Kipling's 'If—' rewritten for the AI timeline: 'you'll be a Poaster, my son!'

granawkins · x · 2026-09-10

granawkins rewrote Kipling's "If—" as an ode to surviving the AI Twitter timeline: tweeting with no engagement for years, getting brutally ratio'd and quote-tweeting with a meme, enjoying a feed of Costanzas and Ghibli-style images, looking past conflicts of interest to engage ideas on merit, and channeling hard-won intuition into 240 characters of quasi-marketing copy. "Yours is the timeline — you'll be a Poaster, my son!"

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