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The best part: the old screen name is available for anyone interested in impersonating a federal agency (I just checked).

Travis Brown@travisbrown.dev

If you want to get mad about some shit the US government did that isn’t murderous or fascist but is just nonsensical and fucking stupid, the National Labor Relations Board account on X recently changed its handle from “@NLRB” (which it had had since 2009) to “@NLRB_Board”.

17/7/26, 3:09 pm5 reposts19 likes

Chris

@chb.bsky.social

22 July

😞 > The user failed validation: Screen name must be more than 4 characters. Maybe Twitter forced them to add another char :/

Travis Brown

@travisbrown.dev

22 July

Damn, I only got past the “That username has been taken” check. It makes sense that a Twitter interface has two entirely different validation mechanisms that show up on opposite sides of the screen though.

Travis Brown

@travisbrown.dev

17 July

(I’d grab it myself but unfortunately I don’t think I have a spare account at the moment. If anyone does please go for it!)

Travis Brown

@travisbrown.dev

17 July

You could deactivate that old Twitter account, or (for a limited time) you could change your screen name to one that’s presumably linked from thousands of US government web pages and pretend to be a US government agency for a few days until you get suspended. Seems like an easy choice!