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Weighing in here about Twitter.

I think the user experience on Twitter has definitely deteriorated somewhat since Elon Musk took over the company — at least it has for me.  It just looks like the algorithms have changed for what appears in my newsfeed (or the scroll, whatever).

I seem to be reading far fewer tweets from people I want to hear from, and far fewer tweets that I enjoy.  I’m reading vague yet grandiose religious tweets … if you know me at all, you know that those don’t appeal to me.

And I’m being targeted by spam in tweets for the first time ever.  It’s happened only a couple of times, though — so I shouldn’t complain too much.

Maybe I shouldn’t bitch at all.  Twitter is free.  (And, no, I don’t think I’ve ever made a purchase due to advertising on the site.)

But I will say this — it definitely isn’t as fun as it used to be.



“Abtei im Eichwald,” Caspar David Friedrich, circa 1810

“The Abbey in the Oakwood.”  Oil on canvas.

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Throwback Thursday: High School Politician Nolan!

This is from 1988 — it was my speech when I ran for president of the International Student Organization at Longwood High School.

I even had buttons made up.  I was quite the extrovert back in those days (and a nerd too, in case you hadn’t noticed).  But I wasn’t exactly Marcus Antonius, even if I wanted to be.

Note the use of a dot matrix printer!  😀



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Illustration from the “Les Fleurs du Mal,” Odilon Redon, 1923

“The Flowers of Evil.”  Etching.

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This is from The New York Post.

The conservative New York Post.

(Pic taken from Facebook.)



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This just turned up in my Twitter feed. Now I feel ANCIENT.

And “primitive.”

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Cover to “House of Mystery” #129, Mort Meskin & George Roussos, 1962

DC Comics.

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It’s a Terrable mistake.

My buddy Tara had her name misspelled at Starbucks, and now I can never stop thinking of her as Terra of the Teen Titans.

She’s   also    an  editor, so I occasionally add    extra spaces in sentences to    make her nuts.

Sometimes I think it’s challenging for people to be friends with me.



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Cover to “House of Mystery” #76, Jack Kirby, 1958

DC Comics.

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Thank you, Veterans.

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