Mauna Loa, the largest volcano on earth, is currently erupting

It is currently limited to the summit.

https://twitter.com/nwselko/status/1597170861819064320

https://twitter.com/squigglyvolcano/status/1597172463246270464

https://twitter.com/hawaii_ema/status/1597169719836278784

Commander Biden Post-turkey 😊🐕

Not A Cult 🙄

Ivanka shows how to crop Kimberley 😂

Ashley Parker of WaPo says Bidens are just as bad as the Trumps

Because apparently the photo of Naomi Biden in her wedding dress was taken beforehand for Vogue.


This is why I will NEVER give my money to WaPo or NYT.

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1595087684246163456

https://twitter.com/Zoftwarz/status/1595081143568605184

I am not leaving Twitter

Until it crashes and burns (likely) or I am banned (also likely after what I tweeted back to Elon and Jack Dorsey).

I will never capitulate to the forces of evil.

I will not let it become a RW echo chamber for domestic terrorists.

Besides, we have the GA runoffs in a couple of weeks!

https://twitter.com/maryltrump/status/1594169104121835520

It's been such a sad night on Twitter

I know many here do not like it, but there really was a sense of community.

I started my first Twitter account in 2009. I did not even pay any attention to the political side until after the 2016 election disaster.

Even though there are over 450M active accounts each month, you really found some great people on Twitter.

I don't know if we would have flipped 40 House seats and 7 governorships in 2018 without Twitter.

It was also an interesting place to be during COVID lockdowns.

People are very upset.

https://twitter.com/NastyOldWomyn/status/1593428540531294208

Quote from Southpaw tweet above:

I said it and I’ll say it again. I like this place, and I’m sorry this is happening.

https://twitter.com/ekfletch/status/1593428428467732481

https://twitter.com/ekfletch/status/1593428869624627200

Quotes from Ekfletch tweets:

I am seeing all sorts of messages about twitter imploding and so might as well add my nostalgia to the pile. twitter was a lifeline for me as a young academic. in a small town in rural Pennsylvania with no colleagues who worked on the same things as I did, it was my community.

I built a really fantastic community here of development economists and sociologists and political scientists. I found mentors and co-authors and friends for life. It's changed a lot and I've become more of a consumer than a producer in recent years as my priorities changed

All the same, I've wrestled mightily these past few weeks with where to share interesting articles, post kudos and self-promote, to chat with my colleagues, read the news, find out about cutting edge economics and get the tea as that community has migrated, dwindled, moved on.

twitter has been all those things to me and more and I'll miss it. So much.

I'm on mastodon at @ekfletch@mastodon.social though still finding my way there and not sure what it will be to me yet. Hope to see you there, or elsewhere.

I Would Have Been Looking For A Job As Soon The Musk Rumors Started

If I had been a Twitter employee when this whole crap first started, I would have been looking for a new job immediately.

It was always going to be a dumpster fire.


I really feel bad for the employees. They do not deserve to be treated like this.

First, Muskrat says he'll fire 75% of the employees.
Then, he demands they work 80-hour weeks.
Then, he tells them they cannot work virtually.
Then, he locks Twitter HQ and they can't get access.


I still think Trump is somehow behind this.

He's mad that Twitter kicked him off.

Saudi Arabia is a big part of the Twitter takeover.

Musk seems to like Trump nowadays.

Dave Troy and others think everything is being done for very dark reasons that should frighten all of us:

Links:
https://freedomofmind.com/authoritarian-networks/

https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/11/07/musks-twitter-buy-makes-no-sense-unless-its-part-of-something-bigger/?fbclid=IwAR1eeWtiWkgdZfyK7AGJ6460a59iRlw4jHz6-dzlhlcl84wjDBJ7OI5bxlI


Tweets:
https://twitter.com/jeninthe405/status/1593430988012638214

https://twitter.com/CCgunnells/status/1593422904850464769

"Elon just called me and asked if I could help them regain access as they locked themselves out"

Christopher Bouzy: Would you switch if we built a platform similar to Twitter?

He's the creator of Bot Sentinel and also did the only polling that showed that there would be no big red wave.


https://twitter.com/JustSchmeltzer/status/1593369301582348288