I’ve found that hashtags are a pretty good discovery mechanism, though they still tend to be underused, and the ability to follow hashtags is occasionally very nice. I wish Mastodon separated hashtags into a different field, so that posts weren’t spammed with them - I’d probably use them more.
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I mean yea they made it easy and that was great for building a user base fast. But it was not automatic. It’s not like Instagram users are automatically counted as threads users. I’m following 68 people and have 214 pending. That 214 is the number of instagram people I follow who haven’t signed up for threads yet. They made it easy but a majority haven’t signed up… yet.
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Well, there you have it! The Taliban have weighed in on dick size.
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I’m also seeing a splash of Tim Curry. It’s a pretty weird middlepoint between a number of people, and Musk isn’t really one of them. (I wonder if the AI is suffering from feedback issues based on how many AI images of Musk have been generated in the last year…)
I feel like it’s not that long from now, that he’s sort of halfway there already.
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For me it’s a mashup of Joseph McCarthy & Jim Belushi, but YMMV
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What’s next, phrenology?
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Retrophrenology. Please???
“Retrophrenology:
It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone’s character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone’s character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that’s the main thing.”
- Terry Pratchett
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I think I have a mallet somewhere.
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Girthier, too.
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Zuck may be a cuck but Musk will be a husk (well, Twitter will be, at this rate).
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Quilette is already on that and I’d be surprised if Musk wasn’t following/reading them
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Darn, I’d gone for “Anal Fistula” on the sweepstake.
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I assumed you were joking, then checked anyway. Jeebus. I didn’t think Quilette could get that much worse.
ETA: didn’t read the damn thing - just googled Quilette phrenology and watched the headlines from trusted sources roll in. wowsers.
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It always ends in phrenology and anti-Semitism. Musk will be no different.
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Erich: I just can’t think of anything good about a skull!
Hans: What about pure Aryan skull shape?
Erich: Even that is more usually depicted with the skin still on!
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