Shawn King

OG of Apple podcasting - 26+ years ago. Former Host, Your Mac Life. Teacher of beginner photographers. DON’T FOLLOW ME HERE. I no longer use this hellsite.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

This will be a placeholder tweet just so I can keep the username in case things ever get better here.

Take care of yourselves. Goodbye.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

(Posting for the first time in over two years)

"X is launching a marketplace for inactive handles"

Fuck you, Musk.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

One last thing. Many of you know me as a good "Explainer of Things." If you are reticent about joining "that other site" because you've heard it's too complicated, DM or email me. I'll walk you through and help you get started. It's finicky but not nearly as hard as you've heard.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Nope. Not doing it. Not going through life wading through the fetid swamp Musk has created here.

So I will no longer be involved in Twitter. If you care to follow me over on “that other site”, my link is in my bio.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

It's powerful filtering features allowed me to have a timeline mostly free of crap I didn’t want to see. This morning, the asshats at Twitter finally killed off the last vestiges of Twitterrific, I went to the website to read my feed and OMG….

2/x

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Well, after 16 years and 174,600 Tweets, these will be my last ones.

I stopped tweeting actively last May (few of you noticed) but kept reading Twitter even through all of the BS of the past few months. One of the primary reasons why is @Twitterrific on both iOS and macOS.

1/x

[Susmita Baral @sushbaral]

"We can also call plastic recycling a fantasy: it barely happens." — @lloydalter / @Treehugger
https://t.co/h4ll6eCQIE

[Scott Seiss @ScottSeiss]

When colleges ask for an alumni donation

[Monte Freeman @montef]

Anyone have a contact at @apple who might be able to help Jason?
Apple and @AppleSupport: You folks can do better. You *have* done better in the past.
What’s happening to your once stellar tech support?

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Today is the day I was supposed to fly to Italy with my wife to celebrate our birthdays In Florence, a a city she always wanted to go visit.

But she’d rather spend the money on the other things - like a divorce. 😭

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

30 minutes late for work so everyone is REALLY PISSED at me (can’t start without the full flagging crew) but it’s pissing down with rain so there’s that…😥

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

@davemartin Very few of them even wore ear protection (!) and the ones that did had the over the ears cans. :(

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Wish I’d remembered to bring earplugs!

[Michael A. Cohen (NOT TRUMP’S FORMER FIXER) @speechboy71]

Look at this dead behind the eyes MF who talks about how special babies are … and as a WH advisor implemented a policy to literally take babies away from their parents

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

@obamapacman I wouldn’t know the difference. 😂

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

I don’t Know anything about construction, but it seems like too many backhoes!

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

@darxmac That would be an act of gross, if not criminal negligence. I can’t operate a screwdriver. I’d be a danger to myself and others in one of those things!

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

At least today, I get to hang out and watch the boys with the big toys!

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Yeah it does!

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

Shit’s getting real now - we’ve got dueling backhoes!

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

@Sam_Alexandra23 Is that what you got out of that? You missed the point then.

[Shawn King @ShawnKing]

I have a birthday soon.

Don’t wish me a happy one. This year has been a SHITSHOW. One of the top 3 shittiest years of my life.

So…

I’m taking a mulligan on this year. So, no birthday celebration. I’ll do it next year.

If you do wish me happy birthday, I’ll unfollow you.