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Small-Scale Question Sunday for November 8, 2026

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You’re in an abusive relationship with the twitter algo.

So, you need to abuse it right back.

Block, ignore, mute, actively search for things you like, curate your follows, and only like things you want to see more of. It’ll sort itself out pretty quick.

Somehow I've gotten into the position where Twitter notices I stare stupefied at scantily clad Asian women doing various things. One way I get around it is by just visiting the users I want to view the output of directly, and the other way that I've found necessary was clicking the "not interested in this post" button on each cooming tweet that gets served to me.

Pretty much, yes. I've noticed that X will basically pay attention to posts that you look at in any way, shape, or form - you don't need to like and/or engage with them, just browse them.

So it's a bit of an uphill battle.

Twitter notices I stare stupefied at scantily clad Asian women doing various things

A man of culture.

In the first season of Bojack Horseman, they get Wallace Shawn (the guy that says "inconceivable!") as a cameo playing himself, and he has a thing for collecting carpets, and one of the characters ropes him into doing a favor by promising him another carpet. At some point, he says "I have a disease!" in reference to the carpet collecting, but he obviously can't help himself. That's kind of how it feels like. Some of those women are just jaw-droppingly gorgeous to me so it's very painful to click "not interested".

I know the feeling, East and Central Asian women are almost unfathomably beautiful.

I bought a new phone a few months ago, but still held on to the old one. I made a deliberate choice not to install Instagram on my new phone, but it's still installed on the old one, and as there's no SIM card in the old one it means I can only browse Instagram at home. This has greatly curtailed how often I get distracted by gorgeous Instagram models during the day.

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