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Now you're feeling bad.

Wait 'til the gin runs out.

I'm not on TwiXter myself but sometimes my lines of inquiry run through it, or into it.

Yes, TwiXter is still useful. I didn't mean to condemn the whole thing because of one part of it. Sorry if I gave that impression.

I generally break my longer posts up into chunks under 3,500 words, if memory serves. I think that's always been about the limit, but I haven't posted anything super long for ages.

Darn it - now I have to do it again   

Basically, I see what Jim sees. But why are we seeing this? Is it just mismanagement of the platform? Do Nazis have some form of generic anti-censorship software? Is TwiXter a Nazi entity? Just what is going on here?

You wanna know what I think? [YES - GO TO 01] [NO - EXIT]

01: TwiXter is currently allowing a lot of questionable content, from the Nazi content Jim mentions to truly disgusting comments from government sanctioned Israeli TweeXters glorifying, inviting, justifying, mocking and even denying the Gaza genocide. 

What is more interesting is the content being suppressed or outright banned. No matter what one thinks, where is the logic in allowing fascism while simultaneously shadow-banning anti-zionist content? Why allow Eylon Levy to TweeX zionist propaganda and not allow Ryan Christian to TweeX links to factual official sources? Why are all the bad things that are properly bad promoted and the bad things that are narratively bad suppressed?

It's almost as if TwiXter was a mechanism for herding public opinion. But why herd the public mind towards inherently repulsive ideologies? Here's a thought - regulation. Where there's regulation, there's money (taxes, licenses, permits, fines, etc.), and where there's regulation, there's perceived legitimacy, cementation into the state (which provides legal and physical protection as well as tax deals and subsidies). A regulated industry is the Gold Standard of business (petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, banking, etc.).

So TwiXter allows all this vile content for ordinary people to get upset about whilst simultaneously shadow-banning content it doesn't want people to get upset about. Next come the regulators with all their restrictions for us and rewards for TwiXter to defeat this evil menace and make the web safe for us all - but will purposely throw out the baby with the bathwater. Censorship in the name of freedom of speech.

That's what I think TwiXter either is or is becoming.

To bastardise Martin Niemöller;

First they came for the Search Engines, and I did not speak out because I wasn't an academic.
Then they came for the videos, and I did not speak out because I didn't have a Youtube channel.
Then they came for the tweets, and I did not speak out because I wasn't on Twitter.
Then they came for the podcasts, and I did not speak out because I don't have a podcast.
Then they came for my emails, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

EXIT

Ahoy, matey, tech-heads!

It's currently impossible to make any profile changes. When you click the "Change Profile" button you get dumped onto a 403 Forbidden page.

Please fix this so our resident Shark can change his profile picture each day, as is his wont.

Thanks, Funt, seriously.

I didn't want to make a fuss about this as I know my constant avatar changing irks some people and complaining might be churlish so I thought it best to just roll with it.

I commit my mortal soul to vote for Jim.

I just wrote out a long post about TwiXter and what it seems to be doing but the internet ate it and I can't be bothered typing it all out again.

Lucky you.

Since the last site glitch, I can't change anything on my profile. I suspect Deep State shenanigans... But if nobody else can change theirs either then it probably isn't that. 

Furthermore, the Spoiler and Move tags stopped working ages ago, the Active Topics page is lying in an unmarked grave somewhere and we still haven't got a Like button - one could almost say that this Stupid Bally Badly Fix-ed Website Is Atrocious...


(It's not really atrocious - I just can't find my rhyming dictionary.)

For Rogue's diarrhoea he needs von Trapp's patented "Trooper Belly (Fragile) Colic Toxic G.I. Potions."


I'll get me wimple.

[Rome]

I'm 19 years late to the party but I just finished Rome. Blimey, it's a bit good innit?

Psychic projection of youthfulness. Indicator of vanity, possible pressure point. (SJS Assessment Bulletin)

[Mersey Beat]

Mersey Beat. Dredd hits the Scallydome.

Well, it is a spectrum. At the far end is hyperphantasia, when people can't distinguish real from imagined images - which must be terrifying.

I'm just glad I didn't name him Warren...