Things I Used To Do: #AmalgaMondays and #PortmanTuesdays

in catharseries •  7 years ago 


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Welcome to another edition of your favorite Thursday series, Thursday's with Uncle Boom! Oh, wait. Huh... erm, wrong card. Okay, here we go. I meant your other favorite series, ColorChallenge - ThursdayGreen. Hmm... something seems wrong. Hold on, ah! What I meant was, welcome to another Tweets Things I Used To Do! Yeah, there we go. It's been a while so I'm a bit rusty.

Before you say anything, yes I have changed my covers to transparent because of the whole night mode thing. Sheesh.

I'll keep it short

With Zappl on the rise, @trafalgar and I discussed the possibility of it being the future of the STEEM blockchain. He's already on it by the way, follow his evil twin brother @traf if you want quick laughs. If you're not a fun of laughter, hilarity and witty one-liners, then by all means don't follow him. Oh, and hide under a rock until The Donald and Kim Jong Junior start launching rockets. Anyway, so yeah, I'm considering of going that route as well. I mean, it's not like my longer posts aren't doing any better haha!

A brief history



Way before Steemit, I used Twitter a lot. In fact, some might consider me a celebrity there. I had a whopping 400 followers! Such wow, right!? I'm surprised I'm giving you people the time of day. Really though, I'm on a whole other level than those pathetic people with only 300 followers. Pft! You can read more of my Twitter history here and here. You're welcome.

I threw out one-liners left and right, made flash fiction stories, posted pictures and all that stuff. Twitter became a playground of limitless possibilities. Until it didn't.

Nowadays, writing something less than 500 words is rare for me. Over the years, I had lost that micro-post magic. With the attention of humans being less than that of a goldfish, I figure going the short route would be worth a shot.

Let me be blunt

I won't create a separate account since the current account I'm using doesn't make a lot anyway. Also, I won't be doing anything to rape the rewards pool.

Now, on to the subject matter at hand. There are these things I used to tweet called #portmantuesdays every Tuesdays that eventually turned to #amalgamondays every, you guessed it, Mondays. As their name suggests, the tweets consisted of portmanteaus or amalgamated words squished together to form a brand new word.

Why am I babbling on about it, allow me to paste some of the past tweets:


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Emphasis on some, because I'm reserving some others to repost here.


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Yes, I'm lazy like that.


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I don't have a monopoly on this though. If you think of some and you want to post it, be my guest. No need to RSVP or anything. If you feel like giving me credit for it, then it's very much appreciated. Anything that boosts my credit score I'm all for. If you feel like being a douche about it and claiming that it's an original idea of yours, I won't fault you for it. Although, I will call you a douche for the remainder of your existence, which is something you shouldn't fault me for as well.

Let's unify it though to help it rise up the ranks. I was thinking PortmanTuesdays would be better, mainly because the numbers show there are more users online during that day. What do you guys think? Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.

Anyway, yeah. Way to keep it short, huh? I'm quite confident that I'll be able to fit thoughts like this in a single Zap. I have no doubt.


One last thing

To anyone who has doubts that I'm a Minnow, @busy.org has the answer for you.

minnow

Is there no room is the Steemit sea for an old minnow like me? We'll see, we'll see.



Let's keep @lukestokes.mhth as a Top 20 STEEM witness, shall we? :D



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haha thanks for the mention, look forward to seeing shorter content from you, on or off zappl

I have often gotten comments that my posts are quite long and hard to read haha! Maybe shorter content is indeed the way to go for me. Thanks for strengthening my interest in Zappl, man. I didn't even give it a second thought before I followed your evil twin brother!

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

Hi, you can use this to boost your position on Steemit https://steemit.com/steemit/@nikflossus/introducing-whaleshares-curation , I guess. And, rockets ... they are only firecrackers nowadays in comparison to what they all have in store, so don't worry, too much, 'cause they might be more rattling to scare the folks than anything else - I'm going to put it in the Geoengineering series and if you want to know who is doing it then read Book review series 2 - if you read Spanish better than I do, then you might read the whole book (and I give you my personal allowance to post update to Book Reviews Series 2 - ugh, this sounds preposterous, sorry).
P.S. Fukushima got here, too, only 1 year later, so I have the photo of dandelion flower Fukushima enhanced. I apologize, if this isn't so much of a laughter as some posts of mine you've read before.

