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@old_literature
Nov 19 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
@bluesky Hi, Bluesky and @jack. I TRIED to create an account on your site, just now, and was stopped dead in my tracks by your broken CAPTCHA. I tried two different widely used browsers and on step 3 of the challenge, ran into the endlessly buffering circle of doom.

Step 3 would not load
@bluesky @jack I sent you two problem reports, one after each time I found myself thwarted, as I tried yet another browser.

I am now giving up. Please send me an email when you've decided that you'd like to code your own site in a competent manner.
@bluesky @jack Until then, I'll be over on Tumblr, because this is b u l l s h i t and I have stuff to do in the real world. I guess I could try a few more browsers, but really? Your signup doesn't work in Firefox, this afternoon?

That's seriously p a t h e t i c, don't you think?
@bluesky @jack As a user, I'm not going to jump through hoops in order to make your currently defective product work, because that's not my responsibility. That's yours, and I am not going to drop everything just to do your developer's jobs for them.

Your product either works or it doesn't.
@bluesky @jack There are some good people from Twitter who've wandered over to Bluesky and I'd love to follow them there, so I've been unusually patient with your broken site, but patience has limits.
@bluesky @jack When those limits are being pushed before one even has an account, that's not a good sign, so I'll repeat the question that I just asked you in those emails?

Does this experience get better from here? Or should I give up for good?

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Jun 15, 2023
@rgX4jIAzoHVF860 Is that a haiku? I thought that haikus had to be 5-7-5, and that is 3-6-8.

I see that you're posting from Japan. Was that a translation of something that is 5-7-5 in Japanese?

This is my own inadequate attempt to say much the same in English ...
@rgX4jIAzoHVF860 The rain falls softly.
Angry winds brush it aside.
An umbrella breaks.
@rgX4jIAzoHVF860 Not quite the same, but in English, umbrella has 3 syllables, leaving us only two to work with in the last line. A problem with using a Japanese poetic form while writing in a language that has so many loanwords from the Romance languages, I suppose.
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Jun 10, 2023
@mminin2010 @sighing_sadly @iamthemaulik @elonmusk @micsolana More strange censorship from Twitter.



Why would they block this from view?
@mminin2010 @sighing_sadly @iamthemaulik @elonmusk @micsolana This



is just a fact check on a claim. Aren't those something that we're supposed to do?
@mminin2010 @sighing_sadly @iamthemaulik @elonmusk @micsolana Why, then, do I have to do a search under the author's name in order to find her tweets?



If there is no reach, just how free is the speech?
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Jun 10, 2023
@not_goodname "Murray subjected Kaczynski to a set of unethical and psychologically-damaging experiments for three years."

I just did a search. There seems to be a lot of disagreement about the facts of his case, but the statement above seems to be widely supported.
@not_goodname If Society sits back, smirks and shrugs as an adult researcher plays with the mind of a teenage boy until he breaks it, then just how blameless is it when the natural consequences of a mind being broken make themselves felt?
@not_goodname Seems to me that two very different subjects have been carelessly conflated - the obvious lacking morality of what TK did, and his culpability for those actions.
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Jun 5, 2023
@jtboston69 @MattWalshBlog While I am personally skeptical about the idea that alien spacecraft are visiting us, that map does not offer the solid argument that some of you seem to think it does.
@jtboston69 @MattWalshBlog Perhaps our hypothetical aliens like to make first contact when a society becomes multiplanetary.
@jtboston69 @MattWalshBlog To be at all realistic about this, the US is likely to do this long before any of the other countries, so maybe, on looking, outside observers would think that the time for contact had come for us, but not for the rest of the planet.
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Sep 8, 2019
@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Not sure how that was intended.

If it's a statement about how things are, one need only look around to see that it is certainly true.

If, however, you're saying that there's nothing wrong with that reality, then that might be popular, but it's philosophically indefensible.
@morganauthor1 @craytusjones A position I keep hearing is that "one is entitled to have one's freedom of speech, as long as one accepts all of the consequences that come with exercising it."

How could one not have such a freedom? It's meaningless.
@morganauthor1 @craytusjones That's like saying "you're free to walk down the street, as long as you don't mind the bully beating you up for doing so."
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Sep 8, 2019
@YahooCare Hi, Yahoo customer care. I have a funny story to tell you. It's a story that I just told to Yahoo and Verizon



because what you guys did to somebody I know was just so amazing.
@YahooCare The guy (along with his family) had to move out of the old family home in a hurry, because rich people (and real investors) had moved into their neighborhood and property taxes skyrocketed.

The family was poor and they were forced to sell in a hurry.
@YahooCare Everything the guy had in the world ended up in a collection of hastily packed boxes that first found their way into storage, and then were sent to his apartment.

Some showed up, others never did.
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