Welp, it's me again. Anyways, I gave that whole 'Truth Social' thing some thought and... originally, I decided against it, but I figured that if I already had a Bluesky account, I might as well give the place on the other side a try. So far... a lotta lotta news. And a lot of conservatives, but with a name like Truth Social, that kinda comes with the territory. Anyways, my beef this week is, without much surprise, Twitter. But what MIGHT come as one is that my beef DOESN'T mainly come from the Twitter feed itself. Rather, it's some of the users that sometimes show up in my feed from who I follow. I usually try to follow chill, sane people (e.g won't try to yell at anyone within a 10 mile raduis to off themselves upon disagreement), but some of the people I see 'em repost? Misery. Personified. I'm gonna rant about a couple because I can do that and gopherholes don't push for short-term content. 1. Possum Reviews Now, I don't mind a caustic critic; Heck, I sometimes willingly watch the Crticial Drinker every now and then, regardless of how true the grifter accusations are. But whereas the Drinker sticks mostly to film and gaming every now and then, Possum dedicates himself full-time to arguing with random people on the internet. I've scrolled through quite a bit of his feed, and as of writing, I'm doing it again to see how frequently he posts. Always seems to post like clockwork, give or take a few chunks of an hour. About four days ago, he tweeted sixteen times, probably even more than that. Now, I'm no doctor, therapist, or biologist specialising in humans, but I'm not sure actively engaging in a website like Twitter for at least half of a day is very healthy. Not helping matters is his seemingly lightning-fast reaction time to get some political commentary out to respond to the first piece of sensationalist clickbait in sight. Now, if he wants to be a staunch conserviate, that's fine by me. The right to be able to speak your mind and NOT get shadowbanned into oblivion by power-hungry social media tyrants is something I think the Consitution strictly defends. I've had a far more major problem with that than some random ultra-MAGA on the opposite side of the country calling me something like 'fag', 'dyke', or other similar insult for my bleeding-heart lifestyle. None of that's specifically my problem. The only time it'll ever become a problem by me is the moment anyone starts pushing for mass censorship. My second, if somewhat more minor gripe with Possum is that he's also such a joyless puritan, even when he isn't trying to get his opinion on whatever new development happened in the political world out the door for the algo. Seems to treat even the most harmless of anthro designs as if a plauge had been dropped to his house by way of airstike. Extremely similar way with most anything anime-related. But, preferences are preferences, I am not an opinion policem'n or the parents. But I still wouldn't be willing to talk to him for very long. All that being said, I do agree with him in that situational equipment should be a thing. Too often does balance lean towards "beeline towards the stuff that does the highest stats". 2. Retard Finder Yeah, a bit crude of a name, I know, but the fella running the account really does call themselves that. Themselves as in for all I know, there could be multiple people running the account, but I'm not gonna bother checking. My main mine's worth of salt with 'em is two-fold: A. "Hey, look a this user I disagree with, and also screwed up and/or said something we considered dumb in the past!" Kinda gets boring after a while, especially if the word "retard" gets used so many times it eventaully stops actually sounding LIKE a word. I've the same issue with Vizziepop and her Hazbin/Helluva thingamajig, what makes 'ol Finder any better for using a different kind of swear word? B. It's such, extremely PREDICTABLE tripe. If someone ends up falling on their face or they fucked up on the internet, it's prolly gonna end up on the profile with "Found Another Retard" soundbite #875,285,253. And to make matters stranger, there's also this cryptocurrency called, and I shit you not, Retardcoin. Where it's adherents try to use the same word they use to ridicule people they don't like as a badge of honor... in that extremely specific context. Bit of a conflict of interest, don't you think? All that said, I'm gonna see if I can spend more time here and less time towards the internet dumpster fire. It really should be easy, but sometimes a cute VTuber is a cute VTuber, y'know? Any related feedback can be sent over at the usual places.