The Judge RANTS!
Date: 31/08/26
Let X=X
You may remember three years or so ago...
...I have trouble doing so sometimes, so I've kept a copy...
...when Agent X decided to block attempts at accessing his unsocial media cash-cow from people without an account.
I described here how I managed to get around it by using a scraping site called nitter.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before the Musk Rat's battalions of shysters caught up, and so it came to pass that at the beginning of last week, the progenitors of nitter were hit with a 'cease-and-desist', leading them to close their service down (at least for the time being).
This was annoying, and another example of the 'walled garden' approach to public access to data taken by the tech-lords. The walls, of course, having razor wire and gun turrets atop them.
However, I had - necessitated by occasional outages of nitter - found in the interim period an alternative in the form of a site called 'xcancel', which did the same thing as nitter. So on Monday last, I switched to 'xcancel'...
...only to find that, because it ran off the same codebase as nitter, it had been taken down as well.
It is at such times that I wished that I belived in witchcraft, so that I could create a wax doll of Noel Skum and stick pins in it (one needn't do the same with Zuckerberg, because he looks like a wax doll anyway).
I was, my dears, very peeved - not to say seething - at this turn of events. For, although I have bravely resisted the lure of actually signing up to any of these services, I still find something rewarding from browsing the X accounts I regularly visit. Now, how could I keep up with the day-to-day, hour-by-hour deceptions of our rulers without the feed of Declassified UK? How would I get up-to-the-hour updates on the ways in which the judicial process is being viciously abused in order to stamp out protests (direct action and otherwise) against the Zionist genocide as revealed by Defend Our Juries? Or even just enjoy the brief musings on the world provided by Philip Challinor and Flying Rodent?
An eclipse-like gloom settled over JudgeCo™ headquarters. I had to try to find a workaround.
You will be underwhelmed to know that I seemed to have found one. After trying one or two sites which came up in my searches on DuckDuckGo, I came across Snaplytics' X/Twitter Viewer service. I don't pretend to know how they work the trick, but all that matters to me is that they do work it.
It has its quirks and drawbacks, of course; I have to completely disable my NoScript blocker for it to work at all, it occasionally has network errors, I have to type the name of the desired feed in manually every time rather than just select one from the drop-down in my address bar, links in the posts are not clickable, and viewing replies is hit-and-miss. But it works well enough to keep me in touch with all those accounts which I have come to value, and that's good enough for me.
Until, of course, the Musketeers and Muskovites come for that as well...
