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Rupert vs. Belem – A primer

Once again, I had somebody online ask why there are apparently two authors joined at the hip on this site. So…in the interests of full disclosure, here are profiles of the two gentlemen in question. Rupert Ramsgate is a learning author, who aspires to write superior fantasy-tinged fiction with erotic content. He is trying hard to avoid obvious genre classification, even if that means (as it does) that he will self-publish his works. This is […]

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Mastodon. Oh yeah. Mastodon (sigh)

The Big Question of our time – what will replace Twitter, is on a lot of our minds. A number of new social media sites have appeared in the last 6 months. Post.news, Hive, Tribel, Spoutible…the list will no doubt get longer. These sites all adhere to the Twitter model of Everything In One Site. Whether they will reach critical mass, and whether they can scale to have a good user experience, I have no

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UPDATE – Social Media strategy

At the end of 2022 I published a post about changes in my social media strategy. At the time, I intended to transition off of Twitter, where I had several accounts. It was already obvious that Elon Musk had no understanding of how to manage a social media platform, and probably did not care in any case, because he had (and still has) other motives. As we can all see, Twitter’s reliability and functional integrity

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UPDATE – my social media presence

I am going to be transitioning off of Twitter as my primary social media platform for myself and Belem Knight. The reasons are somewhat obvious. Elon Musk is busy dynamiting his own business, by encouraging toxic actors and driving away advertisers by arbitrary, capricious and nonsensical decisions. (He is also busy expelling and driving away employees, who are a lot less replaceable than he thinks). The results are already visible, via the re-appearance of assholes

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