Joe Biden just announced on Twitter that he would not be seeking reelection.
"Why am I posting about this", you didn't ask? Well, he announced it in a letter, contained in an image, with the alt text of "A letter from president Biden". So for anyone curious what that letter actually said, here's a transcription. I had GPT transcribe it since Windows OCR was mangling parts of it, and OneStep Reader was even worse, but Aira verified the accuracy of it.
https://slj.io/biden.txt
@simon So who will we have for the democratic candidate/president now then?
@randomuser No idea. I like the NPR politics podcast and I also learn a lot from r/Politics. If you're in the US, probably a good thing to keep up with. This just creates more chaos.
@simon Exactly. More chaos, you got that right.
@randomuser @simon That's a lot of fun chaos when you look at it from the other side of the world where the government is not even a thing. Laughs.
@simon Thanks, I was looking for this and don't do twitter. I appreciate your sending it out.
@simon BBC has the statement as well as live coverage as well with the full statement:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv2gryx1yx1t?post=asset%3Aa049473a-9de3-410a-b473-2dfa7abb8f97#post
@celtichawk Thanks for highlighting that, I don't know if they did that for accessibility but I wouldn't be surprised.
@simon Not sure but they tend to do that for any and all important statements on live coverage so you got text and audio/video coverage of important events though
@simon Perhaps it's crowdstrike? :)