You know I'm on track for my account to be banned sooner rather than later, right?

I will really miss you all.

Please connect elsewhere with me if you can. It would be my great delight to provide info & tech support to you in making your own contingency plans. That's increasingly difficult to do here, easier to do elsewhere, we'll find a way.

If I can help, hit me up.

I hope you all know this about me already but just in case it needs saying:

If you show up anywhere that I am, online or offline, and you need a hand, I'll be happy to hear from you and I'll do what I can to help. ❤ "What I can" is doing some heavy lifting there, because my resources are erratic & unpredictable at the moment.

Here's a tip on dealing with bullies & tyrants: they will often make broad threats designed to make your censor/stifle/limit yourself out of fear of abritrary retaliation. They don't have to enforce edicts when you do yourself.

Make Them Work For It.

(cont'd) Not everyone has the social privilege to risk facing retaliation from a bully or abuser, I know that.

But *if* you truly do, make them spend /their/ resources enforcing their arbitrary regulations. Push your luck. Waste their manpower. Clog up the system.

Once upon a time I was a recent immigrant to the US, working in a toxic environment for an increasingly abusive boss, who informed me I needed to work for free or they'd cancel my work visa & I'd have to leave the country. That was my glorious arrival here. I'm aware there are people in Silicon Valley right now, as well as around the world in different industries, being held hostage by their immigration status, or in the US by their need for access to job-tied health insurance, or other factors. #Solidarity

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I just made some changes to the form, so if anyone would care to test it for me, reply to the confirmation email & I'll gladly give you a free audiobook from my fiction collection for your help (US Or UK codes). 🙏❤

I once woke up as a passenger in a vehicle, no memory of the past several hours, aware something had gone wrong, unaware I had a concussion, & needed to reconstruct events without alarming other or making a fool of myself.

Logging into Twitter has felt like that every day. I'll only elaborate on that story to say A) my spycraft was on point, in that no one around me knew that I didn't know what was going on, and B) when I became aware that I was likely concussed, I discreetly sought out appropriate medical care (without alarming anyone).