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1. Twitter's (apparently quite purposeful) killing of third-party clients ends any chances that I consistently use Twitter again. Follow me on the Fediverse instead: chitter.xyz/@batbeeps
   • 15 January 2023
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2. Regarding the current discourse over The Guardian and the word "queer"—it's a letter, in the opinion section, from a person unassociated with the newspaper. Stop acting like it's The Guardian's official stance on it.
   • 15 January 2023
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3. I wasn't expecting them to bother rebuilding the Harbour Railway. That's nice! @BristolCouncil/1613929550659948545
   • 13 January 2023
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4. Through either ignorance or malice, Twitter is now starting to block third-party clients. Tweetbot isn’t the only one affected. Anyway, follow me on mastodon. chitter.xyz/@batbeeps @tweetbot/1613763746437947394
   • 13 January 2023
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5. I wrote about web development for once! CSS Logical Properties are cool — don’t use them. beeps.website/blog/2023-01-09-logical-properties-are-cool-dont-use-them/
   • 9 January 2023
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6. Can you imagine contrarians in the 90s arguing about how CDs would never replace the floppy disk because of something stupid like “you can’t scratch a CD!” and how they’ll probably come out with a higher-capacity floppy any day now.
   • 4 January 2023
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7. 2022 was a year! Here's a summary of all the nonsense I got up to. Don't worry, it has memes. beeps.website/blog/2023-01-01-2022-the-year-in-summary/
   • 1 January 2023
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8. Current status: Singing "Brighton and Hove" over and over to the Blankety Blank theme tune.
   • 30 December 2022
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9. I don't need tweet analytics to know that no one pays attention to what I say :3
   • 29 December 2022
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10. Turns out my Mastodon cross-poster is being shut down in a month or so (because of Twitter intentionally nerfing it), so now you *have* to follow me over there to get the good content. chitter.xyz/@batbeeps
    • 29 December 2022
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11. Found Spamton in a charity shop today.

    
    • 24 December 2022
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12. ConFuzzled has been paid for. Oof ow my bank account.
    • 13 December 2022
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13. ↖ not a human ok
    • 13 December 2022
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14. Got a room at ConFuzzled 2023 whatwhat 🎉
    • 10 December 2022
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15. CW: A minor gripe about jobs in general (not mine, specifically) Employers where you basically need to be in a leadership or management position to get a decent raise/promotion/bonus are pretty meh. I don’t want to have control other people.… awoo.space/@batbeeps/109483425235927218
    • 9 December 2022
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Popular tweets

1. > “Bae come over.” > “Can’t, I’m feeling like trash.” > “My parents aren’t home.” >
   • 19 February 2017
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2. I don’t understand memes anymore.

   
   • 9 May 2016
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3. Now America, elect a government that will give you single-payer healthcare, like every other developed country.
   • 24 March 2017
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4. …in reply to @batbeeps
   Farage: “We’ve done it without a single bullet being fired.” Err, Jo Cox would beg to differ. #EUref
   • 24 June 2016
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5. So, that neo-Nazi EDL demonstration in Bristol had an impressive turnout.

   
   • 5 June 2016
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6. Literally all of those are rights dictated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. @WalshFreedom/908089417113505793
   • 14 September 2017
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   • ♻️ 40 retweets
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Retweets

I’ve retweeted other tweets 6,629 times (12.8%).

Replies and mentions

52.5% of my tweets are replies (×27,238).

I’ve sent someone a mention 609 times (1.2%).

Links

51.9% of the links I’ve posted are using the https: protocol (3,197 of 6,163).

81.8% of the links I’ve posted in the last 12 months are using the https: protocol (45 of 55).

Likes and retweets

My tweets have been given about ♻️ 3,394 retweets and ❤️ 16,844 likes.

Emoji

156 unique emoji on 389 tweets (0.9% of all tweets, excluding retweets).

1. 🟩 used 77 times on 8 tweets
2. 👌 used 73 times on 57 tweets
3. 👍 used 59 times on 55 tweets
4. ⬜️ used 51 times on 3 tweets
5. 🤔 used 39 times on 38 tweets

Hashtags

2,585 hashtags on 2,577 tweets (5.7% of all tweets, excluding retweets).

1. euref used 321 times on 319 tweets
2. eurovision used 257 times
3. wwdc used 226 times
4. ge2017 used 203 times
5. election2016 used 152 times

Swear words

1,400 swear words on 1,364 tweets (3.0% of all tweets, excluding retweets).

1. d_mn used 221 times on 215 tweets
2. s_it used 201 times on 199 tweets
3. f_ck used 145 times on 134 tweets
4. h_ll used 141 times on 140 tweets
5. f_cking used 108 times on 107 tweets