Friday Five: Leave The Pieces

we've come to the end of the road

Hello beloveds,

I continue to watch Twitter’s downward spiral and feel compelled to share more gems with you to spark some joy on this chilly Friday. One brilliant Consumer, Aaron, pointed out that El*n M*sk’s “hardcore” rant was “literally a scene out of School of Rock.” Aaron is absolutely right:

Jack Black cosplaying as a teacher in “School of Rock” was a better performance of leadership and management than what’s happening at Twitter now… and way hardcore, compared to E***.

Before I get into the Twitter roundup, I’m sharing one song that I haven’t been able to shake since the first time I heard it for the first time in 2006.

Song: “Leave the Pieces” by The Wreckers. I’m in one of my semi-annual phases of listening to “Leave the Pieces” on repeat, and overthinking making a TikTok of me dancing to this song with the caption “Michelle Branch put her whole tree into this song.” The more I listened to it this week, the more I felt like this was my Twitter break up song and dying wish for the platform. Leave the pieces… leave the memes, leave the timely jokes, leave the quote tweets roasting someone, leave the little pieces of information that stay glued onto the walls of my brain. Shout out to consumer Farrah who sent me a video of Michelle B. belting this song out while photographing her for The Washington Post. May all of our beautiful friends indulge our smooth brain tendencies.

Joyful Twitter Content… about the demise of the platform:

gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi

Imagine people who died on the titanic finding out we compared that to this

what if this newsletter became just pinterest content

Consumer Ariana and I watched this movie in theaters and cried while covering our eyes and squeezing each other’s hands during the incinerator scene. I ended up seeing this movie twice more at the cinema

Rose Dommu @rosedommu

Twitter is the reason I have both a career and depression

tia @cursedhive

when y’all see me dancing on tiktok next week PLEASE stay silent

My half-read copy of “Atomic Habits” on my nightstand begging me to finish it

Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein

pre-elon twitter: pls free me from this hellsite post-elon twitter: Everyday with you all has been a gift. I owe my career, my friendships, and my marriage to this community. I’ve fostered compassion and activism each and everyday with you all, fighting the good fight (1/40)

Tyler Dinucci!! @TylerDinucci

to save twitter we have to put on a SHOW

slate @PleaseBeGneiss

hey i think we’re all heading over to the Arby’s on 35th and Pine Yelp review page if you want to come

heather @lollyrots

This wasn't just a hell site, it was a hell home

great job on the website, bro @nedwards

@punished_cait one time I tweeted "aloo chat is Hindi for a savory potato snack but in French it means Hello Kitty" and a white British person got very mad at me

Luke Bailey @imbadatlife

incredible indictment that everyone is desperately looking for somewhere to meet and talk to people, and no one has even mentioned Zuckerberg's $70bn metaverse

peg @moonmistblue

i can't believe i used to relentlessly make fun of grimes for willingly having sex with elon musk when that was literally the only thing holding society together. she was doing us a service

Tom Zohar @TomZohar

Give her access to the code and she’ll save Twitter within 5 minutes

Tweet tweet,

Roya