Speaking early, speaking often

So the title of this post is based on the old gag 'vote early, vote often'. Which is related in a way to the  old adage 'it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease' - or whatever it was. And for bloggers, if you want to be read, you have to update regularly and often. But it's time-consuming.

I guess you can link to a particular news article and express your views on that, which many bloggers do, but that's never seemed enough to me. On the other hand, it's time-consuming to create a blog post from scratch. I could put my tweets here, and try to add enough context to make a narrative? Maybe. So here's copies of  recent tweets and I'll try to add the context - later?

Backwards in time:

- Paul Keating was a funny guy and clever guy, but he was a patriarchal guy. Super was NEVER designed for women and i… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

- Lot of commentators missing the point on #StormyDaniels. It’s not just ‘tawdry’, or shallow,  or whatever, it’s abo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

- This is bad. Australian gun control advocates call for federal intervention to save firearms pact https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/mar/26/australian-gun-control-advocates-call-for-federal-intervention-as-states-bow-to-firearms-lobby
- I mean, this is serious!

I haven't updated Twitter on my iPad so you can't see the whole tweets. I have updated Twitter on my phone, but have also exceeded my cloud allowance, so they're not updating to each other, so ... uuuurgh - slow process. Will try to fix.

QandA has just come on. As a general principle, I don't watch it. So ... early night 

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