Shaws Man Says... WTF‽

Hello, I’m @ShawsManSay…WTF‽ (an authorial "voice") and if you are the type of person that anchors reality to random tweets like one, dated August 24, 2021, generically framing a type and class of person in a particular way for its author to gain clout and clicks then I too am one of the lonely assholes who gets off on being served by waitstaff working in small town diners. I cannot help myself. There is just something alluring — even, dare I risk admitting it to you, erotic — about watching hardworking folks wear thick-soled shoes as they perform physically demanding jobs for long hours and low pay. But so declared a stranger of apparent high self-regard. And since it can be read on the internet it must be true.

APPROACHES & RULES REGARDING MY SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT(S)

1. Follows of @ShawsManSays social accounts will be "soft" blocked (follows removed). I use social media for reasons that do not include having any interest in you following.

2. I block verified accounts when I discover them. The use of the verified badge is an importing into the digital realm an aspect of the diseased class constructs & dynamics from extant society. In my opinion, it extends and perhaps magnifies some fucked up real world social dynamics. The practice and its practitioners and adherents should be mocked, parodied and satirized. I am calling BS. Enough!

3. I block *when discovered* fans of verified accounts that I perceive as those being of the "lame-ass yapping for attention or treats" or "nuzzling like lapdogs in the mentions" variety. If you respect yourself only enough to be a doormat for 'fame' then that's your right. I recognize that. However, I'll make no time & space for you, online or offline. Be gone, most ridiculous person!

4. I block suspected sock puppet accounts, accounts operated by those I determine to be nitwits, the vainglorious, rage baiters, Red or Blue MAGA, and those falling into the scumbag category. (Artfully or innocently weird is OK or, at least, cause me to pause & reflect prior to blocking.)

5. At times, Caprice, too, lends me her enigmatic soul and guides my decision to block, especially literary sorts spelunking so far down into their navels I hear not the original post but only the feeble reverberations of their short-form message(s).

And now, to borrow words from the greatest literary minds: Go and fuck off, please.