THE ROYAL CANADIAN

 Lord love the proverbial duck,  as an American Caesar once intoned:  "I have returned!" 

The last post I made was 'only' in 2018.  Reading that, it's amazing to note how little we've learned, or changed. The lesser angels of our nature, the demonic, seem more at work now, than they were a mere 4 years ago. And they were going great guns then, too. 

But a diversion to explain why to-day was THE day. 

 I blogged once, back then, about 'Twitter' -  to me an new,  interesting   'multipartisan' way of sharing  views and opinions  on all the latest news, my main focus, and other interesting  humanities.   

When I started Twitter I had the standard '0' followers and by the time I 'lost' my account I had aggregated some 2500 or so.  No 'great shakes' in a vehicle where a rock star can garner a quarter million followers in a fortnight and Joe Biden (who was he in 2018?)  can slobber over a couple of million with every tweet.   But I enjoyed it until, first, some Windows update required me to log into Twitter with information I no longer remembered. My Browser had been doing that automatically for a number of years and then it stopped.

About 4 months ago I had to create a new Twitter presence.  With that entity I was actually able to 'see' my former existence but, of course, couldn't do anything but that,  just see it.  Twitter 'help' wasn't much help, at all. They have a different focus.  

I found that out yesterday morning when I saw the 'Permanent Suspension" notice appear on my latest  existence.   Twitter,  like other such internet 'social media'  has to have rules . I've violated a number of those in a number of vehicles - with various imposed penances and one similar 'permanent' ban (for offending 'the military honor' of a jackass US Navy vet I thought was 'fibbing'). They still    Civilians can't say anything to vets, because they lack 'the shared experience'. That's a value we all share.

And Twitter's values we all share too, if we want to remain in 'the nest'. Most of the time Twitter will tell you what you've done and give you a lesser penalty for pleading guilty and removing it. When it comes to a permanent ban there are 5 parameters they consider, Your guess which one or ones, you've messed up. 

 Creating another 'personality' is definitely one I  fess up to, but I think that's explained above. If you can't access it,  you can't delete it either. So I wanted to Tweet and set up a second account to do that. I wasn't using two accounts. 

Anther parameter is 'repeated violations'. In the 4 years of Tweeting I've 'repeated' infractions three times. I think that's rather fair,  for I have rankled people and ruffled feathers - if responding tweets are any indicators. 

A third parameter is 'repeatedly' harassing or targeting individuals & groups or because of their national racial  liguistic, gender, sexual   etc etc etc  characteristics.  Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! - there are a limited quantity of those and I could have offended many but I 'harass' Ukrainians only because they're 'blockheads' and 'nazis' and 'murderers' not because I dislike them - - I know a few: some ARE assholes some are ok and at least one - Canada's 'pet'  Juliette - was just dandy!.  I react to the things they post or things I can back up that they (some of them) do. 

I receive notice that no further 'appeal' is available. We're done with Twitter until Gabriel toots his   last tootle. 

Blogger is a more permanent record, it would appear. I have been told that those thousands of Tweets made are all 'available' - there must be machine code involved, as I was often challenged to locate a tweet I had made hours ago, let alone days, weeks, months or years ago. (Needed in evidence of a point to be proven,)  It's nice to see old Blogs here  -  like Facebook posts of some  teenaged 'indiscretion' - waiting to 'torpedo' you  with  Border Security.    Tweets would take far less time.

So that's why I'm back . 

It will be interesting to see how much more, or less time I spend   venting - one topic at a time.