It was one of those "delete a fragment because the thread is too long but then forget about the beginning of the fragment" things and trust me I want to be thrown off a mountain of embarrassment.
Ugh, and I don't even get very many notifications. I can't imagine how painful my habit of leaving words out or changing a sentence without changing the beginning would be if I had a big account. Grateful for my peonship.
Surprisingly, I've had people respond, repost, and favourite the post only after I add my *fix. Like the typo fix is necessary to correct the mistake and make the post worthy of engagement.
Ask Rose and Jay for an edit button, a private bookmark, and 50-100 more characters per post. I've made these suggestions on a few of their posts, but you and other high profiles have much more influence than we the peeps.
I appreciate people asking for an edit function to cover for my failure here but when you're in Secondhand Yikes territory, ain't no edit button fixing that.
Real talk, you could publish anything book-length with help from proofreaders and a professional editor and printers in the loop, and you still will probably ship at least one typo.
The book-length typo would represent a tiny fraction of the percentage that a thread typo would. I read a lot of Ebooks, and even there, the number of typos is remarkably low.
Typos in comments are a hallowed internet tradition. Consider Frank Wilhoit, who states that "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
It was 20 years ago and the cringe is still so real. In hindsight, I should have just owned it. “Yeah, dude. I said what I said. What’s up? You’re not into performance art? Philistine. 💨💨"
I feel you. I had a perfect thread and it got snagged shortly after I got it through the eye of the needle and I had to toss it and start over. And it was a Great thread.
I have asked @bluesky.app to please give us the ability to edit. Many of us use talk to text and we see much later after many people have liked a post that it was misspelled. It is a horrible feeling.
Was it truly an horrific typo or the weird auto correct that takes liberties and creates whole new words that make you look idiotic and/or illiterate??🤔
Good thread, good call.
Good prompt for a look back piece… could be some curious threads of “i can’t believe we printed this…” to bring back to life that could give us some good laughs these days.
One of My favorite birthday present books ever was an anthology of all The Onion Front Pages.
I loved that book with so many friends through 2 colleges it was always my coffee table book everybody picked up.
It ended up as a gift to help start a Library in a safe house in Duluth, MN :)
💐🫶🏼🇺🇸
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. . . or was that Ronald McTrump?
Important thing is you live to tell the tale?
and make us the most miserable every time the notifications pop up
Surprisingly, I've had people respond, repost, and favourite the post only after I add my *fix. Like the typo fix is necessary to correct the mistake and make the post worthy of engagement.
Please ask them, too. And urge others.
(I just read your thread and it was good.)
But if people have already responded just respond to your own OP with the correction in asterisks.
No biggie.
But Seriously, have you considered hiring Bill Owens to run InfoWars?
Our interactions on social media are far more like waving to each other on passing trains than sharing a cabin.
You shouldn’t have deleted the thread, but shared a laugh.
When something truly profound is written, it will not be upended by a tipo.
Worse than that?
Right at my maturity level!!
- Sarcasm? Really?
Good prompt for a look back piece… could be some curious threads of “i can’t believe we printed this…” to bring back to life that could give us some good laughs these days.
I loved that book with so many friends through 2 colleges it was always my coffee table book everybody picked up.
It ended up as a gift to help start a Library in a safe house in Duluth, MN :)
💐🫶🏼🇺🇸
I am not laughing at you.
I am laughing out of solidarity with your plight.
My keyboard has a peech imspediment.