OT (very): What's going on at Twitter?

[ChicagoGranny]

As Richard Dawson would have said ... XOXO

As Richard Dawkins would have said ... XX, XY, XXY, XXXY, XYYY, XO, XO/XX mosaicism, XY/XXY mosacism, XXY/XXXY/XXXXY mosaicism.

[loggerhead12]

That guy is so dumb.

[babydinosnoreless]

Did Elon forget that X is best known as the universal symbol for "wrong"?

As a gen x I'm officially offended.

And I'm offended that Family Feud is providing all that free advertisement after each wrong answer.

I have a feeling your generation will soon be sued and renamed in order to protect the X man's trademark anyway, so don't worry.

Although I could be wrong, according to the 100 people surveyed.

X!

If they rename us it needs to be after our favorite word. Gen f

[lazarus]

If they rename us

Although I generally eschew labels, I admit I was born on the borderlands of Gen X but in the foothills of Boomerness. So I consider myself to be stuck in the middle. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

[Janknitz]

Just glad I said Bye Bye Birdie while there was still a bird to flip.

[lazarus]

I said Bye Bye Birdie

I detwitted, myself, a few weeks ago.

[chunkyfrog]

I was too busy when it was "in".
Later, I had books to read..
Never wanted to be a "twit".
If I am anyway--whatever . . .

[babydinosnoreless]

If they rename us

Although I generally eschew labels, I admit I was born on the borderlands of Gen X but in the foothills of Boomerness. So I consider myself to be stuck in the middle. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right.

My husband was in the last years of the boomers and I am in the first years of gen x. I find the labels mostly funny and somewhat accurate. There is one guy who does reels on fb and has each of the generations on a zoom meeting. Gen Z is almost always an empty chair which just cracks me up.

[lazarus]

Technically, my wife's a boomer and I'm an X.

Here's an article on Y it is that X may soon be all about a chair that is as empty as Z's:

"If Musk's bullheaded past is any guide, he will ride the X concept into the ground — or at least, until Twitter goes bankrupt, or he runs out of money to prop it up, or his fellow investors in the company get nervous enough to oust him."--https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal

[babydinosnoreless]

Technically, my wife's a boomer and I'm an X.

Here's an article on Y it is that X may soon be all about a chair that is as empty as Z's:

"If Musk's bullheaded past is any guide, he will ride the X concept into the ground — or at least, until Twitter goes bankrupt, or he runs out of money to prop it up, or his fellow investors in the company get nervous enough to oust him."--https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal

My husband was a boomer. Sadly he passed away recently.

If twitter or x or whatever they want to call it goes under, IMO no big loss. I've never been a fan.

[chunkyfrog]

Sorry for your loss, Babydino.

[lazarus]

Sad to hear, Baby-D.

How are you doing?

Frankly we are much more interested in you and your well-being than in my off-topic Xtwit rants, after all.

Seriously, if you are comfortable talking, we are all comfortable listening.

Hope you are doing well.

-Jeff

[babydinosnoreless]

Sorry for your loss, Babydino.

Thank you !

[babydinosnoreless]

Sad to hear, Baby-D.

How are you doing?

Frankly we are much more interested in you and your well-being than in my off-topic Xtwit rants, after all.

Seriously, if you are comfortable talking, we are all comfortable listening.

Hope you are doing well.

-Jeff

Thank you Jeff. I'm pretty broken. It was completely unexpected. He just went to sleep and never woke up. I am thankful he didn't suffer. The ME said it was natural but they don't know what caused it. They sent tissue samples out to histology (I think that the term) to see if he had some underlying cause like liver disease or cancer. He was in the hospital about a month before with pneumonia but seemed to be getting better.

[lazarus]

I'm pretty broken. It was completely unexpected. He just went to sleep and never woke up. I am thankful he didn't suffer.

Devastating! Sobering!

Thanks for sharing that.

I am sure you have some great memories to treasure and focus on, once you have processed the shock of it.

We all have different belief systems to help us through, of course. And I'm certainly not here to change anyone else's. But for whatever it is or isn't worth, I personally have found some of the practical suggestions in this publication to be of great help to me in dealing with some sudden grief that occurred in my life: https://www.jw.org/en/library/books/when-someone-dies/

Thank you for your continued participation here. And may those closest to you be there for you. Make sure they are!

Please consider yourself hugged.