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Brave.

-Apple

@searls meme-worthy

(Please do not reply this message)

@searls I am replying to this toot because I am starved for interaction.

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For my #blind friends:
The image shows a gray chat interface (could guess it's facetime)
The user shows as "Apple" and replied: check in to this with you and I'm confident with what we discussed today you will be good to go! Thanks for contacting Apple!

Please do not reply this message to avoid starting a new interaction.

@searls @allen099
If you want a more verbose signature, you're welcome to borrow mine and edit it to meet your needs.
"This is a confidential communication between myself, yourself or organization, and any of the numerous intelligence agencies who, at this very moment, are no doubt noting the contents of this missive and will, at some future date, finally get around to analyzing it and realizing that nothing of importance whatsoever is contained herein.”

@searls surely they meant

Not reply message avoid new interaction.

Seems there were some other words they forgot to leave out.

@searls I won't reply to this in order to avoid starting a new interaction.

Whoops!

@searls replies: okay.

@searls It's right up there with DNA's "Please do not press this button again."

@searls Can I please get a T-shirt with that printed on it please.

@searls earnest question from a non-native englisch speaker: is this even proper englisch? Don’t you „reply to“ a message? 🤔

@searls I'm a big fan of how Sherman closed his final letter to Hood outside Atlanta:

"This is the conclusion of our correspondence, which I did not begin, and terminate with satisfaction."

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And so subtle...

@searls years ago I had a credit agency call me and when we were done speaking, they told me that “I” had to hang up because they were not allowed to terminate the call. Hours later, I removed them from mute and hung up!

@searls Useful things, commas.

@searls Ahh, I love email signatures! Currently, mine is as follows:

No trees, cats or Yahoos were harmed in the making of this message.

I'm quite proud of it, lol.

@searls Don't start none, won't be none. :)

@searls Sounds like Apple needs a grammarly subscription!

@searls @codinghorror that's not an email signature, it's a life philosophy.

@searls bruh