Manifesto for Posting Online in 2023

Let people be wrong about things - about facts, about politics, about you . Leave them to it. Learn to walk away from and let it all go.

Guard your energy fiercely. Spend it only on those who meet your standards and tastes. There will be many, many dickheads who want to take up your time and bandwidth, so consider it in monetary terms: Answering this dipshit is going to cost you £100. Do you like them enough to spend that on them? Does this conversation matter enough?

Just because you have a ‘platform’ ( a spurious notion to begin with - I mean, don’t even get me started) does not mean you owe your voice to whoever makes demands of it . You do not have to draw attention to every charitable cause and global disaster equally once you pass some magical follower threshold. You are not a news broadcast station with a... See more

Just because somebody shouts loudly in your inbox does not mean that that they are entitled to be heard. Often, it is in fact a good indicator that they are not worth listening to.