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The Blue Check debacle rears its ugly head—again

OnlySky has previously reported on the controversial decisions of Elon Musk in his acquisition of Twitter, including the situation of the "blue checkmarks" or "blue ticks." It appears that Musk hasn't learned and is keen to double down on bad ideas. Traditionally, blue checks

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Jordan Peterson speaks—and we're gonna need a bigger shovel

As the old adage goes, if at first you make a fool of yourself... double down. You might remember that recently, Jordan Peterson got himself into embarrassingly hot water when he made a very public proclamation to his 2.7 million followers on Twitter that Yumi Nu—a singer, plus-size

American Humanist Association Board Statement Withdrawing Honor from Richard Dawkins

American Humanist Association Board Statement Withdrawing Honor from Richard Dawkins

I guess Dawkins has a bit of the Twitter-jitters about him, rather like you-know-who. This is from the American Humanist Association: Established in 1953, the Humanist of the Year Award is conferred annually by the American Humanist Association (AHA), recognizing the awardee as an exemplar of humanist values. Communication of

Twexit to Parler: The Right-Wing Are Fleeing Twitter

Recently, hateful right-wing political uberfuhrer Katie Hopkins was banned from Twitter. She had previously said all manner of things, from comparing immigrants to cockroaches to claiming dementia sufferers should not block hospital beds. Sussex Police even reported her tweets after 5 (BAME) Londoners drowned at Camber Sands and she mocked

AOC Burns Rubin

AOC Burns Rubin

I just had to post this because it was so delicious. I don't really know much about Dave Rubin other than that he is a conservative commentator that the left loves to hate as he, presumably, attracts those much-lauded millennials, and because he is gay and agnostic. As

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Internalised Patriarchy and Posting Tweets

Internalising patriarchy is a term that can be used to refer to incidents when women perpetuate sexist ideology through their own behaviour. The idea is that as women are themselves victim to skewed ideas of gender roles, and gender, within society, that hey can end up saying and doing things

Deepak Chopra vs Prof Brian Cox. FIGHT!!!!

Good ole Brian Cox. I miss his wistful stares from mountaintops as he regales the audience with soundbites of majestic physics. The TV presenter/scientist/ex-keyboardist of D-REAM has recently come to Twitter blows with blowhard Chopra and his rather dubious use of real science to espouse his spi

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A smorgasbord of philosophical arguments against Twitter

This is a very amusing philosophical take on the phenomenon of twitter, by James Anderson. on his blog Analogical ThoughtsThe Virtual Home of James N. Anderson. Check it out. SEMI-SERIOUS WARM-UP ARGUMENT (1) Twittering requires communication in 140 characters or less. (2) Almost nothing of substance can be adequately communicated