Twitter – Bittersweet Abattoir

“I know I will put the stockholders first at Twitter. Plus, no backwards, cousin-fornicating Alaska ingrates can vote me out of it. Again.”

–Sarah Palin

Me? I live in the United States of Oceania

With a rightist billionaire taking over CNN, and Florida and Texas trying to get rid of investment funds that don’t buy fossil fuel stock (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/esg-pros-say-republican-anti-woke-bashing-hurts-regular-savers ), western U.S. states crossing their arms like there is no water crisis, and red-state neighbors thinking they have a right to know why someone visited an abortion-legal state, it’sContinue reading “Me? I live in the United States of Oceania”

Late Update: David Simon’s Work and Today’s World

Soundtrack to this Entry: Way Down in the Hole I’ve been reading a piece by Jordan Hoffman about how The Wire anticipated, even partly explained the protests. In it, he quoted Wendell Pierce, who played Detective Bunk, who tweeted about the show’s applicability. Please read the article, published in Vanity Fair. YouContinue reading “Late Update: David Simon’s Work and Today’s World”

Twitter? Just plain ‘Twit.’

Twitter….not so popular And more bad news I think that butt cheek Dorsey claimed that Trump is a lot like Obama in order to outrage people so that they tweet more, thus increasing use of his increasingly unpopular platform….He’ll do anything to raise twitter use……except get rid of the bloody nazis. Ω