Hey ya’all! As most of you know I’ve been in Twitter Jail for the past week. I must admit turned out to be a great break! The sheer randomness of Twitter’s new rules has put me in contact with others who found themselves in the same situation.
Here is what we discovered. Twitter has basically decided that any content someone feels is offensive is now a violation of their “abusive behavior” rule, IF IT IS REPORTED and IF THERE IS SOMEONE REFERRED TO with an @. So using the word retarded in a conversation with people I interact with daily on Twitter who are one of less than 200 people I follow, is now abusive if the RETARD POLICE report it. Context of the word is not a factor.
The problem is, the Retard Police are selective in who they report. Certain people and sites are being reported and suspended. So now, if you want to take out your competition, you can just report an offensive word and have a couple of your friends report it and they get suspended. It’s the wild, wild, west over there and I am just going to share my posts on that site and retweet other shares from this point forward.
If you put “retard” in the Twitter search box, many thousands of current tweets are shown. Ironically the large majority of those posts are about POTUS referring to Jeff Sessions as “mentally retarded and a dumb southerner. Those tweets remains as apparently they are not targeted hate speech because Jeff Sessions was not included using the @ sign. The same goes for any other word people may consider offensive. Twitter has always been a cesspool of free speech and it remains that way unless someone wants to report you.
I am CONSTANTLY reminding people here to READ THE FUCKING COMMENTING RULES before interacting with this site. It would save so many of you from being exposed to words that hurt your big fat feelings, or thinking I need you advice on editing my posts. If you fail to do so, you will end up in the window licking section for crying about words or having panic attacks over typos. Really, I’m just trying to save your from yourselves. 🙂
That said, I miss having a place to share my random brainfarts. I generally post my panic attacks over things like Banjo killing a squirrel, or short bits of news that don’t require a post like Jill Zarin’s dog Ginger dying on Twitter. Moving forward, each weekend I’ll start a post called Tamara Tweets and put all of my brainfarts in comments. I’ll also add TT to the black link bar above so you can click on it and quickly find the most current post.
The bad news is, if you are a fan of my random drunken late night ramblings, you may have a bit of a wait. I’m on some sort of retarded health kick and off the sauce for a while. Stay strong though. This sobriety thing can’t possibly last forever. In the meantime, you may be stuck hearing about me waddling up mountains and nearly dying from fucking exercise. 🙂 The good news is the haters who wish me dead may actually get their wish if the mountain wins in the end.
But don’t count on it. Grab your life vests, floaters, I’m BACK!
Oh! And thanks for all the shares! Please keep it up, it always helps and I try to retweet them all. During my jail time I met another inmate who was apparently doing time for “liking and retweeting” too many posts. Apparently his is how they plan to catch bots.
Sigh.
Jack needs to leave. AGAIN.
I was in Twitter jail also for liking too many tweets and retweeting them. I just read that James Woods the actor is in Twitter jail for a meme that he posted in July.
Don’t let that mountain kill you. Maybe you can outfit Banjo with a Banjo-sized St. Bernard barrel. But what to fill it with if you are not drinking booze? Perhaps some coconut water mixed with Purple Drank! That’s what I would want.
If we go today (it’s hot again) I’m going to take water with me instead of leaving it in the damn car. I couldn’t get Banjo to drink until we were halfway back home. I think it will be easier when it is cooler.
I like the concept of making Banjo carry it though.Because I have his leash in one hand and his poop in the other. LOL.
If he wore a little backpack with the saddle bags, he could carry your water AND his poop! I leave the filled poop bags hidden along the path and pick them up on the way back. So far, I have lost only one. But that was on flat ground, easier to think. The dollar stores here sell generic Pedialite for mega-hydrating.
Loosely tie plastic bag to leash at top until you need it. Bubba brand thermos’s come in smaller very well insulated, light weight, with either a loop or hook at top you can attach to a belt loop or ? The kids are so good they never leak Ann’s very few parts so they are easy to clean.
If you don’t want to carry water while hiking, try soft mints , Tom’s are good one’s. They help with dry mouth on long walks. Plus they taste good with only 20 calories.
So, happy for you TT !!! I’d take someone who speaks freely over people who give deaths over a word anyday. And our POTUS should watch re runs of “The West Wing” to find out what a real leader is.
death threats lol
I am ready to get this hike over but I need the temperature to drop! It’ supposed to rain for the next four days.
I just set my DVR to record Manifest tomorrow. I suppose I will be watch a Million Little Pieces too. What new shows are you guys thinking about checking out?