Nik used to be a co-curator for steemtrail haha I'm not quite sure if whaleshares would really add a good boost, but it's nice if it could help.

Hmm? I'm not quite sure what you're talking about here, my friend. Would you mind clarifying? You lost me at rockets.

Aw man you are gonna join the zap train. It's a tough one at the moment as the sure is quite buggy bud good on ya. You might see some posts from a little chap called @b00m. Hehe!

I cant wait to see what you come out with!

Ha! What!? The other Little Boom has been zapping for 5 days now!? How could not have known this?? Was I drugged and made a carnal slave for the past week? Did I take up living under a rock and didn't even know about it?

In any case, I have so many questions. I've had reservations using it, mainly because of its handling of passwords. Do all Steemit posts also appear on Zappl? Or, do they need to have certain hashtags to appear?

You see, I have been thinking about just making posts that meet the 250-word limit it seems to have and just post it normally, just making it seem like its a zap even though it wasn't posted using Zappl? Would that work?

No steemit posts show in zappl so it wouldn't quite work if you do it that way.

I opened a new account so I didn't flood my feed or others with shitey memes lol!

The interface is infuriatingly buggy. I would go so far as to say it is unusable at times. It is getting better though. Hehe, it would be nice to see you on it zapping away!

Oh and on passwords, I only use my posting key so not too worried, especially at its a new account. I wish they would use steemconnect though

That's what I've been waiting for them to use, talking about steemconnect. Since I would be using this account, I'm quite wary of it, even if I'm going to use the posting key. Hmm.. so it seems that they're filtering based on the source. That's actually quite smart of them. Zaps can be seen normally on Steemit, but not the other way around. Like the one way mirror I use to spy on my servants as they fornicate.

We would've been a hoot on that other microsocial site. Heck, we would've been chirping away non-stop if we would've crossed paths there. I've been thinking of doing only portmantuesdays on Zappl, but we'll see. I'm going to install it in a bit and try it out there. Thanks for clarifying that, dudeskie!

I look forward to seeing the mighty jedster throwing out zaps here there and everywhere!

You are right, we would have been quite the birdies, tweeting away like it was Dan Shankly's back garden and the sun was just coming up!

I would prefer them to use steem connect. Don't think it's a priority right now. :0(

Astonishingly I just found out someone was using my posting key on steemvoter!?!!!

I mean if that doesn't make you paranoid what does!?!

Pew! Pew! Just at least 50 more people who share the same sentiment and I'm going to finally hit the big time!

Could steemconnect possible be a barrier for entry by would-be adopters hmm? One has to wonder.

Seriously?? Hmm I think steemvoter themselves use it, don't they? Really strange though!

Oh that's right steemvoter use a vote a day from your account. This was far more insidious. I tried to add my account and posting key and got an error. After much to and fro they informed me that I couldn't add my posting key twice. I said I hadn't, they asked if some rubbish name was my account. I was like, eh, no! They said well that account is using your posting key to vote!!

Had to change my passwords!

WHAT THE!!! How did that sorry excuse for existence even acquire your posting key!? Suspicious things are afoot!

If you feel like being a douche about it and claiming that it's an original idea of yours, I won't fault you for it. Although, I will call you a douche for the remainder of your existence, which is something you shouldn't fault me for as well

Now that is a laugh I needed!!

I'm glad to be able to provide it :D I feel like I needed to write a disclaimer, what with the strict IP guidelines enacted here haha!

Isn't it the old minnows you have to watch? Because there are no old minnows? Or was that asteroid miners? XD

goatsig

Nice post keep it up

Haha tell them that. All these youngins keep trying to get the dolphins' and whales' attention. Don't they know that votes aren't sustainable. Old minnows are the ones from that batch that still value new connections.

I do appreciate some sassy upgoats in my comments though! :D

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