Just had another scary Twitter follower appear

[blamebrampton]

wemyss  and shezan , you in particular will laugh at this.

I have a Twitter account, which I rarely use and is under a different name. One of the people who is on my flist and on my Twitter list posted a link to my Aus politics in Harry Potter terms post of last month using my Twitter name – which was perfectly fine! A very small number of people put two and two together and followed my Twitter after reading the post. Very briefly in most cases, for reasons that I will outline.

Every single one of them has been a Conservative. A really, really conservative Conservative, not an I find Boris Johnson strangely appealing and do believe in free trade but not in a wholly unregulated market, dipping my little toe in the waters of conservatism but really a Bleeding-Heart Leftie type, like me.

In fact, most have been so scarily conservative that I have not been able to Follow them on Twitter because I would froth too much, and I prefer to use it as a medium to discuss hairstyles, local cafes, meet-ups and Bob Katter on Q&A.

Intrigued, I vanity-googled my post to see if they were all coming from somewhere, and discovered that there are people who read that post who are convinced I am a card-carrying socially wet, economically dry Liberal. Which for Americans would equate to a Reagan-era Republican before they turned all gung-ho and Rambo-esque, and for Brits equates to, er, Boris Johnson.

I am counting this as a win on the not trumpeting bias front. Alas, we have a government again now, though, as both sides have appointed the previous leaders to high ranking positions in a bid to 'get past all this messy leadership coup business', things are still entertaining.

And in related internet matters, thanks, fourth_rose !

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I had to read this three times to get that it was all logical and I had just been pining for more comas when really, I write endless box sentences myself and even without knowing Boris, I should remember more easily that Liberal is not left. Mainly though you made me regret what I'd just done, ie. invited the only two people I know to my first exhibition. I swore the one not to ever mention "inbetween" and the other not to mock too loudly, but I'd kept my lives so completely apart that this one link (to art) too easily leads to my LJ. And all that without FB or Twitter and being ungooglable.

Mmmmmh, ungooglable.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's probably not that sane, I swear my brain is toast between the remaining snot situation (improving daily) and insane work. And don't be too perturbed about that, those are real people who actually know you. My Twitter people (who all seem to go away after a few tweets about how hard Victory Rolls are to keep in and why Bradley James is fanciable) are just strangers, some who probably have bots looking for links.

Your people are invested in you and like you, so it will be FINE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

Glad to hear it's improving despite the stress on/around you.
Aw, why is Bradley so fanciable? I hope nobody calls him Brad, I suddenly caught myself thinking.

You should see my face now *g* hah invested. Oh well, if push comes to shove I can make good my threat and use a stanley knife or matches to create some imprompto performance art !o/