🇺🇸🇬🇧🏳️🌈 | Tend to talk about climate, bikes, transit, infrastructure, politics | Opinions my own. (ojc on bsky) #XDissenter .. mostly gone to 🦋
Worcester, MA
Joined October 2007
- Tweets10.3K
- Following548
- Followers337
- Likes29.7K
Pinned Tweet
I was planning to stop using this terrible platform on Jan 20th but honestly I just hate opening it now. Come find me at the other place.
Oliver is on bsky 🚲🚎🚅 retweeted
This is my final post on this platform (aside from my social media team's pro forma posts noted below) until it is no longer owned by Elon Musk.
Please find me on other social media platforms including #BlueSky (bsky.app/profile/michaeleman…)
#Xodus
This account will go dormant on Jan 20. You'll still find me on @BlueSky (bsky.app/profile/michaeleman…)
& other socials (michaelmann.net/). My social media team will continue to post links here to events/interviews/etc. on a pro forma basis. Replies will be turned off.
This platform boosts right wing voices and suppresses dissent.
By posting here you are adding to the network effects that give it power, especially if you’re a journalist, politician, or institution.
Today would be a great day to leave.
All you MAGA saps got played.
"$2T spending cuts!" -- Oh actually, no.
"No new wars" -- Threatening f*cking Denmark
"Lower grocery prices!" -- Oh, that's quite hard to do actually.
Pretty sure they'll find time to cut taxes for the rich though.
cnbc.com/2025/01/09/elon-mus…
The European Federation of journalists represents ~300,000 journalists and considers it unethical to continue posting here.
Please everyone join them and leave your accounts dormant (with an indication of where you’ve gone 🦋) on Jan 20th:
X-odus: As of 20 January 2025, we have decided to stop publishing content on Elon Musk's platform X. We can no longer ethically participate in a social network that its owner has transformed into a machine of disinformation and propaganda. 👇europeanjournalists.org/blog…
Oliver is on bsky 🚲🚎🚅 retweeted
Fuck this place, and its owner. On BlueSky you can read what people say without having to scroll down a long line of blue tick Nazis. See you there. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitt…
Oliver is on bsky 🚲🚎🚅 retweeted
Mass X-odus: professionals desert Elon Musk’s network ft.com/content/30510160-88d0…
Hi @DavidLeBoeuf @robyn4senate @RepMcGovern I don’t suppose you’d like to ditch this awful platform and join us on the better one? 🙂
Btw when you’re ready to get off this awful platform, don’t be fooled by threads’ high number of user accounts:
He’s right. I’m going to plan to stop posting here on Jan 20th also.
The reply boost to people willing to pay Musk (along with other problems) have wrecked this platform.
Join us on the current most popular app on the App Store: b l u e s k y 🦋
1. A few days ago, I wrote a thread about the pros and cons of staying on this platform and asked for your views. They were very helpful. As a result, I’ve decided to stop using X from January 20. Already I’m mostly posting now on BlueSky (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social) instead.🧵
I’d add, most importantly, they don’t give a megaphone to the worst of humanity who are willing to pay Musk for a huge boost in the replies to tweets.
Thank you. This platform is poisonous. We should all decamp to 🦋
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/n…
As I asked in my public comment and nobody answered: Where is this libertarian energy when we’re talking multifamily housing??? The market screams for more of it and yet the city keeps it illegal or heavily restricted/over regulated almost everywhere.
Wtf was Colorio even talking about saying the city council doesn’t control land use?? #worcpoli
.@marco_cartolano I’d love to see your city council threads on b s k y ! 😀❤️