In summary, while I would ordinarily assume that and are cool, inclusive, indie sites worth supporting, I know now that the founder/owner is a serial abusive troll. I would never recommend them, and advise steering clear.

I have been mostly sitting by while Manton suffers this fool, for more than 6 months now. There were allegations that Manton is anti-trans, a "big AI" shill, etc. It's all so hateful and such unfortunate venom to see spewn from one ostensibly upstanding indie towards another.

My rant against Adam Newbold wasn't supported by links, and now he has deleted posts. For example, he alluded to Manton being fascist because he wanted to "visit all 88 Texas state parks." 88 is a number that fascists like, I hear. One of many harmful implications against Manton.

I have been (mostly) quietly enduring Adam Newbold's ridiculous antagonism against @mantonsblog, but I blew a fuse today. We can't just sit here and let ridiculous allegations go unanswered. I pity anybody on

They DO make it pretty easy to score an even cheaper deal than you already have, if you threaten to unsubscribe. Will be paying $52/year for everything, for the next year.

The NYT is raising my Games subscription from $30 to $50? A 66% hike for a service that is already, by most accounts, printing money? While crosswords in general and the NYT in particular gets ever-more popular, they should be making it accessible to more people, not fewer.

RT @photomatt: People and hosts often overlook XML-RPC, despite it being the workhorse of WordPress' APIs. Great apps like Daniel's use it,….

*Pee Wee Herman Voice* What if XMLRPC isn't bad at all?.

Donald Trump has just brought the USA into a potentially catastrophic war. I hope the dipshits who had some misplaced faith in him bringing "peace" are happy now. For fuck's sake. Worst President ever. Worst constituency ever. Basket of deplorables.

I have known Brianna for a long time now, and I respect her. She is a woman, she is strong, she is proud, and she is feminine. But not every woman is feminine. No woman should be coerced into appearing feminine in order to be accepted. Trans lives matter. Period.

I'm still poppin' on ALL the great social networks. Twitter sucks. Elon Musk sucks. See ya elsewhere.

My favorite thing about Trump 2.0 is hearing right-wing businesspeople complain about how much money they're losing because of him. Hahaha. OK, continuing . if I had known this was the outcome I might have (*) voted for him myself. * Hell no, I would never vote for a fascist.

RT @blackinkapp: @gpaolopasco Ahem . @settern.

I've been checking in here again but find me at better sites like and

Pope Francis was good enough that even atheists, let alone non-Catholics, can lament his death. He was aware of the guard rails of his faith, but passionate enough to challenge them. He was the best kind of Catholic: one who looks first to how he can help. Rest in peace.

RT @JustinTrudeau: Hey Canada, one last thing.

Turns up @greenday's Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) to maximum volume and waits for everybody to leave Twitter.

In any case a substantial number of Twitter's formerly loyal users have now accepted the social network is run by a wacko propagandist, Elon Musk, and is only here to serve his desires. For all of who loved the spirit of Twitter in the beginning, it's heartbreaking. C'est la vie.

I somewhat ironically STARTED posting here again in the past few weeks, because I thought it was a place to find people I cared about. Most of the people have switched to other networks. Mastodon is one choice. Lots of people are going to Bluesky, Threads,

I've only been back on Twitter a short while but I think I'm just here to witness the mass departure. So many of my heroes, including @rands, are leaving, and I have to assume it's because they don't want to be on a social network overtly controlled by a narcissist suckup.