anyway, i’m out of here. if you feel like you genuinely need X in your life for work or community or entertainment, power to you. but if you feel like maybe this place is doing you more harm than good, i promise you won’t regret saying goodbye to it
i stopped using twitter regularly last fall when i realized how much it was warping my sense of reality. got back on this week to try to keep up with the fires here in LA and holy hell - what a failed and broken app this is.
this was the first thing in my feed when i opened the app to post this. i cannot explain how unbelievably stupid it feels to consume information like this once you break the habit
I will say, one of the amazing things about the current Car Media Internet is that there's just way less stupid animosity than there used to be. Really grateful to know @tokulski and @cheromcha and @aaronmaxb and @kristenlee and @SajeevMehta and @alanisnking and many others.
"OH MY GOODNESS! BIG CHRISTMAS HAS TIED IT! THE ULTIMATE PRESENT UNDER THE TREE! OH MY GOODNESS! JHONKENSY NOEL! THE BIGGEST SWING OF HIS LIFE!" - Brian Anderson as Jhonkensy Noel crushes a 2-out game-tying homer in the bottom of the 9th ⚾️🎙️ #MLB
Beautiful tribute from @NOAA_HurrHunter who earlier this evening honored longtime radar scientist and researcher Peter Dodge who passed away in March 2023.
His ashes were dropped in the eye of Category 5 Milton tonight –
PETER DODGE HX SCI (1950-2023) 387TH PENNY