The Renegade Gastronaut 🍛🥘🍲
Sandra NewmanJust deactivated my Twitter account and I feel good, a little giddy, taller than I was a minute ago, maybe now immortal
Deactivating Twitter was kind of scary for me, a little like jumping out of a window except that obviously nothing happened. Like I took the red pill and it made me realize all that shit about the matrix isn't real
Deep State Dude@sannewman I deactivated today and I can tell you it’s a great feeling to not be creating content for that site anymore.
@deepstatedude Yeah, it was impossible to feel good about yourself anymore. I felt like I was turning into a bad taste
@sannewman this is so much better. Glad you’re here and not there!
@deepstatedude Thanks! Yeah, it feels a lot better here
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@sannewman i am mostly sticking around to promote my band shit, but i get it
@golikehellmachine Yeah, I would have kept my account open if I could imagine it still being useful for promotion purposes, but I couldn't even see that anymore. I just didn't have the will to maintain the necessary persona anymore
@sannewman my equilibrium is that i will talk shit about musk and promote my band on there, but that’s it, everything else goes here.
@sannewman and, like, i use that to promote my band because my reputation as a shitposter gets me a whole lot more than my actual band work does
@golikehellmachine hey, you're an all-time shitposter, a candle burning in the darkness, you deserve all that you get from it
@sannewman being on twitter 14 hours a day ought to get me *something*
MikeZilla Minus One@sannewman I have not deactivated the birdcage yet as I have a small but fun group of malingerers that have a morning movie Koffee Klatsch and it’s a lot of fun
But I pretty much stay off the timeline.
@MikeyMcFilms Yeah, most of the people I used to hang out with dribbled away a while ago, or I wouldn't have been able to cut loose
Dire Wolf 
@sannewman scary huh? I think you'll like it here though 😏
Dave Nemetz@sannewman it is quite liberating!
Mats Holberg 🇺🇦 🇵🇸@sannewman Had thought just to leave mine locked and disused, but anyone who cares to know where I've gone will have figured it out by now. And you make sense -- the nothingness of taking that final plunge if I can't see going back anyhow.
Please tell Howard hello from me!
Haley Sanderson 
@sannewman I'm keeping mine and just not using it. I don't want someone else to use my username down the line.
Patrick Stewart ✅@sannewman took it off my phone and computer yesterday. Scary, kinda sad, but needed. I just can't support that platform anymore
OutOnTheMoors@sannewman Bit concerned about the full deactivation route for popular accounts like yours because after 30 days your @ is freely available again to anyone who'd like to impersonate you.
Personally, I'm going to try to get suspended again so my account goes into permanent limbo.
@CrazyMyra Yeah, I thought of trying to get suspended but I just didn't have the energy
@sannewman 😂
I'm very glad you're here
I'm very glad you're here
@CrazyMyra Likewise!
Dave Marshall@sannewman @CrazyMyra I got into the birdsite originally to track political stuff. It's buried back in the mists of time but Sandra, I'm pretty sure you were the first person I followed out of sheer enjoyment—airport bar stories, raccoons, and convincing propositions that would be preposterous coming from anybody else.
Looking forward to more of the same. 🙂
@dkmarsh Aw, thanks, Dave. It's great to see you here! I hope this will be a place of sheer enjoyment …
@CrazyMyra @sannewman Out of context, this sounds like the lament of the 32-year-old juvenile delinquent who’s flunked every grade at least once. 😏
Wile Entertainment Coyote@CrazyMyra @sannewman i had high hopes of being swept up in the mass ban of anyone who mentioned mastodon but they backed off on that so shrug.
Jimmy Biscuits 🧻Need any pointers on being suspended? I know a guy.
@Kickpedal @sannewman I have some experience in the art.
Karl Habermas@sannewman I am grateful for the writers that I discovered on the moribund birdsite, of which you are among the finest. But it's necrotic flesh and faded feathers are no longer congenial to recognizing artists I may come to love. It was, perhaps, a bit like Weimar Berlin — rough, hungry, but full of creative novelty. Now the new regime has brought intellectual desolation and growing menace. Or maybe it's just a website that flourished for a time, then turned toxic and useless.
Cheerio.
Cheerio.
Dexter Palmer@sannewman At this point I'm hanging on mainly to finish collecting alternate contact info for people I DM with but the place feels done—it's got the vibe of a house party two hours after it peaked, when there are still people around who are grimly having fun but really you should have left an hour ago
@dexterpalmer Yeah, I felt like I had woken up on a couch at a party and none of the people I knew were still there and the people in the room were all grim and angry and strung out and somehow the room was no longer heated (actually this seems to be a real memory from my life, never mind)
Huge Shark@dexterpalmer @sannewman @glennf this description feels painfully apt. The music has gotten lousy and no one’s changed it in hours, someone’s been bogarting the bathroom and you suspect they’re sleeping in there, and there are two people on the couch who have been arguing about short sales for the last 45 minutes.
Abandoned America@sannewman I know better than many that closing the door for the last time is saying goodbye to a part of yourself too. But sometimes it's the right thing to do. I hope you'll be okay through the hard parts of it and remember that it took courage and integrity to take that step
@AbandonedAmerica Aw, thank you. I've been feeling this a lot but yeah, it really had to be done at this point
@sannewman honor is doing the hard thing you know must be done, even if it stings. I respect your integrity, Sandra. I've always really appreciated your sense of humor and I'm glad it will brighten my days here even if that is a bit selfish of a motive
Brosephine Wires@sannewman oh my god, I saw the beginning of this, then my feed refreshed, and I was yelling “nooooo! Go back!”
Anyway— whew. Found it and this is a big deal.
@JoParkerBear Yeah. I haven't been enjoying it there for a long time but my relationship to that world is so intense it almost felt like leaving a marriage
@sannewman Twitter 2.0 has become almost unbearable for me, especially after coming here and experiencing peace and fun. I still have a few friends over there though that I don’t want to leave, plus the news. I am hooked on the news and need a new twitter-like news place before I can fully go (NOT Post dot com)
Michael Jay McClure@sannewman @JoParkerBear it was very difficult! I didn’t deactivated but put slipcovers over everything & locked the doors.
debbshock@sannewman almost definitely
Elizabeth@sannewman Super proud of you! I was just there looking for your billionaire tweet. Is it here, yet?
@elizasoul I don't think so. Which billionaire tweet? (I've got my archive so I can fish it out for you)
Inquisitor Palletack