I can always detect the subtle signs something I said went over well on twitter.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Comments

[conuly]

Hm. It's hard to pinpoint, but I think maybe something you said today?

[kedamono]

Did it involve cats?

[dragoness_e]

How come all your picture links are broken lately?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Is anyone else having problems with pictures here?

[dranon]

Not I.

[goljerp]

In Firefox, yes. In other browsers, no. (If I explicitly load the image in Firefox, I'll see it.)

[dragoness_e]

Yes, that what I have--Firefox, and doing "view this image" loads it in a separate page.

[marthawells]

If you're linking to images on Facebook, it might be FireFox container, which prevents Facebook from using the links to track your online activity. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/facebook-container-prevent-facebook-tracking

[dragoness_e]

I have firefox, but not that extension.

[kithrup]

So what tweet was it?

[(Anonymous)]

https://twitter.com/jamesdnicoll/status/1213861631731675136

[bunsen_h]

After all these years, it still pains me to see the ST:TNG episode in which the Enterprise is sent through a sweep field to remove all of the baryons, which it has accumulated over years of travel.

[zotz]

I never watched it again after seeing the episode where the crew de-evolved into earlier vertebrates after an alien energy field activated their latent introns. I was actually literally throwing things at the television. Soft things, because it was my television, but still.

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

Oh, come on now, Worf's line at the very end makes it obvious this is a shaggy dog episode.

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

Something that's going to make me sound even crankier than our gracious host, but James, given that it's designed to foment toxic social interactions of the worst kind, why are you on Twitter? Isn't that where reasonable discussions go to die?

[james_davis_nicoll]

Am I cranky?

Jasmine is on twitter so I made an account there in olden days.

[james_davis_nicoll]

I am also on FaceBorg, Ello (but only because its plaintive notes made me sad), WT social and Usenet.

[dwight_benjamin_thieme]

Perhaps a better choice of words would have been curmudgeonly.

[james_davis_nicoll]

Oh, curmudgeonly is OK.

(I just got done raking a couple of theatre company execs over the coals regarding the matter of the obligations their collective amnesia does not place on me so I was worried that irritation was leaking out)

[(Anonymous)]

It's no worse than rec.games.go was before one particularly nasty regular died.