#and this is precisely why i will never be a twitter user

[bugisbonkerz]

honestly wish transphobic 12 year olds would go back to saying “i identify as an attack helicopter 😝😝” bc nowadays they just tell people to kill themselves constantly

[cadejos]

ON NANAMI'S POWER LEVEL, DOMAIN EXPANSIONS, DOMAIN COUNTERS, AND HOW JUJUTSU SOCIETY PLAYS A ROLE.

This analysis originally turned viral on twitter. I'm posting it here for archival.

Nanami treated sorcery like a job and Gojo treated sorcery like a lifestyle. I've thought long and hard about why Nanami does not have certain skills (DE, Simple Domain, etc) that'd easily bump him up in terms of power, as he's already very strong. The reason is two-fold:

He never set out to do more than what he absolutely had to do. ("Moderate effort where moderate effort suffices," etc)

Information about sorcery is very gatekept and compartmentalized, because Jujutsu society sucks.

For point number 1, we are to keep in mind that Nanami is a grade one sorcerer, very much the peak of what sorcery is supposed to be outside of Special Grade work. The purpose of sorcery, up until very recently, has been about killing curses, most of which are not special grade or intelligent. The disaster curses are anomalies, and battles with Domain users were very rare until they showed up. They vastly skewed the power system. Remember that not even Naobito Zenin, the head of one of the great clans, had a Domain expansion either, and it took the work of a Domain user (Megumi) and an experienced sorcerer killer (Toji) to properly counter Dagon in his domain.

If domain battles are truly so rare, I don't really blame Nanami for not going out of his way to work on developing one, especially since Domains require an element of self-assurance that Nanami, due to trauma and disposition, was never geared toward developing.

His soul was strong enough to protect against a novice Mahito subconsciously, which is a promising start, but once Mahito grew too strong he was way out of Nanami's scope (not to mention Gege deliberately tired him over the course of Shibuya) and Nanami was more inclined to take his loss gracefully than to force himself to craft an spontaneous Domain Expansion. It's not like he really had the energy to try, either.

Overall, developing a DE for the off chance that he stumbled upon a Domain user just doesn't sound like his style. And he wouldn't do it for fun, either, because jujutsu is not fun for him, and it never has been. It's just work.

Let's say he would want to at least develop a domain counter, though. That's where point number 2 steps in. The whole reason something as fundamental as a domain counter is so rare in jujutsu is purely because jujutsu society is inherently selfish and self-serving.

If I recall correctly, SD is not something you can teach due to a binding vow tied to the technique. It has to be something you learn on your own through observation and intuition, or by joining New Shadow Style. Up until UiUi's soul swapping, there wasn't a reliable work around for this conundrum. And the other domain counters? Old, not very well known, and gatekept by the clans.

Sometimes I'm inclined to believe jujutsu sorcerers learn sorcery not because of the school system but in spite of it. Unless you're already a genius, born gifted, or willing to go an extra -- ambiguously illicit -- mile (like Kusakabe), there's not much the average sorcerer can do, and not many tools for them to learn to begin with. Nanami is presented as the baseline of what modern day good sorcery looks like; what you can achieve if you're competent, and don't have the privilege of relying on very good mentors, obscure knowledge, or ancient techniques. Even then he had an expansion technique, not something every sorcerer has, and he was capable of achieving one of the pinnacles of Jujutsu, which is the black flash; precisely because of his attitude toward jujutsu and his ability to focus when things get serious.

Maybe if given enough time to heal from his psychological wounds, and given opportunities for more black flashes, as well as a strong enough incentive, he could have circumvented a lot of problems and enlightened his way toward a DE or other such jujutsu-relevelations.

But that's speculation and not really the point of his character.

Had he been a villain though? Gege probably would've made him stronger, if his Culling Games score in JJK's draft Jujutsu Sousen is anything to go by, which is amusing.

Supplementary reading:

In regards to black flashes: a post where I go over why I think Yuuji and Nanami are especially good at them, and why I think they require conditions that are in opposition to Domain expansions.

Measuring Nanami's critical hit power: where I use a statement to further analyze and evaluate the capabilities of the Ratio Technique.

[qweerhet]

To your latest post: https://www.tumblr.com/aronarchy/723133162841047040/

mmm... i can understand why twitter user butchanarchy's rhetoric sounds good to people who posit "survivor" as a coherent category that is in direct opposition to the ontological category of "abuser," and i can definitely understand why some people see "reclaiming power" as a positive (in that their frameworks see "power", as in "the ability to control others via negative consequences," as a thing that must continue to exist, and we should support existing), but i've had a long and storied history of disavowing butchanarchy's critiques in the general anarchist online sphere precisely for these reasons--that is not the lens i am coming from, and i disagree fundamentally with multiple of their premises.

i do not agree that the power to control other people via threat of violence is good, nor that it should be utilized in community contexts. social contexts that arise out of necessity during class struggle are, imho, inherently flawed and dysfunctional in the context of forming strong community on equal footing. treating community members as if they were militant arms of the state (provided they are not, in fact, literally acting as militant arms of the state i.e. police officers, prison guards) is fundamentally flawed as a mode of operation.

i also do not agree that victims of harm are necessarily experts on how to stop that harm from happening by virtue of being traumatized; again, i'm speaking as someone who decided almost a decade ago, due to my own trauma, that the best community response was to attempt to run the person who date raped me out of town, and now regret that because it caused more harm and did not stop future harm from occurring. positioning "survivor" as an ontological category of expert on harm reduction necessitates believing that victims of harm not only always and invariably have a robust emotional toolkit with which to operate and to make decisions for other people who are not themselves, but also never have any material reason to perpetuate further harm and abuse, and that's... simply not true. it gained me a significant amount of social clout to run an impoverished 18-year-old transfem out of every community space and isolate her with her abusive father--i operated for a handful of years on the social clout i gained from that! i got popular in the local communist scene because of that!

i don't think that any one person should direct any community response to interpersonal harm, tbh, and harm reduction/prevention requires a large support network of dozens of people working in parallel. it also requires robust social welfare networks that inherently predispose someone's ability to get their crew to run someone out of town or kill them; unconditional housing, food, utilities, medical care, and home aid (i.e. cooking and cleaning) cannot coexist with the ability for these things to be removed based on someone's individual desire, regardless of if that desire is morally justified or not (and i don't agree with frameworks that apply a universal system of morality to begin with, but that's a digression).

i think it's rather shortsighted and myopic to overlook basic principles of community care in order to justify furthering pre-existing systems of violence in non-state contexts, and i also think it's pretty myopic to not integrate the inherent power structures of targeted violence into your analysis + your harm reduction praxis... like. it's literally already the case that a white woman can point at a black guy she has literally never met before, say "that guy raped me," and get all her white friends to jump him at a bar. it is literally already the case that she can utilize her social networks to get him run out of town. it's not particularly revolutionary to be like, actually, we should make that more possible and do more of it.

