everyone raise your hand if you’ve done this
yes, even you, I see you over there pretending you haven’t done this, get your hand up
Jun 29, 2024 at 02:46 UTC
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Yes--more like I decided this issue is too nuanced to be discussed in 240 characters, maybe I'll write about it on the blog I keep not starting.
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You should've seen the Drafts left behind at The Other Site.
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That's not fair, the only person on this site under 30 is Katie, of course we've all done it.
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Worse: my brain is still stuck in Twitter mode where I'm careful about words and phrases that might trigger some weird topic-specific reply guy's automated search.
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Absolutely I have, especially with constitutional law. Why bother?
Me: Our Constitution is very flawed. Accurate interpretations will often yield undesirable results. This particular case accurately highlights one of its flaws and thus yields an undesirable result.
Them: You endorse the result!
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At least once per day :/
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I’ve done this when realizing that I don’t want to spend time defending something banal that I posted in the moment. Life is too short.
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Ha, precisely why this is my first post.
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I do this all the time and I have a small enough follower count that I could fit them comfortably in a school gym… and not even a big school
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It'd almost be funny to post a book of 'Tweets I discarded'
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It's all I ever do here
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McLuhan was right. The medium is the message. A medium with a tight character limit is simply not well-suited to nuanced, thoughtful takes. It's for hot takes, jokes, cat pictures, and links to thought pieces elsewhere.
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I need to do it more often, honestly.
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This is part of why I don't post that often and when I do it's usually super simple
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🙋
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More times than I can count <sigh>
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usually i give up before trying to add more detail because it stopped being funny immediately.
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Oh god it's got to be a good 5% of my total post output, minimum
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yea
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🤚
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So many times
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Constantly.
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More than I post
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Same problem with attempts at humorous or sympathetic replies
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I like BlueSky, but the discourse. It terrifies me.
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sigh
yeah.
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oops! all disclaimers!!!
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I spent yesterday evening in a Discord server trying to wrangle 20-somethings that it wasn't the end of the world. I'm tired, boss.
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I'm back to doing it less over here than I was on twitter with 25k followers, but I still do it about anything related to technology 🤣
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Yep and it's exhausting.
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Yep
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✊
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endlessly. And I still got thwapped the other day under the assumption that a suggestion was applicable to everyone, lmao
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My One Weird Trick for this is the humble ~
throw that on ~whatever claim you don’t want people to do that to and…. they just don’t
this mostly only works for factual claims
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There's a reason I mostly skulk.
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Yuuuup.
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I just did this 5 minutes ago. 😂
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