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Miles Archer

(19,364 posts)
Sat May 24, 2025, 05:13 PM Yesterday

Twitter outage left "tens of thousands of users in the U.S." without a vehicle to post racist, sexist, homophobic crap

"Back to spending 24/7 at work and sleeping in conference/server/factory rooms. I must be super focused on X/xAI and Tesla (plus Starship launch next week), as we have critical technologies rolling out," Musk said in an X post.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/musks-x-down-tens-thousands-130613355.html

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Twitter outage left "tens of thousands of users in the U.S." without a vehicle to post racist, sexist, homophobic crap (Original Post) Miles Archer Yesterday OP
K & R.............. Lovie777 Yesterday #1
Ohhhh, too bad!! I feel so badly for these idiots. Not really. Serves them right. muskrat can dive off the nearest SWBTATTReg Yesterday #2
At last, some good news for a change. surfered Yesterday #3
... SheltieLover Yesterday #4
That is a pretty broad brush you are using. sheshe2 Yesterday #5

SWBTATTReg

(25,305 posts)
2. Ohhhh, too bad!! I feel so badly for these idiots. Not really. Serves them right. muskrat can dive off the nearest
Sat May 24, 2025, 05:18 PM
Yesterday

cliff.

sheshe2

(92,119 posts)
5. That is a pretty broad brush you are using.
Sat May 24, 2025, 06:22 PM
Yesterday

Alot of Democratic politicians post there, Obama (129.9M), AOC (12.7M), Sanders posted there just 20 minutes ago. He has 14.8M followers. There are many more as well.

I still read and post there every once in awhile and I am not in any catagory you stated. I have been to dayum depressed since the election to make any changes to places like Bluesky that everyone raves about.

I do read the OPs here from Bs and it seems like a good place on the surface. I follow the links here to see what they have to say. I did that the other day and I was shocked. The OP was fine but the comments, they were incredibly sexist. They were, (are allowed?) to use the C and B word there. They included the 'T -What' word as well because the poster thought that was so much better than the C word. Somone actually made a meme of the C word. All those posts received hundreds of recommends!

I thought that Bluesky was moderated and did not allow such posts. I read their mission statement and they bill themselves as a safe place with respect to others.

My point I guess, no place is going to be perfect.

I will stick with DU because the MIRT team does a phenomenal job keeping this place a safe haven. Kudos to DU.

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