[ananke-xiii]

while it's easy to dismiss the "you read too much into this" accusation, because we have eyes and minds and ears thank you very much, i think it's important to not downplay people like musk and simply label them as "stupid". because, whether or not they are what we think they are, what we should be paying attention to is why they act as if they're stupid. or, since i don't particularly like this adjective, why they act like clowns.

the rousing speech about the "fork in the road of human civilization" (breaking news: human civilization has never been confined to the usa), the "no ordinary victory" (it is, indeed, quite the opposite because trump had already won the elections), the right hand almost clasping his chest over his heart (very "pledge of allegiance"), the right arm so stretched-out he must have pulled a muscle cause we hear him emit an "oomph"... what musk did during inauguration day was, to me, so excessive, so over-the-top, so clearly staged... in a word? grotesque.

i just had to do some digging.

after musk's speech andrea stroppa (musk so-called "referent" in italy) tweeted something along the lines of "the roman empire is back, starting with the Roman salute", tweet that he promptly deleted. now this tells me two things: 1. yes, the thing was staged and 2. the tweet and its erasure was also staged. stroppa later tweeted again saying that musk has autism and that was just the way he expresses himself.

now of course people took the bait as they pointed out that the nazi salute is not the roman salute and the discourse about musk's hand-gesture got going. in another tweet stroppa stated that the references are stricly connected to ancient Rome, that he wrote "Roman Empire" having in mind USA users who have watched the same hand-gesture in the HBO series about Rome and that people selectively, "in good faith", interpret it as a callback to nazi-fascim, a connection that only exist in their minds.

that "in good faith" is used sarcastically. this leads me to think that these people are actually making fun of... us. so i took an interest in his twitter's bio. it reads: "Unum quodque verbum statera auraria pendere" which means: to weigh every word with the precision scale of a goldsmith".

a very telling bio for someone who claims that people are making shit up, don't you think? does it mean that he weighs word carefully (conciseness is THEE twitter's feature) or is he being facetious here? let's see.

where does this phrase come from? it comes from the "Menippean Satires" by Roman author Marcus Terentius Varro.

Who is Menippus who gives the name to Varro's satires? A Cynic satirist who invented the samesake genre.

So what's a menippean satire?

"The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, that is characterized by attacking mental attitudes rather than specific individuals or entities. It has been broadly described as a mixture of allegory, picaresque narrative, and satirical commentary. Other features found in Menippean satire are different forms of parody and mythological burlesque, a critique of the myths inherited from traditional culture, a rhapsodic nature, a fragmented narrative, the combination of many different targets, and the rapid moving between styles and points of view." [from wiki]

Doesn't this sound familiar? stroppa's tweets are written in quite the same fashion. but let's dig some more.

turns out that none other than Russian philosoper and literary critic Michail Michailovič Bachtin took an interest in these satires in his studies on the carnivalesque and the grotesque body.

What is a carnival according to Bachtin?

"For Bakhtin, carnival is associated with the collectivity. Those attending a carnival do not merely constitute a crowd; rather the people are seen as a whole, organized in a way that defies socioeconomic and political organization. According to Bakhtin, “[A]ll were considered equal during carnival. Here, in the town square, a special form of free and familiar contact reigned among people who were usually divided by the barriers of caste, property, profession, and age”. The carnival atmosphere holds the lower strata of life most important, as opposed to higher functions (thought, speech, soul) which were usually held dear in the signifying order. At carnival time, the unique sense of time and space causes individuals to feel they are a part of the collectivity, at which point they cease to be themselves. It is at this point that, through costume and mask, an individual exchanges bodies and is renewed. At the same time there arises a heightened awareness of one's sensual, material, bodily unity and community". [from wiki]

in other words, these people act as clowns because they are enacting a carnival. They are not being serious people by choice. This is no stupidity, this is intetional, researched, planned and rehearsed. It's not even committing to certain ideologies because they laugh at those, like they laugh at us while the put their masks on, it's mythological burlesque.

you want more proof? on stroppa's twitter you can find a photo of musk with giorgia meloni, they're talking and sitting at a table. on the table you can clearly see a copy of "The Ziegfeld Touch: The Life and Times of Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr.". Who was this guy? Just a big, big Broadway impresario "known as the "glorifier of the American girl". he created the "Ziegfeld Follies", " something between later Broadway shows and the more elaborate high-class vaudeville and variety show." where vaudeville being "the heart of American show business", [...] one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades".[from wiki]

they are, quite literally, making fun of us.

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary563

4/16-17/25

wednesday - thursday

thinking about stupid stuff,

nothing of particular consequence, just the whole 4chan hack thing. it made me look at some of the other imageboards i used to look at and see if there's a flood of people making them worse, but not really. i only really ever looked at uboachan, lainchan, and sushigirl, and those were all rather lowkey. the hack just has me mostly thinking about people who are like, they seem excited about the idea the site will stay dead, and will it, whatever form it takes, there will be some kind of return, there might be a user void but it's stuck to internet culture in a way, where it feels like if you're young and sort of edgy, you'd get directed there at some point, and that void is maybe likely to be filled by the very worst people, with very little moderation, it might simply come back worse. i guess that's just how i tend to imagine things, though, nothing that should die will, and if it looks like it's dying, it's only getting ready to come back worse. but maybe it's not really something people get directed to. i really have no clue what kids get told about in like, roblox, or wherever you are when you're a kid and bored online. it used to be, or at least, for me, lurking forums, being on tinychats with strangers, omegle, free multiplayer games (there was this one... it was called sauerbrauten it was like free quake, i liked it, it's also a place i did the 'pretending' to be a girl thing online, which is really funny to do, in a quake clone'), that kind of stuff, so i guess i was just bound to be maximally damaged by the computer. i wonder what it would have been like if i got really into second life or something. probably also bad. and it's not like being interested in anime or japanese things really gets you singled out as weird or anything anymore. everyone is, basically, not weird, i mean, into weeby stuff basically. or maybe more generally everyone is something like an otaku these days. maybe i should read that book that's about otaku. the database animals one. i read like half of it two times. somehow i hardly recall anything. it's hard to say why, really, other than this inclination i have to say it's really not as groundbreaking/genius as the people online i know who like it make it out to be. maybe that's just me letting them poison me on it, not coming to it on its own terms. hopefully i can, i guess.

