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diff --git a/_posts/2021-05-25-how-to-develop-a-deeply-unhealthy-relationship-with-twitter.md b/_posts/2021-05-25-how-to-develop-a-deeply-unhealthy-relationship-with-twitter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..abe6915 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2021-05-25-how-to-develop-a-deeply-unhealthy-relationship-with-twitter.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: How to Develop a Deeply Unhealthy Relationship with Twitter +--- + +1. Follow some cool people on Twitter. +2. Spend time on Twitter. +3. See a cool person quote tweet some dipshit to be mad about them, or retweet a reply to some dipshit that dunks on or dismantles them, or say something controversial yet correct where you just know a bunch of the replies and quote tweets are going to be dipshits. +4. Think to yourself "damn, it sucks that people on here are being dipshits. but hey, if I block all these people now, I'll never have them show up in my mentions later" +5. Read through all the immediate (and, if your brain decides to, several levels deep) context, finding and blocking dipshits as they come up. +6. Repeat steps 3-5 several times. Importantly, never only do step 3, so that the subsequent quest to block all dipshits attaching themselves to the original tweet becomes a habit, and then a reflex, rather than a deliberate decision. +7. Get mad that you keep seeing dipshits doing dipshit things on Twitter. Consider leaving, but then say "but the cool people are here! hell am I gonna do, convince them to stop arguing with dipshits and posting takes that dipshits will disagree with?" Forget that you have any other options. +8. Wait for Discourse, when arguing and dipshittery are ubiquitous. +9. Reflexively seek out all the dipshits swarming around every time you see a new Discourse-related tweet. +10. Be miserable on Twitter because your experience is overwhelmingly dominated by seeing dipshits being wrong and obnoxious, because you built a habit of seeking those dipshits out in the first place. + +In conclusion, as Fraxiom put it in food house's "[8 now](https://youtu.be/y-7qbdxIPWc?t=92)", +> I need to delete Twitter 'cause it gives me fucking mental illness |