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I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

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At work. We are feeling kunt.

These past few weeks I’ve been having good hair day every single day. Started out as a mullet and now its so textured and soft and cool I love me

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i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i’ve seen people saying things like “well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it” and it’s like, that’s not the point. it’s that companies /shouldn’t/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i’m still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn’t have to begin with though?

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I see you're a GL enthusiast and others have often tagged you in GL related content... As someone who has consumed a little BL and is curious about quality GL stories, do you have like 2 or 3 recs for me? Thank you!

hi!! i'm so glad you asked *pulls out a presentation on all the gl crumbs i've collected over the years*

we don't have a lot (yet!!!!) it's mostly miniseries, short films and side couples but i'll try my best to put together a list of my personal picks hope you'll be able to find something you like <3

first of all here's some of the longer / higher production stuff we've got

Sleep With Me

Philippines, 6 eps, iWantTFC and GagaOOLala

tw ableism

100/10 can't possibly recommend it enough. a beautiful and sweet story, not too heavy but still complex, the actresses have amazing chemistry that made me all giggly, disability rep, high quality everything. oh and the screenwriter&director is sapphic herself!!

(if the other options don't work for you or you want to make gifs you can download the episodes here)

Fragrance of The First Flower

Taiwan, 6 eps, GagaOOLala

tw homophobia

great acting, writing, cinematography, music, created by a sapphic woman, one of the main actresses is openly bi BUT it has a sad ending (sorry for the spoiler) so if that's something you avoid this show might not be for you

The Handmaiden

Korea, movie, Netflix, Prime, Apple TV

tw graphic violence, abuse

a wlw classic, absolute masterpiece, has a surprisingly happy ending. highly recommend if you haven't watched it already

Couple of Mirrors

China, 12 eps, youtube

tw murder, guns

based on a gl manhua but it's china so the show is censored meaning that there's no explicit declaration of romantic love. however it's all still very obvious and i love this couple dearly, they have a v interesting dynamic. and xu youyi is one of my favorite characters of all time, what a woman. the ending is ??? but there's some hope for a second season

now onto the miniseries

Girlfriend Project Day 1

Korea, 4 eps, youtube

fake dating, enemies to lovers, super cute. very short but the second season has been announced 🥳🥳

you can also find a mv starring the lead actresses here

Nevertheless (side couple)

Korea, 10 eps

don't watch the whole show you really don't need that just watch the soljiwan cut it can stand on its own as a miniseries (i've watched it here i think it's a really nice cut)

best friends to lovers, mutual pining, absolutely delicious. had me crying screaming throwing up

My Fairy Ghost

Japan, 4 eps, youtube

romance between two artists, one alive and the other not so much. don't worry though this has the happiest ending!!!!

Magic of Zero: Zero Photography

Thailand, 1 ep, youtube

tw body image issues

if you're a bl fan you've probably already watched bad buddy (if you haven't you really should). this is a sequel about the gl side couple from that series but it can stand alone. it's an incredibly cute story about established girlfriends with a fantasy element. it should be obvious from my blog how obsessed i am with these girls aksghsksks

Out of Breath

Korea, 3 eps, youtube

a sweet story about two women who met on a dating app. tbh i don't remember much about this apart from the fact that i liked it

She Makes My Heart Flutter

Korea, 5 eps, youtube

from the same director as out of breath. a story about two lesbians, niece and aunt, navigating their queer lives. an awesome sapphic friend group, multiple romantic subplots. it's currently airing so tune in <3

Chinese miniseries and short films

i'm putting them all into one category because there's a lot of them but they're all rather short. some of the longer ones are legend of yunqian, legend of yunze, led astray by love, the vampires, a practical guide to being a superstar's assistant. because they're so short the stories are generally too fast-paced and the production is not high by any means but they're all so beautiful and cute and i enjoy them a lot so i decided to include them in the list. you can find all of the ones i mentioned and more here and here

(the screenshot is from the short film the fox spirit and the little priest you can find it on youtube)

i'm sure i've forgotten something but here's the list for now, enjoy 💗 tell me what you think if you watch anything i'm curious 👀 sorry for such a late reply as you can see i got a bit carried away....

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Like music to my ears

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Well, starting today, I’ll be the one to worry about you. 24/7. Deal? Deal.

Sleep With Me (2022) dir. Samantha Lee

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Sleep With Me (2022) Send Noods (S01E03)

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I NEED TO PLAN MY DAY

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[Behind The Scenes] Show Me Love The Series - EP.6 (x)

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Cherine, I want you to walk with me for the rest of my life. Why is it 'want' ? Since I'll be doing it anyway.

SHOW ME LOVE THE SERIES | EPISODE 9

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Show me love (ep.7)

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"There’s increasing recognition of how nature can help tackle the climate crisis. From protecting standing forests to planting new trees, forests offer significant climate mitigation benefits. Now, new research [from 2020] shows that letting forests regrow on their own could be a secret weapon to fighting climate change.

Experts at WRI, The Nature Conservancy and other institutions mapped potential rates of carbon capture from “natural forest regrowth,” a restoration method distinct from active tree-planting, where trees are allowed to grow back on lands previously cleared for agriculture and other purposes.

The results, published in Nature and available on Global Forest Watch, show that letting forests regrow naturally has the potential to absorb up to 8.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year through 2050, while still maintaining native grasslands and current levels of food production.

That’s the equivalent of soaking up 23% global CO2 emissions from the atmosphere every year.

This is on top of the carbon sequestration already provided by existing forests, which currently absorb around 30% of C02 emissions each year."

-via World Research Institute, September 23, 2020

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here’s 75 Actually Sapphic artists who actually like girls and make Actual gay people music about loving women (for those lost soul dykes who think taylor swift is a gay icon for some reason)

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julien baker performing leonard cohen with boygenius (via)

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Julien Baker | Boygenius Apple Music Interview

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currently looking for inspo on how to style these new beige pants I got. I usually wear blue navy pants and it’s super easy to match them with any top or shoes