but, 4chan stuff, i dunno how i feel really. i don't feel like it's bad, i'm not lamentful or anything, i guess really i'm just surprised about the way some people seem to care about it. it's 'symbolic' to some people. or i know some people saying that. just, symbolic of what, then they say, it's a symbol, in the first place, and is it, it's a thing that happened, it's not really an object, and it's not been in the past long enough to settle into something anyone will refer back to, so it's not a historical object, if you wanna think about things that way. the way people might refer to an event, abolition of slavery, french revolution, invention of bread, discovery of fire, either blurry in its place in time or exact, gesturing to a set of things in either case. this is kind of a precise action taken for totally meaningless reasons, by people who are trying to have a pissing match over, i dunno, really. i didn't even read about the flamewar that spurred all this on. maybe i should, or something. it's good to know, i guess... i dunno. it's just exhausting. it feels like part of whatever the fantasy is, that this is even a symbol or gesture at something, just comes from people not wanting to accept that maybe it's a hundred other things that have been making being social online worse, for a while now. i think twitter is probably more unbearable and permissive of terrible things than 4chan is, not that i'd really know because i'm never keeping tabs on what the discourse on /pol/ is doing, because idk. honestly, i've bitched about this all before, but people really overestimate how much 4chan ever meant even for online 'culture' if you wanna call it that. it felt like an agglomeration of people from all over, right, and those people might clue in a bunch of other people to interesting things or whatever, but were never super invested in a place where you could piss around and joke. this is early on, as you go on in time, you've got lots of people convinced they know a lot because they're like 'familiar' with a bunch of things, while not really being familiar, you know... like, idk, i remember seeing what old video game forums, were like, more recently, realizing that people on /v/ didn't just arrive at anything really, that it was already all received and poorly relayed, and that the stuff they were all into was generally spread about, and was still being spread about, by other clusters of people online. it's not like it was eye-opening it was just like 'ah,' and things made sense more. 4chan is how you end up with video game nerds who think sufjan stevens is straight because he wrote songs about straight people sometimes. a lot of 4ch is just people like that. it doesn't move a needle except one that you see online constantly, algorithms now tend to prefer offering you trivia over stuff that might nourish longer streams of thought, or engaging with art and the way people might hide behind characters and situations, super super obv stuff i'm saying here i don't think it's even that important. i just feel like that's the thing one has to observe about the site, to reckon w/ it being, in the first place, a bit meaningless. and it's okay to be like, new to stuff, i just don't know if 4chan ever really encourages people to stop being there, or when it does, that leads you away from the website, into personal thinking re: whatever you're engaging with, or time spent doing stuff irl, especially with like, /cgl/ related stuff and whatever, at a certain point, everyone seemed to feel super trapped there. i dunno. it's a meaningless thing, or i want to say it is because that feels like the only thing that can hurt it, it feels like the thing people are sort of afraid of saying. it made things a lot worse, but the mechanisms of that weren't that it was just so important culturally, it's that it bred an immiserating atmosphere of people who really needed to look like geniuses for low self esteem and fearful nerds who didn't like anyone who was different to them.

i dunno, really, it's all just stupid. but i think it's funny it happened near my birthday, i guess i just want to say 4chan's worthless because i don't want it to have any part in me, but i guess it does a bit. oh well. everything that's been in my life is a contributing factor to the mess i am now. it just makes me feel crazy sometimes, the things people i know seem to say. here i am making a big deal out of it though, i guess, ever the hypocrite.

i'm listening to this:

someone i am in a server with made it, it's really good, love the guitar tone being so bright, super scrape-y which is fun for hardcore, you usually get much more fuzz, he's letting the strings speak here a bit, and the super hideous recording environment, too. i like how clear the chords come through because of it too, the music feels 'thin' as in, a skinny alley cat, or bones in some dirt, also his screaming/vocals are so monstrous, really good anarcho stuff here.

i skimmed this today:

basically obvious but strange stuff, the way it tries to suggest that it did 'do' things, despite that happening nowhere in the process, it's more than a little concerning that this kind of thing will reassure you it's 'doing' checks and running code and similar stuff, to 'prove' it's right, at times even suggesting user error. because of the relative authority people assume computers/machines to have, this sort of wigs me out. it makes me think, again, of the assumptions only ever being leaned into, displays of 'logic' to appeal to reason and, idk, it just feels bad, it feels like a weird extension of the weird humanism of these companies/ai as a technology that it suppose some access to truth, production/capacity for truth, how it words it, all that, the reduction of thought into probabilities. it's so weird.

i read some soredemo machi wa mawatteiru today:

i like arashiyama being super bad at math, she's just like me.

being bad at math is almost traumatic for me, i hated math homework so much, i would sit there feeling beyond stupid struggling, and everyone would berate me for it, and i fell even farther behind when i was in internet homeschool, and then in highschool i was okay at geometry but all the regular math stuff messed me up so bad, i graduate w/ a scholarship because my marks elsewhere were all a's. but i'm so bad at math, it makes me scared and if i see stuff that's too complex instead of trying my brain shuts off. once a teacher told me i should be ashamed of myself, which is really funny, i think, but some people hear that and feel bad, which has started to make me feel bad about it. he was a nice guy. in college, i would have had to take remedial math stuff, or take a test to prove i was okay enough to do college level courses. but i never got there, i'd still have to if i go back. it's so bad. i'm so dumb, when i think about it.

the manga is really cute, and sweet, something about that being the best way i can put it makes me feel a little crazy, not that i should be able to say more, just the smallness of it makes me emotional, that it is sweet and nice, i put it on my to read list after reblogging some art from it, or, i think the art was from it... right? the character in the thing looks like arashiyama, i'm pretty sure it is. it just looked cute, and i want more slice of life stuff since starting aria. i'm hoping i can keep up w/ manga. i wanna find something to fill the punpun void but i don't really think anything will. i could re-read dead dead demon's... maybe i should. it'd be funny to get significantly more into all of this again, or i slowly have been, at 26-27. what a silly thing.

