Deleted scenes

Stuff I saved but never got around to posting about

Sep 07, 2022

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I hope you all had a great Labour Day weekend, and that you spent time with your family and friends doing last-minute summer stuff instead of getting angry at strangers on social media.

car dixie GIF — I promised myself I’d do this when I hit 500 subscribers.

That’s what I did. Well, for most of it, anyway.

I stupidly re-joined Twitter a few weeks ago, and since then there have been several times I’ve become unreasonably angry at people I’ve never heard of, who have hardly any followers, and who frankly might be Iranian agents of advanced AI bots or Ken M. tweeting under another pseudonym, and all of it over one-day controversies I’ve already forgotten about.

And for what? Did I change this other person’s mind? Did either of us make anyone change their minds? And was this the best possible use of our time?

Well, maybe for them it was. But not me.

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