2022/12/18

Suspended by the Baby Boss at Twitter

Well!  I'm now suspended from Twitter for stating that Elon's jet was in London recently.  (It was flying in the air to Qatar at the time the tweet was sent, though I did not post that fact.  Maybe they were afraid that some migratory birds would be reading my tweets and attack the plane.)

I'm not taking anything down.  I am pointing out this doesn't violate their stated policies, only their unstated policy against annoying the spoiled man-child at the head of the company.

#WeAreAllJohnMastodon


As for why Elon was acting so weird -- attacking and banning journalists and, well, me, for reporting publicly available information that put no one in any danger -- well, here's the answer:  He was lying about what happened in Los Angeles earlier this month.


Update: Well that was a fast review! "You will not be ale to access Twitter through your account due to violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically our rules around: <blank space>" ... uh ... around what?  


That's ok Twitter, we understand the Twitter Rules are more like the Pirates' Code these days!



Update: It's now been two weeks and it's pretty clear that Twitter is ignoring my re-appeal.  Where I pointed out that not only did they fail to provide a reason, their rules about "real time" location tracking clearly don't apply to a post made two hours after Elon's jet took off.  Here's when it took off, by the way:




That's fine, it's Elon's $44B platform now and he can make whatever rules he wants.  And the rest of us can decide this is nonsense and go to other platforms. 

The past couple of weeks I have seriously been enjoying Mastodon as @jpanzer@mastodon.social.  There's plenty of the most useful and interesting people over there, and if there's anything important that happens only on Twitter (happening less and less) one of them will RT it.  So I'm good.  But I'm going to delete the tweet and link to this post as an explanation, and then convert my Twitter account to a "how to Mastodon" stream.  I can't think of anything else worth doing over there.

Here are some great follows over in the Fediverse who have been active the last couple of days:


Come on over, it's fun!


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The Legend of John Mastodon



I dreamed I saw John Mastodon last night,
alive as you and me.
Says I “But John, you’re ten years dead”
“I never died” says he,
“I never died” says he.

“In Twitter HQ, John,” says I,
Him standing by my bed,
“They framed you on a malware charge,”
Says John, “But I ain’t dead,”
Says John, “But I ain’t dead.”

“The Baby Boss killed you John,
they shot you John” says I.
“Takes more than guns to kill a man”
Says John “I didn’t die”
Says John “I didn’t die”

Context: John Mastodon (original article), Joe Hill

See also  my pinned tweet for the past week on twitter.  To recap:

  • I've seen enough; Twitter is in the same position as the Titanic on April 14, 1912 at 2:19AM.
  • Twitter is headed to the bottom of the sea, just like the Titanic. The difference is that many of the passengers aren't going to see a deluge of water if they stay on board, just a deluge of Nazis, hate, and gaslighting.
  • It's certainly possible to survive that wreck for a long time, seal yourself off with your friends, and carry on reasonably well. But why go through all that work when you can just... leave?






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Suspended by the Baby Boss at Twitter

Well!  I'm now suspended from Twitter for stating that Elon's jet was in London recently.  (It was flying in the air to Qatar at the...