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A Brief and Weird Visit to the Dumpster Fire Known as Twitter
Some people have deleted their Twitter accounts since the fascist frat boy bought the company. I haven’t done so, but I began drastically less active on Twitter.
The dumpster fire known as Twitter regularly attempts to entice me (and fails) with emails that contain numerous posts from different accounts. It wants me to not just read the email but click on the posts and log into Twit. Depending on the first post displayed in the email subject line, I most often delete the emails without reading them. Sometimes it doesn’t even depend on the first post.
Sometimes the email strangely includes Twit accounts I don’t follow. Maybe these accounts are usually writers or publishers or literary agents, but… I’m not sure, since I’m mostly like to delete the email without reading it.
I clicked on one of these Twi emails today. I saw something interesting from an account I follow…and logged onto Twit. But the email also showed a lying, manipulative, and transphobic batshit bullshit post from… Tulsi Gabbard?!? She’s not someone I’d follow on social media, but thanks, Twit, for letting me know she’s a lying, fascist bigot spreading fake news. I clicked on the post for the sake of blocking her. She sounds like a bot but has two million followers. I wonder how many of them are bots.