Yes exactly, the far-flung community that also manages to be tightly connected over this social network! And that's huge especially for marginalized communities and alienated/disadvantaged people. I can totally understand if Black twitter wants to silo itself off from journalists looking for hot clickbait and white dudebros and white Nice Ladies. Altho like you point out, that is a loss for the greater community, but if vulnerable populations can't protect themselves from hate speech or super-capitalism why should they stay around? Kind of like the secret "Pantsuit Nation" group on Facebook that grew because women got sick of taking shit about just talking about Hillary. From my memories of the Old West Usenet et al you were just supposed to be able to suck up anything ranging from insults to death threats and if you couldn't, well, bye too bad. (Old Usenet was also fiercely protective of personal privacy, tho, while Modern Twitter seems often to gleefully trash IRL nobodies who had screwed up as the "Character of the Day." But ANYWAY.)
Kitty is still here! Kitty is doing a LOT better after a string of fucking 80F days which probably don't sound like much to people outside the Puget Sound, where it's really humid and there is almost NO A/C, not even in the newer houses! (After the horrible heat wave a couple of years ago, installers got booked out for six months in advance by nouveau riche hastily installing central air.) We have a grumpy window unit which makes this apartment bearable -- otherwise it's regularly 5+F degrees hotter than outside. Today she ate a LOT, demanded pets loudly, bounced around with her tail up, and she otherwise had a good day so we did too. We still have at least a month of summer to go, tho....I just hope it doesn't get above 80F. She absolutely cannot be dipped in cool water in the bathtub.
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the Old WestUsenet et al you were just supposed to be able to suck up anything ranging from insults to death threats and if you couldn't, well, bye too bad. (Old Usenet was also fiercely protective of personal privacy, tho, while Modern Twitter seems often to gleefully trash IRL nobodies who had screwed up as the "Character of the Day." But ANYWAY.)Kitty is still here! Kitty is doing a LOT better after a string of fucking 80F days which probably don't sound like much to people outside the Puget Sound, where it's really humid and there is almost NO A/C, not even in the newer houses! (After the horrible heat wave a couple of years ago, installers got booked out for six months in advance by nouveau riche hastily installing central air.) We have a grumpy window unit which makes this apartment bearable -- otherwise it's regularly 5+F degrees hotter than outside. Today she ate a LOT, demanded pets loudly, bounced around with her tail up, and she otherwise had a good day so we did too. We still have at least a month of summer to go, tho....I just hope it doesn't get above 80F. She absolutely cannot be dipped in cool water in the bathtub.