My final tweet, from New Year’s Eve 2017. Didn’t cost me shit.
OK, pop quiz. if you had $44 billion lying around doing not very much you would:
- Feed the hungry.
- House the homeless.
- Buy Twitter.
I guess I get it, kinda, sorta. I mean, I like toys. I just bought a canister stove for my occasional camping adventures; MSR said they didn’t have the bits to modernize my Bronze Age RapidFire, then offered me 30 percent off on a new burner. So, ’ray for MSR and for me.
But Twitter? Maybe Elon has the bits to fix that hot mess, and maybe he doesn’t. He can certainly throw bales of cash at it until he tears a rotator cuff or finds some other shiny object to money-whip until boredom sets in once again.
Me, I don’t even want to use Twitter for free.
Tags: antisocial media, Elon Musk, MSR
Mad Blog Media 
April 26, 2022 at 7:52 am |
I guess its something to go along with his Penis Rocket. After all, the rich don’t have to do thoughtful things with their money. Its just another toy in the toybox.
Well, one thing is for certain. Given how shitty Twitter is, I doubt he would have the energy to make it worse. I got a “gratuitous violence” warning last week when I said the proper place for dictators like Putin was hanging upside down from a lightpost like his brother in crime Benito.
April 26, 2022 at 8:03 am |
Maybe he could start with a rebranding. I associate the word “twitter” with the birdsong I hear in the mornings around here. How’bout Elon renames his new plaything “Bots ’n’ Twats?”
April 26, 2022 at 8:10 am |
More like “bellows and bullshit”.
April 26, 2022 at 8:19 am |
Too bad The Firesign Theatre got there firstest and bestest with “The FutureFair: A Fair for All, and No Fair to Anybody.”
April 26, 2022 at 7:56 am |
Must be nice to have a $44 billion dollar hobby. I wonder how N + 1 works in that world
April 26, 2022 at 8:09 am |
It’s gotta be like being Bruce Wayne buying hotels on a whim, but without all that irksome Batman baggage.
April 26, 2022 at 10:35 am |
How about spending $55 million for a ride to the space station? Which reminds me, it’s time for a short interlude from the digital madness. The exception, of course is the Mad Dog’s pickle barrel. It’s more like a digital Mad Magazine run by George Carlin.
April 27, 2022 at 3:44 pm |
My favorite Christian Bale spending big money scene.
April 27, 2022 at 3:50 pm |
And on that note, the mortgage backed securities for Southern California, might lose a little value in the next 2 or 3 years. It’s not good being at the end of the pipe.
https://apnews.com/article/business-environment-water-shortages-california-colorado-river-71b47b27bcbf73658b10bf131817d6ec
April 27, 2022 at 7:23 pm |
If you thought killing each other over oil was bad, just wait until we start killing each other over water. Hell will fill up a lot faster than Powell or Mead.
April 27, 2022 at 8:17 pm |
Man, I need a digital detox. And, I need some serious dirt time. Sorry I was so cheery today.
April 26, 2022 at 8:05 am |
Oh yeah… I also wonder how this “new & improved & free speech” twitter is going to work in Europe with their Digital Services Act which will force platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter to better police content or face steep fines.
April 26, 2022 at 9:04 am |
Mr. Musk is a $%!#head. A very, very uber rich and smart $%!#head, but still a $%!#head. I’ll hold on to my opinion until someone proves me wrong. And no – I won’t be buying a Tesla ever or taking a ride on his dick rocket.
April 26, 2022 at 10:26 am |
Twits on twitter twittering away their time tweeting. Worthless.
April 27, 2022 at 7:36 am |
Jeebus. There are at least a half-dozen thumbsuckers per media outlet per diem on the Twatter thing. Have the Ukrainians weighed in yet? No? I guess they’re busy.
April 26, 2022 at 5:35 pm |
Shows you where my mind is. I never got past the New Year’s Eve dinner photo! 🙂
April 27, 2022 at 8:19 am |
Mmmmm….do you make your own green sauce? I’ve got some of mine in the freezer and your photo reminded me to get it out and start cookin!
April 27, 2022 at 8:33 am |
I do indeed, Herb old scout. My recipe is a lot like this one, from the Santa Fe School of Cooking. I use 2/3 cup each of hot and mild green chile.
Now that I think of it, I haven’t made any of this lately. I need to get on the ball, is what.