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I'll miss seeing what kind of hat you were at various times. :-) And more than that, I'll miss your great content. Glad you'll still be around in other places, at least.

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Twitterdammerrung.

See you on Post.

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OK, "Twitterdammerrung" deserves a trophy. Or maybe it's own Substack. Well done!

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Since you asked: https://jacobzelten.substack.com/p/twitterdammerung ;-)

And thank you for the kind words!

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So long and thanks for all the fish.

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I’m glad you’re leaving Ken. I’m leaving too. For me the deal breaker was how Twitter makes me feel, especially mentally. I’ve noticed that Twitter makes me a worse person, or at least, worse by the standards I use to evaluate myself. It makes me angrier, more bitter, more condescending, more tribal. It makes me think the entire human race is filled with idiots, with a few small exceptions. It provides almost nothing worthwhile any more, at least nothing I couldn’t find elsewhere. Twitter is just a terrible, nasty place filling up with terrible, nasty people. I hope it fails. Our society, our world, would be a far better place if Twitter didn’t exist.

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My sentiments exactly. Every few days I re-log on to my account to see if I can take it, and end up logging off, feeling bad about the world and myself. I used to feel a real community with the people I engaged with. No more.

Twitter is dead to me. I just wish I would stop checking the casket.

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Yet you were all fine and dandy with others' speech being banned. Sorry you lost your "safe space".

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I'll admit it. When a gun troll gang that hounded and doxed people was banned, I was fine with it. When nazis were banned, I was okay with it. When racists and their racist president were banned for lying about a pandemic, causing a coup attempt, and trying to ruin democracy, I was okay with it.

Honestly, Sam, look around. Places you are not in are better than places you are.

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LOL!

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Looks like a narrative parasite has colonized your brain Sam. It's shutdown your ability to read, rendering you unable to tell when, for example, YvonneD doesn't mention a single thing about Twitter's policy changes on speech moderation as their reason to leave.

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Is "colonized"... a fancy word to you? Wut?

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Thanks, Ken. Your content was a brick in the wall that I enjoy on Twitter. One less brick doesn't make the wall stronger, and might help bring it down. That would be good, Elon seems out of control

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I'm glad you'll be findable. I learn a great deal from you, plus you make me laugh. Thank you for that. See ya on Post, here and I'll of course keep subscribing to the pod.

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You were one of the top three people I followed religiously on twitter.

I don’t blame you for leaving. The place turns my stomach now, as well.

I will read and support you wherever you go!

One thing: I don’t think Musk is seeking love. I think he is seeking “gaze”, and he has it now and nothing else matters.

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Ken, you were one of the best reasons to be on the site. Like others, it makes me seriously reconsider my own staying there. I'll look forward your newsletter.

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It's kind of sad how this is all going--seeing Ken White retweet a story you wrote was how I discovered that Peter Sagal doesn't live in a cupboard between episodes of Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me, hoping each week that Steve Inskeep will forget to turn the lock. Twitter helped me find a handful of cool people who do cool things, and those people helped me find other people doing cool things, as well. Crime and a shame that a spoiled brat had to turn it into a hellscape just because he couldn't find a way out of a contract he regretted signing....

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Did the same yesterday, and for the same reasons.

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No one cares

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Obviously you do. Otherwise you would have just gone away.

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Is this performance satisfying for you? 2 and 3 word nonsensical replies that read like an angry 11 year old on the playground help you feel better?

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I love your sense of justice. That virtue is becoming extinct.

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Please don’t delete the tweets. There are far too many good ones to screen capture.

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Superbly written, as with all of your commentary over the years. You've consistently provided interesting, often quite humorous, observations and substantially improved my limited understanding of the law in this country. I won't miss you on Twitter, because I could never tolerate the noise on that forum. I'm quite happy to continue to follow you right here, and I hope that's for many more years!

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I met my husband on CompuServe. I learned about the first 9/11 plane on an arts message board. I once got in a vicious flamewar about cats. The popehat account has been my Twitter homepage for years. Thank you for everything you gave to us, it was a grand time.

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Right behind you, sir!

Cannot support musk’s hellscape.

Already following you, and many favorites on Post. It’s nice there, like the format and filling with good follows daily.

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Thanks for all your content over the years Ken! As a longtime follower, I’ve appreciated your legal takes and practice advice as I went through law school and now have been in practice for several years. I too have decreased my twitter time, honestly just to spend more time reading books and enjoying life. I’ve never once regretted it.

Look forward to seeing more from you in the future!

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While I’m going to miss you on Twitter, I’m certain your partners will appreciate the massive incoming bump in productivity.

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