Twitter Blue doesn't "replace" (legacy) verification, because Blue has nothing to do with verification. It is a subscription service to use certain benefits. There's even talk about Twitter Blue people hiding the mark
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Tauriq Moosa
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Business Day: Legal Writer. Games & pop culture writer (Polygon, Verge). Also lawyer (Human Rights). Rep'd by
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WriterJoburg, South Africa, he/himJoined February 2009
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Still can't get over Twitter's drama over Verification - initially, a useful tool for those of us who are public-facing in our work, who use Twitter as a tool, that was warped by creepy Musk fans into some kind of status symbol. Now it's a symbol of paying billionaires.
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Wishing more judgments would use names instead of "applicant" and "respondent" 😭...
Finding out Robert Eggers is only 2 years older than me
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This is not an Aaron Sorkin drama so...
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Keanu Reeves said just 380 words in "John Wick: Chapter 4," and he reportedly made $15 million.
Trusting reports of his pay, that's $39,473 per word.
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Naming your kids after video game characters is cringe now. It’s time to step it up and name kids after video games.
“This is my son Alpha Protocol and my daughter Siren: Blood Curse.”
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ok but Tyler Bates & Joel J. Richard's scores for the JOHN WICK franchise are just... 😍 and Nostalghia is perfect choice for performer.
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"shed blood my beautiful friends, and let the darkness set us free"
OK, yes, I am in love with this series.
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Robert sits down with Nick Waters, a war crimes analyst, researcher and charming fellow, to talk about the International Criminal Court and Vladdy Puts.
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New poll results from @catturd2:
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FREEWAY FLIP: A car is sent flying through the air after being struck by a tyre that fell from a nearby truck in Los Angeles. Police said no major injuries were sustained in the incident. abcn.ws/3774ax0
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The Pupillage Podcast - - is a great resource generally for getting an understanding of what pupillage is like.
This is their episode on interviews:
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A school forbade first graders from singing a Dolly Parton song about acceptance because it has "controversial" lyrics like, “wouldn't it be nice to live in paradise. Where we're free to be exactly who we are.”
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🚨CfP: Queering Private Law Workshop .
Abstract submission deadline May 2.
Keynotes by The Hon. Dr. Victoria McCloud and Simon Stern .
More details: qr code or ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20.
Please share #CFP #lawtwitter #AcademicTwitter
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While being sworn into Parliament in 2016, Hamza Yousaf gave his oath of office first in English and then in Urdu, while wearing a kilt.
Here's what you need to know about the 37-year-old who is set to be Scotland's first Muslim leader:
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The Supreme Court will hear a case about hotel accessibility for people with disabilities.
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Protecting this man at all costs
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
This Corgi’s name…
…is actually CHEDDAR!
So very nice to meet you all.
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Omg this is still so damn good. That backwards floor jump to pin that dude in the broken door - just perfection.
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An review of dozens of legal filings shows that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department is fighting just as vigorously as Donald Trump's did to uphold death row inmates' sentences, despite Biden's opposition to capital punishment.
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Holy shit! This interview of Chad Stahelski just loving on the Wachowskis for a full 3 minutes (I could only post a portion of it. F*ck you Twitter Blue! 😡😤), and him talking about how they inspired him to be the kind of filmmaker he is just made my whole week. 😭 So amazing!
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There is a giant orb in the sky that you are not allowed to make direct eye contact with and you don’t question that?
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As South Africans suffer under load-shedding, ministers and their deputies have been shielded from blackouts by the government spending millions to buy generators and inverters for them.
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