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suspended!

22 Thursday Apr 2021

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Woke up this morning to discover that overnight about half a dozen of my Twitter accounts had been suspended. And a couple of those had additionally been “accused” of attempting to evade a permanent suspension, including one account I hadn’t even looked at in years. Meanwhile another bunch of accounts are still active. Why so many accounts, you ask? No idea really. Most were started over the past 10 years or so as different business ideas popped up, mostly to secure the user name. Some were in use for a while, but the only two I actually use these days are @azahar (personal) and @sevillatapas (mostly business), same as on Instagram. In any case, there is no rule about having several accounts.

Anyhow, I have no idea what’s going on or why some accounts were suspended and others weren’t. I mean, I clearly haven’t been manipulating or spamming anywhere. And how could an account that hasn’t been used in years be starting new accounts to evade permanent suspension? The mind reels. I’ve read that suspensions can last for 24 hours up to a week, so for the moment I am going to just wait and hope this was some weird glitch that gets sorted soon. Either that or I’ve been hacked or “reported” by someone who wants to close my accounts (??). Has this ever happened to you?

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new passport photo

20 Tuesday Apr 2021

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Since sometime late January I started leaving notices in my calendar that it was time to renew my Canadian passport. Even though I knew I had a few months to go I also knew that I would put it off, and put it off, and put it off… until the passport expired and I was in a real mess. The big stumbling block was getting my new passport photo. You all know me by now. I go way out of my way to never have my photo taken. I’ve been like this since, well, forever. It doesn’t help that I think I look hideous all the time so of course I don’t want that “captured” on film. Even when I was young and pretty I felt like this, so now that I am old and “ahem” as far as pretty as a girl can get, you can imagine it hasn’t got any easier.

And so today I took it on the chin(s), just got it done, including with Covid hair (last cut was in July 2020), but really the hair was the least of it. Where the fuck did all those chins come from in the past five years? Why do I look like my previous photo’s long suffering mother? Why didn’t I opt for the ten-year passport five years ago? So many questions.

Meanwhile, no doubt five years from now I’ll look back on this photo and think, hey I didn’t look so bad after all! I mean, at least in my previous passport photo I still had a jawline.