7th July Dopamine addicts unravel threads


Dopamine addicts around the world all signed up yesterday to the world's newest way to receive that sense of instant gratification. 

With the launch of Threads, the social media plaform that is very, very, very, very similar to Twitter but is not Twitter, 30 million saddos signed up to get that short sharp instant chemical surge their brain releases evertime another saddo likes the picture of the latest plate of food they have uploaded into cyberspace on inane comment they have made about a C list celebrity. 

In a series of tedious tweets of no more than 280 characters, Twitter tyrant Elon Musk threatened to throw all his play things out of his pram by claiming that arch nemesis Meta megamind Mark Zuckerberg had copyed his favourite toy. Zuckerberg who has been accused of stealing the technology from disgruntled former Twitter empolyees,  replied via a 500 character thread, that demonstrated how his new platform would be far more 'friendly' by simply answering, 'Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah'

At the time of going to press Grace Under Pressure fully expects things to unravel any day now.


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