Twinkle twinkle little copper
Meanwhile…
To report racist, homophobic, and transphobic incidents…but not of course misogynist ones, because they don’t exist, and misogyny isn’t even a word, let alone a thing.
Also what does the paint job on that car have to do with racism? What does it have to do with hostility and suspicion toward immigrants? What does it have to do with class? Why has Rainbowism & Pride displaced all other forms of human rights struggle?
Are their tasers set to “tickle”? Do their guns sport unicorn stickers and shoot glitter?
Twitter has become unnavigable. Now what was initially largely worthless has become completely useless due to the inability to link to different pages or profiles. I hope twitter goes the way of myspace, tumblr, and other shitty, failed “social” media sites. I’m not sure participating in discussions that revolve around stupid twitter commentary is even worthwhile. Sorry, a little off topic, but not being able to see a wider picture of who, what and where the individual comments derive makes it like a quote site, albeit a fucking dreadful one, with worthless soundbites. I’m sure their goal is for people to create an account, but no, twitter can stick it in their ass. Not signing up. Ever. :P
I agree. Of course, since it was largely worthless initially, I don’t really care that it has been completely useless, because I never cared about it.
Yes, it’s one big “whatever”.
And then in the tweet, which is impossible to navigate away from now, there is a link to the Telegraph’s paywalled site. Lovely. I’m sure I can live without what the Telegraph, WSJ, NYT, or the WaPo, et al says about anyfuckingthing anyway. Yay for non paywalled competition. Let the money grubbers die with their spineless subscribers. :P
Sorry folks, just a little fed up. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cop cars shouldn’t look like clown cars.
Really, they shouldn’t. Police have a job to do: policing society. It’s a hard job, and sometimes it comes to violence, but we’d rather it didn’t, and one of the ways that we reduce the violence is we put cops in uniforms, with hats and badges, and we put them in police cars, with big clear black-and-white or blue-and white markings, and flashing lights on top. Those trappings command respect; people know who the police are; they defer to them.
If you put the police in clown cars, then they won’t command the same respect, and that’s going to lead to more violence.
Some years back, one of the airlines dressed their fight attendants in military-style uniforms. Not actual military uniforms, just something that had that look. Then they changed styles, and the flight attendants complained that they were being assaulted more. The look matters.
Meanwhile, one of the local area police departments (in Alabama) is recruiting new officers using image of officers in riot gear holding assault rifles.
Not trying to compare anything, just thinking these are sad commentaries on the images police departments have of themselves and what they want to present to the public.
@ 2-4 – Anything you don’t like you can just ignore.
@7 I guess so, but it’s a sad state of affairs. I have been ignoring quite a lot already. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sorry for being so O/T…
I don’t mind off topic, I do mind complaints about subject matter. If you don’t like the subject matter just skip the post.
@9, I can do that and the subject matter matters mostly, I don’t mind that, but the inaccessability of peripheral info is frustrating and unnecessary, and makes the subject matter myopic without the ability to follow up without becoming a sponsor of whoever is presenting the subject matter.
B&W is great, I love it. Let’s get that out of the way first. :) The problem for me is twitter, and while B&W is not a twitter call and reply site, there are a lot of posts that are based on twitter commentary. This was not a problem until recently, as twitter was navigable without signing in. I could look into whoever’s bio, other tweets, followers, and get an idea of where and why the replies were coming from, and do a little investigation into how legit the twitterer is. Paywalled sites present a similar problem for me. I don’t like being manipulated into being a ‘follower’ or ‘subscriber’ or ‘sponsor’. I really don’t see what value it has that requires this kind of allegiance. If there is good information to present, or even good opinion, then I am all for it, but don’t let me read the first sentence and demand my e-mail address, or a monthly donation. A request is fine, but a requirement is quite something else. It irks me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can still navigate Twitter on my Mac, but no longer can on my Samsung tablet, or my Windows 10 computer at work. As soon as I click on any thread or image on the latter two, I get the “sign in or sign up” notice. All are these devices are using Google Chrome. Weird. I figure it’s just a matter of time before my Mac access cacks out too. At that point I likely won’t bother anymore, as I’m never going to sign up either.
Hm. I didn’t realize they’d changed the rules.
But, I can’t help it. I used to have trouble seeing the point of Twitter at all, but now so many relevant (to my interests at least) conversations take place there that I can’t not use it. I’m sorry they’ve made it annoying and I’m certainly not trying to get people to subscribe to paywalled sites, I’m just drawing on reporting and discussion that interests me.
