Word up to the one person i saw on twitter like two years or so ago who jokingly tweeted "why do people make long threads on here when you could just make a blog" that actually, legitimately got me to stop using twitter because of how shortform tweet length was messing with my ability to parse information. You are accidentally a real one
#Trash stratum
God didn't put me on the planet to do planks
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I know that one of cohost's favorite/least favorite activities is talking about how bad Light Blue Social Media Website XYZ is, but this is an essay from a video essayist turned regular essayist I have been thinking about for a little bit that I wanted to share. Reading this, I wasn't really applying it to "twitter" so much as "Posting On The Internet At Large," but that's just me
I'm extremely aware that there isn't a real solution to the "internet attention economy" as I keep calling it, but writing a lot in a notebook and not posting anything in my spare time has been a pretty good start, insofar. It is supremely weird to remember How To Be Bored