No Twitter No More

No Twitter. No more.

Nope.

Readers with an eye for detail, should there be any, will have noticed a change to the icons in the navigation bar at the top of every page. The Twitter link is now as shown here, with the universal slash-circle “No” drawn over it in red.

It now hyperlinks to nowhere.

Even more persistent readers, remembering the old Twitter account, will find the other image confronting them: there is no such Twitter account any more.

With the election of That Felon, my pessimism knows no bounds. The fact that Musk is aiding and abetting this moral crime was just my last straw. I’d pretty much stopped posting there except for blog announcements, and I only checked tweets from people I know personally. Still… that was too much.

Also, as of today, any remaining account is forcibly opted in to allowing their AI golem to train on customer text. I can’t stand the thought of letting everything I wrote be fed through the word-chipper of a fascist billionaire who wants nothing more than to gut Medicare and Social Security.

So: no Twitter, no more.

The Weekend Conclusion

But the BlueSky and Mastodon icons above are still useful! At least, if you mean “finding Weekend Editor posts” as one of the definitions of “useful”. (A debatable point, I acknowledge.)

(Ceterum censeo, Trump incarcerandam esse.)

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Notes & References

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