Muted

It's coming up to the second week of Twitter will disappear forever tonight so download your Twitter archive before it's too late! I'm not too fussed about losing all my old tweets (I like the idea of it) but I did want to keep my Tweetbot mute list. That thing is a personal historical artefact! So much harrumphing righteous indignation! And some I feel a bit guilty about but still muted anyway. Here they all are, almost. I took out the helpline phone numbers because I can't even remember what they were for now.

I have added a bit of explanation/commentary in italics below a few of them

The list

• (?i) change (d*) the world
• ^.? (Yahoo).?(Rihanna)
  -- I have no idea what this was about
• <script
• This is awesome
• Click in the first result
  -- these things always seemed like a way to get scammed somehow
• 38degrees
  -- come and be spammed!
• a poem about silicon valley
• Abramovich
• ACCOUNTANT NEEDED!
  -- there were so many of these, and I've no idea why
• Acnh
• Add your confession to the form
• afneil
• Alan Partridge
• all plates seem upside
  -- one of the rare images that came with a muteable phrase
• Amess
• Andrew Harper
• AndrewRTDavies
  -- an odious local politician
• Animal crossing
• Apple.news
  -- you'd get a link and then it'd open the app and show you its homepage, not the article
• Arron_banks
• Arsenal
  -- not many football ones, but they were added with feeling
• Arsene
  -- I'm sure this was football too
• Augmented reality sandbox
• Baby yoda
  -- seriously, enough
• Bale
• bapple
• Beeple
  -- remember this? The start of the NFT bubble?
• best protest sign
• Best. Parents. Ever.
  -- were they though? Where's the followup story?
• Bionic reading
  -- oh this annoyed me so much
• Blaseball
• blobfish
  -- I do not ever want to see that picture again
• Boebert
  -- odious
• Bomb
  -- never good news, never delivered sensitively
• Boston dynamics
  -- because it's always horrible
• Breitbart.com
• Breonna
  -- helpless anger, so after a while I muted it. Sorry.
• brexitparty_uk
• By age 35
  -- ha!
• Can you recommend a GDPR expert
  -- this was never funny
• Cassetteboy
  -- it's very clever, but you see the first 10 seconds and that's all of them
• Cat face filter
  -- this went on so long
• cersei
• change.org
  -- ooh I'll sign that. Oh! SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM. So, no.
• Check out my run on strava
  -- no.
• Chelsea
  -- I despise football
• Chris rea
• Coldplay
• confirm you're not a robot
  -- no
• Congress
  -- just to dial down the volume. I did the same for Brexit for a while
• Creative Weekly is out
  -- no one cares
• Cro metrics
• Cummings
  -- of course
• Cyber Monday
  -- extreme sideeye
• Daily mail
• dailymail
  -- these utter bastards
• Debt ceiling
  -- seriously America? Again?
• Defund
  -- _bit guilty, but goes into 'helpless' category
• Defunding
• Democrats
• Dingo eating a shark
  -- like, no?
• Do you hear that sound? It’s every screenwriter in the world whispering a reverent
  -- no, I didn't hear it
• Do you know a good GDPR consultant
• Dorries
  -- whatever she does, we don't need to hear about it
• Drained a canal in Amsterdam
  -- I think I retweeted this too. Sorry
• drumpf
  -- don't even try it
• Ectopic
  -- again, helpless. You know it, I know it, they also know it, but they don't care
• Ed Balls
  -- a meme that memed too far
• Elden ring
• Eleventy
• Elon
• Elon musk
  -- still
• Emergency arts funding
• Escalator ui done right
  -- I hated this one so much, it really isn't
• Fairytale of New York
• Fairytale of NY
  -- every damn year! Enough already
• Fedortsov
• Ferguson
  -- helplessness again
• Filibuster
  -- still?
• Find a YouTube video
• Find me with inreach
  -- I think this went away?
• fireappeal
• Flatten the curve
  -- sigh
• Flight attendant:
• fllwrs.com
  -- muted with passion
• Florida
• Folx
  -- a guilty one, but… no
• Forced work from home
• Four seasons total landscaping
  -- too much
• Fourth of may
  -- some people trying too hard
• framed.wtf
• from me to you
• game of thrones
• Gary Neville
• Gary Numan
• Gary Numan is 13 days
• Gary Numan is actually 13 days older than Gary Oldman
  -- these were very early ones. I don't care, I never cared, I care even less now
• Gatsby
• Genocide
  -- I think this was about Ukraine. I could feel guilty, but some words hit you hard and you can't deal with them being thrown about
• George Floyd
  -- again, helpless anger
• Giphy
• Giuliani
• Give a man a fish
  -- oh man, these got old fast
• global ban on trophy hunting
  -- these always came with a horrific photo
• GOP
• got 99 problems
  -- yeah
• Green knight
  -- I wanted to avoid spoilers. I needn't have bothered. Why did they change the story and make it meaningless?
• Greg Abbot
• Greg priore
• Handforth
  -- oh my god shut up
• Heardle
• Here is a new poem entitled "Refugees". Please bear with it.
  -- no, sorry
• hey.com
  -- ha ha ha such hype
• Hold my beer
  -- there's a fucking table there, use it
• Hotjar
