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[shadowkat]

1. Musk is going to change Twitter from the Bird Logo to the "X" logo. Someone needs to fire Musk's marketing firm. They are giving him bad advice.

I'll leave Twitter once he does that. Which I guess is on Monday?

I won't miss Twitter that much. I'm getting tired of the misogynistic posts folks keep retweeting with outrage. (I don't want to see this stuff folks, please stop showing it to me.) The latest? (Because if I have to see it, so do you.) Apparently in India they are parading women through the streets naked and gang raping them? There wasn't a link, just a question from a Brit musician as to why there hadn't been more backlash against India, and what kind of society does this? My response? One that isn't worth saving.

Twitter is not a healthy platform. I should leave it.

I'm mostly on it now for the subway alerts (but I get those via In Transit), and Soap Twitter (spoilers) but I can get the spoilers via FB.
And Soap Twitter is starting to annoy me - it is embarrassing itself. Also, I think a lot of people on it are nuts. They are arguing over whether or not a character should be allowed to take over her mother's restaurant.

Shame - Twitter was once a decent place for information. I don't really think there is anything that's taken its place. Blue Sky is exclusive and in beta testing (so it's just a private chat room), Threads (has tracking software that tracks what you like and fires ads at you), Mastodone - is a lot of little private chat rooms, Spoutible - is hard to use.

Oh well. I was happy without all of this stuff.

RIP Twitter.

2. Have a bad case of the Sunday Scaries, nerves.

Work stress. Enough said.

3. Really enjoying The Dragon Prince: Mystery of Aravos - I'm on S4 now. It's 9 episodes per season, and S5 just dropped. On Netflix.

Also watching the Legend of VOX, and Night Agent. (Wales told me she didn't like the Night Agent, and it made her angry, I've no clue why. I don't want to know.)

4. I seem to have hit a wall myself creative wise. My art isn't thrilling me at the moment. And I'm struggling with book revisions, or writing at all. I also feel as if I have no time to do anything I enjoy. This work/life balance thing I'm struggling with. I wish my family lived closer to me - and I could spend more time with them. But they are far away. The closest is the one I struggle with the most - my brother. And even he's about three-four hours away by trains. (To see him I have to take a subway, a train, and a car).

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[gillo]

Musk is a moron hiding behind a mask of hyper-intelligence. Whatever he does won't stop the rot. I'm mainly there these days for Brit politics (always a shitshow) and academic, specifically Early Modern Twitter. That seems to be filtered out more often these days, so my time there may well be limited.

That said, I'm still with DW and LJ, and clung to Compuserve well into this century, so who knows?

[svgurl]

I'm assuming Musk is surrounded by yes men and he just doesn't listen to anyone who doesn't agree with his amazing ideas. I need to delete my Twitter account - it isn't like I even go on there these days.

It is so weird when people are like "oh, why isn't anyone talking about this?", as if they're the only person who knows about it and worse, don't even link to solid sources to spread the story they supposedly care about, when there usually is knowledge, just not right in their direct line of sight. In this case, there already has been public backlash, both international and local. The government did try to keep it quiet but after the video got out, there were protests and there have even been recent arrests. If you are curious, this is the story (link goes to the ABC News website).

That's too about hitting a creative wall. Work/life balance is definitely easier said than done. Hopefully you find your inspiration somehow!

[shadowkat]

Thank you for giving me some context. Twitter just randomly mentions things, without providing context, a link or anything. I find it really annoying. The link was reassuring. Twitter feels like that old game of gossip - where people pass information along, but don't provide primary sources or links or context. So you end wasting lots of time trying to figure out what they are talking about.

I am not going to miss Twitter. I think I need to delete my account as well. Starting with the phone.

Also, I agree - I think Musk fired everyone who didn't agree with him. The man's ego is insane.

[iddewes]

I can’t believe he’s changing the bird logo! He might as well change the name then. 🙄
I haven’t used Twitter for years though.

[trepkos]

I don't think the thing in India is an ongoing habit, (though poor women are very poorly treated in India) but is one among a number of race-ralated bad things happening in the area, and it is being treated as a crime.

[elisi]

Someone needs to fire Musk's marketing firm. They are giving him bad advice.
LOL. What marketing? It's alllll him: Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.

And (from a different article): 'The letter “X” has been on just about everything Musk has touched for the last two-plus decades. X.com was the original name for Paypal; it’s in his SpaceX company name; it’s in the name for the Tesla SUV; it anchors X.Ai and his kid X Æ A-12; and he has said he wants to turn Twitter into “X, the everything app.” Now he’s finally doing something with the X.com domain he bought back from Paypal in 2017.'

ETA: My (middle) daughter put it best: It's like he's a 12 year old who thinks something is ~really cool~! Except he's got lots of money and no one to tell him No. Is he actively trying to destroy democracy or is he just a billionaire narcissist? Who knows! Either way, the result is the same.