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If you are not on Twitter but are interested in what's going on with Elon Musk's Twitter, never fear, I am back as your Twitter Correspondent.

So, on Thursday, 4/20, Elon removed all the "legacy verified" blue checks. That means that if you are, say, Taylor Swift or the Pope, and you have a blue checkmark because you have proven you identity and want to avoid being impersonated, that check mark went away unless you paid the $8 to subscribe to Twitter Blue.

The assumption was clearly that, despite all their blustering, when push came to shove the power users would nut up and pay for it, if only to avoid their fans being scammed using their likeness.

That didn't happen. As of 4/21, only weirdo Elon stans had blue checks. Those stans immediately got mad, because they had intended to purchase access to an exclusive club, and all the cool kids left as soon as they arrived.

To make matters worse for Elon, several influential shitposters began posting about #BlockTheBlue, a movement to block all paid Twitter bluechecks, and some even released scripts that would automatically block all bluecheck accounts for you.

However, some people retained their blue checks who swore they hadn't paid for them -- in particular, Stephen King and LeBron James, who had tweeted that they would refuse to pay.

Elon admitted that he had paid for these users' blue checks out of his own pocket. Is he trolling? Is it a weird simp move? Hard to say.

Now, as of 4/22, a whole mess of famous people have bluechecks who aren't paying for them. This seems to be a move to confound the automated Block The Blue scripts. Lil Nas X is tweeting angrily about how he doesn't want his blue check. People are speculating that a new policy has been silently rolled out to automatically assign a blue check to every user with over 1 million followers. Several people have pointed out that this amounts to false endorsement, i.e. implying falsely that a notable person uses or endorses your product without their permission, which is a crime. Blue checks have been posthumously assigned to Anthony Bourdain and Terry Pratchett, whose estates my money is on to be the ones to actually sue.

dril, famous shitposter and Block The Blue promoter, keeps being assigned a blue check as an apparent punishment for crossing Elon, but you can lose your blue check by changing your display name. (It seems really wild to tie the blue check to the display name and not use the username, but it became necessary after the era where all those legacy verified folks unleashed their inner Jaboukie and changed their display names to Elon Musk. As recently as last month a legacy verified user with 100k followers got banned for impersonating JK Rowling apologizing to trans people.) So dril just keeps changing his display name every time they bluecheck him. Elon and dril have been engaged in this game of cat and mouse all day. The "Elon bans dril and we all throw trash at him like New Yorkers defending spiderman" meme will probably come to fruition today or tomorrow.

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springrob

I saw an old hack where you smear wood glue on the vinyl record to clean all the dust and debris out of the grooves. Never tried it but it seems like it would work.

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My Dad was given one of these by a little old lady who said it didn't work.

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Turned out it was just a wasp nest in the horn. He cleaned it out and serviced the mechanicals and it worked just great. She gave him about 75 cylindrical records to go with it.

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Sherlock Holmes will be allowed to respect women in 420 days

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#GRJRHKDHDJDND SCREEEEEEAM#LISTEN OG SHERLOCK RESPECTS WOMEN ITS THE MODERN ADAPTATIONS THAT MAKE HIM LIKE THAT#OG SHERLOCK IS THE BEST I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL 

The thing is, I don’t disagree with you!  However, the Doyle estate does, and they get litigious over it.  Seriously, they’ve tried to sue SH adaptations on the grounds that he respects women in them, which he didn’t do in until the stories that are still under copyright.  (Convenient, isn’t it?) So only when all the stories are in the public domain will Sherlock Holmes be Free

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@beast-glatisant​ The Doyle esate sued the “Enola Holmes” Netflix show about an OC Sherlock’s younger sister, for copyright infringement, with the argument that only after the 1920s, in the still-copyrighted stories, did Holmes “became capable of friendship. He could express emotion. He began to respect women.”

The court threw out the case because that was patently stupid, but they keep trying it.  Only in 2023 will Sherlock Holmes finally be free.

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Two days until public domain Sherlock Holmes, Woman Respecter

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Congratulations to Sherlock Holmes on finally respecting women!

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HAPPY SHERLOCK RESPECTING WOMEN DAY

He's Free Sherlock Holmes Happy New Year