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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's an insult to gigantic global sewers.

[–] luciole 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] jarfil 3 points 1 year ago
[–] twei@feddit.de 2 points 11 months ago

...like the Seine

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

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Click here to see the summaryAfter buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform.

Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

"This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts," Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

Hidalgo's campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.


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[–] Satiric_Weasel 3 points 11 months ago

Under any other circumstance, an excellent set up to a Paris joke; but they're right.