😜 I wanted to boost the PNW Land Octopus so badly, but... no AltText. The idea of a land octopus tickles my brain.

So, I responded in way that might encourage someone to find out more ("WTF? Land Octopus?"), thus indirectly boosting it.

Naturally, I also grabbed the image for future use. With AltText, of course. 🤣 I've almost got enough octopi to warrant their own folder.

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Way back when, at the birdsite, is when I started doing the Big Ben thing; 10, 12 years, at least. I know I was doing it when I was running tournaments on #MTGO, so at least that long. I don't remember exactly.

I didn't add hashtags until soon after I got here (#HephalumpWorld), and didn't stop tagging Big Ben until just a few months ago.

Boosting the Big Ben post has always been a habit, to show what I'm responding to.

Habits can change.

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If you get a notification that I boosted your post, and are thinking "didn't he* just boost me yesterday?", it's entirely possible. 😜

If a good post - that I already boosted - floats across my timeline again at a later point, I'll un- and re- boost, to throw it in front of fresh eyes.

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* I crafted this @ many years ago to stick in the brain on a subconscious/subliminal level, so you'd probably "remember it" if it popped up in your mentions on a repeated basis.

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@technicat @Tattooed_mummy
This is accurate. ☄️

I try to follow folks from around the planet, and then some, to keep my timeline jumping 24/7/365.

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😜 A poem I wanna boost... illustrated with a cool and appropriate meme... but nothing for the folks in my Fart Patrol who use readers.

Poopysocks.

Naturally, the meme has been appropriated for the revolution.

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Soory. If your avatar is the Shitter logo, you're getting a block from me.

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A quick note on shitposting...

If you see the tag -4° in my posts, it indicates that that particular post was composed on, and sent from, the porcelain throne.

It doesn't really work as a hashtag:
#-4°.

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@jpm @melissabeartrix @doot @vwdasher
*sigh*

Call it artistic license. Just like we're not actually eating anything if we "eat it" on a bicycle or skateboard.

"Mulch the rich" doesn't have the same ring to it, or the same visceral impact.

"Kill" is right out, even though it's heavily implied.

Deal with it.

*cue Aerosmith - Eat The Rich b/w Motörhead - Eat The Rich*

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🤣 Go ahead. Be an asshole. I know where the mute and block buttons are.

I'm sure many people consider me an asshole, and have me on mute, or block, as well.

No huhu. It's part of what makes this place great.

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@canusfeminacanis @MaJ1
I'm assuming Bast is Bastet.

There's also Mafdet, Sekhmet, Mut, and probably a few more I can't remember ATM.

No huhu. It's a meme. I think it still works for the given situation despite not naming deities.

Feel free to alter it to name names. It's not "mine" anyway. None of "my memes" are. They're all recycled webfinds.

*turns towards meme-makers and shitposters*

If ya want creds, watermark it.

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I had totally forgotten about an Alt account at Twitter until I got an email featuring "your highlights" just a few moments ago.

I see the (The Wave/Cookie Monster mashup) avatar, and immediately think O shit. I still have a pseudopod in hell.

I think I remember the logon creds, but it's iffy. (I'm an old stoner verging on senility) I may hafta go through a multi-step reset process to regain control and kill it properly. (😜 How many different email addys do YOU have?)

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@NancyWallaceGA @garry
I use unique hashtags to tie "threads" together.

It all kinda depends on what one considers a thread. (I consider #Audrey or #ZiegfeldFollies as threads.)

Keep in mind that no one "owns" a hashtag, so if you select something "popular," it could backfire, and your input get lost in the clutter.

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@lydiaschoch
I've accepted long ago that no one "owns" a hashtag. That'd be kinda like me saying I own the copyright to the color yellow, it's meaningless.

Also, it tickles my funny bone when other people pick up on an "idea" out of my feeble mind.

Feel free to use any hashtag you want, including "mine." (which aren't mine at all)

You have the slug's blessing. 🤣

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🤣 "I can't find furrys!"

😜 I gotta wade through catgirls and bunny boiz (and Klingons, robots, plain ol' gay folk, reporters, hotsy totsys, scientists, and other various wildlife) out the ass to get to the shitposts.

Not a complaint, on the contrary! I love it!

Dunno what to say other than...

Follow more folks. Follow more hashtags. You can always unfollow, it's not a tattoo. Interact. Don't forget about AltText.

No one's gonna bring it to you, you gotta find it.

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@jackyan
Good point. I don't click on YouTube links anymore; not for a few weeks now. I'm reasonably sure I'm not the only one.

*turns to audience*

So, if your band's video, your wazoo recipe, your sexy shimmying, your whatever, is on YouTube, I'll never see it, nor will I boost it.

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SHIT SONNET

One more round of poop
Stuff a couple ciggys
Then I can put on boots
Tootle in the breeze
Don't know yet which way I'll go
Let fate decide & go with the flow
Of course, I'll first have to dress
I can't go out without pants
I've tried, I don't have to guess:
Angry pitchforks and chants
Anyway, the toilet beckons
I'll be off before too long, I reckon

#PoultryCoroner 🦆🦆🦆💩
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I unmuted the tiger. It seems to have quieted down significantly. I'll see over the next hour or so. I'm starting to get heavy eyed.

I'm not really surprised it did well. (this place loves cats, lion loose in Berlin, box jokes starting to appear... that psychomath is easy) How well, is what caught me off guard.

It has a ways to go if it's going to catch up with "cat butt cookie cutter," which is at 1k+ boosts, but that one has two go-rounds under its belt.

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Blarg. Gonna hafta load up my Skype account again. And I just sent everything but Netflix to the bank.
*looks at date*
I can put the Netflix towards Skype. It ain't coming out till after the next influx, so no huhu.

🤣

It's so weird that I'm sitting in the moat of a 9th century fortification, while doing banking stuff remotely on another continent, and chatting with the voices in my pocket, which are from all over the world.

And then some.

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🤣 My devices are going apeshit over the tiger post, but I don't wanna mute the conversation because I really want to hear from the target audience.

The post was carefully crafted, for maximum reach and penetration, with tiger seeds planted throughout the day. It really helped with the lion thing going on in Berlin.

All for AltText shenanigans. 😜 Worth it.

It's given me answers, and I'd like to thank those who responded, and may still respond. It's only been 3.5 hours.

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🤣🤣🤣
But I didn't SAY anything! The OTHER people had the bombs, I saw no need. I just boosted w/out comment, as I often do.

But I get the blame anyway.

😜 I'm used to it. I'm a shenanigans magnet, a
#StrangenessAttractor, in quantum terms.

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