Manifest and a million little pieces are on my to watch list.
Where can I watch a million little pieces?
Premieres Wednesday at 10 on ABC
@TT: Conflicted about A million Little Pieces. I’m afraid it may be like Thirty Something was in the late 80s and early nineties and just be a weekly angst ridden hour. Then again, I may be the only person in the world that has not jumped on the This Is Us bandwagon… I have enough drek in my everyday life.
JrLeaguer, I never watched This is Us either. My first thought was maybe it’s like that but since I didn’t watch it, lol.
I’m going off instinct and the fall shows that the TV guide guy suggests on Wendy Williams (which I barely ever watch her anymore, and used to never miss) he also recommends Manifest.
I’m super hard to please and if I can say more than one line before they do, I’m out.
A lot is predictable to me, so fingers crossed for these shows. (That’s why feeds are great, don’t know what is the next line, lol) And CASTAWAYS!!! Unpredictable.
It’s called a million little things.
It’s a million little things , a million little pieces was book by James Frye
next week Gordon Ramsey’s Hells kitchen starts – can’t wait! and Holmes and Holmes
Yay, I’m in for Hells Kitchen.(oop gotta get on my list, lol)
What’s Holmes and Holmes?
Just got Netflix, so I might see if Maniac is any good..
I got Netflix this morning and am watching Ozarks. On episode 3.
You should check out the OA and the Queen both of them are really good.
I was given Netflix and a Firestick for my birthday, nice. No commercials unless I chose that media.
I need an address to send a box of wine. Any preference?
HA! i’m off the booze. I thought my liver might fall out a couple weeks ago. I’m taking a few weeks or months off in between rose season and champagne season since I didn’t do it for Lent this year. Send Smartwater instead.
Have you heard of the Fat Flush Plan by Louise Gittleman? The premise is to detox your liver and get healthy and then lose weight. I could have eaten that way forever, was never hungry, lost a lot of weight. But when I switched jobs, my pay went down 20% and my health insurance quadrupled (no Kaiser in Monterey) and I did not have enough money to eat three good meals a day. Really. I am going to do it again. Soon, real soon.
Nanette, my DIL”s both work over there, Carmel and PG.
You ever want or need, I’m off of highway 68, River Rd.
Or want hiking buddies.
You’re a wee devil Barbara! ? Send her a bottle of Buckfast. A glass of that and sobriety will be a distant memory lol.
Good luck with the hike TT, appreciate the warm weather while you can. It’s fucking freezing here in Scotland just now. SAD season is here ?
Like that idea of just posting tweets for a post.
I get motion sickness from Twitter feeds so that sucked.
ON Tuesday on FX they are debuting a new Austrailian show at 11 pm called Mr. Inbetween. It looks interesting if a bit violent and but it’s a half hour show and I hate half hour shows. But I set to DVR it.
“Mr Inbetween” is a half-hour drama series inspired by the cult film “The Magician.” It centers around Ray Shoesmith — a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend. All tough roles to juggle in the modern age, but it’s even harder when you’re a criminal for hire. Shoesmith is a man who has been hardened by the prison system and his experiences there. Now, he is learning how to deal with life in the real world — even attending anger management classes — away from the bars of prison, where actions always have consequences.
We’re definitely going to watch that one. This season of American Horror Story has been good so far too!
Yes to AHS!!! I’m starting to think its gone all biblical and they’re all in a loose translation of ‘purgatory’ just now in the Cooperative hideout and the long haired guy is deciding whos worthy to ‘pass on’. Since this year’s theme is the devil / anti-christ. Probably way off the mark tbh but its shaping up to be one of the better seasons.
Interesting! I never thought of that but, it could be. Anything is possible with that show. My questions are what is up with Sarah Paulson’s back? Is Kathy Bates a robot or an alien? And since we’re being led to believe that long hair guy is the son of rubber man and Connie Britton from season 1, is he particularly drawn to Evan Peters hairdresser character because his dad, rubber man who he seems to be controlling or working with, was Tate (Evan Peters) or is there an even deeper connection there that we find out later? Either way he’d have to notice that he looks just like dear old creepy dad.
So I think Sarah Paulson’s character has scoliosis and her embarassment at that has led to her not wanting people to ‘fornicate’ in the compound since she’s not willing to expose her naked self. Kathy Bates could be related in some way to the Aliens in Asylum, that’d be a cool twist! Its been confirmed that the long haired guy is indeed the son of Rubber Man and Connie Britton. I’m always down for a naked Evan so this season got me like ?? lol. I wonder how the witches are gonna enter since half of them are dead due to the trials and the other half should have been obliterated.
