X isn't much of a name. I'd say the new owner should have left it alone. "Twitter" was a thing; although previously an English word, it wasn't used much and was very googleable. How do you search for "X"? It'll have to be explained for the rest of its life.
In fact it seems to have already settled down into "Twitter / X"
I had some hope with the new owner, and went back to give it a try. First it made me pick a new password, then asked why I'd changed the password, and none of the options were "because you made me".
Then it wants me to select my pronouns. The problem is that I speak English, and in English the singular object doesn't get to pick his, her or its own pronoun any more than two or more persons or things have any choices besides "they".
I went away in mild annoyance.
But the app was there on the phone, and one night I had something to share, and thought I'd try just ooooone more time!
It does seem like there should be a platform for sharing. My stuff goes on my space, but other stuff that I've found floating around - well, it seems presumptuous to put that on my space as if it was mine. It's not mine.
Argh for the particular, the persnickety, the punctilious ones of the world. What can we do? Everything should be just so, but often isn't.
So I posted a couple of links on Twitter / X, intending to go back later when I had a keyboard and add my comments.
Found out there's a one hour window for editing your own posts.
They can be deleted, so that's what happened.
Here's what I posted on Twiiiii - X and then removed.
https://www.slashfilm.com/1412312/beekeeper-trailer-is-honey-flammable/
Happened across the trailer for The Beekeeper, and my darling for some reason thought I'd be interested, because, "I thought you liked Jason Statham?"
1) not like that! I used to need to like random movie actors, but those days are over because I like my darling! and 2) not necessarily although there were a couple of his movies, Parker, most notably. It took me a while to think of the other: Spy! That was just bloody funny. I don't necessarily approve, and yet I've watched it several X. The part where the fat lady kills a guy and then barfs on him... yeah, NO, hahaha. And Ford's over-the-top boasting was so perfect. Don't we all know a guy like that? He's been everything, done everything, and now lives to tell you way too much about it.
And Wrath of Man was okay. Somewhat.
But I watched the trailer, and of course immediately ran to do "what any sensible person would do", with honey and fire. Conveniently, there was already a fire going, so I dribbled some honey on a flat piece of kindling and put it in the flames. It wouldn't light. After some time it eventually bubbled and carmelized, but didn't burn. So I hit the internet and was amused by this article. "'Honey is natural napalm' is another of Hollywood's lies along with 'ventilation ducts are always large enough to crawl through' and 'people can walk away from explosions without flinching'"
The article says burning is a test of real honey - real honey burns, sugar water carmelizes - and that jar said "raw, local, natural" honey! Isn't there anything you can trust?
I also belatedly observed the distinction between flammable and combustible, which is so basic that I'll add it to my list of things I've learned after age 40 that I really should have known before. Funny how I'm still coming across those.
https://youtu.be/ltcu5Cx8A7I
People in the south when it's freezing
This amuses me because I'm that neighbor, or aspiring to be. Now that I've learned to get out of bed when the bedroom is twenty degrees and get the fire started, I can at least show off, which is little consolation but at least SOMETHING. Humans get used to things. If I'm used to the cold, that means I'm tough and awesome! Right?
https://youtu.be/b9fLRr9fi4A?si=BfziSnDoLYHrmne_
A lady playing O Holy Night on handbells, and besides gorgeous, it's just mind blowing the level of calm and coordination she demonstrates.
UPDATE April 2024 - whoaaaa seriously????
Okay I take it all back and now I'm gonna be a Twiiii - X fangirl all the way. Wow! Big Brother of Australia orders big tech to REMOVE reports of a factual thing that actually happened and THEY ALL COMPLY??? Except Twitter / X.
Just in case you don't think 98% of "reality" (everything we think we know about that we didn't actually see happen in front of our eyes) is a fabricated lie.
They don't say this preacher did not get knifed by a guy screaming Muslim slogans, they simply don't want anyone to see it - because it's TOO DISTRESSING.
Too distressing to whom? In the opinion of whom?
"We're not calling for censorship, only for common sense."
They prefer people to have nicer, warm fuzzy feelings, by simply not knowing what's going on. Hmmm. Well, this isn't just like every sci-fi mind-control-society movie ever, or the book 1984 (which I read in 1984 when I was 14, and was very upset by it) AT ALL, is it.
Ugh.
Don't have time to rant much right now :-) okay, more later.
See you on Twitter or whatever the new owner wants to call it! Where I'll be posting everything I can think of and clicking the ads, too!
