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Nov 5Liked by John Birmingham

I used the old twitter for great contacts with knowledgeable people like scientists and other interesting fields. Ones that you could reach out to with questions about sciency 'stuff' and that they'd post interesting content every now and again. Then covid happened opening up the pandoras box of crazy and all the paranoia that came with it, and i left it behind. The temptation is to log in before the 30 days, but once it hits the point of no return its like a weight lifted and you pretty much dont think of it again. Interestingly it looks like threads may have picked up what twitter was. I still use IG and meta do some sneaky cross promotion in that feed "blah blah who you follow just joined threads", or "blah who you know posted this in threads" but only show a part of the comment.

I'm resisting, but dog its hard. I keep telling myself that its most probably a dumpster fire like pre-covid twitter was and i only see the shiny stuff they want me to see "COME JOIN US. ITS WARM OVER HERE. AND NOT WARM BECAUSE THE DUMPSTER IS ON FIRE. ITS THE WARMTH OF HEARTS, YEAH HEARTS, HEARTS THAT ARE DEFINITELY NOT ON STAKES OVER THE FIRE BUT BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NICE AND INTELLIGENT WHO USE THIS PLATFORM". Not falling for that one again zuck.

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