David Howell

I don't know if I'll *definitely* go for a full-on post-ownership-change departure of Twitter to #CounterSocial, but it's possible and perhaps likely - especially if others join me. I'm @ ShinyBat there.

@realcompi @peterclowes Their Sacramento-based data center. One of three they have in the US, apparently.

@peterclowes SMF1?

Why I left @twitter or rather why I did not sign up for “extremely hardcore” Twitter 2.0 🧵

@scattermoon While I never nommed at one of these places because it wasn't my kind of sensory, I always enjoyed noticing their existence when I walked to the singing teacher I had who used the piano shop on Edgware Road as a Zone 1 teaching base (this was when I worked in Zone 1).

Things I don't miss about London: the traffic, the crowd crush, the air quality Things I do miss about London: Edgware Road restaurants

@chiller @dellcam @webofevil This also adds extra server load, which might also be a feature at this point

@ebaythepirate Duly accepted :)

@epistemophagy @Koolasuchus Already the chair of Kick It Out (the UK-based organisation campaigning against discrimination in football) is on record as fearing that "industrial-scale levels of hate during the WC will go unchecked" England-Iran is the second match of the tournament. That's going to be "fun"

@Koolasuchus This guy's doing reverse fear, uncertainty and doubt. There'll be a catastrophic event of some sort tomorrow when the FIFA World Cup begins

If you're seeing this, it's bullshit and there's a reason dickhead here is an $8 fake check rather than a real one

@The_Arn Upon learning the Lazy Jay backing was an original song in its own right, I wondered what Azealia *actually* bought to this song. Maybe "chaos energy" is it, it certainly fits why I still think the song's better for her despite finding her lyrics Utterly Unrelatable...

#Uncool50 Day 45 212 by AZAELIA BANKS ft LAZY JAY (2011) Pure chaos energy, total refusal to acknowledge boundaries of taste just because it’s fun to breach them. The kind of opening gambit it’s impossible to follow up. m.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9f…

@ismathers @peoples_pop I (the Caramelldansen nominator) also don't remember seeing the meme much! Though I do remember one upload getting the incredible YouTube comment in 2020 that went along the lines of: "Extroverts during quarantine: *screams* Introverts during quarantine: doing this dance"

@peoples_pop All four are great (I've still heard that "Caramelldansen" IS a meme more than I've ever seen the actual meme, still don't know what it is) but "Hey QT" has just held up so, so well

Crank that (Pollja Boy) it’s Day 10 of the TITLE = ARTIST World Cup The end of Qualifiers! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3HnUW…

@Kajehase @tomewing @idca__ @peoples_pop It doesn't, because it's two minutes too long ;) (But I see what you mean, and I rate it enough that it was an unused bonus nom on my Closers slate)

Stick ‘em up punk it’s the fun loving Twitterpoll TITLE = ARTIST World Cup Day 8 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/4jTzR…

@Eghator26 Jeff Saturday went straight from coaching on Friday to coaching on Sunday What a mess

Ashamed to be a Colts fan at this moment in time...

@peoples_pop @pinstripeowl And "they" did indeed, plural mentions! I got it in quickly as a bonus and then someone mained it later. :)

@pinstripeowl They did! It’s on the final day. (Of Qualifiers, not the site) (I think)

Ain’t no party like a Pop Poll party on Day 7 of the TITLE = ARTIST World Cup! Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/0lyeC…

@actualeesimpson @peoples_pop My experience of it is as part of the dance compliations I loved at the time - it sounded almost chilled compared to the multiple Ferry Corstens in a trenchcoat that would show up on these compliations (and which I built an entire 1999 poll slate out of!)

@peoples_pop This Cassius song is such a banger and my experience of it is hearing it come out guns blazing after a dull patch on the LP

@tomewing @idca__ @peoples_pop If I'd done an Uncool 50 I suspect "Pull Shapes" would've been in it - genuinely think it's the greatest Eurovision entry the BBC never had.

@idca__ @peoples_pop Yeah ditto “Pull Shapes” LMLetc was the original golden beat - first then-current thing I was introduced to by a social media music game (on LiveJournal, those were the days)

@peoples_pop Cleopatra's one of my noms so had to vote for it, but the early returns are *harsh* on Klubbheads, a glorious dance earworm that's bringing back just as many childhood memories as Cleopatra thanks to its appearance on at least one dance compilation we had in the house!

Qualifier 62! #PPPMatches 1 KLUBBHEADS! youtube.com/watch?v=K0IbFK… 2 CLEOPATRA! youtube.com/watch?v=blQmgu… 3 CHANTE MOORE! youtube.com/watch?v=Vq6UT1… 4 DELTRON 3030! youtube.com/watch?v=WjSVYK…

@matt_laycock @tomewing @peoples_pop I did too. Maybe the people who would have tactically voted to stop the problematic Spice and Eminem singles here (though at least the latter's *good*!) have all fled to Mastodon. (I've 90% left here myself, with CounterSocial my first escape hatch and Mastodon my second)

@peoples_pop Oh I see it’s gonna be the worst imperial phase Spice single then

@DaisyLetourneur @peoples_pop Absolutely not. This was an unnervingly easy vote for MF DOOM but it really isn't on quality in Em's case, at this point in his career he was putting out 10/10 execution of 1/10 ideas on a regular basis and this is extremely not an exception

@RHDech CounterSocial is another escape hatch (and the one I used)

@epistemophagy This is, indeed, almost exactly what happened with CounterSocial (though in that case the specific instigation for the split was their policy to IP-block six entire countries where bot/troll farms thrive)

Also, I feel like all of the issues people have named with Mastodon can be solved specifically because it is FOSS; if people really are passionate about resolving those issues, rather than just keen to bitch about them, then they can simply fork OG Mastodon

I actually think the fascists have really fucked themselves by acquiring Twitter, because 1) they're burning it down like dickheads, and 2) cohost will be near-impossible to acquire (no-entry corporate structure) and Mastodon completely impossible (decentralised)

@peoples_pop This deserves to be close, and is, but went BSBs for the sheer joy I've had with the call-and-response bridge and flipping the response to "am I sexual?" to "no" I wonder if I ever did that at uni karaoke. Right time for me to come out as ace as well...

Qualifier 45! #PPPMatches 1 EAZY-E! youtube.com/watch?v=U6XlAg… 2 WU-TANG CLAN! youtube.com/watch?v=G1GdDt… 3 THE BOO RADLEYS! youtube.com/watch?v=YJXPTn… 4 BACKSTREET BOYS! youtube.com/watch?v=6M6sam…

Stop, poll-aborate and listen to Day 6 of the TITLE = ARTIST World Cup Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2itLV…

@peoples_pop Putting Ice Ice Baby in a group with S'Express is brilliant because it, too, relies on inspired sampling. (Voted S'Express anyway, still one heck of a delightful shot of pop energy)

Qualifier 41! #PPPMatches 1 S'EXPRESS! youtube.com/watch?v=IpeRSh… 2 VANILLA ICE! youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou… 3 PRINCE! youtube.com/watch?v=w0g9Qk… 4 THE FUGEES! youtube.com/watch?v=MPlb9H…

@LOMiller4 @fawfulfan Certainly the red base does.

@fawfulfan And the population tends older and don’t need abortions.

Abortion wasn't that salient an issue in Florida because Republicans there had the sense to punt any serious discussion of a Texas-style full ban until next year. The state is actually something of an abortion haven right now for women throughout the South. (For now.)