Is Twitter Being Killed Off Now?

[@johnkochen7264]

I was banned on Twitter for being mean to GB News, something I am quite proud of.

[@alundavies1016]

Well done, you may get yourself a badge😊

[@carolmurray5914]

That's Brilliant

[@woodrocknetwork7507]

Carry on the good fight 👊

[@johnburrows3385]

A badge of honour

[@robertallen591]

good for you

[@philipprudhomme6967]

Now Phil, I didn't come up with this but it made me chuckle. MAGA. Morons Are Governing America. Many a true word.

[@hermanjohnell2717]

Brilliant!

[@shorelineboy]

@@hermanjohnell2717😂😂😂so true clever but true

[@ZacSmith2-it5ph]

Make America Grift Again ?

[@chrysalis4126]

Stealing that lol.

[@JC-jo9bf]

Making Attorneys Get Attorneys.

[@trucksanddirt1506]

All German Universities left Twitter Bluesky is growing fast and ill take over

[@manub.3847]

I recently saw a report on a regional TV station here in Germany about one of our large construction companies that always equips its house builds with a complex package of renewable energy modules and technologies. This construction company has a) canceled all Tesla company car orders; b) canceled every other product from Tesla for its house builds (e.g. batteries); c) deleted (or "muted") its Twitter account. Because the company management neither accepts Musk's political interference nor the media promotion of our country's far-right (Nazi) party. I suspect that some companies have already quietly (internally announced only) left Twitter/X or have left the site with only a reference to other media that can be used. And the advertising campaigns there have probably also been stopped.

[@gregoryjames165]

Siloed in our own social media echo chambers. It's gotta be the way forward for healthy democracies hasn't it?

[@trucksanddirt1506]

@@gregoryjames165 30 Million and growing. By the end of next year, it'll have more traffic than Twitter.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@gregoryjames165 Better our own chambers, than being forced to share Musk's safe space.

[@sandrakicklighter2735]

I left Twitter as soon as I discovered Bluesky, been much happier there ever since.

[@davidstokell-nv7jr]

Never had twitter never will

[@ronaldchives2486]

Same

[@Arcadia61]

@@ronaldchives2486 Well, I'm glad I did - I didn't use it much but now I got the satisfaction of deleting it and added one more deletion to the avalanche that I very much hope will happen soon.

[@johnsinclair2672]

Likewise

[@johnsinclair2672]

“Truth Social” You couldn’t make it up! Truth from Trump, I nearly puked!

[@OnePunchLion]

We had it to keep up with local news. They would post road closures and local news and weather. I kept up with a few people and organizations. Never really posted anything. But its gotten so toxic, you can't even use it for mundane tasks like this anymore.

[@Daemonweaver]

Just Boycott anything and everything Musk!

[@David-kk5fx]

The public are doing just that going by the Tesla stock market prices. Tesla's stock value is disappearing to where the sun doesn't shine. And while we're at it Musk can take a one way ride into interstellar space on his space x and take Trump with him.

[@andrewdevine3920]

But how will I live my life without a Nazi social media site, expensive electric cars, space rockets and a dangerous experimental brain chip?

[@simonpaine2347]

Toss the TeSSla

[@Shimmy246]

It annoys me people saying what a bad job Labour are doing when they’ve been in power for only 6months and haven’t done a budget yet. The tories had what, 14 years? They ran the nhs and the country into the ground. Labour have their work cut out and deserve our support at least until after they’ve had a few years.

[@indigoskywalker]

@@Shimmy246 I hear you, but take a look at what they have been saying and doing before taking office… this is not a labour government

[@Shimmy246]

@ wait and see what they do. That’s what’s important.

[@TheHoveHeretic]

Pedantry Alert: Please capitalise our *NHS* (note possessive rather than definite article - that's just me being me!)

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

We know they'll continue doing nothing for the next few years because that's what liberal parties ALWAYS do

[@indigoskywalker]

@@Shimmy246 they are doing what they are doing, it’s not looking good

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Phil you're overthinking it. Hate Musk? Boycott X. It's that simple.

[@stephenetridge2584]

You missed something, boycott Tesla too

[@dfuher968]

@@stephenetridge2584 All of his businesses.

[@villakaty2206]

You missed the fact that there are many, many more uneducated who will be convinced and determined to support Brexit or MAGA

[@villakaty2206]

Never underestimate the stupidity

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

@@stephenetridge2584 Yes.

