Archive for November, 2022

Touring the new hood

I set up my Mastodon account: @thebasil@securitycafe.ca. Before I start posting, I’ll be looking around the place to see how the online culture there operates (back in the Usenet days we called that “lurking”). Staying on Twitter until the last of my friends and faves shut the door behind themselves on the way out. [Revised with new account info. – Dec. 16]

“My kids didn’t get any Fentanyl-laced Halloween candy. So why does it feel like they did?”

Doug J. Balloon’s New York Times Pitchbot twitter feed is my favourite short-form serial satire these days.