Ian Laking

I write Fantasy stories & believe reality is best taken with a grain of salt. Click here for my free mystery novella:

[soul nate @MNateShyamalan]

i’m in a code review with elon musk. ive got the CSS for https://t.co/iXbfr5d1Jg on 3 monitors. my browser’s in dark mode so it looks cool. “this part?” he asks, pointing to code for the Giant Omelette. “caches tweets in the mainframe cyberhex,” i say. he nods. “as i suspected”

[Justin Wyne @wyne]

I asked my friend at Twitter how he’s doing. He said he can’t complain.

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

no one:

@elonmusk: anyway let’s destroy twitter

[Nick Westrate @westratenick]

Last week I met a very successful actor and here’s what I learned about his habits and how he’s built his career:

1. Up at 4AM
2. daily Yoga and/or Barry’s
3. Learns a new accent every 4 months
4. Annual mime workshops in Paris
5. Mom is an Oscar winning actress, Dad runs A24.

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

one time in college a professor spent 90 minutes talking about an example scenario that involved beef and i thought nothing of it until several weeks later when i found out that my classmate had made a minute long compilation of all 125 times he said "beef" in one lecture

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

but they were, all of them, deceived, for another checkmark was made

[Andrew Nadeau @TheAndrewNadeau]

Everything happening on Twitter now is a lot easier to understand if you‘ve ever had a younger sibling that invented a game and added a new rule every time they started losing.

[The Chaser @chaser]

Elon Musk launches new twitter scented candle that smells like $44 billion going up in smoke

[Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 @RealSexyCyborg]

If nothing else Mastodon is introducing people into the whole Open Source tradition of trying to be enthusiastic about something really bad that doesn't work at all because you don't want to be rude to the maintainers and the thing you really want to use doesn't work anymore.

[Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes @exclamate_]

If you're looking for the Jeph Jacques tweets that got him kicked off Twitter baby you know I screenshotted all of them

[Rob DenBleyker @RobDenBleyker]

the world's richest man just banned cartoonist Jeph Jacques from Twitter for making fun of him

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

me trying to wrap my head around how mastedon works

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

'Making it up as I Go Along: The Elon Musk Story' will be available wherever good books are sold this December

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Going forward, any Twitter handles engaging in impersonation without clearly specifying “parody” will be permanently suspended

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Western Australien Government has made a tourism ad and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. https://t.co/J6LiAZvkdo

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

Anyway that’s it, a story of vague revenge and corporate incompetence that feels somewhat apt as @elonmusk burns this place to the ground. Ciao! (6/6)

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

All these Twitter firing stories remind me of my favourite awful irl firing experience from 15 years back. I asked if we could get a report on something for our contact centre and the centre manager was like, ‘nah we can’t do that’ and hoo boy the story behind that one… (1/6)

[Ian Laking @IHLaking]

And since the company wasn’t so savvy on backups and such, Jeff’s computer had been the only one with locally stored copies of all the crucial reports our office relied on. Hence my manager’s completely underplayed ‘we can’t do that report anymore’. (5/6)