the trust and safety policy team, including a majority of those who work on spotting misinformation, spam, fake accounts and impersonation, according to one employee familiar with the team.
[snip]
Twitter employees weren’t the only ones saying goodbye Thursday night. As news of the depleted engineering teams spread across the site, Twitter users began preparing for the worst — exchanging contact information, trying to download their Twitter data, and posting potential “final posts” in case the site were to go down permanently.
As of 9 p.m. Eastern time, the top trend on Twitter in the United States was “#RIPTwitter,” followed by the names of alternative social networks such as Tumblr, Discord, and Mastodon as users mulled life after tweets.
I know I’ve said this before, but people who don’t pay close attention to things just sort of go off either the opinions of people around them or the general vibe, and I think if you asked an average someone about “Elon Musk” they would probably just say he’s a smart tech guy. Plus he’s rich, and that’s a traditional American stand-in for brilliant.
I AM A PSYCHIC!
I wrote on November 6 “You know that right now at least a thousand people at Twitter saw the writing on the wall and locked down their systems… it could be anyone from people running the entire payroll system to someone controlling access to the executive parking garage.”
Yesterday:
https://mobile.twitter.com/TweetOfSteiner/status/1593407559125311488
LOL
…it was a solidly on-brand fuck up…the same exact way he borked 2FA access to people’s accounts by having them decommission all of “microservices” (supposedly to improve how fast his feed refreshed) without troubling himself to find out what functions were contingent on what…the whole thing could have avoided the farce element if he’d actually revoked select credentials…but no…it’s like deciding brakes are for losers & deciding to slow down by firing explosive bolts to just jettison the wheels
…& he’s out there telling people how great it is that twitter’s getting so much traffic…& doing the meme thing…I don’t think that’s what people meant by “like a boss”?
“When in doubt, use the Sawzall.” – Me, vs. any number of obstacles
Solid advice.
I do find it funny that none of these people were equipped to deal with the gate. As a certified redneck, I assure you that I’d have that thing in pieces in less than 10 minutes. There’s a reason I have a toolbox on my truck.
Only idiots keep saying “Emo has a plan”
What plan? If it is to ruin Twitter then yeah sure. As for everything else? No plan. He’s doing random shit from the Eon managerial toolbox (except for pulling his penis out and offering a horse for some blow jobs) to show that he’s the boss. At this rate, only the few die hard L-on nerds who will do anything including take a beating for him will be left at Twitter.
I doubt it is about burning it all down. His plan seemed to be:
1. Scare the Twitter drones and user base.
2. Everyone falls in love with him like the MSM does.
3. ????
4. Profit.
…my favorite might be “space karen”…but the ticker (tape?) has spoken…& I detect no lies?
That is beyond wonderful!
“Somewhat Purple” is the tentative title of the bodice-ripping romance novel I’m working on.
“Duchess Charlotte’s Somewhat Purple Passion”
That sounds like a drink I once ordered in a drag club.
It is time for Pelosi to step aside. Unfortunately, the person she’s stepping aside for is going to step up the party’s war against progressives (and the youth vote). It’s an uninspiring pick, to say the least.
Shit hitting the fan in Iran!
https://www.rawstory.com/iran-protesters-set-fire-to-khomeini-s-ancestral-home-images/
Any questions of Trump being a foreign asset have been answered…
https://popular.info/p/trumps-paymaster
This does not give me much hope…
https://truthout.org/articles/greenwashing-governments-and-oil-companies-turned-cop27-into-a-climate-disaster/
Yeah, Cop27 has been a shit-show.
The worst part here in Canada is listening/watching commercials for a coal-ishun of Tar Sands Extraction Companies claim they love the environment and stopping climate change (which they spent the last 50 years denying.)
‘Biggest challenge of my life’: Kherson’s leaders toil to turn city around
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/17/trump-spiritual-adviser-criticism-child/
Yeah, and. . . ?
Fundies fell for Satan and danced around the fat calf. Not even god can save them from that.
Hey! Stop body-shaming the calf!