You could use that one. It was the first one announced, today, your time, beating out #funny by a few minutes.
@NikkiDeeAuthor If you're waiting for a prompt from a woman posting from the United States, you perhaps should be aware than even on the East Coast in said country, that it is only 4:53 in the morning, and that she shouldn't be expected to be up, quite yet.
@NikkiDeeAuthor But since the British are getting testy, and I did wake up in the middle of the night, I'll be happy to fill in for her.
I can see what a crisis it must have been, waiting a few extra hours to be handed a word.
and, again, @roadtoserfdom3's tweet, the parent tweet, can be seen to be missing.
@MarkWal06578936@roadtoserfdom3 But if one goes directly to rts's tweet, which I linked to above, and scrolls down, yes, one comes back to Mark Wall's tweet, showing that it is, indeed, the parent.
There is absolutely no excuse for this behavior on the part of Twitter.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville Sorry June, no. I was one of the people defying the lockdowns on day one, and I knew that this was all BS within the first hour of hearing the words "social distancing." I even posted about it.
You know what I heard in response? People like you going into hysterics.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville I had somebody seriously try to claim that basic Probability Theory was ableist. I wish that were a joke, but no, it's the sad literal truth.
I was floored by just how confident s t u p i d people could be.
@juneslater17@bjames280961@JamesMelville I strongly suspect that this was a major factor in the prolongation of this travesty. Covid gave d u m b people a chance to feel smart. All they had to do was watch the news and repeat what they heard, and they could feel like they were scientists, too.
@PamelaGeller I just heard that the "UFOs" in question were just some more balloons, smaller in size than the last one that the Chinese sent over. If so, isn't even one fighter jet serious, overpriced overkill?
How hard could it be to take out a balloon?
@PamelaGeller A sidewinder missile, I understand, costs over $400,000. A balloon probably doesn't cost the Chinese anywhere close to that.
@PamelaGeller Note: to be completely forthcoming, the source of that rumor I just relayed turned out to be a troll, so one should take it with a grain of salt until one finds a reputable source confirming it.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 Or the part where people were slammed face first into the pavement by their local police for being outside for "inessential" purposes?
Such incidents were not only captured on video, but passionately defended by people like QCB.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 In Chicago, we managed to escape the full repressive misery of a Melbourne style lockdown, just barely, because when it was attempted in March of 2020, it immediately encountered pushback, in the form of massive civil disobedience.
@Brosephchadsky@QueerComicBooks@PeterSweden7 Having been forbidden to sit down in the benches in the city parks, we started doing exactly that, en masse, as the announced curfew began. We then continued being out, in such massive numbers, that the Chicago Police Department probably gave up all hope of enforcement.
@chaplainamartin@jswtreeman I don't know if there was ever a time in History when asking a question like that would have made you look like anything other than a pampered, privileged, sheltered douchebag, but now, in the post-lockdown era, it's an even worse look than usual.
@chaplainamartin@jswtreeman Did you sleep through the last three years, as businesses were forcibly shut down by local governments, which then continued to collect property taxes, driving so-called "non-essential businesses" into bankruptcy, wiping out jobs?
even though my reply would be the most recent, it is nowhere to be seen.
@sighing_sadly A friend of mine says that she can see it, but when I went there, just now, it was still absent. If this were almost anywhere other than Twitter, I'd think that maybe they had rolled out a new feature, figuring that users didn't need to be shown their own replies.
@sighing_sadly But this is Twitter, where the admins have a long history of playing underhanded games.