This is A Thing That Actually Fucking Happened: Taliban is buying blue checkmarks on Twitter. No, I am neither joking nor making this shit up because it is real and happening.
At least two Taliban officials and four prominent supporters in Afghanistan are currently using the checkmarks.
Hedayatullah Hedayat, the head of the Taliban’s department for “access to information”, now has the tick.
There are others as well. To say this makes me feel violently ill is the understatement of the fucking century.
Muhammad Jalal, who previously identified as a Taliban official, praised the new owner of Twitter on Monday, declaring that Elon Musk was “making Twitter great again”.
Of course, this doesn’t faze Elongated Muskrat one fucking bit. It’s money and that’s all that matters to that sleezeball.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have more important things to do, like making a post on Mastodon. #FuckTwitter
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