One of the charms of Blurt was that it was like a friendly happy little village where everyone said “Hi” in the main street and hung out at the pub drinking piss and smoking fags.

But after hanging out in the village for a while you eventually find out that the mayor is a cross-dresser and all the councilors are embezzling the rates money and spending it all on hookers and blow.

Or in this day and age, on trannies and butt plugs.

I haven’t been going on about these things much, I’m not a rabid penguin, and I’ve been more focused on other stuff, but yes I’d like to see Blurt do a hardfork and I think the cross dressing mayor and all his “elected” officials need to be run out of town. But for $300 I’m not going to freak out about it.

And yes, that is all my 85k of Blurt tokens are worth this week – about US$300. To put that in perspective my holdings in Pkoin on the Bastyon platform are now worth over US$10k. And my gains are mainly coming not from posting but from running a node.

Blurt has some key features I’m looking for in a platform – it is essentially a copy of Steemit circa 2017. So it runs on Markdown, and I’m right at home with it because I’ve been using various forms of this blockchain for nearly 6 1/2 years now.

And Blurt has no downvoting, and a dark mode – the two things I always wanted on Steemit! – so all it has to do is sort of work, and even if the token price sucks, I’ll be a regular.

But this platform could be so much more…

I’m not powering down or freaking out, but I have to say that this platform has been totally fucked over by a bunch of incompetent twats, and there are bugger all people still here posting or commenting. While I do plan to keep using Blurt to some extent, when I check back in and see the state of things, it fires me up to keep working on growing my WordPress blog and my Bastyon account.

My WordPress blog now has four new image galleries set up – ART, MEMES, PHOTOART & PHOTOS, as well as 720 blog posts

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