If it's any consolation, I have also barely been posting on the bird site either lately. I feel the me of 2008 who strolled into this microblogging malarkey with cavalier enthusiasm and fearlessness is not a person who will ever exist again.
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And then yeah I go spiralling off into the same rant every single day and I'm just adding to the noise because I can't fix *anything*
It's all just so loud and so high stakes. Logging on every day to find yet another politician calling for actual, literal genocide then tweeting "um actually it hurts my feelings to be called genocidal so you should take it back at once". None of it is new. Why does it keep getting empowered over and over and over again when it's blatantly, objectively, wrong.
@purplepadma Hello! I have missed you! I am trying to get into the habit of looking at the bird site less and mastodon more. Gimme another two years or so and I'll get there 😅
Another Angry WomanIn this context, what I suspect will happen is the entire "trans debate" gets put aside and subsumed into a culture war as to whether or not Westminster needs to wind its fucking neck in, because it really would have been just as inflammatory had Westminster chosen a duller fight to pick, like something about what information goes on food labels
MarkyIf you’re at a rally and someone with a microphone starts quoting Hitler and no one intervenes to stop them, you’re at a Nazi rally. https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1614710809745321984
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mikecornes/status/1614972876536549376
Queer Brenda 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (they/them) on Twitter
““It’s obviously a lie that trans women are women, and if you want proof, I’d like to refer you to the writings of a certain Adolf Hitler in his seminal work Mein Kampf.” No, fucking seriously. Watch the clip. Are we allowed to call them Nazis yet or…? https://t.co/40ZngpwBvN”
Hey so is it safe to talk about peaceful assembly up to and including guillot!nes over here or is that just as bannable as it is on the bird site? Asking for hypothetical friends with hypothetical ideas.
@awakey We've got history going back to newsgroups and Xanga, gonna take more than the implosion of Twitter to come between us :D
@Socialsoprano It's made me think about the long term creeping changes through a much clearer lens. Even things like posting a selfie over there feels a bit uncomfortable now. The "village square" atmosphere has long gone, it feels impersonal and cold. As you mentioned, harder to forge new connections with like-minded people.
And realistically the Twitter I'm sad about losing is a Twitter that hasn't really existed in years. I've been on there for over fourteen years and the change (I don't wanna just say "decline" but it kind of was) has been gradual but dramatic. I doubt it will go away completely any time soon, but there's no going back to its "best"