Paris Has Left the Building

"Twitter n'est rien d'autre qu'une caricature de la réalité."

Translation: Paris has left the cesspool.

I woke up this morning and laid in bed contemplating whether I truly wanted to leave my cozy-comfy bed and start my day, or just lay there forever living out my days blissfully unconcerned with anything in the world save my need to pee. I couldn’t decide so I grabbed my phone and logged into Bluesky.

I left Twitter about a month after Elon bought it and my tens of followers were devestated so I know how difficult it is for those of us with a following to actually leave. So when I read Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s post about Paris leaving Twitter I was pleasantly surprised. Very pleasantly. And I as I Deepl translated the entirety of her post I realized that she had left the platform a full year earlier.

A year ago was the run-up to the Olympics. Here. In Paris. The city she runs. And she had the chutzpah to tell Leon Trump to fuck off. She left a platform that would have potentially made her life easier - communicating with an entire city in a ti…