[@leftcoaster67]

I’m shocked after his salute that Tesla stock didnt plummet

[@Lollipop-n8z]

? Chris Norland - KZbin says stock is being sold off quietly by banks etc

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

People who own shares are usually right wing and have always supported Fascism if their stocks and shares increase in value.

[@rickatatastan2695]

1. Share price isn't no indicator. For one, traders are like bots, in fact, most *are* bots - there is no emotional or moral attachment, so why would they react to reprehensible behaviour, after all, haven't CEOs been evil forever? 2. Stock buybacks are all the rage, they prop up falling prices, thus companies that are collapsing don't show up. 3. The customer base hasn't had time to *not* buy Tesla vehicles - i.e. the effects of the salute haven't resulted to a drop of sales yet.

[@decimal1815]

Keep an eye on Tesla sales in EU as an indicator of what's going to happen to the Musk empire..

[@jeromeisaacs4428]

it wasnt a Nazi salute he was squatting a fly

[@philmarks4254]

I left twitter 4 months after Musk bought it. He doesn't take criticism well, and he hates when people post info on tesla projects that have cost a lot of money and never come to fruition, like full self driving, the 'Loop' and the tesla semi!!! I went to log on one day and my account and 11 years of good laughs, was gone. The guy is a real marshmallow eh. G'Day, by the way Phil!

[@HowievYT]

I waited until 20 Jan to leave FB & X. Pleased to be gone. Bluesky much more sane.

[@gaelle4328]

May I ask can you use bluesky to do things like plan events with friends … or do you know of any place ? Looking myself to replace fb for obvious reasons.

[@1705louloutte]

I thought about leaving Facebook, but I would miss events and marketplace, and reels about cats..

[@HowievYT]

@@gaelle4328 I don't have an alternative. People that matter, we email, and call.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

I didnt leave twitter, twitter left me

[@SerendipityChild]

Twitter died and became a rabid zombie

[@TheDamokles]

Tesla? Oh, you mean Swasticars?

[@poetic_justice]

Why would any rational person still be on Twitter?

[@lordofutub]

I hope bluesky takes off completely

[@Steve_Coates]

30 million so far and Threads rolling out ads will generate another wave of refugees.

[@chozer1]

Refugees xd

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Blue sky is billionaire investor owned ready to go down the same path. Go join Kolektiva.

[@aimformyheadplease]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 .Who cares how it's funded, it the rules and the enforcement that matter, nothing more, nothing less, and BlueSky is an absolutely stellar platform with an already great community. Don't promote some app you like by unnecessarily and frankly using irrational arguments, it's not a good look. All you did m8 was guarantee that any readers will NEVER even check out Kolektiva by the thoroughly off-putting way you presented.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

@@aimformyheadplease For now. Those who don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

[@JulieLevinge]

Have left Twitter,along with everyone else who has any critical thinking skills.

[@stevethornhill3304]

The new model Tesla SS Swasticar the sat nav always takes the third right and ends up in Poland.

[@alan102g]

i thought it was iceland

[@G_C340]

It's like that loon in Mcarthy era America who refused to ever turn left. That's a good variant!

[@michaelgreaves2375]

...and stays there until they can divide it with Ruzzia?

[@AM-fs1je]

When teaching at an american university (in florida), a colleague often gave a "freebie" test question that all students would (theoretically) get right. One was to circle on a world map, the region where the university was located. Over 10% got it wrong. Many circled the Italian peninsula, some, the subcontinent of India. 🤦‍♂️

[@Conservator.]

Holy moly, I’d expect that at middle school at most.

[@rbaxter286]

Yeah, like none were 'taking the piss'? Sounds like the typical unprovable anecdote, FOAFOAFOAF.

[@grahamkearnon6682]

Yes, outside the top ten Universities the rest give out subpar degrees,I'm being kind. When con artist Trumpf sets up a uni lots of bells should be ringing. Same issue with the religious schools, purely there to indoctrinate. Your a mess America, things look bad, countries are turning their backs to you. Treating allies with recession is madness.

[@silentotto5099]

@@rbaxter286 MAGAs are stupid and if you're a MAGA, you're stupid too.

