Xitter revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/musks-x-revokes-paid-blue-check-from-united-auto-workers-after-strike-called/

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21 Comments

tuff_wizard@aussie.zone · 31 pts · 2y

This dude is taking pettiness to strange new places.

scorpious@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2y

“Xitter,” pronounced “Shitter”

MalReynolds@slrpnk.net · 16 pts · 2y (6 replies)

Xitter ! love it, now lexicon

Usage: Can't wait to watch Xitter (pronounced Zit - ter) pop after Musk wrecks the train.

dojan@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y (4 replies)

I’ve always read X as a “sh” adjacent sound so Xitter basically reads like “shitter” to me.

PupBiru@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y

this is the way

Neve8028@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Shylophone

dojan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Haha. Nah, it’s because of Chinese.

anguo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

So it's probably more specific to "xi", and not x by itself ;)

PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Shitter is probably the best name for it I have heard so far.

itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 2y

He is turning himself into a comical evil villain. Next he’ll be explicitly his evil plan to 007.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Musk looks more and more unhinged in each successive pic i see of him. Countdown to OD?

VelvetStorm@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

Christ we can only hope.

HellAwaits@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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Dibbix@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Do you have a source for this? I've looked but haven't found anything.

MisterD@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It's as if he's censoring them.

BillyTheSkidMark@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

Nooo, he wouldn't do that! He's a free speech absolutist remember?

CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world · 6 pts · 2y

Yikes, that thumbnail. Musk is literally a neckbeard now? He must be leaning into it.

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · -9 pts · 2y (5 replies)

My actual only source of musk spam is this fucking community and I'm gonna do my part by blocking it

Gamey@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y (3 replies)

It's literally kept in this community so people can easily block it...

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Is that the actual purpose? I genuinely assumed it was just an incredible irony

Gamey@feddit.de · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

It doesn't always work but yea, people all over Lemmy started to complain about all the posts covering Twitter and Reddit so many of them are in dedicated communities now. I actually like to watch Musk fuck up so unbelivably every few days but others don't and that's a good compromise if you ask me!

sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y

Huh, neat

HellAwaits@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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