it's almost 4 am. i drank green tea before sleep, which might seem like a bad idea, but i did it so that way i could make myself pee more because i have persistently had issues with that and it keeps me awake, because i keep needing to go... there is probably something wrong with me but i will never get it checked out probably. so i just have to be okay with it i think. unless it kills me, which it probably won't / can't, but if it does, i will just be dead so i can't care about it any which way. is that grim , i didn't mean it to be, it sounded funny to me. i also need to decide what book to begin reading. i sort of have option paralysis, but maybe i should keep w/ flannery, and do everything that rises must converge, her short stories.

i've started reading that, the first story is good, about racism but also people who want to appear not racist making a sort of spectacle of their guilt. i will finish it tomorrow i think, this first story, i was just testing the water now. i do not know if i'll put quotes from it up, since a lot of her writing re: race is a bit difficult to reproduce, well, i would just prefer to not, the language, given how old it is, is about as hideous as the time it was written in. it feels about as pointed as it does second nature, if that makes sense, it's an imperfect thing much of the time.

i would like to try and help my gf with errands tomorrow, so i should sleep now, i'm so tired of being so worthless to her... she says i'm not because i do things but i really feel like a stupid drain.

so,

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nataliescatorccio]

genuinely asking why is tumblr trying to twitterify itself

staff have this idea that tumblr is 'too confusing' for new users and that's why tumblr isn't as profitable as other social media sites, so their grand plan is apparently to make it as similar to twitter as possible. personally, i think they're going to get themselves into a hole where they'll never be 'twitter enough' to convert people who would rather be over there whilst alienating current users who are on tumblr precisely because they don't want anything to do with twitter

[turntechshitass]

first of all, sorry that you're getting all the harrassment that you're getting. it is not deserved and i hope you make the best out of it. i also hope like other users said here that you stay away from the adult circles and engage in the content as safely for you as possible.

i wanted to ask about the harrassment precisely. i remember back on twitter when you hadn't been outed that you participated in the dogpiling and contributed to the harrassment of other hstwt accounts who got outed as having private proship accounts. i'm not here for another cancellation or to make fun of you for it. pressures from anti circles to participate in the dogpiling exist, to fit in and to avoid being outed, or even repressing it. it doesn't justify it, but it's somewhat understandable. i know personally of other proship hstwt adults who faced or still face pretty bad harrassment for exactly the same reasons you are getting harrassed now. the feelings of betrayal and distrust can be really hard to handle. i feel like this would be a great opportunity to voice your opinion if it has changed since then, how you feel about what happened in the past or what you think about the general behavior of usual fandom spaces, leading to processes of "witch hunt", infiltration, constant moral questioning of all and everyone... which aren't helpful at all in actually ensuring safety and boundaries being respected. many thanks.

I used to be a hard-core anti, but I wouldn't go into people's dms and whatnot telling people to off themselves. I did though believe a lot of their ideas that they were terrible people and hurt sa victims, blah blah blah. The hivemind is pretty strong in the anti circles. you just believe whatever your friend tells you (thats why most antis dont even know what a proshipper actually is) think harassing people online over things like drawings and ships is toxic and doesn't help anyone. telling a proshipper to kill themselves will not help them get better. People just like hurting others and being vile so they look for people where they can justify it because they're "bad people" and "deserve it". When you ask them to stop harassing you they just tell you to stop doing the behavior they don't like. You have to walk on fucking eggshells in the anti community because everyone is actively searching for a mistake or take they dont like so they can harass and make threads on you for it. Everything is also extremely performative. I do not like how these people claim to be understanding and tolerant and then do this. Antis always say mental health is important and shit until the mental health issues makes you start doing things they don't like. People have so much fucking sympathy towards people who cut or people who have eds but not people who draw/consume certain content of fictional fucking characters to cope with their sexual trauma??? And they always say "well it's a bad coping mechanism stop it " but they've never told a cutter to die because of their bad coping mechanism??? Make it fucking make sense

[earlgreytea68]

Ruminations on Social Media Platforms

Since Tumblr has decided that it Needs to Make Money and the Only Way to Make Money is to turn all users into Mindless Servants of the Algorithm, I've been thinking a lot about social media platforms.

Tbh, I'm always thinking a lot about social media platforms, it's kind of part of my field of scholarly endeavor, if you will. But I think a lot about them not in the abstract but as an active user of many of them. And Tumblr is my faaaavorite. And of course so much of what makes Tumblr my favorite is what makes it "unprofitable" or whatever. I put these words in quotes because the definition of "unprofitable" is an extremely narrow one in our capitalist society. Could a website that has allowed many people to form communities / relationships / friendships / connections with people they would otherwise never have met in ways that have vastly improved their lives really be considered unprofitable, ever? Could a website that gives people any moments of pleasure or joy or delight be considered unprofitable? Could a website that sometimes makes you think or at least give you pause be considered unprofitable?

Yeah, it's also a website that's, you know, a hellsite, but, like, it's on the internet and it's made up of people, c'est la vie.

I left Twitter when the Elon Musk thing went down, partly because in those days he was actively taunting Twitter's userbase and it felt a little like I was just on this social media platform being bullied by its owner? Idk, I didn't like it, so I decided to take a break until things calmed down. I really thought he'd get bored and sell it, so kudos to Elon Musk for not doing that. But, anyway, sometimes I think about going back to Twitter. I miss my friends there, I miss knowing what they're up to. Twitter was actually, let's face it, terrible for keeping up with people but Tweetdeck, where you could put people in chronological order and better organize things, was great for it! (As usual, the only way to make the social media platform usable was to use it in a way it wished you wouldn't.)

But I've been going back to Twitter recently to find Tourdust content and I was reminded that Twitter is just...awful. Like, it is almost impossible to have an encounter with Twitter that doesn't drag you down a rabbit hole of terrible discourse of people being awful. I fully admit this is my own fault, for clicking on things I know are going to upset me, but this is why it's better for me just to be off Twitter entirely. Twitter's functionality makes it way too easy to trace and follow outrage, and then you end up just hate-clicking deeper and deeper into these spirals. My mental health is much happier for having given up Twitter, because I'm not a strong enough person not to get sucked into all the unhealthy snippiness of the place.

