Sometimes I imitate things that make me afraid

[sovay]

As the cherry on the sundae of things I am not enjoying lately, Watch TCM is on the fritz. It is still possible to use it to tune in to the channel as it airs, but no new films have been added to the on-demand part of the service since the end of June and I cannot tell if anyone is going to fix this problem or if my primary streaming service is actually just dead. Their customer service no longer includes phone numbers, which makes me more than a little afraid that if I try to contact anyone, I will just end up talking to a bot. I was really looking forward to Deep Valley (1947). And a whole lot of other things.

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[sovay]

I hate the inability to actually speak to someone; even with chats I get the feeling that the person on the other end (if there's someone at all) is dealing with five other customers simultaneously and their attention is splintered.

Yes. There are situations where I want the paper trail of e-mail, but for something like "why has your unique and much-beloved streaming service ceased to function, no, really, I am looking at it right now, it's broke," I want a real-time person.

I saw this Tumblr post and it looked like something you might enjoy. I did track down the original tweet, but apparently non-users can't access it right now.

Oh, cool! Thank you: I love the fossilized universe. (Twitter went dead to non-users on the same day as the rate limit was instituted, I think, speaking of things that cut down on my daily availability of interesting links.)

[vr_trakowski]

You're welcome! The photographer's account seems to be more of the same, in case Twitter rights itself.

I hope your health improves.