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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I will say that if the old name was racist, stop fucking using it. The Washington Commanders, Cleveland Guardians, etc.

Otherwise, fuck 'em.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I will happily call it 'X' because it is a stupid name and one of the dumbest decisions Elon has made and tried to enforce. Why are we trying to protect him from his stupidity?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

His momma name him Clay imma call him Clay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I'll be long gone before I start calling it "X"

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I just deadname buildings. Anyone been up the Sears Tower lately?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

not lately, no. I should go back there lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Rose garden represent.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Deadnaming Corporations-In-General: chef's kiss

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Corporations ≠ people. I don't care what SCOTUS has to say on the matter. They have proven themselves to be illegitimate

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I’ve been known to deadname the one true church. Joseph Smith named it the Church of Christ, but the Mormon church is going through its little phase 💅 and insists on being called, and get this, no abbreviations allowed,

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I got supremely lucky one day when they knocked on my door. I happened to be in the middle of carving up a full beef tenderloin flank into filets and tips, and was expecting company, so I didn't bother cleaning up, putting on a shirt, or even putting the butchers knife down.

So what they got to see was a 6'3" blonde haired, blue eyed, viking looking fucker open the door in shorts with blood covering my arms and the hand I was holding the knife in, (I took the time to wipe off one hand with wipes, dont want blood everywhere), who promptly yelled over his shoulder, "Hey guys you can let the goat go! I just found us a couple of virgins!"

They scarpered quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I’ve been referring to it as “x formally known as twitter.com” every time I say it for months now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Umm. I think you misspelled shitter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

What is a rule

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's just something so pathetic about failing to start your dream company called X in 1999, and then twenty years later when your ultra rich buying some other company and renaming it X to try and finally feel like you won, you did it, you made a globally important social media company called x. The struggle is over. At last.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I cannot prove this as it is a theory someone else proposed, but I sincerely believe that his obsession with the letter X is due to the fact that many native African tribes signed away all their rights and privileges with an X mark, since they were illiterate.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

globally important

This is continually decreasing.

It's even funnier that the website itself is still using "twitter" as URL.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, not anymore. It's already fully migrated to x.com.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

It still refers to itself as Twitter though. X referring to itself as twitter

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Small brain: Calling it X

Big brain: Calling it twitter

Galaxy brain: Not acknowledging that shithole at all

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Free and open source brain: referring to the platform as Nitter

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nitter is dead though, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://nitter.poast.org still works

the only way to get it to work now iirc is to have it puppet actual accounts rather than guest accounts so it's a bit harder to do, but privacydevel made a fork that can do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I see, thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But he can start paying me if he wants me to call it X or whatever. I'd do so. For some $8 a day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

That's a deal at twice the price.

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