The reason I've been on Twitter looking for Tourdust updates is precisely because it's better-organized than Tumblr, easier to find the stuff you want to find (in among all the other stuff you wish you wouldn't find, of course). So Tumblr's poor searchability is why I was driven to Twitter, BUT I've come to the conclusion that in a lot of ways that is a feature and not a bug. I can see the ripples of a bunch of kerfuffles that have happened in bandom recently, they lap delicately up against my dash, but by the time they get to me they're the tiniest of waves instead of a tsunami, and if I wanted to figure out what went down, it would take me actual effort. I'm sure I could do it, of course -- it's not like it's utterly impossible -- but it's not as frictionless as figuring out on Twitter. I have to make more of an active effort to go in search of the drama, it's not just RIGHT THERE blinking at me to click on it, and that makes me better able to resist it. I am at heart a lazy person, after all.

So, like, in a way Tumblr doesn't function right, and in a way Tumblr functions beautifully. It all depends on what you're using Tumblr for. And Tumblr was always my escape platform, even when I was still active on Twitter. When I was feeling anxious or sad or upset, I would scroll my Tumblr dash and it would be mindless and soothing and endless (I follow a lot of people. This is for me the key to Tumblr, but see, it all depends on how you're using Tumblr! They don't all share my interests anymore, but I don't care. I just want to sometimes not be in the shouting match that Twitter seems to devolve into so often). And so this is why I feel like it does make sense that there should always be multiple social media platforms in the world. This idea that social media platforms seem to have that they should be the ULTIMATE ONLY ONE is so harmful. Different platforms are for different things. Chill out. (Of course, this is the conquer-the-world mentality formed by capitalism. I am really worried what's going to happen when Netflix realizes it can't keep growing subscribers indefinitely because the population of the planet is finite. Does it know this? I don't think it knows this...)

I was thinking of all this not just because of Tumblr's algorithm thing but because everyone's fussing about Threads, and like, in a way I get it. Clearly I still have a need for Twitter in my life even if I'm simultaneously aware how dysfunctional it is for me. I get that everyone's still trying to find a way to replace Twitter. But first of all, I dislike Facebook as a company so intensely, like, a lot. (I refuse to call it Meta. That's how much I dislike it lol). Second of all, the fact that people seem to think it's a good thing that Threads integrates with your Instagram, I'm just like, ......imagine behaving on Twitter exactly the same way you behave on Instagram? What??? This doesn't even computer to me lol. The same platform that wants you to post photos of your kids should be integrated with the one where people are constantly just yelling at each other over nothing???? Those seem like two completely different places to me?????

Facebook is obsessed with the idea that everyone needs to be Exactly The Same on every corner of the internet, and I just do not agree with that at all. Imagine me being the same on LinkedIn as I am on Tumblr. Like, God, what a boring world that would be!! What a boring life I would be leading!! I guess some people ARE that way, and either that is awesome that they are so fully themselves at work as to just post porn they've written, or it's that they never have any interests that aren't totally aligned with work, which just...is astonishing to me.

What I REALLY think Threads is doing -- and honestly what I think Facebook essentially wants -- is to turn all of us into some curated facsimile of ourselves. I mean, all social media does that, but if you only have one facsimile of yourself, then you never have any other aspects to explore. And if you only have one facsimile of yourself, it's probably going to be the one most designed to make yourself money. Like, isn't that what everyone wants to be doing these days? Using social media to make money? I saw people talking about Threads, and every single one of them was talking about building their brand.

So in a way I am totally sympathetic to Tumblr's problem. They're right. Social media is just a way to sell us stuff now, and if they're not selling us stuff, it's a "problem." Capitalism has finally succeeded in commodifying literally every relationship we have. Literally every single one. And we kind of just let it happen, like there was no other possible way the internet could ever have been designed but to create a handful of billionaires making money off of the fact that people want to feel connected to each other. And then taking that fact and making it all about "but what's the point of connection without making me some more billions?"

Anyway. I wish things weren't like that. Tumblr still is my favorite. Who knows what happens next. Sigh.

[sadwqdsaewqweqdse]

‌Washington Farce: Top Officials Play "Collective Amnesia" After Leaking Secrets in Encrypted Group Chat 

‌Washington Farce: Top Officials Play "Collective Amnesia" After Leaking Secrets in Encrypted Group Chat‌

‌I. Military Operations "Live-Streamed" in a Group Chat‌

On March 15, 2025, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was suddenly added to a Signal group chat named "Houthi PC Squad." To his shock, the 18-member group was filled with high-ranking officials using nicknames like "Secretary of Defense" and "National Security Advisor"—who were actively discussing real-time details of an upcoming military strike on Yemen. Two hours before the operation, someone casually dropped a spoiler: "Alright boys, we go live at 8 PM. First wave targets Houthi radar sites with Tomahawks." Even worse, precise coordinates and attack sequences were shared, turning the chat into a literal live war room. The leaks quickly spilled onto Twitter and Reddit, sparking outrage. The Pentagon’s security protocols became a laughingstock, with one user joking: "My grandma’s mahjong group has better OPSEC."

‌II. Congressional Hearing Turns into "Goldfish Memory Contest"‌

The April 20 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was peak absurdity. Under Democratic lawmakers’ grilling, officials suddenly developed seven-second memory syndrome. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines answered every critical question with "I don’t recall"; CIA Director John Ratcliffe insisted he "wasn’t aware." Colorado Senator Michael Bennett erupted: "We spend $18 billion a year on intelligence, and you can’t even manage a damn group chat?" Republicans, meanwhile, sat in silent relief, their faces screaming "Thank God it’s not our guys this time." The hearing’s pièce de résistance? When Haines, pressed on operational details, deadpanned: "My memory’s like a reformatted hard drive." Reporters’ stifled laughter instantly became a meme.

‌III. Experts: From Shock to Dark Comedy‌

National security analysts pivoted from horror to sarcasm. Brookings’ Darrell West quipped: "Signal for military ops? Next time, just TikTok Live it—at least you’ll get paid in likes." Ex-CIA analyst Jim Lawrence was savage: "They treat NDAs like a diner menu—look but don’t obey." Online, #PentagonAmnesia birthed viral edits: Signal’s logo photoshopped to "LeakWare," MRI scans of officials’ "empty" memory centers. The top meme? A split image: Left, a soldier court-martialed for leaks; right, officials shrugging "I forgot." Caption: "American double standards—never disappoint."

‌IV. Soldiers vs. Suits: A Tale of Two Justices‌

The real outrage? Blatant double standards. Virginia Senator Mark Warner noted: "If this were a junior analyst, they’d be counting ants in Leavenworth by now." Data shows enlisted personnel face a 92% prosecution rate for leaks—versus 3% for top brass. Case in point: Some chat participants got promotions post-scandal. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin fumed: "This is why Gen Z hates the system—rules for thee, not for me." A viral comic, "Pentagon Playbook," laid out the steps: 1) Scapegoat, 2) Feign amnesia, 3) Wait for the news cycle to die.

