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Goodbye Twitter/X – your poison will not be missed

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08.01.2025

It’s only January 7, but I’ve already gone back on one resolution. I promised I would wean myself off doom-scrolling through Twitter/X, to stop myself getting annoyed at the drivel from Elon Musk and other right-wingers who dominate the platform.

But sitting at my laptop to write this, I find myself sinking into the pointless arguments and downright lies that would be far better ignored.

Like avoiding the Quality Street tin lurking in the corner, it’s easier said than done.

Ten minutes in and already I’ve read an attack on Labour minister Jess Phillips by Musk. He called her a “rape genocide apologist” who should be in prison for not supporting a national public inquiry into a series of child rapes by gangs of Pakistani heritage, in England, some years ago.

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