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Bagels of Doom's avatar

Prince had at least a good reason to do it.

Elno, on the other hand, is just a dumbass with money.

Blamethrower:  The Weirdening's avatar

God, Prince was fantastic.

Querolous's avatar

Shuhada' Sadaqat has died.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

At least Prince produced some decent music. The app formerly known as Twitter has always been a garbage fire.

GEM's avatar

It was a great information gatherer if you're like me and found that the news on Twitter was 3 days ahead of MSM sites. Also for weather and transportation, it was super timely info. You have to know who to follow and who to ignore.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

You just have to avoid the occasional Nazi.

marydn's avatar

Don't forget the cat videos. And doggo videos. And other animal videos. Can you guess how I spend my time?

marydn's avatar

I saw that Musky Boy was having the word Twitter removed from headquarters but the idiots were blocking a lane of traffic with their cherry picker. The police came by and confirmed they did not have a permit to block the lane so they had to stop. I believe what was left said "er". Typical Musk. Thinks he can do whatever he wants without following laws, social norms, decency...

You Should Ice That Burn's avatar

I saw a reference to that earlier, how come they assume everybody knows what CSAM is?

Mount_Prion's avatar

X, ex twitter. Nothing confusing or redundant here.

Spleen Victoria's avatar

Elno loves X. I mean, who has more x-periences with Xes than Elno? How many women wised up and dtmfa?

BlueSpot's avatar

I guess that Q was a little too on the nose.

Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

"(There was some speculation that he believed just changing his name would void his existing contract, but we assume lawyers explained the law to him.)"

Clearly that wouldn't work. Prince would have to let them know that the contract was not signed by Prince the citizen or Prince the corporation, but by Prince the agent for the individual Prince.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Have you seen his vests? Fringe everywhere. What about that?

La Cieca's avatar

As Pauline Kael once said of Lana Turner, "She isn't Madame X—she's Brand X!"

La Cieca's avatar

Speaking of which I made what I thought was a mildly amusing image only to find you can't post images here anymore.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CvGAdDiOAIQ/?hl=en

marydn's avatar

You can post images to Chat or Notes with a link.

La Cieca's avatar

Yeah, people are swarming all over Chat Notes.

La Cieca's avatar

"Elon Musk, the Artist Currently known as Floppy Disk"

mzf's avatar

The "s" in Disk should be an "c".

The G-7 Experience's avatar

Great minds think alike except- "Floppy Dick" FIFY!

Lionel “8647” Hutz's avatar

We should stop calling them "tweets," at least when Musk does it. I think the proper term now should be "Xcretes." As in "Elon took to X and Xcreted all over the internet."

Phried Ω's avatar

Would that make an anonymous tweet a Secrete?

GEM's avatar

Someone referred to tweeting as "Xitting" and I fell over laughing. How does one pronounce that!?

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I heard Elon wants everyone to call them Xeets.

Notreelyhelping's avatar

In college, I interned in a local politician’s office, and we received (for comment) the revamped logo for a municipality that began with M. There were snow-capped mountains nearby; so they put a line across the top of the M to make it look like mountains.

They passed it me, and the first thing I thought was that they looked just like tits. As an intern, however, I didn’t feel like I should say anything—particularly that—and I passed the artwork on to the next person.

Nobody was saying anything. They were just admiring it or kind of shrugging. Then it was handed to the office manager, who’d been there forever, and she took one look at said something like, “Jesus, they’re tits. How much did they pay for this?”

You could see this wave of relief go through the room. Everybody could see it. They just didn’t want to admit to it. It was a fascinating exercise in group psychology, people not saying what they thought until it was revealed by a person considered authoritative and relatively objective.

The final logo changed, with no snow-caps and one peak of the M larger than the other.

Spleen Victoria's avatar

Hello! I am from the city that recently humiliated itself publicly by endorsing ad slogans calling it “the city that rhymes with fun”. Also Elno’s mommy’s hometown. We resemble this remark.

Hmm. Maybe his mommy’s birthplace has some connection to his 5th grade sense of humour? I think I unlocked a special achievement or something.

(Vagina. We pronounce it so it rhymes with vagina. It was the contemporary pronunciation of the word “regina”. I swear!)

calliecallie, aka pollyanna's avatar

I do not have your discretion. When I was a newbie, someone asked me to take a look at a series of logos developed for the Lake Michigan Circle Tour. One I ruled out immediately, noting that Lake Michigan looked like a penis. They took that one out when they showed the other options to the boss.

Spleen Victoria's avatar

See when our tourist people got in a room and endorsed the city that rhymes with fun they were not blessed with someone like you! If only. Nope, they took an ancient joke popularized by Deadpool and made it their slogan.

(Bangs head in Victorian pronunciation.)

Notreelyhelping's avatar

“Where do you think this is? Florida?”

The G-7 Experience's avatar

Business schools call this the "Emperor's New Clothes Effect"

Sir David Chaillou, KSW's avatar

Now AP sounds like your everyday SovCit. "The entity known as [yours truly], not bound by any law or contract save to the Saudis, will demonstrate how to burn $44 bn in one daft move".

chascates's avatar

Elon Musk said the incident Wednesday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appeared to freeze up during a news conference with other Republican leaders should warrant a "need" for a constitutional amendment.

Musk, who owns Twitter and other companies, tweeted early Thursday morning, "We need a constitutional amendment. This is insane."

Musk’s tweet did not provide specifics on what the potential amendment would say or do.