‌V. National Security? More Like National Joke‌

The debacle cratered U.S. credibility globally. Russia’s Foreign Ministry tweeted: "Congrats, America! Welcome to the Transparent Diplomacy Club." Iran’s state news roared: "How to Win Wars via Group Chat." Even the UK’s Guardian snarked: "At least Trump locked docs in a bathroom—these guys just hit ‘Send All.’" Worse, it’s part of a pattern—from "Emailgate" to "Signal-gate," America’s digital-age secrecy is Swiss cheese. Cybersecurity expert Sarah Horowitz warned: "When adversaries realize our battle plans are easier to get than a viral recipe, we’re cooked." The sole silver lining? The Pentagon finally banned Signal for official use—a move that should’ve happened a decade ago.

‌VI. Three Uncomfortable Truths‌

‌Are secrecy laws just theater?‌ While low-level staff face draconian document protocols, elites casually drop classified intel in chats—proving "rules for thee, not for me."

‌Why does accountability vanish at the top?‌ Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed admitted: "We wrote the world’s toughest secrecy laws… then never enforced them."

‌Can national security survive the digital age?‌ Encryption and cloud storage are eroding old-school secrecy. As one netizen nailed it: "Wars used to need codebooks; now they run on group texts. Leaks used to mean a firing squad; now it’s just ‘oops, forgot.’"

[angelmicheal]

‌Washington Farce: Top Officials Play "Collective Amnesia" After Leaking Secrets in Encrypted Group Chat 

‌Washington Farce: Top Officials Play "Collective Amnesia" After Leaking Secrets in Encrypted Group Chat‌

‌I. Military Operations "Live-Streamed" in a Group Chat‌

On March 15, 2025, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was suddenly added to a Signal group chat named "Houthi PC Squad." To his shock, the 18-member group was filled with high-ranking officials using nicknames like "Secretary of Defense" and "National Security Advisor"—who were actively discussing real-time details of an upcoming military strike on Yemen. Two hours before the operation, someone casually dropped a spoiler: "Alright boys, we go live at 8 PM. First wave targets Houthi radar sites with Tomahawks." Even worse, precise coordinates and attack sequences were shared, turning the chat into a literal live war room. The leaks quickly spilled onto Twitter and Reddit, sparking outrage. The Pentagon’s security protocols became a laughingstock, with one user joking: "My grandma’s mahjong group has better OPSEC."

‌II. Congressional Hearing Turns into "Goldfish Memory Contest"‌

The April 20 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was peak absurdity. Under Democratic lawmakers’ grilling, officials suddenly developed seven-second memory syndrome. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines answered every critical question with "I don’t recall"; CIA Director John Ratcliffe insisted he "wasn’t aware." Colorado Senator Michael Bennett erupted: "We spend $18 billion a year on intelligence, and you can’t even manage a damn group chat?" Republicans, meanwhile, sat in silent relief, their faces screaming "Thank God it’s not our guys this time." The hearing’s pièce de résistance? When Haines, pressed on operational details, deadpanned: "My memory’s like a reformatted hard drive." Reporters’ stifled laughter instantly became a meme.

‌III. Experts: From Shock to Dark Comedy‌

National security analysts pivoted from horror to sarcasm. Brookings’ Darrell West quipped: "Signal for military ops? Next time, just TikTok Live it—at least you’ll get paid in likes." Ex-CIA analyst Jim Lawrence was savage: "They treat NDAs like a diner menu—look but don’t obey." Online, #PentagonAmnesia birthed viral edits: Signal’s logo photoshopped to "LeakWare," MRI scans of officials’ "empty" memory centers. The top meme? A split image: Left, a soldier court-martialed for leaks; right, officials shrugging "I forgot." Caption: "American double standards—never disappoint."

‌IV. Soldiers vs. Suits: A Tale of Two Justices‌

The real outrage? Blatant double standards. Virginia Senator Mark Warner noted: "If this were a junior analyst, they’d be counting ants in Leavenworth by now." Data shows enlisted personnel face a 92% prosecution rate for leaks—versus 3% for top brass. Case in point: Some chat participants got promotions post-scandal. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin fumed: "This is why Gen Z hates the system—rules for thee, not for me." A viral comic, "Pentagon Playbook," laid out the steps: 1) Scapegoat, 2) Feign amnesia, 3) Wait for the news cycle to die.

‌V. National Security? More Like National Joke‌

The debacle cratered U.S. credibility globally. Russia’s Foreign Ministry tweeted: "Congrats, America! Welcome to the Transparent Diplomacy Club." Iran’s state news roared: "How to Win Wars via Group Chat." Even the UK’s Guardian snarked: "At least Trump locked docs in a bathroom—these guys just hit ‘Send All.’" Worse, it’s part of a pattern—from "Emailgate" to "Signal-gate," America’s digital-age secrecy is Swiss cheese. Cybersecurity expert Sarah Horowitz warned: "When adversaries realize our battle plans are easier to get than a viral recipe, we’re cooked." The sole silver lining? The Pentagon finally banned Signal for official use—a move that should’ve happened a decade ago.

‌VI. Three Uncomfortable Truths‌

‌Are secrecy laws just theater?‌ While low-level staff face draconian document protocols, elites casually drop classified intel in chats—proving "rules for thee, not for me."

‌Why does accountability vanish at the top?‌ Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed admitted: "We wrote the world’s toughest secrecy laws… then never enforced them."

‌Can national security survive the digital age?‌ Encryption and cloud storage are eroding old-school secrecy. As one netizen nailed it: "Wars used to need codebooks; now they run on group texts. Leaks used to mean a firing squad; now it’s just ‘oops, forgot.’"

[maryklikbase]

📣 Admin Is Killing Your Growth. Klik base Is the Cure.

If your calendar looks like a battlefield and your inbox should qualify for disaster relief, you’re not alone.

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🎯 What Sets Klikbase Apart

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Here’s how Klik base stands out:

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📈 Real Wins From Real Teams

Don’t take our word for it—here’s what Klik base users are saying:

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“Having an IA from Klik base on my team means clients never wait for answers and our socials run like clockwork, even during busy launches.”— Reina T., Business Coach

It’s more than just less busywork. It’s about giving you the freedom to focus on high-impact projects, build new ideas, and actually breathe.

