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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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I still don't get how - with such a perfect tee-up - we settled on "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter".

Besides, imagining Musks reaction to this tickles me slightly.

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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I still prefer to write it “xitter” pronounced as “shitter”.

[–] FuckSpez@lemmy.one 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I still prefer to write "Twitter" because fuck X and Musk

[–] Floufym@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago
[–] wurosh@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

You know, you may have just changed my mind

[–] medusa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was taking that to be "zitter" like it's infected and probably should be seen by a professional otherwise it's going to leave a nasty mark.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

In Chinese pinyin x is a sh sound.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And there’s the issue. There are just too many good jokes to be had here.

The other half is that news organizations won’t let themselves place a joke over the appearance of objectivity, using the legally changed name of the company. The most they will do is add the parenthetical (formerly Twitter).

Journalists are wet blankets. What can you do?