I'm done. Bye, folks. See you on Mastodon - I'm https://t.co/70uIGQtfhZ there. I won't be deleting my account here, but I've removed it from my phone and will not be interacting here further unless following links from others. Thanks for all the fish.

obligatory reminder that you can find me on m.a.stodon and b.l.uesky, but not here.

Hi - I'm still mostly posting on mastodon, but I've also created a bsky account to be able to follow folks there. https://t.co/Bd27jmNHMX (mastodon: https://t.co/70uIGQtN7x ) Hope to see y'all at one of those two alternatives.

In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce a South African-American(!) businessman and social media figure, Elon Musk (@elonmusk). He's best-known for being the wealthiest man in the world, running Tesla Inc., SpaceX & Twitter, and for parroting Kremlin's propaganda narratives. 1/24

You can still block the jerks on Mastodon. I'm over there. The water's fine. The UI isn't as good but the tools keep improving. https://t.co/70uIGQtfhZ

Reminder - I'm spending my limited social media time over here now: https://t.co/70uIGQtfhZ (now that we can actually link directly. ahem.)

As a company from eastern Germany, we know that building a wall to try and keep people from leaving isn't a good idea.

*laughs* I can't even post it. hachyderm dot io/@dave_andersen it will have to be for now. Replace dot in the expected way. Ridiculous. It's like someone fears a mass exodus. That link is harmful to Twitter's potential revenue, I guess...

This next reply will undoubtedly be censored by Twitter for daring to link to *astodon, but the next tweet in this thread has a link to my profile there:

Over the last week, the discourse in my circles (mostly copied from my twitter follow/ers lists) on Mastodon has skyrocketed. It's quite amazing. Quite encourage trying it out. In tech circles, hachyderm dot io has been a very good server. Finding one with good filtering helps.

Lol. Twitter has blocked my pinned post explaining that I've left Twitter and to find me on mas*odon. I'm there: hachyderm dot io/@dave_andersen (Replace dot with a period, of course) What a censorious prick.

I have, however, mass-deleted my old tweets. I'm not interested in letting *sk monetize them. (This process may be flaky but if you notice that things are missing, that's why.)

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