I would rather say that Twitter had a sewer, but you didn't have to climb into it if you didn't want to, and it mostly didn't back up into everyone's homes and

I would rather say that Twitter had a sewer, but you didn't have to climb into it if you didn't want to, and it mostly didn't back up into everyone's homes and onto the streets. The new mayor of Twitter/X has decided that he likes the smell of his own shit and that everyone else should be forced to experience it, so we get piles of vapid idiotic blue check marks dominating discussion rather than the comments that are considered best by the crowd. Despite all the shit flowing in the streets, it can still be somewhat avoided, and there is valuable information on Twitter that I can not find from any other source. High quality curators of information about computational biology, energy, housing politics, etc. do not have as large a presence on any other social network yet. I just need to avoid any viral tweets or anything from the "For You" or trending topics, and I can avoid stepping in the worst of it.