[@Shimmy246]

I remember watching a “celebrity get me out of here” years ago from Australia and one of the contestants didn’t know where Australia was on a map. How can anyone go to a country, be in that country while having no idea where it is?

[@tealeafandco]

Musk is literally a mix between Max Zorin and Hugo Drax out of the James Bond series. 🤣Wheres Roger Moore when you need him 🤣

[@Confucius_Says...]

Sorry, Zorin was a genius, and Elmo is twit.

[@tealeafandco]

@ Elmo 🤣 Also was Zorin really that genius? Hes my favourite villain in the series because hes just completely nuts 🤣

[@stephenetridge2584]

@@tealeafandco Roger Moor is looking at Musk unhinged salute and raising his creaky eyebrow in dismay

[@Calzaki]

Elon Musk bought Twitter because he thought, and still thinks, that you can buy friends/popularity

[@fastandcurious]

Dividing up Europe is a common interest of Musk and Trump. Musk at AfD conference told the audience via video call exactly that. Get out of the EU. Makes it easier to deal with smaller countries and his companies are less likely to huge EU fines.

[@mootedtols4865]

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”

[@tonyduncan9852]

Indeed.

[@SerendipityChild]

When he said the discrepancy between the Followers and the Views, my first thought was "millions of bots?" rather than "viral tweet"

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

Exactly.

[@martinabsolom2231]

Bernie is the only socialist Democrat as far as I know. Although when I went to America some years ago, the local mayor in Vermont was a socialist. Rare breed.

[@gerrelldrawhorn8975]

Two phases in the US has socialists thatvwlwcted mayors, legislators, and governors. But when theY tried for President the electoral college always posed a barrier. There were several socialist parties @1900-1912 and another wave in the 1930's during the Depression. Some went too extreme or wouldn't support the others for being reformists, not revolutionaries, and even sabotaging the "localist first" groups. But there were many State Reps, Mayors, Governors, Councillors during both this period that coul be defined as Democratic Socialist or Labour Socialist. The problem in the period since the Vietnam War is that the Green Party and other socialist countries have mainly focussed of their fruitless Presidential races. Pure egotism and not establishing an influential legislative base.

[@wendyknight9574]

AOC is.

[@Crouchy232323]

Musk's attacks on Sir Keir Starmer are pure antisemitsm

[@thepangolin5022]

?????

[@craigfoulkes]

​@@thepangolin5022I guess because of Mrs starmer

[@onecupof_tea]

​@@thepangolin5022 Starmer's wife and children are Jewish, starmer is an atheist.

[@tonyduncan9852]

???????? You are an idiot.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Pure antisemitism is when you criticize anything a Jew does.

[@labelmail]

I wrote to the EU commission - this (parts of it) came back Thank you for your enquiry to the Europe Direct Contact Centre. Here is some information on the topics you have expressed your opinion on: This includes a commitment to analyze and mitigate risks arising from preferential treatment or visibility of content on a particular platform, including Mr. Musk's content on his own platform. The Commission has already launched a formal investigation into X, which also addresses how the platform deals with risks to civil discourse and elections

[@onecupof_tea]

It's a propaganda platform for Musk. It would be easier to remove his licence, and ban Twitter from Europe.

[@martinmcdonald4207]

Which begs the question....Why do politicians use this cesspit as way of communicating their thoughts and opinions through this source while at the same time giving respectability to the dreaded madhouse that is Twitter/ X or Elon Musk for that matter.

[@LindaCarruthers-dg7gp]

Because pollies have to trawl all the ponds to catch the fish.

[@NorthernSeaWitch]

Measurable metrics of engagement and feedback. Garbage, but people like numbers to confirm their positions.

[@Servalandark]

Thanks

[@lacommission.-sitcom696]

I shut my Facebook pages and account. No facts check? Bye-bye Facebook!

[@vicferrmat4492]

I have just unsubscribed from X. FaceBook next.

[@SuzanneO707]

👍

[@David-kk5fx]

Don't do social media and never have done. They are constantly monitoring your posts.

[@birchual-reality]

@@David-kk5fx So do you think KZbin isn’t a form of social media?

[@EricaNernie]

Deactivated X a week ago.

[@65geoffrey]

I left twitter because Musk bought it, as a basic protest

[@AudreyWhite-o8v]

Thanks Phil, good video

[@martinabsolom2231]

We might be able to attract some American millionaires who are unhappy with Trump. De Nero and Springsteen are moving to Canada.

