Twitter for Mac disappears from Mac App Store

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Never install an app if you can do the same thing on a website.

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Loyalty is for family, friends, and causes worth believing in.

Indeed. I have family and friends who also are sticking it out. Then, I follow the baby hippos at the Cincinnati Zoo, Crouton the Cow and all the gang at Squirrelwood Equine Sanctuary, authors and artists, historians, tech journalists, pop culture podcasters, stand-ups, and causes I believe in from gun control to high speed rail, and you know, antifascism.

Twitter is … a Nazi bar.

Twitter is a town where some neighborhoods got shitty (or shittier). I don’t go thither. I stick to my Following tab as much as I can, and when I give in to temptation and go down unsavory rabbit holes to start my own shitposting, my angel pretty quickly grabs me by the ear and pulls me back. “Aww, look, wombats!”

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Apple’s run by a childless gay man. The bad guys have a real bug up their nostril about that kind of thing.

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When the bar you frequent is purchased by a Nazi and becomes a full-throated Nazi bar, stubbornly continuing to drink there means that you’re providing financial support to Nazis even if you loudly complain about the new decor.

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… if our goal is to convince people it’s really not a big deal that we’re hanging out with fascists, invoking Robert Heinlein as a font of philosophical wisdom may not illustrate what we thought we were illustrating :thinking:

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The thing about cats is true.

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I saw the headline and rather hoped Apple had finally had enough of helping enable the world’s favourite Nazi bar. Then I remembered that it wasn’t called Twitter any more and the horror show continues.

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Hah, yeah, okay, you got me.

But I was hoping that by capitalising Social Media, the implication should have been apparent that I was referring to big corporate social media closed gardens like Facebook / Meta, Xitter, Instagram, TikTok, etc., rather than things like comment sections, bulletin boards and forums.

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