By never answering such calls I like to think I'm doing my part to change expectations.

All right now, for all you boppers out there in the big city, all you hard people with an ear for the action, I've been asked to relay a request from Mr Fox. It's a special for the hard men, that real live bunch made from the hard times, and I do mean the hard men. Here's a hit with them in mind. 🎶

My dog is part swamp monster but good at keeping cats away!

I tried giggling Dimetrodon and now I feel bad for mocking an extinct animal.

I tried to qualify for the Olympics but was outclassed and humiliated -

Boring, stinks of failure and arrogance.

I tried to qualify for the Olympics but was disqualified due to the danger I posed to myself and other competitors -

Mysterious, hints that you were too good.

It can be fine and even useful if used well. The worry is that that fact gives it legitimacy and traffic it doesn't deserve.

To achieve this, you have to look at more sites rather than getting everything from Twitter, but you don’t have to constantly filter out an overwhelming tide of bad actors. I’ve found it less exhausting and more clarifying. And this place so far has been good. Interesting people, way less noise.

What worries me most is if this is a practice run for the way he is intending to engage Twitter in the US election, and the apparent lack of strategies to deal with this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The reaction to the riots and rejection of populist arguments at the ballot box are big steps towards being able to have a reasonable conversation about immigration. People saying otherwise are just upset that they won't be involved in the reasonable conversations.

Death must've been practicing his judo to take Jack away.

I wonder if there's a Roko's basilisk / Pascal's wager element to it?