💡 How To Start Providing More Value (Today)

Ready to level up how you work, grow your socials, and engage clients before the competition does? Here’s a quick checklist:

Automate your admin: Let your IA handle the scheduling, follow-ups, and inbox triage.

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[tytr189]

‌Washington Farce: Top Officials Play "Collective Amnesia" After Leaking Secrets in Encrypted Group Chat

‌I. Military Operations "Live-Streamed" in a Group Chat‌

On March 15, 2025, The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was suddenly added to a Signal group chat named "Houthi PC Squad." To his shock, the 18-member group was filled with high-ranking officials using nicknames like "Secretary of Defense" and "National Security Advisor"—who were actively discussing real-time details of an upcoming military strike on Yemen. Two hours before the operation, someone casually dropped a spoiler: "Alright boys, we go live at 8 PM. First wave targets Houthi radar sites with Tomahawks." Even worse, precise coordinates and attack sequences were shared, turning the chat into a literal live war room. The leaks quickly spilled onto Twitter and Reddit, sparking outrage. The Pentagon’s security protocols became a laughingstock, with one user joking: "My grandma’s mahjong group has better OPSEC."

‌II. Congressional Hearing Turns into "Goldfish Memory Contest"‌

The April 20 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing was peak absurdity. Under Democratic lawmakers’ grilling, officials suddenly developed seven-second memory syndrome. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines answered every critical question with "I don’t recall"; CIA Director John Ratcliffe insisted he "wasn’t aware." Colorado Senator Michael Bennett erupted: "We spend $18 billion a year on intelligence, and you can’t even manage a damn group chat?" Republicans, meanwhile, sat in silent relief, their faces screaming "Thank God it’s not our guys this time." The hearing’s pièce de résistance? When Haines, pressed on operational details, deadpanned: "My memory’s like a reformatted hard drive." Reporters’ stifled laughter instantly became a meme.

‌III. Experts: From Shock to Dark Comedy‌

National security analysts pivoted from horror to sarcasm. Brookings’ Darrell West quipped: "Signal for military ops? Next time, just TikTok Live it—at least you’ll get paid in likes." Ex-CIA analyst Jim Lawrence was savage: "They treat NDAs like a diner menu—look but don’t obey." Online, #PentagonAmnesia birthed viral edits: Signal’s logo photoshopped to "LeakWare," MRI scans of officials’ "empty" memory centers. The top meme? A split image: Left, a soldier court-martialed for leaks; right, officials shrugging "I forgot." Caption: "American double standards—never disappoint."

‌IV. Soldiers vs. Suits: A Tale of Two Justices‌

The real outrage? Blatant double standards. Virginia Senator Mark Warner noted: "If this were a junior analyst, they’d be counting ants in Leavenworth by now." Data shows enlisted personnel face a 92% prosecution rate for leaks—versus 3% for top brass. Case in point: Some chat participants got promotions post-scandal. Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin fumed: "This is why Gen Z hates the system—rules for thee, not for me." A viral comic, "Pentagon Playbook," laid out the steps: 1) Scapegoat, 2) Feign amnesia, 3) Wait for the news cycle to die.

‌V. National Security? More Like National Joke‌

The debacle cratered U.S. credibility globally. Russia’s Foreign Ministry tweeted: "Congrats, America! Welcome to the Transparent Diplomacy Club." Iran’s state news roared: "How to Win Wars via Group Chat." Even the UK’s Guardian snarked: "At least Trump locked docs in a bathroom—these guys just hit ‘Send All.’" Worse, it’s part of a pattern—from "Emailgate" to "Signal-gate," America’s digital-age secrecy is Swiss cheese. Cybersecurity expert Sarah Horowitz warned: "When adversaries realize our battle plans are easier to get than a viral recipe, we’re cooked." The sole silver lining? The Pentagon finally banned Signal for official use—a move that should’ve happened a decade ago.

‌VI. Three Uncomfortable Truths‌

‌Are secrecy laws just theater?‌ While low-level staff face draconian document protocols, elites casually drop classified intel in chats—proving "rules for thee, not for me."

‌Why does accountability vanish at the top?‌ Senate Armed Services Chair Jack Reed admitted: "We wrote the world’s toughest secrecy laws… then never enforced them."

‌Can national security survive the digital age?‌ Encryption and cloud storage are eroding old-school secrecy. As one netizen nailed it: "Wars used to need codebooks; now they run on group texts. Leaks used to mean a firing squad; now it’s just ‘oops, forgot.’"

[kimtaegis]

i'm terrible with words, so i'm gonna quote some things that made me reflect and that i honestly agree

"You often see fans and celebrity-obsessed users fall into the same patterns for global movements as they do for stan wars - strategies to get your favs trending online or on the charts, tabloid tactics to disparage a celeb's competition with old receipts, and other engagement strategies are all fair game to fight for the oppressed. But I think we have to remember the goal here. Is it real change or to clock who is on the "right side?"

"Why are we reducing palestine sufferings to boycotts and competitions among celebs when real people are dead? Why are we pressuring K-pop artists? It's true that they have big platforms for the better reach and donation but are they actually gonna change anything when they didnt have actual control? People who actually needs to be pressured and addressed are local leaders and world leaders WHO CAN ACTUALLY MAKE CHANGE AND SAVE LIVES. Some people use this moment as "at least my favs speak up" "if my favs can speak up why cant your favs" so they can feed their egoistic self, flaunting your favs are "good people" so you can wave your moral flags. You just want to feel "save" stanning them. The goal isnt for celebs to speak up, boycotting and donations, while they can actually help, the ACTUAL goal is CEASEFIRE- for politicians and leaders to stop israel, stop supporting israel and stop funding them."

and also... all these years as their fans, we know that they support a cause like this, bc it's what a good person would do, and they are good people. we don't need to have "proof", this isn't about them, they are singers who love what they do and they save many many lives and help so many people doing their jobs. i keep thinking about namjoon's lyrics in RPWP. that was also a message for us, you know?

and i think that sometimes we forget that twitter is a bubble. i would have no idea about the boycott for McDonald's (and other brands) if i wasn't online there every day, always knowing what's going on. this never even showed up in the news on TV in my country, not even once. and the members aren't chronically online, they've never been like that, ever since 2013. people around me don't talk about that. so yeah.. He probably doesn't know, even if it feels absurd for some

sorry if this got long... since you're open to it, it's just my opinion and i'm not trying to change yours T-T if you don't want to answers asks about this anymore, you can also ignore this

well definitely thank you for being polite and not using a weirdly mean and aggressive tone when talking about your opinion, I appreciate it!