[@LenneBecker6090]

Bruce Springsteen? He was a Trump supporter in 2016. Good to know he’s waken up.

[@martinabsolom2231]

@ No. He was not a Trump supporter in 2016, he actually campaigned for Hillary. Before that he campaigned for Obama.

[@brenlane9847]

I never had Twitter, nor do I drive a Tesla. I won't support anything of Edolf Twittler.

[@rickatatastan2695]

Phil describes the Laffer curve. That's justification for reprehensible behaviour - I think it's worth losing those wealthy people, because they aren't investing here anyway, they invest in China. Tax their assets here, they can't take a million acres of land or multiple chelsea flats to Monaco. Also, Monaco is soooo gauche, daaaarling.

[@Arcadia61]

Say you were born in America to non-American parents and only stayed there a couple of months until you were old enough to travel. Even if you have no recollection of your American stay, they can still chase you to pay taxes in America as well as your native country. You can get away from paying eventually but it's a complicated process.

[@G_C340]

Blojo managed it. Tax evasion personified.

[@ls-xo3fs]

Government shouldn't be on Twitter or any social media. They have a website for official announcements. Especially annoying if they ONLY post on social media, since I'm not there, and don't plan to be.

[@EndlessSummer-dh]

As a Canadian, I now feel that fhe UK is becoming like Canada in that neither are in any trade blocks and only act in a support role militarily. It is becoming irrelevant.

[@OdiumDei2]

More than 10 years ago i used Twitter to post something to Blizzard Entertainment relating to World of Warcraft and actually got an answer from the Game Director himself - a constructive one, i might add. As a european based player that felt really, really awesome to me. Was my only positive experience with the platform ever, though. And today Blizzard's Twitter Channels are about as useful as their in-game support (which was also world-leading a long time ago...).

[@travisporco]

checked in on twitter the other day and in the top of my feed was some guy posting a picture of hitler saying we owe him an apology, and not far below that overt XXX pornography...what a dumpster fire.

[@G_C340]

If Europe wants to get its own produced EV's bought it needs to get IONITY expanded and to charge competitive prices to the Tesla Network. It is the charging network that is the pull factor for Tesla, its cars are not value for money otherwise.

[@deborahdownward3881]

Here too. Grey hair just around the front and dark at the back. I merge it all together with highlights/lowlights. So glad you mentioned self care, I'm teaching myself to do it without feeling guilty.

[@fyphfoko]

was the ship computer and he said "please call me eddie if it will help you relax"

[@andywalker9646]

I left twatter last year, my mental health improved immediately.

[@Thoringer]

Don't forget that the Quandt family (owning the biggest share on BMW) heard the explosion at their home when Herrhausen was killed by radicals. Don't think for a second they want to go that direction.

[@Conservator.]

I’m glad I’m driving a BMW and not a Tesla. Also, the very much pro and pan European party Volt have moved from Twitter to BlueSky.

[@someoneno-one7672]

Phil makes a good point on oligarchy in US - these are real oligarchs wielding their own power. It’s opposite to what happened under Putin in Russia: there are individuals mandated to rule or to be rich. Such individuals aren’t oligarchs; Persian patrimony was quite an opposite to oligarchy of various republican city-states. Citizenship existed in ancient and medieval republican city-states alongside the status of subject in monarchies. Citizenship was a fact in the cities of Dutch Republics or in Venice in 17-18th centuries. One could move around Europe to some extend but there were strings attached in whose subject they were (or where they were citizens). Naturalisation in republics was not that straightforward as it meant access to citizens’ rights, and even pronouncing on elf a subject to another monarch needed to be accepted by authorities of the new realm. In England the status of a subject gradually evolved into citizenship over 16th and 17th centuries. In USA and France modern type of national citizenship was established in respective Declarations (of Independence, and of Rights of a Human and a Citizen) upon the revolution in each of those countries. Gradually it spread over many countries. Nation became a collective of citizens who nationalised their state and government. Passports were widely in use in 19th century; they were issued by authorities for travelling purposes. Travelling individuals had to present them to the border services and various authorities in the places where they stayed.

