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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. Avoid politics (NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.

Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.

Noped right out.

I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ

[–] Lost_My_Mind 3 points 1 month ago

Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

[–] sircac 3 points 1 month ago

Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing

[–] AWittyUsername 3 points 1 month ago

I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon will buy Reddit next and rename it to Xit. Pronounced like...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You're giving him too much credit. He'll probably call it β€œX”, as well, grabbing some other Unicode letter, but he'll keep using the reddit.com domain. Y'know, like twitter.com.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.

[–] someguy3 2 points 1 month ago
[–] titter 2 points 1 month ago

Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)

[–] uienia 2 points 1 month ago

Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I always call it 'X, the everything app.'

[–] Illuminostro 1 points 1 month ago

Xcrement. It's called Xcrement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Can we start calling it Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Xlon’s Twitter

[–] hperrin 0 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't a shower thought

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
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