John Bell @novomancy@digipres.club and bsky

New ToS means it's time to exit Twitter stage left. I'll be at the places mentioned in my profile.

Just cancelled my @washingtonpost subscription. A lot of things had to go wrong to get here-consolidation of media ownership, rise of fascists intimidating US businesses, utter cowardice of journalistic institutions-but where we ended up is not ok.

I really want someone to ask Donnie how he's any better than Neville Chamberlain just to watch the back flips as he tries to answer without admitting he has no idea who that is.

An insightful paper could be written about overlap between communication skills developed coming from disadvantaged backgrounds and those needed to excel as higher ed staff, but it may be those capable of writing are also tautologically incapable of writing it until retirement.

Always remember to check server capacity before hiring your bot audience, folks.