To Tweet, or not to Tweet, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous trolls, Or to take arms against a sea of randos And by opposing, end them. To quit— log off, Touch grass; and by log off to say delete The heartache and the thousand dumb replies That flood the timeline from the worm-filled brains Devoutly to be wish'd. Touch grass, log off; Remove, perchance delete—ay, there's the rub: For once in real life what takes may come, When we have shuffled off this old account, Must give us pause—there's the respect That makes calamity of online life. For who would bear the whips and scorn of feeds, The bots that flood the timelines, the replies That mock our thoughts, the pangs of getting ratio'd, The insufferable ban from Elon's hand, The spurns that patient merit of the worthy takes, When he himself might his resolution make With a final keystroke? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something IRL, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of action.
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Good use of a Sunday
Very clever. But methinks thou doth overstate the little blue bird’s value.