I left quite a while before that happened, but it was already obvious the owner was using it for his own obnoxious purposes.

Yes, that really is a ridiculous argument. And I don’t see that it’s any business of theirs where anyone else posts or doesn’t anyway!

Whenever I see someone arguing that people should stay on Twitter because of the discourse or career benefits or whatever, I just think “but I don’t want to 😕”, and for me that is absolutely decisive

This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

It's almost exactly four years since Tim Shipman's notorious "Boris Johnson squats like a giant toad" tweet.

Seems like important context given how we often talk as though the next election – four years away – is a done deal.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Or a neat little neural implant, perhaps

Such a prescient play!

I’m feeling so sad for Rachel and her disastrously low expectations

It’s been many years since I used one, but even then I remember thinking about the many misrepresentations: how do you think that’s going to go for you when you actually meet someone in the flesh?

The whole piece is great and full of moments like this that illustrate what a terrible idea using LLMs on dating apps is on every level

Yes. I remember reading about it at the time. There were so many appalling failures.

Yes. Though I think it’s possible to be not at all sad about who this happened to while believing such things should not happen.

Not going to applaud a murder but I doubt anyone will mourn this disgusting man. I hope his victims find peace. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

RIP to the great Diane Keaton. If you can find it, her book on Clown Paintings - for which she curated a large selection of flea market amateur clown portraits -mostly fantastically creepy - accompanied by the thoughts of famous people regarding clowns - is well worth a look.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Don't feel stupid, but also, if someone helpfully tells you "that's fake," the correct response is "oh shit, let me delete this" not doubling down and disabling comments.

Getting international troops into Gaza as soon as possible is the only thing that *may* provide security for Palestinians in Gaza from Israel soon resuming attacks and later relaunching a genocidal onslaught.

If she’s in hiding in Venezuela then she may send someone to pick it up for her, and the obvious choice is the man she has dedicated the award to. So I think there’s now a decent chance Trump gets to have his Nobel Peace Prize moment. Maybe that was the idea!

Nobel laureates get to take guests to the big party in Oslo, btw bsky.app/profile/leah...

Machado issues her first statement since being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and makes a thinly-veiled appeal to Trump for US intervention in Venezuela:

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I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?