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Words to live by

That little blue "Cancel" up in the corner is my best friend...

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That is a very good warning to keep close to heart.

It's the skeets you don't skeet

Likely not often enough

I think I delete as many posts as I send, TBH

I do that about once a day. Could probably stand to do it more.

I sometimes type out an angry reply and catch myself before posting it. Then I told myself that I won, because I didn't argue on the InterWebZ.

We all need that example, and restraint. If not, we may need restraints.

Sometimes I find I feel just as much satisfaction typing out a well worded, vicious comeback... Then deleting it instead of hitting "send"

I just did the same John. I had a truth that I felt awfully inclined to type, then slowed down and remembered that wasn't really my truth to post about. I can have internal empathy about that particular truth, but it doesn't belong to me to deliver publicly.

Yeah. Social media is good for exercising that kind of self-awareness. Too bad more people don't. 🤣 I constantly post things, see WHY I did, and then delete.

My online key log is mostly backspaces

Now I'm curious what the failure mode of asshole is. What is the failure hierarchy? clever->asshole->joe rogan?

This is one of those things that I’ve always known, but you’re the first person I’ve seen put it into words

For the longest time this was my pinned Tweet on Twitter. I still think it's good advice because you get to excise some anger, without contributing to societal anger

All my little rituals and aphorisms are based on my life experience. Always feel free to presume things about my history for which I have adopted an avoidance for. “My keys are either in my pocket, or in my door, and they are grabbed _every_ time I leave.” 😐 Yep, you guessed it.

I got blocked this morning for the very observation bsky.app/profile/kirm...

Hell, even in person with friends, the moments of "That'd be funny... no wait."

Bless you. I remind myself of the same thing regularly.

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Granpa said, a lot, "Clever is the opposite of smart."

Wow - if I was a tattoo guy I'd put that somewhere I would see it often.

Other folks need it just as much; you're just aware of it.

Yes.

There's is a certain orange website on which I go by "moron for hire" as a constant reminder to myself to take it down a notch.

I only post about 1/3rd of what I start to post and based on the quality of those 1/3rd, you know how bad they must have been.

If you put it on Etsy, I might buy it

Asking "Does this 1. need to be posted 2. at this moment 3. by me?" is the final step before hitting Reply especially. (The answer for this one is actually "no", but it's an agreeing and, I hope, agreeable response. If it were snarky I'd delete.)

A concept which has significantly helped me. I have shared it with a few people and have found thier varied reactions most interesting.

That’s a wisdom few reach. Well done.

Thank you. This is a perennial post and good reminder for us all (including me!).

and remembering that everyone else reading your posts will not have the context you have inside your mind when you wrote it. it’s a true skill to be able to read your own work from a viewpoint of how could anyone misinterpret what i just wrote in the worst way possible.

Always a good rule to post by. The internet would also be a *slightly* more tolerable place if more people stopped and considered: "How does this come off to someone who doesn't know me on a friendly level?" and "Will the lack of tone make this read differently than I intended?" before hitting post.

I quote that constantly to myself and others.

There is often something cathartic about writing the thing and then not sending it. I used to often do this at work - take an email draft to my boss, we'd both laugh and then he'd cross most of it out and write something we could actually say to the client or whoever it was.

This is not looking good for me then

That's what I keep telling myself...

oh, that WAS you that wrote that? I think about that blog post like twice a month at least

I only actually post about 25% of the replies I type up. I think this is probably a decent ratio.