Posting tweets has become my raison de blogging. I’m old, I’m lazy, I do this mostly on my phone (this chair is more comfortable than the one at my computer). Posting tweets is shorthand, for me.
I don’t know if it’s a DDOS or, more likely, further incompetence by Musk. Which is impossible, of course, because Musk is a genius! Just ask him! Which can only mean his minions have failed him, again.
It’s so hard to get good minions these days.
So maybe I’ll read some books (what a concept!) and work on some Advent posts (the annual duty/tradition is almost upon us, and I can only recycle so many of those things).
Gotta be better ways to spend my time than obsessing over Twitter….
As one who has never used Facebook or Twitter (X?), let me just say that some of us appreciate your scouring through them so that we don’t have to. (And that, of course, is no reason for you to continue what must be a disheartening task.)
ReplyDeleteAs to books on politics, I don’t know if I’d recommend it, but I’m still making my way through Thomas Hobbs’s Leviathan, an ice-cold demonstration of the incompatibility of peace, religious tolerance, and natural liberty, in a most beautiful seventeenth century prose.
I have a memory of reading that once (and now I wonder if I have that copy still). I have at least three books of history (on the Anglo Saxons, the Medieval period, and a history of Xianity) I want to get to. And a biography of Bonhoeffer. Not to mention the Thalia trilogy (Last Picture Show, etc.) and … shit, a bunch of titles I can’t recall now. Really need to start unloading my bookshelves and reading again….
DeleteI finally figured out that reading is infected with a kind of Malthusian curse. The number of books you read increases arithmetically. The number of books written increases exponentially. Even if we live forever, the two constitute incommensurate infinities, and the first not only never catches the other, but only gets further and further behind it.
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