The “Paper of Record,” ladies and gentlemen. It might be possible to imagine four more intellectually bankrupt headlines, but I’d not care to try…

I’m still hoping someone can explain why “For You” (at least “for me”) consists of about three-dozen catch-up tweets from people I know, then almost nothing but cancer diagnoses, pet loss, and separation/divorce announcements, all from accounts with which I’ve never interacted.

Don’t know about anybody else, but I’m seeing cosplay of Nana Mouskouri and Amanda Lepore.

As things around here continue to get weirder and less pleasant, I’m again happy to be able to offer a helping hand over to the Azure Heavens place. For better or worse, it seems to be the best hope for interactive, conversational social media. HMU via DM; I’ve got two invites.

Doing the TV version of doomscrolling this evening, cycling among news programming on Egyptian, Palestinian, Israeli, and international channels. Each presents a slice of a story, but somehow the more I see, the less I understand.

I feel like I'm going mad, every politician is like "the killing of civilians is never acceptable and that's why we must stand with Israel as it drops apartment blocks on children."

Still holding—one to go. Or does everyone already have a place in the lifeboats?

All out, for the moment. But there will be more.

The odd little stab when one goes to unfollow someone, only to realize they unfollowed you first. “Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”

*looks around with the air of a leading lady surveying a now-empty room at the end of a three-act drama, thoughtfully straitening her hat, then pulling on a glove* “We had some good times here, didn’t we?” *turns and looks off stage* “Didn’t we?” *CURTAIN*

As I tidy up before departing, I’ve locked the account, mostly because the pornbots are so relentless. My only curiosity about them is why they appear to be a wholly heterosexual phenom; I’ve yet to get a random like on a three-year-old-tweet from a shirtless himbo called Oleg.

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