OK, I have an opinion too!
Almost finished reading John Gruber on X, before (as often happens nowadays) I’ve got tired realising I’m wasting my time. Lost my sleep—
too easy, unfortunately. Remind me to get back to meditating ASAP.
Almost fellasleep. (A nice word, iPhone and buggy Obsidian produced it in the collaboration.)
Lost it. Tried again in literally couple of mins. Maybe five, max.
What would you think? Air raid alert siren. Again.
I failed to mention that I’ve lost my sleep before I reached to iPhone and started reading internet shit. By the fact I reached it might contribute to me losing sleep more than I should.
OK. Anyway. So. I have an opinion.
First. John Gruber. Was in NetNewsWire by default. Apparently someone popular. I’ve been reading him for a while. Was surprised someone finds his writings good. Ok, maybe. If you don’t read books.
Duck. I’m toxic here, am I? Still, for me, them both (all three of them) are irrelevant insignificant internet strangers. I don’t mean to belittle any of them, so I mean only what I wrote: there’s no reason to me not just agree, or even interact with them, not even read them. They may be great, but I’m limited, and they’re great interesting people all around are infinite to my very limited attention span of a human being. A tired— an exhausted human being.
Second. Twitter. Can we really call the X Twitter? Elon Muscovite does not like it, but hey, that makes sense!
That reminds me of that fucker in the oversized ugly as shit glossy suit, who overtook Belarus in 1994 and holds it till today. That guy did not like the historical flag of the country. As much as he didn’t like the word Belarus, so it’s the Republic of Belarus (as if that’s a republic inside the Russian federation), or better Byelorussia. (As Soviets called it.)
We cannot call the country as Belarus, even if that’s the official name, until the country would be released. Same way, Democratic Republic of Korea is just a faux name.
So is the Twitter. I refuse to call it X, but hey, it’s X indeed.
(I desperately need to find that killed bird caricature!)
It’s killed by the Moscow bitch, the Twitter. And turned into a propaganda machine.
It’s so obvious, so transparent and on everyone’s eyes that …
I mean, returning to John Gruber. If I‘d have any respect for the man, I could lose it. The apolitical grown up? Yep, just another idiot on the web, what a surprise. Or, just someone who is actually quite happy with the status quo. Hard to tell what’s worse.
So, nothingburger.
It’s somewhat weird seeing these successful public people in this circle jerk of politeness towards each other. Hey, perhaps they are the politicians too. Citizens of the web politics, you know.
But it looks so self-disrespectful. Even disrespectful to John! ‘Hey, you wrote stupid shit online, I’m so disappointed in you!’ kind of message. Let a man be stupid (or play stupid), he’s just another man on the internet. He may be competent in something, so all other things (as we all do), he’s pretty stupid at them.
Ironically, by having zero fucks about John Gruber’s opinion, I may give him more respect than those who made a cult out of him.
He just blogs in his blog, and yep, if he’s popular, he’s expected to be a bit more thoughtful and maybe even moral. Than, say, me. But I can totally get him. I think he’s less smart than me, or some of my (much smarter) friends, so I cannot even take him seriously. Some weirdo writing on tech? Ok, let him be.
I totally get all the hate towards this year’s dramas with techbro fascists, and all that. (To the degree of my very limited attention and knowledge.) So, if there’s some … what we call it here in Ukraine, jackal‘s express, I totally get it and support it. But on the other hand, so the fuck cares what he says? Especially on what, X? Whitewashing it? LOL, what a loser if he’s not being paid for this self-humiliation and showing off with his stupidity, unworthy of a grownup person living in a real world.
Better get some time and redesign your ugly as fuck personal blog, maybe. Perhaps that would motivate you spend less time in the Nazi bar then.
As being smarter than that, I guess I should have go to sleep instead of wasting my precious time on this.
Thank you, John Gruber, for siding with the folks who help waging the biggest war of this century, daily and nightly eliminating little kids, pregnant women, and all other very dangerous people indeed.
You stupid out-of-politics twat. ‘Oh no, some pesky Ukrainian was mean to me! You would be banned on Twitter X, my favourite social of today, if you’d dare to say this there!’
Yep, that’s exactly the reason why I’m not there.
And I was banned for exactly this. Writing what I think in the way I like. Well, by ‘Save Ukraine’ and #russiaIsATerroristState, which is much less toxic. And that’s ironic, since Twitter is actually a pretty toxic place now. X, I meant X. You can be toxic, but just when you’re on the far right side. And outright Nazi.
Obligatory me over explaining:
Overall, I do agree with the point the original author, the first I link to, the one who’s tired. I’m surprised by some other guy admiring Gruber, that’s what I mean by having some self-respect (you man may be more interesting than Gruber, and I hope you know that), and respect to Gruber by letting him be the idiot he appears to be. The fuck you roast DHH and not roast Gruber then? He hasn’t written about London yet?