[@dougmorris2134]

It was the Heart of Gold’s Computer that said “you can call me Eddie ….” Not Marvin

[@dougmorris2134]

The Heart of Gold was the space ship with the ‘Infinite Improbabilty Drive”

[@DavidTate-nn5ie]

What a depressingly affable computer.

[@SerendipityChild]

He seemed a bit distracted today, hey. A lot going on for political commentators to keep abreast of

[@JuliePayne]

We should also be worried about EarthLink!

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Bertrand Russell complained a bit about changes to passports after WW1.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Murphy is an emeritus professor of accounting practice. He seems rational enough to me.

[@G_C340]

He seems to post paper tigers to justify his positions. Also Emeritus can mean either "honorary" or "retired", is it one, the other or both?

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

@G_C340 He has recently retired.

[@FamousGrouse4]

The Heart of gold computer said 'please call me Eddie' not Marvin 😁

[@Adam-k8v]

Since Zuckerberg went to Mar a Lago to kiss the ring, I've spent a lot less time scrolling on Facebook, let their ad revenue dry up

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Fill it with trolling until you get banned, then delete it.

[@frankieseward8667]

Just like Icarus. Musk flew too close to the sun and now Twitter is about to be a relic like myspace.

[@tirokopita]

loke?

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Is that why his face melted?

[@frankieseward8667]

@@tirokopita fixed it

[@alundavies1016]

He’s that pasty looking that standing on a chair under a 40W bulb would give him sunburn.

[@LindaCarruthers-dg7gp]

We can hope

[@filipealves6602]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="675">11:15</a> oh my God Phil, the microphone issues are due to its rubbish position! You just need to put it right in front of you and at the distance you were in this time stamp, because for one second the sound quality was amazing!!! I've been complaining about the sound quality and volume of your live videos, and we finally found out why!!! 😅 Please fix? 😅

[@terjeoseberg990]

This is good news. Twitter has turned into a cesspool.

[@simonspeechley2859]

Assisted dying is private legislation. It is still not good law to promote assisted murder

[@Aletsch]

Had an account on twitter for well over a decade, in those earlier days it was fun and useful; and hit a nice sweet spot of minimalism well away from face books many terrible shenanigans. Was less active on there later when I got fed up with how toxic it had become, a number of years before musk bought it. Then, around the time he started doing silly hand waving I decided to go out of my way to bin it on principle; just no, chappo'. Blue sky is probably where i'll end up in the future if I have sufficient cause to be active on traditional social media again, though shall see.

[@simonspeechley2859]

American Public Schools are where the poor kids go.

[@michaelmacdonell4834]

I do not think it is being killed off, so much as it is dying of malnutrition

[@abigailpmm1182]

I left that hellscape.

[@gwendolynmcgrath7697]

Actions speak louder than words

[@evanspierre493]

Should "Prevent " intervene the media ???

[@danityvanityinsanity]

Everybody is moving to Bluesky, I believe.

[@vilandar]

When all the other channels of information stop using Tweet as sources X will die

[@TheCoolhead27]

Thanks for the D student level analysis!

[@thea42]

We need an alternative to fb and insta that's for the people and not run by the broligarchy.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

You mean various Mastodon servers which are run by various normal people. Such as Kolektiva.

[@MrYossarianuk]

I closed my account the day he took over . Mastodon is so much nicer - no ads (at all) and no due to its design one can ever buy it no matter how rich. Reminds me of twitter in 2010

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

People get so confused because every Mastodon website is its own website but they have no problem with Twitter and Bluesky and Threads being 3 different websites :/

[@MrYossarianuk]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 its not exactly true. But the multiple server aspect does confuse people initially. It's also one of the reasons Mastodon's future (unlike nearly every other social media platform) is secure

[@cyberfunk3793]

There is already a rule in places I know about where you obviously are liable for taxes in a country, if you spend over 183 days there of a calendar year. So that part already exist, where you can't for example stay in France legally for ages without paying your taxes there because you are officially registered somewhere else. If you do that, it would be tax evasion. What you aren't going to be able to do is have international agreement of some high taxes for millionaires. There will always be places like Monaco, Singapore, Dubai and Bermuda where they will go if if the alternative is very high taxes in places like London. The only option is to keep the taxes reasonable, so some person that actually prefers London to Dubai, will choose London even if it's a bit more expensive for them from a tax perspective.

[@johnwright9372]

You miss the point. The wealthy hold their money through companies, not in their personal names. They can live where they like as long as their money is elsewhere under another name.

