Blocking the babebots

Every single thing I tweet these days gets a like from a scam account on twitter. Commonly these accounts purport to be young women seeking a partner. There is usually an attractive photo of the protagonist and a header image showing a tropical beach scene. If one is unwitting, scrolling through the timeline will often reveal various NSFW images or perhaps just one of a woman’s chest clad in a skimpy item of clothing. Either way, I block them immediately. It seems pointless expending the effort to report them as these accounts are presumably being created automatically en masse or by some poor sap in a sweatshop. It’s all very annoying, to be honest, and something that got worse since Leon Umsk took over. Incidentally, I am far more active on other social media these days, but am keeping my Twitter account active despite the challenges while I encourage genuine followers to track me down on Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky etc. I’ve been keeping a list of some of the bio lines from these scam accounts, which I refer to as babebots. Most of the bios are rather mundane, some of them are vaguely intriguing, others are nonsensical. I’m not entirely sure why someone would want a relationship where “sparks will fly”, the bot presumably means something else. Not entirely sure where a “coffee date” sits on the spectrum of “adventures” either. A lot of them are very much old-school “lonely hearts column” enticements to...
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