I tried to upvote you three times while reading your comment. The missing piece was the rise of “anti-woke” voices inside the company itself. Lots of crackpots with inflated egos started getting really vocal over the lockdowns when they didn’t have anyone staring them down in person for being fucking morons.

I regularly visit the Texas coast, and I don’t think I’ve ever said the “of Mexico” part out loud in a conversation ever. (Everyone just says “The Gulf”. But now I absolutely will. Especially when I’m calling around for quotes on a deep sea charter.

It’s so much worse than cockroaches.

Might get more artists to move to Bluesky at least