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What I've learnt on the Twitter this year:

1. The State of Hawaii makes Jason Kenney honorary Premier.
2. Rod Phillips and John Tory say Rod nodded off on a TTC streetcar and somehow ended up in St Barts.
3. New Conservative Task Force created to locate their MPs and staff.

 4. Michelle Rempel says, because some other Conservative politicians did the wrong thing, now she can't do the wrong thing, because the media will report she did the wrong thing, and that's wrong for the media to do. That's it. That's the funny part.
5. Mike Harris awarded the Order of Ontario, which basically makes the whole thing an attendance award.
6. Doug Ford announces that a large order of McDonald's fries and a box of Philadelphia Cream Cheese will also be awarded the Order of Ontario this year.
7. UCP MLA Tracy Allard says she left the country and flew to Hawaii because her family can't celebrate Christmas properly without eggnog served in genuine coconuts.
8. UCP MLA Jeremy Nixon says he only travelled to Hawaii to personally forward a really funny email joke to Allard
9. After appearing more than an hour late for the press conference he'd called, Jason Kenney says Alberta's vaccination rates are low because Trudeau screwed up and delivered the vaccines early. That's it. That's the funny part.
10. Doug Ford sent Jason Kenney a Thank You card.
11. Kenney says he didn't make travel restrictions for his MLAs clear and will be sure to include "No recreational travel during a pandemic, guys!" notes when he packs their lunches for them.
12. The Toronto Sun covers its eyes, counts to 30 and pretends Justin Trudeau is hiding.
13. Doug's vaccine czar, General Rick Hillier, suggests half a dose of vaccine, some good mess chow and a long march with a heavy pack will keep Ontarians safe from Covid.
14. With dozens and dozens dying in LTCs, Caroline Mulroney travels to 1986 and urges us all to buckle up.
15. Doug says he had no idea his Finance Minister had left the country. Says he thought Rod said he was flying to St. Jacobs for the Christmas break.
16. Jason Kenney appears at his New Year's Day press conference wearing a "I ❤️ Maui" hoodie.
17. Brett Wilson says egregious Conservative hypocrisy and shameful role modelling isn't the problem - the problem is that extra 3 dollars all those rich people are paying at the pumps as they make their way to the airport for their traditional Hawaiian Christmas vacations.
18. Poilievre says 2021 is going to be "the year of the worker." Doesn't say what he or Michelle Rempel be doing in 2021 then.
19. Zoom Inc reports huge surge in green screen background use in 2020, saying uptick rates concentrated in cities with provincial legislatures.
20. In a tweeted New Year's Greeting video, Stephen Lecce says he's optimistic 2021 will be a good year. So yeah, we're good.
21. Doug was most upset about Phillips's pandemic jet-setting because Rod was expected at the Ford Extended Family Christmas dinner and Secret Santa swap.
22. After calling in sick most of the year, 2020 finally resigns.
23. In 2035, millions of adults who were kids in 2020 will think back fondly on memories of Nana and Papa's foreheads and stippled ceilings.
24. 2020: The year of the Glory Hole. Oh, and Doug Ford's food orgasm.
25. I usually head to southern Arizona this time of year. Bit of a tradition. Recharge my batteries. Sunshine, hiking, rattlesnake dodging, and killer desert sunsets. Not going this year. Because, you know, pandemic.

Clearly, I'd make a lousy politician.

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1. Doug Ford declares State of Emergency. Says he doesn't understand what people don't understand about the rules. Either stay home or go to Walmart to buy essential cream cheese.
2. Ford announces his French lessons are going tray bueno.

3. Kenney announces Alberta will begin procuring their own vaccine because they only have most of the Fed's supply left now.
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If you post something to twitter, a social media platform by which ideas are shared, and you don't want people to comment on it or provide their opinions, you can use many tools on twitter (locking account, changing who can reply).

Calling disagreement "disrespectful" is bizarre

If you wish to curate replies, you have many options. First, you can change who can reply.

"Everyone can reply" opens it up to the world
"People you follow" ensures that people you've selected are only able to reply
"People you've mentioned" means just that - specfically.

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note that this does NOT stop retweets nor does it stop "quote tweet replies", an annoying type of reply that twitter SHOULD allow you to block if you choose.

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Alternatively, you can select individual replies you don't like, and remove those from the conversation. In response to this, i'm picking on the lovely @dranniehickox's reply (i'm happy with it!)

Note: people will see "the author has hidden this, would you like to see?"

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The twitter ban on 45 is a victory in some sense for the immediate but a warning in the long term, not on the curtail of free speech but as gesture towards the expansive power commercial tech has on every aspect of our governance and our lives, I don’t quite have the words but-

What I’m trying to get at, is not just that Twitter’s decision allows us to see—in ways that have been obscured—how much control they have over content moderation—

but as @Elinor_Carmi points out “platforms don’t just moderate or filter “content”; they alter what registers to us and our social groups as “social” or as “experience.” https://t.co/GSByAOoDWg changed

I’m worried that the celebration of Twitter’s intervention on fascist rhetoric-however too little and too late- directs us to desire tech companies enforcement of liberal and democratic procedures rather than towards an investigation of

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