dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋)

Account now only used to read public service info: please use sane platforms, nobody is here any more! 🚲 🌲 🥕. 🎥 💻📱 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧? 🇪🇺🤞. en,fr,de

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

It makes you wonder why just so many public services, politicians, news media, businesses, etc, are •still• (only) here, wasting resources on an #xparrot dying platform, where now mostly only bots see their posts, as real people leave?

Time to #SpreadYourWings to 🦋🦣!

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

X/Twitter user numbers now down by almost a third over the last year in the UK, and by almost a fifth in the US.

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

A new year: news reports the cesspit ever more unsuitable for public service use, w/ its vile chatbot images.

Why still support this platform @ScotRail @NetworkRailSCOT @CalSleeper @CalMacFerries @on_lothianbuses @EdinburghTrams?

Please #SpreadYourWings, join the #eXodus 🦣🦋

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

Isn’t it really about time that we did likewise, #Scotland? Bare our tusks 🦣, step into the blue skies 🦋, and serve the public in places where the atmosphere is much cleaner than here? @ScotRail @NetworkRailSCOT @CalSleeper @CalMacFerries @on_lothianbuses @EdinburghTrams etc?

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

Isn’t it really about time that we did likewise, #Scotland? Bare our tusks 🦣, step into the blue skies 🦋, and serve the public in places where the atmosphere is much cleaner than here? @ScotRail @NetworkRailSCOT @CalSleeper @CalMacFerries @on_lothianbuses @EdinburghTrams etc?

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@FatboySlim Only happened to see this on one of my decreasingly frequent visits to check service updates for something that hasn’t yet moved from the gutter to the stars.

Sensible decision on your part, will you be moving to 🦣 or 🦋?

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@SpokesLothian For 1st time, actually good to see no #SpokesMtg posts here (but also sign of how X algorithm deprioritises posts by normal users). Good to see more and more #Edinburgh citizens moving to 🦣 and 🦋: now we need Councils, Cllrs, municipal services, MSPs, MPs, NGOs to do likewise…

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@guardian A sadly sensible decision.

So, you’ll now be getting the word out by posting on more useful social networks like 🦣 and 🦋, right? Right…? Hello, are any of you listening…? 🙄

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@BOLfoods Thanks for noting my feedback. Sadly, both Instagram and TikTok are owned by very dodgy companies (and TikTok is for gullible teenagers), not that here is any better any more. #SociallyResponsible businesses/orgs (and the people you want to talk to) are all using 🦣 and 🦋 now…

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@BOLfoods I like yr One Pot Meals, but you changed the range recently, can I give some feedback?

Middle Eastern stew 👍
Texan Beans: heavy going, just too many beans, the Mexican chilli was much better.
Spanish butter bean: wd be lovely but taste of kale ruins it for me 🤢
1/2

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

This place gets worse and worse, which is probably why many people (myself included) have mostly moved to better, friendlier, social networks.

How long until the public services and politicians who only post here wake up and realise that it’s mostly only spambots still reading?

[The Register @TheRegister]

Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets https://t.co/JW1HXlCuRh

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

(Also, this place is becoming far less useful or usable these days. FoI request: Do you have plans to set up blue sky or mammoth-like accounts instead or as well?)

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@on_lothianbuses There seems to be erroneous data in the bus tracker system: until a few minutes ago, the app showed there would be a service 9 due to leave KB for Hanover St shortly, but it has now disappeared, and looking at the timetable no such service actually seems to run?

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

It would be a real shame if lots of people were to post this reminder that Liz Truss was partly responsible for a #DisastrousMiniBudget that seriously damaged the UK economy.

Lettuce never forget…

https://t.co/1dABvmQ8Ms

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

European Movement UK asks UK PM Sir Keir Starmer to use occasion of #EuropeanPoliticalCommunitySummit
to commit to taking actions to improve UK's relationship w/ rest of #Europe. #UKPolitics #EUPolitics #EU #EPC
Please add yr signature to the open letter:
https://t.co/07WwXHyrTK

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

For #Linux folk, #HumbleBundle is currently offering a big, well, bundle of #DevOps books from #OReilly in ebook/PDF formats, on their usual "pay what you like" basis.

https://t.co/hkBX3H1vjn

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

@MartinSLewis Bring back Topic, a far better bar than Marathon/Snickers! (I like peanuts, but hazelnuts definitely go much better with chocolate.)

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

Oh, #BBCRadioScotland is simulcasting the #BBC1Scotland #UKElection coverage (from a Scottish perspective). #RadioNanGàidheal also doing coverage in Gaelic (also being simulcast audio-only on #BBCAlba ).

(I can now eventually doze off with just the radio in sleep countdown…)

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

Hey, Sunderland returning officer: all of the kudos all your hardworking count staff rightfully earned by getting the first result, you just lost all by yourself by failing to say which party each candidate was standing for. Not big, not clever. (Lab hold.) #UKelection

[dave cykl 🇺🇦 (@[email protected] + 🦋) @davecykl]

Well, that’s me now made my non-proportional and possibly unrepresented solitary cross in one box, for the only one of the four parliaments in UK that doesn’t use PR or give us all multiple reps to ensure that most views are reflected… #UKelection #ProportionalRepresentationNow