Pity poor Paula Penfold, the Stuff propagandist who has written an angry missive about why she left X (formerly known as Twitter). Talk about a complete disconnect from reality as she worms her way around her reasons for quitting.
I began my love affair with Twitter in 2009.
It met so many needs.
The perfect curated news feed, I could follow media organisations and journalists I admired, have their work pop up in my feed, and interact with them directly.
Mindful of the echo-chamber risk, I’d follow others whose views I was unlikely to agree with.
I got to know people who ended up helping me with stories. Some became friends.
I even got approached for a new job via a Twitter message, and so Stuff Circuit was born.
At its best, Twitter was a place for marginalised people and communities to get their messages out. A virtual town square, where experts who studied important topics would freely share their knowledge.
Stuff
She’d know about marginalised people: she’s had a direct hand in marginalising large swathes of New Zealand society with her nasty propaganda; particularly against those of us who stood firm against forced, mandated vaccinations and lockdowns.
But she is also dishonest in her claims about being “Mindful of the echo-chamber risk, I’d follow others whose views I was unlikely to agree with.”
She blocked me a few years ago… so much for following people whose views she is unlikely to agree with. Then again, honesty has never really been her forte, like much of the rest of the legacy media.
She then resorts to using tones of misandry to justify her exit, while blaming others for her hurty feelings “as a woman”.
It was easy to get under the skin of this growing tribe on X. All you needed to do, especially as a woman journalist, was exist. I didn’t even need to post my own content to offend them: they’d post links to my work themselves, tag me, then spend the day one-upping each other’s insults, yelling at clouds.
Stuff
What a load of hand-wringing nonsense. All she has done during and since the pandemic is abuse people for expressing their free speech and right to assemble peacefully and those who insisted the Bill of Rights should protect people from being forced to take experimental medicines and therapies.
She is part of the problem and not remotely any part of the solution for what ails our society. Elite, arrogant, doctrinaire and, when confronted with her own awfulness, a cry-bully.
So she’s packed a sad and hived off to another liberal and woke echo-chamber:
And now, the conversations I want to be part of are happening on other platforms, refuges for those fleeing Twitter. (I’m not saying where, for the same reason I won’t tell you my favourite beach: it’s much nicer without @randojoe there.)
In a moment of serendipity soon after Stuff’s decision, the instructor in a meditation I was listening to asked: “what’s a habit you’d like to quit? Something you’d be better off without?”
No-brainer. I hit “deactivate account”, and quit X.
That is, until I was schooled – on my new preferred platform – as to why that was a bad idea!
The better strategy, other users advised, is to lock your X account and walk away. As one put it, “not deleting the account stops anyone from taking it over and squatting on it … best just to leave it as a ghost ship”. (That particular user’s ghost account features a selfie giving the middle finger and a link to a song called “F**k This Place”. Unsubtle, but effective.)
It’s good advice: I don’t want @randojoe or his mates taking over my name. So I reactivated my account, locked it, deleted all my tweets, and deleted the app.
For good.
Stuff
Bye, Paula, but I can’t say we’ll miss you. Don’t let the X-it door smack you in the arse on the way out.
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