John Mangrum

Long since departed for bluer skies.

[John Mangrum @jwmangrum]

It was of course only a matter of time before a daily bot “liked” this tweet.

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My sole activity on Twitter these days is to log in once a day to remove that day’s new bot follower, all of whom are slight variations on each other (female name and avi, letternumber handle, joined in mid 2023, no posts or replies).

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@sarahkendzior Keeping this for later

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@dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw From the replies: I'm not insane! It was real!

https://t.co/xJcp7rpStg

[s. k. @CuntessK]

@jwmangrum @dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw https://t.co/JZMVbMfaVr

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@dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw This is literally how the guy who started Sparks Notes literally gave himself trenchfoot on purpose, literally

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@sel_kap @dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw Your web-fu is better than mine!

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@emilyzee @dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw Yes!

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@mrsmeowkins @dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw I don't know, but I always assumed the stunts were a plan to draw attention to the site before launching the actual business. And I guess it worked! 4/4

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@mrsmeowkins @dulaney_jon @nycsouthpaw BTW, I'm going off old, old memories here, so I could be getting details wrong left and right. Anyway, after a couple of stunts like that, the website suddenly reinvented itself overnight as a study guide site. 3/4

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I have reached Gen Con and completed my first major task of the day: Remembering my phone is in the car and leaving the Will Call line to fetch it.

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@pabl0hidalgo

[Corbel the Ape @RedApeGuy]

So this is here now. This is why, going forward, you see a blue check tweeting inflammatory nonsense, you don’t engage. Don’t reply, don’t quote retweet, nothing. Block and move on. People now have a financial incentive to piss you off.

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@MikeIsaac Musk has, in his brilliance and courage, finally addressed the core problem with Twitter: using Twitter.

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@tanyachen On the furniture. The floor is where the time-for-laundry clothes live.

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@ryanlcooper @andersoncooper The good news is that you’ve moved up a rung on the Cooper ladder. Now sitting comfortably just behind Merian C. and Sly.

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One of the nice things about Ebertfest is that once in a while, if you want to, you can just chill out in a grand movie palace by yourself for an hour or two.

#thumbsupebertfest

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@pixelatedboat I have created an entire army of atomic supermen, but I save Hitler's brain and put it just *one* of them and suddenly *I'm* the bad guy!

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@Nash076 The difference between "Home" and "Latest Tweets" is literally "Freeform Garbage" vs. "Exactly What You Specifically Requested."