And remember, you don't have to be here any more.

Greetings everyone. Just an important note that By-the-Bywater is now on Bluesky; we know not everyone is there yet, but please join us when you can! (All three of us are now on there too.) #Tolkien

Per my posted tweet, I again note I'm to be found where shaggy prehistoric creatures with tusks roam, as well as where the heavens are azure. Both can and should be better of course. But at this point, why stay here if you don't have to?

Time to update this. Mastodon: spaceballs.masto.host/@nedraggett -- BlueSky: nedraggett.bsky.social -- FB: my name -- IG: thatonenedguy -- Patreon: my name. Vote, of course, and as ever, please donate: donate.abortionfunds.org/give/387742/#!…

Apparently the high cost of imported British albums caused a Spanish band to cash in by quickly re-recording the Sex Pistols’ debut. It is quite something. (Thanks to ⁦Ned Raggett⁩ for the link) youtu.be/JPd3YJIvw70

So Jared Pechaček and Colleague Oriana and I are back with Episode 51 of By-the-Bywater ... twitter.com/BytheBywater/s…

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Today’s talk on goth zines and urban proximity went great. Thanks Ned Raggett for the picture! #popcon2023

Here was the end of what turned out to be Tucker Carlson's final Fox News show last Friday. Certainly no indication that he didn't expect to be on the air tonight. In fact Tucker's final words are, 'we'll be back on Monday.'

Oh look, it's the actual reviews page where Daft Punk got their name. Well done for finding that one Ned Raggett
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Just re-reading Elmo's pre-acquisition texts and this--Elmo calling then Twitter Blue 'a piece of shit' just one year ago reads very differently now.

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a bunch of people who paid for this site are now gleefully replying to an article that none of them realized was satire

coked-up neoreactionary morons crashed through the doors of the Twitter boardroom, imagining that the control panel that runs the Cathedral is in there. now they're ripping the copper wires out of the walls, imagining that one of them is connected to the reason people hate them

Already one of the funniest tweets of all time when it dropped, and has aged beautifully. Just a classic example of what passes for intelligent thought among the Silicon Valley alt-right

It's all falling apart on this platform, or just getting more bifurcated and weird, but I'll take the time to say once more this is happening tomorrow in Portland, OR -- join us for the 50th episode of @ByTheBywater and more besides! twitter.com/MegaphonicFm/s…

I think understand the business model, soon Twitter will start forcing blue ticks on some accounts, and charge them $16 a month to get rid of them. Genius

A bunch of VCs begged Elon Musk to let them be part of the Twitter turnaround and now they're reduced to personally hawking Twitter subscriptions like they're Mary Kay products