I love AHS, and it’s been wonderfully weird already. Stu Stew, Joan Collins, lots of dresses but no food but cubes. Rubber man that is Tate but not Evan Peters. Tate’s child. The weird thing that ate the horses.
I like the idea of Banjo having his own backpack!
Twitter is overreacting and imploding, I fear.
Goof for you, TT! About 10 years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I traveled all the way to CA to intern at an animal farm sanctuary for a few months. I’m in pretty decent shape, and vegan, but when one of the girls took us mountain hiking I thought I was going to die. Seriously, there is not much that can prepare you for that.
I sold all my Twitter and Google holdings weeks ago. What Twitter’s done to you, and others, without much of a rhyme nor reason – although a political bent obvious to see – has me charry re their future. I’ve never participated as I think it’s a step beyond for moi.
I get angry enough at Bravo shows these daze.
Go Tiger!!
I binged Insatiable on Netflix until 7am! I still have one last episode to watch. Just trying to make it through the final weeks of “Droughtlander” until season 4 of Outlander starts up.
Vida and Sweet Bitter are really good too. Edgy and quirky.
You might like Yellowstone, western slow but my adult sons like it.
Tonight, Shameless has a new episode and of course my secret shame, 90 Day Fiance…or as my husband calls it…90 Day Fuck Ups.
Lol, your husband is pretty right on. I love that show and wait each week to see and this season is a whomper. Best yet maybe.
I like to know what other people watch. I like to binge watch shows too.Unfortunately I can’t do that with PBS and The Miniaturist, that I’m recording tonight. Tonight will be the third episode, and it so far has been weird and interesting (imho). TT has made me want to watch Castaways, but that’s onDemand.
I hear you JrLeaguer! “Droughtlander” is worse than “Droughten abbey”!
I don’t think I am ready for the premiere of the final season of Parts Unknown tonight. I think I may have to save it for a while.
I don’t blame you, I saw part of a commercial and changed the channel or fast forwarded, I honestly don’t remember. I know this is real but it’s too soon imho.
GINGER DIED?!
Yes Ginger died not sure exactly when but it was recent.
Enlightening. Glad you’re out of jail & waljing up the mountain with Banjo & water.
Waljing….a form of type-o walking
I HAVE BEEN TO THE MOUNTAINTOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It took us two hours and seventeen minutes to go from the bottom to the top, BUT WE MADE IT! I was winded by the walk from the car to the start of the trail. We made use of every bench and sat until I could breathe and talk at the same time. After two flights of stairs we were at the lookout point. There is another trail beyond that to see a bunch of cannons. We even went to the first one and realized, cannons are not that interesting.
I complained the entire way up and down was REALLY HARD on the ankles, so there was a lot of complaining there. We saw five deer and my mother showed up at the very end as a butterfly. It was a smaller one than usual. I don’t think she was please with all the foul language.
WE DID IT!
Incredible!! I bet Banjo was stoked to be there with you and he probably slept very well last night, since dogs don’t have blogs to maintain and shows to spoil.
The first day, you went out there.. but returning was probably harder in many ways.
Good decision to ditch the cannons.. .
Oh, we will get to those cannon eventually. I need a map because once you get to the top, if you go the direction of the cannons, there is another mile or two to go until you get…. Somewhere else.
Because we are fucking fatass hikers whether we like it or not. Banjo got REALLY slow on the way down here and there. He has been amazing at following commands. And he didn’t try to got attack the deer and hasn’t barked at other dogs.
I fear all the damn nice people are going to make us soft…
Oh the cannons will come, in the right time..
I think I’d rather hike with Banjo than a gung ho fitness dog.
I like walk where I am very balanced: always have a backpack so hands are free and long ago resigned myself to wearing Skechers, after my one visit to a podiatrist. My walking is urban but luckily one of the cancer centers is a hospital build on a hill with a gorgeous view and I get to huff and puff uphill. I get to do that tomorrow while a patient gets bloodwork done and checks in with his doctor.
The area where you are hiking does look challenging enough.. and picturesque.
I think you will keep your edge, despite the damn nice people and they could come in handy.
Even Banjo loves me now. We’ve bonded like two soldiers who shared the same foxhole.
Glad you’re back! Twitter allows “people” to call a 16 year old Black Conservative, CJ Pearson the N-Word, Coon and violent threats (I’ve seen Twitter’s reply saying it doesn’t violate their rules also been on the news). It all depends on who’s being attacked.
well, that’s just retarded! 🙂