DramatistDreamer

Dang! R.I.P.

The DeSantis followers are most likely bots. The analyst said as much, without being explicit about it. If this deal does in fact go through (by October as has been hinted) as predicted, I think Musk doesn’t have a clue what he’s in for. Susan Collins is already advocating for Trump to be allowed back onto the platform. Prepare for the possibility of Twitter to turn cesspool later in the year, if not sooner. Having never joined MySpace or Facebook, I would be perfectly fine if Twitter went away tomorrow. I would probably be more focused on actual writing and other creative work. Sometimes it feels almost like I’m overstimulated, so I wouldn’t have to even think about resisting the urge to check Twitter for the endless flood of tripe that usually ends up somehow seeping into my timeline. I’d get over it.😂

OTOH, Ron DeSantis seems to have acquired 92,500 followers over the same period, according to social media analysts who are examining the possible root of this sudden rise in followers.

Parsons Boulevard is in Queens.

This morning I read that the Holocaust Memorial Twitter page said they’ve lost 35,000 followers in one day. They didn’t mention any reasons, just astonishment. It would be my guess that this was loss of followers due to deactivated accounts. It’s unlikely that I will be posting much embedded tweets, but this one seemed especially pertinent.

What I say about FB.

I also just deleted all my DMs, which I should have done ages ago. Fortunately for me, most of the ones I follow are on other platforms. I am signed up with one or two other artist-centric platforms, so maybe I’ll dust those off and see what’s happening there. Some people are already looking to jump onto other apps but I would rather take a careful approach. So many People have been signing up for CounterSocial that it got overloaded, but there is already talk that the creator is allegedly a George Zimmerman fan (that psychopath has fans??!) There were some aspects of Twitter that were becoming a chore, in terms of posting. I was using it more like a news aggregator and a way to circumvent paywalls, lol. At least I won’t have to take a weekly dose of those infamous Twitter death hoaxes.

Oh. That should give you time to scoop up your archive(s). I left a link on how to request that under today’s status for @ChitHappens.

Any word from RG?

Did you request your archive? I am waiting to get mine first before suspending and or deactivating my account.

Not to mention, this: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-25/black-tesla-employees-fremont-plant-racism-california-lawsuit

Sounds like the Brexit effect imo.

I agree with you there. The timing was right for Will, the real life person that he played is truly the star, the Williams Sisters is the most compelling sports story in the last two decades overall, and none of the other nominees in his category campaigned for the Academy Award this year. I don’t expect those confluence of factors to come together for Smith again. I definitely got the sense that he was one and done for that kind of prestige, even before the slap. I also believe that Smith will be just fine, career-wise. If nothing else, he can always produce. His instincts as a producer are much better that that of his acting, imo. He has done a great job with Bel Air, although I know some people don’t like the series.

The fallout continues. Neither Netflix nor Smith are doing all that well movie-wise these days. TBH, I have never seen the first Bright movie.

You wouldn’t know he even won if you listened to BBC news. To them it wasn’t a resounding win because Macron is respected but “not loved”. That his margin of victory was only healthy because he was the only candidate standing in the way of the far-right. Do they not remember that Macron had to beat out other candidates (including Mélenchon) to get to the runoff, while Le Pen barely squeezed into the runoff herself? And Macron being the only alternative to LePen, well, isn’t that how it works when there are only two candidates left? Never mind the fact that Macron is the first French President to be re-elected in twenty years. Now they’re going on about the “unsexy” parliamentary elections. It appears that BBC suffers from the same media disease as the U.S.: a fever for a horse race narrative. If they can’t find one, they’ll create one. They didn’t have much to say about Slovenia.😂

Maria Arena.

No offense to B&B, but what other soap could you see someone leap from fashion consultant to writing staff in less than two years?

Allegedly, Grigor is dating some Russian woman and it ain’t Maria. Supposedly, she’s a divorcée, the daughter of some Russian oligarch. I guess we’re just not in the know.

It’s been 30 years. Joanna Johnson was that good though, to have the ability to play both sides of the coin. Johnson wanted to go and who could blame her? Who would want to play the endless triangles? It’s the reason why B&B burned through so many characters/actors in ways that took other longer soaps decades to begin to do.

I actually appreciate “Bad Gal Caroline”. She has ‘zhuzh’. And Joanna Johnson is one of the few actors on at this time that can actually act. Lots of pretty faces with limited acting ability on this show.

They live in a total bubble, is all I can come up with. Other than Princess Diana and now Harry, the rest appear to be completely disengaged from the people outside of their milieu. Still living in a “Past time Paradise”, as Stevie Wonder would say. They have a colonialist mentality, that somehow their former colonies remain vassal states and will fawn at their feet with the mere mention of kind words and flowery language. They need to get over themselves. Maybe they believe that if they all repeat the same message, over and over, that will somehow make it true and people will believe them, despite the fact that their actions remain contrary to their words? I admit, I am no fan of the Royal family, as they enriched themselves breaking the backs of my ancestors (much like England did). They just need to put actions behind their empty words or just go away.

No U.S. style horse race narrative, just straight up results. French voters can actually go to bed knowing who won the election.

The Reparations Committee of Aruba might look forward to the momentum a visit from the British Royals might bring. The Dutch government and the Dutch monarchy…maybe not so much.

Preparing for Essence Fest.