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Lee Duna to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago

Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a 'gigantic global sewer'

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Lee Duna to World News@beehaw.orgEnglish • 1 year ago
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Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by spreading abuse and misinformation.
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    31•1 year ago

    That’s an insult to gigantic global sewers.

    • luciole (he/him)
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      19•1 year ago

      Agreed. Sewers serve an important sanitary purpose. I propose to characterize Twixxer as an out of control tire fire.

      • @jarfil@beehaw.org
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        Why not a controlled tire fire:

        https://youtu.be/XvkD4QgMtWg?si=2R0l3B6_xn7Oc_DD

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      …like the Seine

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