Thread by @ThyConsigliori

27 January 2021 - A Few Short Thoughts

It was with sadness that I chose to stop doing my long-form threads here at Twitter, but I know those of you who follow my work understand why and I won't discuss that any further. I am sharing formally that there will be no more post here.

2) Strangely, as soon as I stopped posting my normal stuff here, my account not only stopped losing followers but began to gain a few, again. Now there's a go figure, eh? I take it from that that obedience is rewarded. I'm pretty sure about that, actually.

3) I learned a new rule. Power can be probed. It can be tested. So, not having anything to lose, my next decision as you can see right now, is to continue to play with the rules of power, here. I am posting over at Gab and have the same name there as here.

4) With just that much in place, I think I'll post something light here every once in a while, always working hard to be obedient and compliant. But obedient and compliant of what, exactly? Two things. The stated rules here and my guess at the unstated rules.

5) A few days work has shown both that Gab's design is not as rich as here, and its interface not as well designed. Also, imagine the strain on their servers of millions of us migrating there over a period of days. I will surely give them time.

6) I know, that was a non-sequitur. It connects somehow, but I won't worry about that. What I will do here, is simply post things randomly until they shut me down, if they do. I want to share a list of things I won't be doing.

7) As I said, no more long-form threads. Also, no more hashtags. No more links, at all. No more direct discussion of things that I believe Twitter's controllers do not approve of. Note the word direct. I won't talk about indirect today. Soon enough I may.

8) I won't be responding to comments any more, nor making any of my own on other peoples' postings. I won't be retweeting, at all. And no participation in DM rooms, either. Especially not that. Basically, I have to stop passing notes in class, you know? Principal says.

9) I hope that's helpful, for those of you still here until we're expelled from school completely. Oh, did I mention that I'm at Gab under the same name as here?

Short thread ends at #9.

And nary a hashtag anywhere. Ha!