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https://threadreaderapp.com/ will do it -- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1027717419400392705.html

and yes, it's ridiculous that this is necessary

Have you got something that will handle replies (in date order) too?

It's not quite what you're asking for, but Treeverse represents the conversation (including replies) as a tree https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse (disclosure: I wrote it)

Very handy, thanks

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