[@cyberfunk3793]

@@johnwright9372 The issue he talked about was personal taxation and how UK allowed at least in the past to live there without paying personal taxes on their "outside to UK" income. It's not due to company taxes outside UK changing that 10k millionaires left UK in 2024. Also, if you wealth is mainly in a foreign company, you obviously aren't going to be able to legally use those funds personally without it being tax evasion in most jurisdictions. It's either going to be taxes on the dividends or salary from the company. If you do some arrangements like taking loans from the company that you'll never pay back, it's also going to be tax evasion or illegal in some other ways. Some European countries actually directly tax you on profits personally on profits a company is making outside the country, if the jurisdiction is deemed as "tax evasion" jurisdiction.

[@FredBlogs-j7j]

You are correct about the rich not being patriotic - they treat the rest of us as toys and our wallets as theirs. We need to take democratic power from them to us. No more Farage/ Blair / Cameron/ Johnson / Truss etc, though I would be happy with the greater British PM ever - Clement Atlee!

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

So what? Let them go to Dubai and keep London for people who actually live there.

[@cyberfunk3793]

@@thewhitefalcon8539 You are the one compensating for the loss of taxes? You don't mind if they double your taxes to balance the budget?

[@digitalcareline]

Eddie was the cheerful ships computer ( With GPP Genuine People Personality) and Marvin was the Paranoid android - Strangely I sympathised more with Marvin - Think Eeyore in robotic form

[@williamcanfor21]

A fool and his money are soon parted

[@zaineliasson]

52.44 Luxembourg is considered a tax haven.

[@markparker5585]

His Ratner moment

[@trulymental7651]

I just tried to delete my twitter it's harder than it looks. I have never used it until today just to tell Musk what I think of him in 100 characters.

[@markgoestofrankfurt]

Try the Truth to Power video from yesterday. Sorted with an app

[@cowmooflagarina]

I thought there were interest payments due a few months after that match in UAE that he was photoed with Kushner. I only thought of it earlier when I was chatting with my friend about it that people were wondering about how he'd make the payments because iirc twitter had lost 10bil in value at that point.

[@adblocker276]

10mil? Or billions

[@cowmooflagarina]

@adblocker276 yeah, bil. Thick fingers and brain lol.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Jimbob Allister talks about two tier policing in Northern Ireland, but he gets the discrimination the wrong was round.

[@Dan-kb2oz]

Are you sure that microphone doesn't require phantom power (48v), Phil? It's odd to say you can't turn the gain up any more and most large diaphragm condenser microphones need it for a loud and good sounding signal. It should just be a push button on your audio interface or in the software sound mixer for it.

[@conorpp1]

All large companies will end up providing apps for support instead of using twitter. Its use will slowly diminish for those purposes

[@EamonCoyle]

I think the biggest problem that Labour have created is the perception of doom in the way they have communicated their policies and their wider promotion or lack of it. The bad things people are associating with them are in relation to tangible things that are happening like the winter fuel payment but the positives are all wrapped up in promise and hope of growth and development with no pathway to actual outcomes !!

[@alexscarbro796]

Putin probably threatened to shoot down the Starlink satellite constellation if he doesn’t do Putin’s dirty work.

[@SuzanneO707]

Never interested anyway. Good riddens.

[@k3v1n73]

schools in the usa get, as far as i now, some money from the local district, some money from the state and some money from the federal goverment. the graphs i saw about this roughly implied a 1/1/1 split, but that may be just the average or something

[@sjakrijnen]

Went to Bluesky

[@minkleymcmoo5248]

Just moved to illinois with my wife. 4.95% flat tax :D

[@benwil1785]

Phil love your channel and content, I agree with you on 90% of everything but please you need to change your background that purple is awful! :D

[@jonmcdevitt]

It's different on every video.

[@benwil1785]

@@jonmcdevitt I've seen similar colours. I get the point of it though it's a Halloween haunted nightmare look. Suitable for these times

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

He was wrong about continuing to support Musk's disinformation campaign.

[@johnmooney9495]

More important things to complain about 😊 The content is as good as it gets.

[@ivan-Croatian]

I left FB around 6 years ago and I left Twitter ~6 months ago. I ain't ever going back.

