geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/10/2026like fundamentally i don't think of my friends who still use it as traitors or fascists or whatever, i think they are hurting themselves, and sometimes i can see it in completely reality-free responses to the news of the day 2484
geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/10/2026i do think you should feel bad for using it, because part of this is a collective action problem, and all use is feeding it, but the deeper core of it is simply that it is a product using its addictive properties to do bad things to you on purpose, for the benefit of the worst people on earth 1422
geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 14/10/2026bit of an aside but even as i understand in particular job-mandated and financial reasons to continue using twitter i think there's a firm line between "this is bad but i have to do it" and "i have to do this so it can't be bad," and i see a lot of the latter. it should feel bad to do the bad thing 0292
