Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 24, 2024

It wasn’t working out before, either.

I am 100%(one hundred percent) convinced that EVERYBODY wants the same thing, as it will lead to the eventual destruction of the Anti-Christ(no, NOT Donald Trump, somebody FAR WORSE): ELON MUSK Dan aka…ps peace out(mike drop, son)!!!!

I guess that’s just your cross to bear.

Oh, many of us have given Twitter (or X) the bird!

No it better now than before.

I was thinking Pigita at first. But things wouldn’t be any better with her

I had Twitter, still do as this “X” and thought numerous times of deleting it now that Musk has turned it into a rat’s nest of a right wing echo chamber, spreading conspiracy theories, outright lies and Trump Devotion Syndrome. Unfortunately, Musk is too wealthy to run it into the ground like Donny’s businesses.

Times are I’m bored and check it out and, unfortunately, drawn into feeding the trolls.

Miles Standish: “Be gone, pests, and give me the bird!”

Yakko Warner: “We’d love to, really, but the Fox censors won’t allow it.”

I saw that on an episode of Animaniacs from the 1990s. One of many hidden adult jokes sprinkled throughout the series.

If you don’t like X or what it has become, don’t use it. I like it more than ever. I stopped enjoying Reddit so I don’t go there anymore. If someone still enjoys it, that’s fine. If I end up hating X in the future, I’ll stop posting and browsing.

Jeeze people, it’s not that hard to figure out.

I think there is a “Musky” smell about, eh Pig?

I had a Twitter account but never used it. When Musk bought ‘em, I cancelled the account. I STILL don’t see the point.

Except in print, I have not heard anyone in my day-to-day interactions ever call it X. It’s also a little tiresome to read as I’m sure it is for the journalists to reference it as “formerly known as…”. It will probably go extinct before everyone is in unison on calling it X. You would think someone who is supposed to be a genius could come up with something better or, just keep the brand recognition what it was.

X is impressively better than was Twitter. I never see any of the epithets that were so common before. Seems to be committed to free speech, and it might be the only one; “Libs of Tik Tok” – which only reposts the foolishness it sees elsewhere – was kicked off other sites.

Pastis loves to whine about cancel culture and loves to whine about lack of moderation on fka twitter.

Thank God I never had a Twitter account.

Whew… huge sigh of relief. For a minute there I thought he was talking about Pigetta.

Xitter, where “free speech” means that Nazis are free to attack Jews, but you can’t criticize a billionaire.

Have your eyes checked, ears cleaned, thinking ability double checked and don’t forget the gags for mouth and hands.

This one is too easy…

Community Notes really seems to bother some former twitter-ers.

I’m always ready to give Pig the bird.

i have a high school yearbook with a photo dedicated to a teacher. photo shows him holding his hand at his side, finger extended.

I never used Twitter, and don’t use X.

I feel like not enough people realize that any community with millions of people is going to consist entirely of nerds arguing about everything with each other

I heard lots of people gave up X. This is the closest thing I use to social media.

you folks should get a life

Musk fired all the programmers and now the framework is being maintained by Russians, remotely. For free. Work it out.

“Give me the bird!” “Believe me, we’d love to, but the censors won’t allow it.” – Animaniacs!

on 3, make Pig’s day

Check out Bluesky…

A.K.A. the big unknown, like, just try to forward one to a non-X pal.

So X is his ex? How extraordinary.

Wow! Seems everyone is forgetting that it is a cute, clever, COMIC.

And so you are…….

The angst… The pearl clutching… The complete losing of noodles…

To cope with X and acknowledge the name change, we need new terminology. With Twitter, we had Tweeting and the resultant Tweets. With X we should have X-creating and the resultant X-crements. These new names work on more than one level in that they incorporate the name change and the current content of X.

I just yell out the window as loud as I can, like on T HE HONEYMOONERS

Are you Xitting me?

Great last line from Pig! The “Bird” indeed.

Being in a range between asocial and downright hostile, places like that hold zero appeal to me. The slower pace of comment columns like this is more preferable.

Let it go, Pig. It’s not worth it.

You said “Rat’s” nest. Would he really live there?