Suspended from Twitter, again

I have not posted on Twitter in a while. Today I found out that I have been suspended. Again. My last post was in May, this being a message to someone I follow, to migrate to BlueSky. I guess that post could be viewed as a violation of the terms and conditions.  I still lurk on Twitter, but make my posts on BlueSky. Twitter is too toxic, and while BlueSky is a lot quieter, it is a nicer place. I still manage to be blocked by people and have been added to lists allowing me to be blocked by many without seeing any posts by me. Some do not like this feature, but while it is annoying, it is better to allow those who prefer not to be engage in civil debate, the option to do so. Anyway, someone has offered to help me to get back onto Twitter, but I have declined that help, at least for now. 

Paedosky or Pedosky?

Last year, when I used Twitter more, I was told that Bluesky should be called paedosky. The post was made from an account that is now suspended (and I am not going to sign up for Twitter chat to share the conversation). 

The irony is that Elon Musk has allowed it to be used to alter images of women and children to undress them. Twitter has yet to take decent action on this, but as more leave it, I suspect it wants to keep features that will stop incels from moving to Truth Social. 

When it comes to banning Twitter (or X as my wife and much of the world calls it) over deepfakes, that is a decision I am against. Deepfakes have been around for a few years now and have been used to create sexualised images of women, and children but not to this extent.  I use an AI image generator for my hobby of role playing and when I have used it, it will rightly delete images that it considers too rude. Just for the record, I have not tried to create such images, but occasionally it will self censor images it deems inappropriate. In addition to this, the main AI engines I have used will not allow images of real people to be altered or created. But I have not tried Grok for my hobby as I don’t use Twitter that much. 

Sadly, I think that the only thing to do, to ensure that Twitter is punished for this, is for users to switch to Bluesky. Legislation has been suggested on this matter in the past, and acting now to single out Twitter when this matter has been ignored for years is morally and legally dubious. Actions against all software which do this is overdue.

Eddie Nketiah steps up

First of all, Arsenal. I was nervous about this game, mostly because it was a derby game, and I went to watch it with some friends, one of whom said that we were certain to win. He has predicted a score of 3-1 and he was right about that. We showed resilience to come back from being a goal down, but most importantly, with Gabriel Jesus out injured for at least two months, Eddie Nketiah stepped up. I had hoped that the team would pull together and they did.  

The kids are enjoying the days off that they had. I fed them leftovers for lunch and they enjoyed what I made, I had better not mention this too much to them as normally they do not like it when I feed them, though that is changing.

Last of all, I have been suspended from Twitter, again.  In a recent debate I have stated that I am a misogynist, transphobic and also an against the rights of women because I do not think that anyone with a penis, who is guilty of sexual assault or rape, should be allowed in a female prison. This happened with Karen White, a man pretending to be a TransWoman who had raped two women outside prison and went onto sexually assault two more women when in prison.  Hopefully my suspension will not last too long.

Rye, East Sussex

 

Am still suspended from Twitter.  Which is still annoying but I expect it to continue for a long time.

Back to the holiday though.  It rained a lot last night which woke us up at different times at night.  And then the local cockerel decided to wake us up.  Which it has been doing since we arrived.  

So in the morning the kids were up when I ate the remnants of the takeaway from last night and then my daughter and I went for a walk.  I had asked my son but he was not interested.  We went to find the wild ponies that I had seen yesterday.  But they were not to be found.  We did walk down a path to find them but my daughter was concerned that the ponies would attack us and that birds would feast on our corpses.  So we turned around.  We did walk everywhere that she wanted to go, which put her in a bad mood.  

We then went on a drive to Rye.  It was lovely driving through the sun but once there, the heavens opened.  Fortunately this was only for a short period of time and we walked through part of the town before stopping for lunch.  Initially we had only wanted to stop for a snack, but the place was so nice we stayed for longer.  We drove to Battle afterwards but it was too crowded to walk about in a safe manner.  I have always wanted to visit here so we will have to return another time.

I did have a chat with my son about bonding.  After my father died, and watching Life on BBC, I wanted to act to try and bridge the increasing gap between us.  We have watched The Mandalorian together before, but he has decided to watch it without me.  I go for walks with my daughter and we watch several television shows together.  I hope that my son and I do not drift apart beyond the point of repair.

Tomorrow it is meant to rain a lot more so our day has been planned in advance.  Hopefully I will have Twitter back but I doubt it.

Trouble and suspensions

 I am still suspended from Twitter.  The frustrating part of this is that I still get notifications.  I have made my second appeal and they have stated that they will get round to looking at it, but that I can regain access to my account by deleting the offending tweet.  I suspect that this will be a game of chicken and that after a long period of time, my appeal will be rejected.  So I will have to make to with the frustration of getting an alert about a tweet and not being able to read it.  Saying that, going without Twitter may be better for me as I was/am addicted to it.  

My son has had an interesting time.  Since my last post, he has strived to be banned form his phone for a long time.  His issues with not putting away clothes for the house continued since my last post.  Not only had he not put away clothes as required, but he had tried to hide them under mess in his room which was meant to be clean.  A day after he was busted, a more in depth inspection of his room found yet more clothes that he had not put away!  On the bright side, he appears to have learned to flush the toilet, though occasional issues are still present.

I am hopeful that the phone and television ban that he has been subjected to will focus his mind.  Considering that his sister had a ban for a month a while ago, he knows that things can get worse.

Still suspended

I am still suspended from Twitter.  I was told that my tweet had been reviewed and was felt to violate the terms and conditions of the site.  I am an advocate of free speech but also I believe that people should obey the terms and conditions of any website they sign up to.  Twitter is right to police what is posted and hate speech should be acted on, as it violates the terms and conditions of what people agree to when they sign up to the site.

My daughter does not think that I violated the rules.  My wife thinks my suspension is hilarious and is hoping that I can be suspended from Pokémon GO.  

My son is in he doghouse.  He is meant to put away clothes once my daughter has washed and dried the clothes.  Yesterday I woke him up when I was not able to find any socks.  Today, I had no jeans or jumpers.  In addition, he is not able to flush the toilet anymore.  

Suspended from Twitter

 

Woke up this morning to find that I had been suspended from Twitter for violating the rules.  In the thread, someone referred to Stormy Daniels as a whore.  I pointed out that she was a Porn Star and was not a whore, as well as pointing out that Melania Trump used her sex appeal in the past as well.  I did not post any of the pictures that have been shared about Melania Trump on-line as I feel that doing so would be Slut Shaming her.

I can accept the suspension, or appeal.  I do not think that I have done anything wrong, so even though it means I may be suspended from Twitter for longer, I will be appealing.