‘Hate cars’ for ‘hate crimes’: the police surely have better things to do, including looking into racism and sexism in their own ranks. But what this surely amounts to, after a steady reduction in the police force over a number of years, is mere publicity, making it look as if things are being done (it’s even made the Telegraph!), with friendly coppers buzzing around, sirens screaming, and knocking on doors because somebody wrote what might be construed as a nasty tweet in some bedsit in Hackney, while other coppers do unfriendly things out of the public eye, except when it’s arresting women for protesting against murderous male rage and others for mounting vicious assaults on statues.
Perfect car for delivering balloon arrangements.
So yeah, I can type in the individual poster on twitter, go to their page, see their tweets, but no clicking on pictures, no clicking on replies or authors of replies, no clicking on anything without the signup/login popup. If you sign out and try to navigate the site you will see what I mean. If you even try to click on trending or ‘for you’ it takes you back to the previous page. Anything you try to navigate away from takes you back to the previous page. This is very recent. Twitter has become the sewer of all sewers on the internet. It’s not just annoying, it’s not worth the effort to try and navigate the site anymore. I think they miscalculate how important it is for people to hear these worthless opinions from every dipshit with a fucking internet connection. I’m not one of them, I can easily live without anything anyone says on twitter. I do see the problem with how we interact with issues here, and how twitter is a source of relevant topics of discussion, but really, if the site is now unnavigable, then this is a loss for everyone who doesn’t want to sponsor such a shitty site in the first place. I know there is no promotion for support for paywalled sites here, or any promotion at all, and there are some interesting and relevant bits on various sites that are not easily accessed, but for me it’s the principle of the thing. Look at how easy it still is to get news of issues that are worthy of discussion or debate that don’t require the commitment of having your e-mail address, mobile number, or an account. As if twitter was that important anyway… Just because nearly everyone uses it now doesn’t make it all powerful and indispensable. They can go fuck themselves as far as I care. Twitter was never that important, and never will be. I thought they were headed in the right direction when they banned Donnie Dipshit, but now they think they deserve some kind of exclusivity of membership. Nah. :P
I navigate Twitter just fine without a Twitter account, including viewing and downloading photos (e.g. mebulous entity) on a Mac mini (with the latest macOS 11.5.2) and a Pixel 3a phone (with the latest Android 11 update, so I imagine a Samsung tablet should work too).
I imagine the problem here is Twitter leaving cookies in a browser, then Twitter responding to the cookies when browsing Twitter in a following session. I imagine this does not affect me because I have several browsers installed on each device, and each browser is set to block cookies and/or delete cookies at the end of each session.
(Mozilla built a similar functionality into their Firefox browser “Containers” extension, but since I learned my way first, I’m done learning for now.)
I get twiliter’s Twitter complaint. Especially if you follow a link to a whole Twitter thread (or better still, tweet number 5 of a thread), I can’t read to the end. Frustrating, but then on the other hand it stops me spending an hour wandering around Twitter aimlessly because I have this impulse to READ ALL THE WORDS so in the long run, it’s good for me.
twiliter, I was getting the same problem. I found it very annoying, especially when people linked to a tweet about a story on a newspaper site, and I couldn’t follow that link. Twitter just kept putting their sign up or eff off popup in the middle of the screen.
I installed a free Safari browser extension from duck duck go, and that seems to have fixed it. The popup now only occurs when I open a page to twitter, and then stays closed when I close it.
Now I can burn my eyes out with each and every tweet from “Harker, the Storyteller,” insisting at length that the belief that women exist is similar to Nazi antisemitism.
Thanks Dave and Papito, there might be some workaround I can try, but really, the motivation to be able to surf twitter isn’t very strong… ;) Unfortunately though, as Ophelia noted, there is a lot of relevant info there, so I might give it a shot. (ツ)_/¯
Great, now can we stop talking about twiliter & Twitter & how much twiliter hates Twitter?
Sowwy. :D
My ex used to say, whenever we spotted some godawful paint job on a vehicle, “That cost extra.” This rainbow vomit paint job on the cop cars? “That cost extra.”. And to no purpose whatsoever. It’s amazing to me how an extremely conservative institution, like the police, has been so wholly captured by fairytale nonsense.
And kicked women in the teeth in the process. Amazing, isn’t it.
Well, I’m not surprised they kicked women in the teeth. They’ve done that forever.
Serious question: Is this a police car from Richard Scarry’s “Busy Town?”
#23. I think, maddog, it’s the Boris Johnson way of avoiding going about things: endless announcements of eye-catching projects that either never get done or prove to be useless when tried. BJ seems to have infected everything.