I was on Twitter for 17 years (admittedly, I didn’t use the account for the last two years of that), and the stupid arsehole problem just got worse, and worse, and worse… Until a little over two years ago, when the stupid arsehole-in-chief abruptly made it _dramatically_ worse. I reckon I have done my time, at this point. I do not _wish_ to hear from an endless parade of idiots. Sorry. Done with that.

There are generally two ways this argument works: “all opinions are equally valid”, or “Not all opinions are equally valid, but listening to the same invalid opinions, over and over, for decades, is in some way morally improving”. Sorry, but both of these are bullshit. Like, there is not much originality. About 50% of it is “haha, trans people are bad, what a funny joke”, just like it has been for the entirety of this _century_.

We didn’t all go to Bluesky because we want a political echo chamber… we went there because our communities of interest went there, we want to be able to discuss our interests without others turning it cesspit of polarisation