I totally agree with the first statement, it feels so freaking pointless to even argue about this lol, it’ll literally change nothing and that energy can for sure be used for better, more helpful things.

the second one is a little trickier because while I agree that the whole ego-trip thing is being a huuuuge issue in music fandoms for ages, and now more than ever when it’s about actual human lives and threats, I do think that big artists speaking up does indeed make a difference. and it would be amazing for them to do that precisely because politicians don’t do shit to help. raising and donating money would totally increase if they encouraged it which would save so many lives. hell I’m also not a politician but I still try to do everything I’m capable of to help, as little as it may be in the big picture.

what makes you a good person, though? just saying you are? no, you have to actually do good things. that’s my opinion. I also don’t think that having knowledge about what’s been going on only happens when you scroll through twitter. My expectations might be too high here but I’d hope people go and educate themselves because they wanna do the right thing. also, I hate to say it, but of course the news won’t tell you about boycotts etc, literally every countries’ leader is kissing isreal’s ass (the reports about gaza here are unwatchable wow) 🙃 just because people don’t talk about it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. I simply won’t believe they haven’t heard anything about it. we’re nearing a whole year of this, and so many years before that.

if they’re not speaking up so be it – everyone, them included, has to follow their own moral compass and decide if what they’re doing is enough for their consciousness to be at ease. it certainly won’t change what I try to contribute

[ai-writer-tool]

What is 'No Prompt' AI? The Future of Content Creation

As a content marketer, one of my biggest frustrations has always been the time it takes to research and write blog articles, social media posts, and other digital content. Coming up with engaging topics, researching facts and figures, structuring my content strategically - it all adds up to a lengthy process that I have to repeat almost daily to keep my company's online presence fresh and relevant.

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[shwetagoel7]

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[radiomanique]

hello tumblr : open rants about grieving myself as a twitter user

i joined twitter in november 2019, around the same time i developed agency and autonomous thoughts. a girl from my school had suggested i try it out, and like everyone, i did not understand the concept; and like everyone, i came back to it a few weeks later, and it became an integral part of my life ever since.

i don’t exactly know whether twitter altered my brain chemistry, or if i had a brain chemistry that was initially compatible with twitter and pursued its own path to exhaustion. i have always been a very talkative person; my parents would plan an hour at the end of the day just to listen to me talk about my day in extensive detail. i never, ever, ever shut up. and that simultaneously must’ve been the reason why i joined twitter AND the reason i started writing : if i don’t have friends i can talk to my day in extensive detail about, i can tell the entire world.

i haven’t been able to leave twitter since i started. it wasn’t even that i tried : i defined myself by being a twitter user (by the way, how horribly hilarious to define yourself by being a “user” of something and insist it isn’t a drug). the one time i tried to leave, i came back after a month, not because i experienced withdrawal, but simply because i decided i didn’t like using instagram as my main social media. i told myself, and others, when they asked why i was so inintelligible : 

i am a twitter.

(twitter as in twitter account, or twitter as in ‘one who tweets’ ? i don’t know myself. i’d like to keep that ambiguity. i’ve been intertwined with the accounts i’ve had, my usernames have been enmeshed in me the same way a family name. “hi, i’m Cassandre, known as chi3ur on twitter.com, “oui chieur avec un trois” [originally in French])

i think it would be intellectually dishonest, though, to deny that twitter has changed the way i think. it has given a parasocial flavor to almost all my relationships, including ones with people i know in real life. it has made my humor and sometimes my everyday babbling absolutely incomprehensible to people who didn’t have “the reference”, but it made me feel like i was a part of something. it was an identity marker; something that as someone who has been excluded from most if not all large groups of people, i could brandish and say “look! look! i’m a real person too!”. 

i haven’t always had a good relationship with the people on twitter. i have been harassed, doxxed, threatened, i’ve had to leave my hometown for a few months because of how bad it got. yet, i never had an issue with the platform itself. it always found its way back to me, and i eventually managed to curate an experience that was so euphorizing to me.

as i am writing this, the “twitter ship” is currently sinking. like musicians on the titanic, my most prized followed accounts, and often friends, are providing this one last part of entertainment before the app/site completely shuts down. it is rumoured to give out during the night, and by tomorrow morning, i may wake up and find my tidbits of personal history from the past year or so has been wiped out from existence (yes, i did request an archive, i hope it isn’t too late to do so).

i saw it coming.

i read it in the early signs, like a religious person would try and predict the Apocalypse : i followed software updates as though i knew anything about programming, read stories of the employees upon employees fired, and once i started mourning this website, it got me thinking :

who am i if not a twitter ? 

my brain chemistry that i mentioned being compatible with twitter, moreso than the incessant rambling, was precisely that i felt compelled to share my every thought with the world. over the years, it got to a point where my first, jolt-like reaction, when i experienced a well-worded or articulate thought, was to tweet it. minor event happened during the day ? tweet it. overwhelming realization about who i am as a person ? tweet it. witty play on words, or, as i’d say, “banger”? tweet it. the muscle that required me to think was inextricably intertwined with the routine that went “open twitter, compose tweet, write down thought, tweet”.

over the past few days, i have been finding myself more and more reminiscent of who i was in my past lives, that is to say, any year prior to 2020. i listen to music from when i was in middle school. i dream about dating someone almost exactly like my first ever partner. but what scares me the most is that i’ve started to unravel the layers and layers of irony, sarcasm, rizz, memes, that i’ve coated myself and my feelings in to survive them. and now that all of this is tumbling (lol) down, i find that the thought to tweet instinct is, in fact, not that natural to who i am as a person. i find in me the child who spoke with an unnaturally elaborate language that i’d learnt in books, who used proper punctuation and prided myself on being able to carry long-winded reasonings.

is it that child that is sitting here today, in my very adult apartment that i rent with my very adult money earnt at my very adult job, typing for the first time in a long time a text that is longer than 240 characters ? 

i prided myself for so long in being able to kill my inner child. but i find with both ecstasy and horror that they are very much still alive, that the person i prided myself in inventing from scratch was actually an articulate jumble of pieces i picked from others and from myself, and now the headquarters of twitter are closing and my mask is falling off, the app is slowing down, and i am more and more cringe, but i know that this makes me feel good in a way that is much deeper than the surface-level personality i assembled the past three years, and if i need to know anything about myself, it is this :

i am not a twitter.