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[Dee Man]

19 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

 

Spending years running a sock puppet Twitter account, using it to boost yourself and solicit financial donations and then having the account die isn’t the same as a writer using a pen name.

I’m sure people did stuff like this in the past but social media has been a big enabler of behaviour like this. I wonder how it manifested itself in the past.

 

Not exactly the same but in the same vein I'd say:

https://www.npr.org/2010/07/16/128567769/the-fake-american-rappers-who-fooled-everyone

[NotThePars]

endless_wario is a funny username

[welshbairn]

 

[Todd_is_God]

Pretty much every tweet on THIS account is disturbing

[Steve_Wilkos]

Pretty much every tweet on THIS account is disturbing

Yuck.

[Derry Alli]

I tweeted a reply to a Dundee United fan, innocuous, yet he's went full blown weirdo. 

He has tweeted me three nights running now (only one remains) telling me to stop smoking as my fingers will go yellow - I don't smoke - telling me to self isolate and then mixing them both together to tell me to stop smoking and self isolate because the smell of the smoke is "yukky". 

I fucking love twitter. 

[thistledo]

"Seen calculators more advanced" got me. 

 

 

[Lichtie78]

[The Grass Is Greener.]

The videos of that explosion going around are unbelievable. The one from inside the room that smashes the windows is genuinely terrifying.

[Detournement]

2 hours ago, thistledo said:

"Seen calculators more advanced" got me. 

 

 

Your microwave is the same age as my step mum was pretty good tbh. 

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

 

 

[ICTChris]

Some clips of the explosion

 

[ICTChris]

Some suggestions it's a firework factory.  I think that a country like Lebanon (long history of bombings, civil war and conflict) should maybe just import fireworks. 

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

The force of that explosion looks incredible. Cars over a kilometre away turned upside down etc. 

[ICTChris]

The initial reports on news sites say "there are reports of injuries" - there's going to be signifcant numbers of deaths from this, surely?

I've seen someone suggest that it was a grain silo that blew up after a fire and that explains why so many people managed to film the blast - they were already filming the fire when the massive explosion came.  No idea if that is true or even plausible.

[ICTChris]

On some of the clips you can see flashes that look like fireworks in the initial explosion.  

I also remember seeing a similar video of a firework warehouse blowing up in Holland about 10-15 years ago that looked similar to this.

[Sergeant Wilson]

This looks more like you'd expect a firework factory blowing up to be like.

[itzdrk]

Must be either a fireworks factory or a place they make munitions, the red smoke is apparently caused by lithium which would point to fireworks. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

Mind when a fireworks factory went up in Holland the night of the Eurovision Song Contest one year. 

 

Edited August 4, 2020 by Melanius Mullarkey

[ICTChris]

8 minutes ago, itzdrk said:

Must be either a fireworks factory or a place they make munitions, the red smoke is apparently caused by lithium which would point to fireworks. 

I read an article a few days ago about the affect of the pandemic on Lebeanon - it's caused the governments and economy to completely collapse, in combination with an ecomonic/currency crisis that was already underway pre-pandemic.  It's plausible that workers in a fireworks factory weren't getting paid or couldn't make it in so stayed at home.