Donald J trump was kicked off of Twitter about a year ago – January 8th, 2021 to be exact – and Margery Taylor Greene got kicked off last week so I wanted to make a couple of coments. I really like Twitter, it is my social media indulgence and I really don’t like Margery, still kicking people off bothers me. I know she was warned five times to stop yelling inflamatory fasehoods the same as Trump, I know that Twitter is a private company and not subject to the First Admendment, and I have no alternative plan, but it bothers me. Twitter is, in many ways, a public space and controlling who gets to say what seems like a slippery slope. But I like Twitter and they have to do something and it’s not a easy job.
I like Twitter because, it has it’s own, improbable, personality A couple of days ago, when I opened my account, these were the first three Tweets.
The Bill McKibben article is well worth clicking through to but the headline, alone, is enough to brighten my day. But, even without the article, seeing Shoebills popping up in my feed makes me realize that the world is a wonderous place. Shoebills, by the way, are about four and a half feet tall and members of the pelican family although they used to be classified as storks. Enjoy.
Shoebills are hilarious looking. Look straight out of Alice in Wonderland.
They are, they almost look fake.