• How I did on Twitter this week
  -- no one fucking cares
• HTML is a programming
  -- I agree, but enough
• huffingtonpost
• humans and other sentients
• huwkip
• I favorited a @YouTube video
  -- oh that's nice, how interesting
• I forced a bot to watch
  -- you didn't
• hate the word homophobia
  -- shut up
• have eaten the plums
  -- I mean, yes, it's good. But… I've had enough of it and the variations
• Ijust earned the '(?:[^||"])*' badge on @untappd!
  -- clever you
• l just liked "r^"]+" on Vimeo: *$
  -- fascinating
• I know a spot
• I liked a @YouTube video
  -- again, fascinating
• I'm screaming
• Im screaming
  -- are you in pain? Shall I call you an ambulance?
• INSTALLING SUMMER..... ███████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 45% DONE. Installation failed. 404 error: Season not valid in UK
  -- this appears after every tiny bit of rain even if we'd had a heatwave a week before
• Invasion
• Is there a doctor on this flight
• Is your child texting about
  -- all of these can piss off
• It only costs $0
• It will cost you
• It will cost you £0
  -- I think these were the smug worthy ones about retweeting something dull
• It's shocking that after 15+ years of service design
• Ivermectin
• Javascript
• Johnny Cash, Bob Hope and Steve Jobs
  -- oh god
• Jorts
• Justin Bieber . retweet.? . random
• Justin Bieber gets 40,000
  -- I don't care
• Kanye
• Katie hopkins
• Kenobi
• Kotobade Asobou
• Leatherback
• let that sink in
  -- look at me, look how clever I am. Even before that shithead turned up at Twitter carrying a sink it was dull, and even worse after
• Liked on Spotify
  -- no one fucking cares
• Lilico
• Lowtaxchloe
  -- another odious character
• LTN
• mailboxapp.com
  -- oh, hype
• MailChimp list names
• makersplaceco
• Manchin
• Mandalorian
• Marc Jacobs
• Mark Jacobs
  -- his name appears too often on a label, and too often (also misspelled) on Twitter
• Masked singer
• mass shooting
• May the 4th
• May the forth
• May the fourth
  -- you can fuck off with all these, and keep fucking off until there's nowhere to fuck off to, and then you can keep fucking off
• McConnell
• Melocactus
• Mensch
• Message from admin
• Mixcloud
• Modest monthly budget of £400
• most ambitious crossover
• most painful cancellation
• Mother's Day
• Motherfucking
• mothers day
• Musk
• My week on twitter
• New password can't be old password
  -- oh, the password wit
• NET
• Nigel Farage
  -- the most odious of odiousness
• not going to have a successful career
• notch
  -- oh you got so excited and now it's normal
• Nuclear
• oakeshott
• Obi wan
• our daily target
• Painted zebra stripes on cows
• Pc Harper
• People who have gotten vaccinated
• Pinterest.com
  -- I wish I could mute this on search engines too
• Playdate
• Please can we have a RT
  -- nope
• plum-chloride
• Post an image of yourself
• Pregnancy
• PSA
• PSL
• Quarantine ain't over get back inside
• Quordle
• read the entire thread
  -- no.
• Read the whole thread
  -- no.
• read this thread
  -- no.
• realDonald Trump
• Realmattlucas
• Reddit
• Reince Priebus
  -- this guy's name is so like a spoonerism it gets stuck in my head like an earworm
• Republicans
• rickygervais
  -- I had Linehan as a mute as well but he's not on Twitter anymore
• Rob Roberts
• Rogan
• Ryan Giggs
• Samaritans
  -- these are usually so full of triggers and I'm sure people think they're being helpful but too often they make things worse
• Sarah Vine
• Scotch egg
• Senator
• sense8
• Severed hand
• Shaking the foundations of your state
  -- yes, if only this did
• she told you not to worry about
• she would die in her prime
• Slave patrols
• Sliding into your DMs
  -- ugh. ugh. ugh
• Someone has added fake book
  -- and someone has stolen a joke
• Spoopy
  -- fuck. off.
• spotify.com
• Suicide
  -- again, stop it with the look-at-me-retweeting-triggers
• Superrare
• Tailwind
• taking a panorama while rolling down a hill
  -- it never was, it was an effect
• Term.000
• That's the tweet
  -- oh, how terse and punchy of you
• The 4th be with you
  -- again, no
• thereclaimparty
• This is bad
  -- sigh, yes, we can see
• This needs to be heard
  -- and you'll make sure of that won't you
• to be fair
  -- this is my ultra-muted one. I had it muted on Twitter's app too. Are you saying I'm being unfair? No, so why say this?
• To Iranian President Rouhani
• Tom Nook
• Trumbull
• Trump
• Turbotax
• two questions about space force
  -- ha ha ha
• updog
  -- go away
• Walmart
• Wandavision
• washingtonpost.com
• We’ll be updating you on this rolling non-story every half hour.
  -- yes, and we'll see this tweet more often than that
• web3
• Wenger
• Winklevoss
• Withfnd
• Wordle
• World Cup
  -- I despise football
• worldcup
• Wrong answers only
  -- I can't even remember what this was about, but it got old fast
• X A A-12
• Young yoda
• your kids texting
• Your new password must contain
• Your password must be
• Your password must contain
• Your password needs to contain
  -- some of these were funny, but most weren't