Bard spotting on Bluesky 20 November 2024

Joshua Wood (@joshuawood.net):

To be clear, this is what people see when they join X for the first time—or if they haven't diligently curated their interests.

This was an account I created last week when tombstoning my old X handle.

This is the tame stuff.

Why you would subject your audience to this is beyond me.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

why would you

1) Politics

2) Profit

3) Teh Lulz (ego)

For Musk it's deffo 1 & 3; someone else is footing the bill

Joshua Wood (@joshuawood.net):

Oh yeah, for sure. I know why Elon does it. I meant the folks who still won't go anywhere else, and make their followers wade into the cesspool.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I can only imagine that something along the lines of "claimed the writeoff on a 3 or 5 year amortised tax exemption" is the answer.

If it's "the sewage never bothered me anyway", I'd just scream