[@dkupke]

One can only hope

[@user-ii3vn8tn3q]

Blue sky shining on meee Nothing but BLUESKY do I seee

[@zaineliasson]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3027">50:27</a> The US Supreme Court ruled that Obama's Affordable Care Act, which in part mandated citizens have health insurance through a private company, was indeed a tax.

[@newsgeekus1216]

Twitter has some interest payments coming that may not be serviceable. So get the popcorn.

[@SerendipityChild]

Trump signs half a trillion dollars over to the tech sector. More specifically, AI. Don't know how much is landing in X AI's bank account. But he isn't going broke if Twitter goes bust

[@alundavies1016]

That’s why he needs money quick, hence the Mars programme bobbins. Quick Trillion dollars of government money would really help him out.

[@SirAntoniousBlock]

@@alundavies1016 Maybe a release of the Eloncoin? It'll be funny seeing them squabbling for the dollars of the limited pool of cretins. 😂

[@snowman2970]

Waiting for Tesla sales to collapse as well.

[@oakstrong1]

In most states of America synthetic phonics was adopted by 2014, but a few red states remain defiant and their literacy rates are the lowest in the country. So it's not just that schools in poorer parts of America (although red states are poorer) get less funding but their poor perfomance in such a foundational skill as reading is due to insistence on teaching ineffective methods referring to long ago debunked research about synthetic phonics and such as look and say and quessing the content of a text from accompanying pictures by those who DIDN'T learn to read DESPITE such a method. In some states teachers are even BANNED TEACHING analytic phonics, never mind synthetic phonics! For those who are unfamiliar with the topic, here are 4 main pedagocics that have been used in 21st century. *Whole book/Real book method* Children look at picture book, possibly of a story they are familiar with, or they listen to teacher read and try to *guess* what the words mean from the content. The teacher does not point to the words as she reads. *Look and say* A child is expected to remember the word and all the letters in it by its shape, relying on a child's visual memory. Flashcards and chanting the letters ("Multiplication I spell m-u-l-t-i-p-l-i-c-a-t-i-o-n..") is heavily used for memorising vocabulary and often produces fast results initially but as the number of words, especially similar-looking words a child has to retain, many children start failing. This method uses graded *book band books* with high repetition rate of the same words. *Analytic phonics* Kids are taught phonics as incidental suplementary *after* they have been taught by look and say method. This method is better than none when a child comes across a word when he doesn't know how to read, but the temptation to fall back to guess the word as in whole book or look & say method is often too strong to resist. *Syntethic phonics* Children are taught the letter sounds from the very beginning (not just the 26 letters of the alphabet but also di-and trigraphs and longer letter combinations that form some 85% of the words, leaving only 5% for memorization, or part memonrisation = in many cases there is only one "rogue letter that is not true to the sound, while the rest of the word is regular) as building blocks for reading the word. The letters are not introduced in alphabetical order but in sets that can be combined into most words. Thus the child can read their first word on the second day and 103 words by their 6th day (first group). In reality, this method is often initially slower than analytic method depending on a child's phonemic awareness, but produces more confident readers in the long run, when the student habitually chooses to "sound out" the words as their first technique. Synthetic phonics graded readers are based on the graphemes they have been introduced and the length and complexity of the word. Some books are introduced after the child has been introduced to the first group (satipn) some only start from the assumption a child has been introduced the graphemes *to all the 44 sounds* of formal English) progressing to true silent letters, alternative spellings of a sound (ae, ay, ai - and their split forms like "magic e").

[@PeterHuys-w3z]

In Belgium everybody is leaving Twitter/X

[@s3tesh]

isnt that an Eddie, the shipboard computer line and not Marvin?

[@chriselliott726]

Awful muffled and quiet sound Phil. Adverts playing at twice the volume.

[@robbarnett537]

It is very much deserved. It is a shane that it has actually taken so long already.

[@lauralee9482]

Uber is full of Tesla’s, hardly use the company but will have to select the option that is not an electric vehicle unfortunately.

[@richardboland1935]

This is a crisis in marketing industry that is, lets be honest, well deserved by now. If you protect yourself with a smidge of critical thinking then this storm will blow itself out.

[@indigoskywalker]

about time

[@simonpaine2347]

Musk has just excreted that he's renamed Tesla as TeSSla, I would have preferred ToSSla, but maybe neXt time!