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The one thing I miss about Twitter was being able to follow journalists directly, especially journalists outside of the US/Canada/UK . It was a cool way to get news and updates on world affairs from the people most directly impacted by our foreign policy actions. It also was wonderful for being able to commect with LGBTQ+ creators and journalists, getting news and art/writing/etc from people whose voices are drowned out or intentionally silenced in the mainstream. I didn't use Twitter for news per se, but I used it as a sort of... way to hear the first murmurings of stories, that I could then read up on for myself. I've fallen out of the mainstream news cycle--I do still want that access at some point in the future but the pre-Musk volatility of Twitter, followed by the descent into pure radioactive sludge, has left me completely burned out and disengaged from that more rapid-fire style of news aggregation.

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I only discovered you very recently, and I'm happy to say I found you via a restack, not via Twitter. I respect the hardship that leaving Twitter/X causes writers, and I also greatly appreciate you grappling openly with the choice to jump off that (hopefully) sinking ship. And congratulations on both of those monumental milestones! 🙂💚

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