11 WTF Moments From βCharacter Limit,β the Book About How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,' by reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tells wild story of billionaire's disastrous takeover
"Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter," by
@kateconger.bsky.social and @rmac.bsky.social, is out today. Here are a few choice gems from the book, including a fake private eye, a shocking blowup with Grimes, and a conspiracy theory about "ghost employees" at Twitter:
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Photo of a beautiful shorthaired tuxedo tabby receiving chin scratches on my lap. Iβm wearing dark blue jeans and a black top.
I was leaving a meeting at the humane society today when this young man ambushed me at my car and pinned me to the ground (his name is Devon and he lives in their little feral/stray colony β€οΈ)
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POV: you are a pedestrian in downtown Los Angeles
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Romelu Lukaku π§πͺ makes his mark with β½οΈπ
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15.09.2024 19:01 β π 157 π 7 π¬ 1 π 1
Clarissa was incredible: 1,500 thrilling, excruciating pages. I'd ignored/avoided it for so long, and it was the absolute opposite of the frilly, genteel book that I had expected. I was a fool: now my eyes are open.
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Caitlin Clark breaks WNBA rookie scoring record as historic season rolls on
Clark surpassed Hall of Famer Seimone Augustusβs point total Sunday after setting the WNBA single-season assists record two days earlier.
Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark on Sunday set the WNBA record for points in a rookie season, eclipsing Hall of Famer Seimone Augustus in the third quarter of a game against the Dallas Wings at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
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Apple Macintosh Plus desktop computer, 1986
Oh no, I'm not ready for my tech to be in a museum
15.09.2024 19:26 β π 2900 π 187 π¬ 82 π 24
In amongst the countless light bulb bayonets on the 7 acre field, there has been the odd nugget to temp me back π
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MAN OF THE MATCH: Lamine Yamal. π
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Photo of a Peterson bird field guide showing warblers in fall plumage, which can be very confusing to identify
Happy Confusing Fall Warblers season everybody
15.09.2024 14:38 β π 2022 π 208 π¬ 50 π 22
When writers tell you they have no control over the hed, this is what they're talking about. NYT just changed it up on Bouie's piece to soften the edges because they don't want to offend the Nazis reading the paper.
14.09.2024 19:06 β π 894 π 252 π¬ 18 π 8
A lesson on how to create a mosaic π€β€οΈ
13.09.2024 01:38 β π 477 π 68 π¬ 15 π 5
Megan Thee Stallion 'Neva Play' feat. RM has been chosen as the new theme song for WWE SmackDown.
SmackDown is the most viewed television show on Friday nights in the USA. Itβs a professional wrestling tournament, where the world's best wrestlers battle against each other to win the coveted title.
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Article: Christiano Ronaldo hits 1 billion social media followers
I mean, I knew he had a temper, but this seems excessive
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my ancestors: *hunting a wild boar and grinding corn by hand so they can have breakfast*
me: *trying to stir natural peanut butter* jesus christ will my suffering NEVER end
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Laura Loomer is coming apart worse than usual now, saying Lindsey Graham needs to come out of the closet and then said KJP was a Haitian lesbian who's mad that I told the world about them eating cats.
Hope we see more reporting on the NYT and WaPo dedicated to Trump's new closest confidant.
12.09.2024 21:24 β π 308 π 40 π¬ 25 π 3
my hand holding up a black and white striped fanta can with beetlejuice on it and βhaunted appleβ flavor in green, matching my nails exactly lmao, theyβre pointy glittery green thumb and middle finger, black and white striped on the others
new fanta flavor βhaunted appleβ matches my beetlejuice coded nails & i could not be more pleased about this
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The October surprise is gonna be Laura Loomer posting on Twitter that she's pregnant
13.09.2024 01:41 β π 634 π 60 π¬ 40 π 7
<JUNG KOOK: I AM STILL> Photobooth
Create your own 'I AM STILL' poster at the link below
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#μ κ΅ #JungKook #JUNGKOOK_IAMSTILL
09.09.2024 13:22 β π 1766 π 430 π¬ 6 π 33
My partner, screaming, tears streaming down face: we canβt fit any more books in this apartment. Theyβve taken over the dining table. You havenβt even read most of these!
Me, at a stoop looking at a free book about narratives of mental illness in early modern Europe: hmm, interestingβ¦
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when i bought a playstation2 in 2000 it cost 300 american dollars and when i turned it on for the first time it caught fire but it was still a better deal than 700 human dollars for a videogame system
10.09.2024 18:14 β π 480 π 31 π¬ 13 π 2
Trump saying Orban and Putin said things were fine when Trump was in office is not a flex sir
11.09.2024 02:08 β π 157 π 14 π¬ 0 π 1
I saw Concepts of a Plan open for System of a Down in 2003
11.09.2024 02:40 β π 2275 π 306 π¬ 26 π 11
This Taliban lecture from Harris is very solid. Lays out all the points people are likely to have forgotten, builds on each sentence with the next, brick-by-brick, nothing extra, but everything needed to make the points she's trying to make. A+ answer.
11.09.2024 02:22 β π 902 π 65 π¬ 18 π 0
Photo of my large brown tuxedo tabby Fergus and petite white cat Francie sitting up on top of folded brown paper bags that are lying on a wooden kitchen floor.
The cats were getting under foot so I put out some traps.
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Strange indeed
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