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    The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

    Media Matters has screencaps. Not sure what Musk hopes to achieve other than looking like an idiot.
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    He denounced the ruling as a politicized smear and is only not seeking re-election because of the possible press attention on his family. Basically another Republican denying that they've done anything wrong despite the massive evidence.
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    Peter Cullen To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

    Frank Welker got one in 2016. Great to see Peter Cullen also receiving one!
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    If an actual brawl breaks out at some point, I hope it's televised.
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    What stupid thing did the GOP say or do this time? Episode 3!

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67418938 Tim Burchett was talking to a reporter when Kevin McCarthy gave him a shove from behind. McCarthy is saying the contact was accidental. Twitter thread by the reporter here. Matt Gaetz has filed an ethics complaint regarding the incident.
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    Conspiracy lunatic thread - people who believe in absurd nonsense are dangerous

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/qanon-shaman-stormed-capitol-jan-6-files-paperwork-run-congress-rcna124858 Is this an "If you can't beat em, join em" thing?
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    Climate change (because it's still political for some reason)

    Either way, he's probably going to be spending the rest of his life in a Panamanian prison.
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    Police behaving badly

    Slightly embarrassing for NZ police: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/11/09/ex-cops-social-media-pages-an-ongoing-embarrassment-for-police/ An ex-cop was running a Facebook page where cops were posting homophobic memes and other generally offensive stuff.
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    The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

    He'll announce he's making his own game console with hookers and blackjack.
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    The blockchain is going to destroy everything

    As far as I can tell, they were just being used as exotic lighting at the event. As NovaSaber says, it was likely someone not knowing what they were doing.
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    The blockchain is going to destroy everything

    Sounds like, from what I read elsewhere, the UV bulbs used were ones ordinarily used for sterilizing surfaces, and thus were far too powerful for what they were being used for.
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    The blockchain is going to destroy everything

    https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-guilty-fraud-00125161
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    The New TFwiki Discussion Thread (2023)

    Hard to say - it sounds like DDG sources data from Bing, and I discovered that TFWiki wasn't showing up on Bing either. A test I did just now on both Bing and Duck Duck Go had the site appear in search results, so hopefully it's now fixed.
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    The New TFwiki Discussion Thread (2023)

    It might have been the site's robots.txt, which was set to not give their crawler permission to index the site. Even though that hasn't changed in eons and their crawler was indexing it anyway. I've added permissions for them, so that might fix it.
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    I feel like they're going to need to hit him with something more substantial than a $10,000 fine to stop him violating gag orders. He can probably find that much down the back of his sofa.
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    The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

    https://futurism.com/twitter-deeper-trouble-advertisers Does Musk actually have a billion dollars to give to Wikipedia at this point?
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    Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

    Trump in 2020: Sidney Powell is a part of my truly great team of lawyers. Trump now: MS. POWELL WAS NOT MY ATTORNEY, AND NEVER WAS.
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    The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor

    How did we ever get by without Musk's caliber of humour?
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    UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

    On the up side, the Conservatives just lost two by-elections in "safe" seats, and are now starting to panic about the next general election. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/21/jeremy-hunt-set-to-quit-as-mp-in-fear-of-a-portillo-moment
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    Florida, Florida, Florida

    An easy mistake to make. Politics is mayhem a lot of the time at the moment.


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