The thing that finally prompted me actually to close my Twitter account was seeing something on Bluesky that said that Elon Musk had changed the terms and conditions to require that any legal disputes would be settled in a court in Texas. Musk is based in Texas, so this could be simply for administrative convenience.

I can’t remember how this bit of music got into my life. I’ve been listening to it every now and again since I had a CD player – and I think I may have bought it for no other reason than it was cheap and looked intriguing. But it has always carried me away to

Twitter was fun while it lasted, and it lasted a long time. But nothing lasts forever, and especially in online media, nothing is in a vacuum. What happens outside a platform affects what goes on on a platform. So, although I think I have been on Twitter at least briefly and often for much longer

Although I didn’t want Trump to win, and I can see a lot of downsides to him becoming president, I do feel elated by his victory. Harris put in a very respectable campaign. I would have been happy with her programme and I can accept that it was as good as was politically possible in