Quick update on stuffs
Jul. 14th, 2015 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. Readercon was awesome, as always. Lots of great people, lots of great discussions. I was on four panels (two on Friday, two on Sunday), and don't think I made a complete fool of myself on any of them. It helped that all of my fellow panelists were awesome, and when you sit on a panel with awesome people, you absorb some awesomeness by osmosis. Only one weak panelist even on any of the panels I attended in the audience (one who was both inaudible and pulled things way off topic), but not enough to undercut the overall awesomeness (and by any con standards, that's a low number). As with any con, hallway and afterpanel discussions were often as much fun as the con itself, and it's always great catching up with old friends and meeting new folks. The double-edged sword of commuting to the con instead of staying at the hotel means I wasn't as immersed at ReaderCon as I would have liked, but it was still a blast.
2. New Horizons has made it to Pluto! Nothing against work, but man, I wish I could be watching this all day.
3. No update on the @Yendi twitter account, other than that it's still working. I expect I'll never get any more info about what happened, but I'm assuming that either A) someone got annoyed that the username is the same as a somewhat famous model's first name, or B) that selfsame model wanted the username. The former allows me to give more benefit of the doubt, so I'll stick with it until I hear otherwise. A small side-effect of the suspension is that my Twitter lists got wiped, which truly sucks, and someone at Twitter, frankly, should get in trouble for both allowing my suspension, and for the fact that even an unprovoked suspension has consequences. Also, it's impossible to file a Twitter support ticket that uses the word "suspension" without being told to go to the suspended account form, even when that's not appropriate.
4. In other Twitter news, I made a little pop culture joke tweet on the @tsalmoth account last night while fast-forwarding through commercials during Dark Matter*, and twelve hours later, it's somehow at 900+ retweets. I'm reasonably sure I've made jokes that are funnier and more topical, but this seems to have become the biggest one somehow. I suspect there's probably a Big Name who retweeted me at some stage that's a factor here, but since Twitter doesn't let you easily see past the most recent twenty RTs or send email notifications for every single one**, I dunno (although Anil Dash faved it, which is pretty awesome).
*Incidentally, after being "meh" on the pilot, I'm pretty hooked on the show.
**Which makes me very dubious of contests that involve RTing.
2. New Horizons has made it to Pluto! Nothing against work, but man, I wish I could be watching this all day.
3. No update on the @Yendi twitter account, other than that it's still working. I expect I'll never get any more info about what happened, but I'm assuming that either A) someone got annoyed that the username is the same as a somewhat famous model's first name, or B) that selfsame model wanted the username. The former allows me to give more benefit of the doubt, so I'll stick with it until I hear otherwise. A small side-effect of the suspension is that my Twitter lists got wiped, which truly sucks, and someone at Twitter, frankly, should get in trouble for both allowing my suspension, and for the fact that even an unprovoked suspension has consequences. Also, it's impossible to file a Twitter support ticket that uses the word "suspension" without being told to go to the suspended account form, even when that's not appropriate.
4. In other Twitter news, I made a little pop culture joke tweet on the @tsalmoth account last night while fast-forwarding through commercials during Dark Matter*, and twelve hours later, it's somehow at 900+ retweets. I'm reasonably sure I've made jokes that are funnier and more topical, but this seems to have become the biggest one somehow. I suspect there's probably a Big Name who retweeted me at some stage that's a factor here, but since Twitter doesn't let you easily see past the most recent twenty RTs or send email notifications for every single one**, I dunno (although Anil Dash faved it, which is pretty awesome).
*Incidentally, after being "meh" on the pilot, I'm pretty hooked on the show.
**Which makes me very dubious of contests that involve RTing.
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Date: 2015-07-14 02:41 pm (UTC)Does this mean that everyone who was following you no longer is, and that you're no longer following anyone?
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