I've stopped using Twitter/X now Musk has successfully turned it into a propaganda engine for Trump. If you want to find other places to chat, I keep up to date with where to find me. Bluesky for chat, and LinkedIn for work, are the main ones.

@AlanJParks Looks like it's your desk??

@lewis_goodall He doesn't need to distance himself, it's nothing to do with him. What he's doing is condemning it.

@JamesWelbes Maybe his newest set of lawyers have finally persuaded him to settled. If it does go to court it will take years. So perhaps this is him trying to prepare the spin for his coming settlement

@tomwillmot @armintalic Innovation doesn't need to be at any cost. It's a wild west at the moment and we need regulatory guardrails to protect individuals and small biz until good practices and ethical standards get embedded. Once your personal data is in the model, it's too late to complain.

@tomwillmot Which is interesting in terms of legal liability for them — because you are still an EU citizen, and so still covered by the protections over invasive use of your personal data. Whether you use a VPN or not doesn't affect their requirement to comply.

@sama It _is_ your fault that you can't provide the same service in EU/UK — it's because you simply won't respect people's legal rights to control the use of their own data. Be less greedy for data, more open about how it's used, and you'd be able to serve EU/UK just fine.

@prashant_baldha @WordPress @photomatt @DotheWoo @WooCommerce @DevelopWoo @alexmoss @sejournal Companies can't/won't rebuild their entire website in days. Things like WPdrama lead to slow strangulations of an ecosystem over years, rather than quick changes. There is still time for Automattic and the community to get Matt to reverse the nuclear option and not blow it all up

@covidinquiryuk Please could you also post on Bluesky, as there are many UK citizens there who want to stay informed about the inquiry, but who can't condone platforms owned by people giving fascist salutes

Damn, briefly checked in on X for DMs etc and got tricked into tweeting. Am normally only on Bluesky... going back there right away. Run from the fascists, run!

@SkyNews Feels like a quality outlet would add the context to his false claim, that the American economy is actually way better than when Biden inherited it from Trump. We're entering an era where it's not enough to simply put false statements in quotation marks and wash your hands

@David_Leavitt And how many people will lose health cover after insurance companies buy the data from Musk?

@Shayan86 It's not like a factcheck of this report would negate it, is it? Jr is widely regarded as an idiot, with quite a track record of idiotic behaviour and speeches/tweets. He is Trump's son. The mission is futile. Etc So isn't it now the duty of journalists to just say it?

@WarrenLNaida Only for elections to the EU bodies, and it's to catch irregularities in process. In the USA your state's democratic election results must first be okayed by the Senate of the United States. Kamala Harris just led the certification of the November results. Same same.

Popping back briefly to say it really is time to escape Musk's platform. His agenda is clear. Don't support it with your content, or your eyeballs. Bluesky is working out well, come over and give it a try.

@kellie At least he's admitting the drama is all created by him, rather than cosplaying the victim as usual

@AlanCrouch4 Yep, and the even crazier thing is that the EU mobile networks still give their customers free roaming in the UK — so it's just the UK networks that have screwed their UK customers by removing EU roaming as soon as they no longer had to provide it by law.