@darius Aaah see I turned off the highlight new because I…didn’t understand what that was and wanted fewer notifications rather than more. Although now that I have accidentally deleted all my replies and things it’s briefly very uh, peaceful.

(Thank you, this is very kind.)

@darius @exchgr I’ve been seeing both, but it’s the demand part that is so funny to me. Like, good luck with that!

@darius @exchgr Yeah, it's entirely possible that way more people than I expect to do, in fact, find it useful when strangers yell at them. I figure a ton of other people are super put off and in fact less likely to do [the thing], but I obvi have no stats.

I've experienced enough needless conflict for a whole life so I block instantly when people come in hot and never see anything else they have to say.

@darius actual lol

@darius Sometimes I imagine being his agent and the emails that must ensue

@darius So when I had it off I guess the site was trying to count…all my notifications ever? In increments of 15? This is extremely funny to me.

@darius Oh for sure. To be super clear, I’m not complaining! I am just enjoying my own ineptitude.

@darius Hey, congratulations!

@darius Appreciated!

@darius @josh I also picked up some Ein Zwei Zero for when I'm cooking and want a glass of something, it tastes kinda like a midgrade white wine tripped over a low-proof hefeweizen.

@darius honestly extremely embarrassing

@darius @kpl Equal parts encouraging and hilarious, tbh

@darius Oh totally, and it’s such a grating campaign.

@darius Substack is a terrible company*, and/but they are very clever to identify that one of the big attractions of Twitter was that any random person† could be plucked from obscurity by the attention of an important person. That's a real source of voltage! (Just not here.)

* I moved my free covid newsletter to them when the previous host failed out and will not be moving it because please god I cannot write it long enough to make it worth moving

† would-be media commentator

@darius I’ve mostly trained myself to find them interesting instead of annoying, but there are a couple that really grate bc of the sense of the thing. (Not so much in informal use, but in newspapers, for sure.)

@darius it’s so wholehearted AND so thorough

@darius @oddletters @parkermolloy blessings, Darius