Edmund Schweppe

Places online where I can be found:

• Right here on Dreamwidth


• The Wandering Shop on Mastodon - or, in Mastodonese, @edschweppe@wandering.shop


• Bluesky - or, in Blueskyesque, @edschweppe.bsky.social


• Twitter (until the ownership thereof blows it up, at least)


• My rather dusty personal domain blog


• Post.News, not that I've actually written much there yet

I used to be active on LiveJournal, way back in the day, but I stopped posting there back in 2017, after the Russian owners decided to change the Terms of Service in ways I found objectionable.

(The Twitter Rules haven't gotten that bad. Yet.)
(Edited 7/24/2023 to include Bluesky; also to demote Twitter, which Elon Musk has decided to rebrand as "X" for reasons of colossal ego.)
(Edited 5/8/2024 to remove the note about the expired SSL certificate from edmundschweppe.com)

From the Associated Press: More Twitter workers flee after Musk's 'hardcore' ultimatum:
( Give ultimatums to your employees? What could possibly go wrong? )

Hopefully the birdsite doesn't completely die over the next few days. Meanwhile, I'm trying to come up with a good filk, to the tune of Paper Lace's "The Night Chicago Died".

I am still trying to figure out this whole Mastodon thing, as Elon Musk is apparently bound and determined to wreck Twitter for reasons of ego, and it would be really nice to still have working social media.

For the moment, I've got a shiny new account at @edschweppe@masto.ai - which, if I understand things correctly, is the magical string one pastes into the search box on a federated server running Mastodon in order to "follow" said shiny new account.

Sounds like the folks at Twitter Corporate have just been given 44 billion reasons to let Elon Musk buy them out:
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I've been on Twitter for quite a while (my first tweet was on June 11, 2010), ever since the folks I knew via the Shadow Unit fandom started playing the Fallen London / Echo Bazaar online game (which used Twitter as its login platform). I'm not planning on leaving Twitter any time soon, especially as $44b is a lot of cash. On the other hand, I did put in a request for my current Twitter archive, just in case ...