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Every boat is a lifeboat

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Still attached to my childhood town despite having lived elsewhere much longer. Common, yes, but not universal either. Why are some, but not others, tethered so to the past?

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Maybe not always benevolence in the end. But even supervillians think they're the good guys.

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Wisdom is grumpiness refined toward benevolence.

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This medium is aggressive. The inability to edit tweets after posting is necessary and unforgiving. The analytics incentivize tailoring tweets for engagement. Always be curating. Great for businesses, but for people? idk.

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Already feeling that familiar nudge to self-censor. How on earth do people intentionally tweet publically?

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Revived this account through a jungle of TFA and long-forgotten email addresses specifically to post shower thoughts and other random fluff. And yet I'm *still* reluctant to post them for fear of being judged.

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Judged by whom though? Ain't nobody reading this except one person: the author and the author's toughest critic.

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Ohhhhh, they're just this browser refreshing the page. Interesting that only the recent tweets have analytics. The ancient ones do not.

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This account is following no one and has no followers (after removing some bots from 2008). So how are some of these tweets getting any views/engagement at all?

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So what's the minimum threshold for a tweet? Insightful? Pithy? Unlikely. Heartfelt, if trite and cliche? Kind of the point of this account. Trouble is this is also fatally cringe and middle-school diary fodder.

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There sure are a lot of strange things in the email inbox of an account I haven't checked in 14.6 years. I've apparently ordered shoes, food, and activities from all over the world!

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Gosh! Twitter wants to "be sure there’s a human behind this account". But can you really be sure? Can *I* really be sure? If we're all living in a simulation, do I really count as a human?

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It's been 5356 days since my last tweet.

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The needful, evidently.

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You need to get out of there. Seriously.

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City or country?

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I should remember this is here.

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Purslane, chamomile, dragonwell, MPIO, Odyssey (Honda/Homer).

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Tin-foil hattery.
Aluminum haberdashery.