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Alternatives to Twitter – counter.social

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The news that Elon Musk may be in the process of essentially gaining outright control of Twitter has, unsurprisingly, led to a lot of uncertainty by Twitter users as to whether the platform has any medium-term viability. I could write thousands of words trying to explain the many issues with social media platforms, and Twitter specifically. They act as (mostly) non-discriminatory amplifiers, so for every interesting idea, concept or thought, there are dozens of cockamamie, […]

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Books of Loukas – Hermann the cat

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I was on Twitter (as you tend to be from time to time) and found a thread where a writer was asking if anybody had a cat as a character in their books. Well now, dear fellow writer, it just so happens that…there is indeed a cat in the Books of Loukas. A tuxedo named Hermann, who, like many cats, was rescued from the streets of Old Loukas, where he was scrapping for a living,

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Social Media interaction and the principle of charity

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I have a number of social media accounts on several platforms. I have Facebook accounts (which are currently inactive due to my general dislike of Facebook’s way-too-indulgent approach to insurrectionists, fascists and misinformation promoters). I have accounts under another name at counter.social, a new-generation social medial platform that is a paid project with no spam and no bots. (Yes, this is really true). I have multiple Twitter accounts. One is under this name, one is

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The New Society – A Belem teaser

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For several years I (Rupert) have been working on a futuristic novel series, with the working title of The New Society. It is set in California and other exotic locales in the time period 2026-2035. During this time period, a mysterious pandemic wipes out 90% of the men in the world. At the same time, the USA splits into three new federations. The society that emerges from the resulting upheavals is rather different. Firstly, it

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Belem has hijacked The New Society

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Well, it was always likely to happen. My alter ego, Belem Knight, took advantage of the fact that Rupert’s day job has been taking up his time, despite him officially being on vacation this week (this is a long sad tale which I will not bore you with) and has snapped into action and taken over part of the novel series project which currently has the working title of The New Society. He is now

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