I'm more active on BlueSky now. But it still doesn't have the reach that Twitter did, and mainstream journalists and institutions still feel obliged to post there, rather than on BS, which is why I c… (View Post)

It still remains marginally useful for info from reliable sources, when you can find them and when they're not hidden in your feed. Legacy media still feel the need to tweet there and that's helpful.… (View Post)

Actually, I've more-or-less come off Twitter because Musk has made it both unusable and awful. You presumably didn't pick up on the deliberate exaggeration. No, indeed, the US isn't the same as Iran.… (View Post)

The United States really is just turning into Iran with more guns and worse food, isn't it. (View Post)

Investing in anything that's at a record high is an inherently risky move. Gold is the ultimate store of value though. No returns but a lump of the yellow stuff put together 3000 years ago is still i… (View Post)