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@runaheadofme
Apr 16, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
My viewing habits took a detour... but let me get this straight-- the CW's remake of #ScoobyDoo has Daphne as the main sleuth, Fred as a mechanic with a juvenile record, Vilma as an extremely promising young woman sidetracked by an underage fling with a married man... #NancyDrew Image
...Shaggy works undercover for the cops (& uses the stoner gag as a front) which leaves Scooby as the queer klepto outsider girl who lives in the human equivalent of a backyard doghouse (van in the woods)? Complete with not-quite-spooky ghosts... #NancyDrew Image
...and a local chief of police always grumbling his version of the "meddling kids" trope (but more focused on #DaphneDrew ??? WTH CW?! Also, ANOTHER sympathetic portrayal of statutory rape?? this time with adultery?!? Gee willickers, Scooby Doo! Image

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Sep 22, 2020
On @LegionFX S02E03 they start out with the nocebo effect and the question, "What else in our society is a disorder?" The montage has stock markets, wildfires, protests, hashtags-- anything involving groupthink with a predetermined negative outcome. Our marionette strings...
The question becomes more dire when we add in politicians jumping in bed with corporations, the judiciary shifting to become protector of the elite, the show democracy we live in, the jackboots in our cities & concentration camps on our borders. We respond to trauma w/ a disorder
The disorder is a way we "fight" but implicit in it is our failure, and it is contagious. We all jump on board the sinking ship. Meanwhile, other ships are available. Conveniently, we crowd on the one that ensures our doom.
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Sep 20, 2020
At a certain point in the apocalypse the earth began to vibrate beneath us. Graveyards sunk & buildings subsided at an odd angle. A low thrum filled the air. We all showered after each trip outside b/c a fine dust crept through our cities & hung about us for many windless days.
It caked our masks and clothing with a strange film, both dull and shiny at the same time. The weather report held no answers. The sun assumed a dull bronze sheen. Then the people began to appear.
They quietly dissassembled the tilted towns, listing like a ship at anchor as the tide returns to sea. They stacked the materials neatly. They turned off the machines. Spooled the electrical lines and sealed the gas tanks. They began to garden.
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Sep 1, 2020
“I thought the world was one way, and I found out it isn’t. And it terrifies me. But I can’t live in fear. I won’t. I gotta face this new world head on, and stake my claim in it.” - Leti @jurneesmollett (seems relevant to more than #LovecraftCountry)
@MishaGreen is the writer behind these words so head over there and follow her!
Also listen to this episode of #LovecraftCountryRadio
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May 23, 2020
I was teaching my students about the Silk Road and what jumped out at me was there were two eras, punctuated by a 300 year period of disastrous diseases. This was brought on by globalization in early CE and seems pretty predictable from our POV, but this was early days, 250 CE
Afro-Europe lost about 20 million people on that time, China about 15 million. Just before that, early 200s CE, was the first recorded bubonic plague in China. There's no vaccines. In any case, the Silk Road started back up after a massive disruption to society. Globalism is back
Later, in the mid-1300s, the bubonic plague strikes Europe and Asia, killing about 25 million in Europe. Again, no vaccines. This is another blow to globalization, but pop. decr. + same food prod. capacity sparks Renaissance for Europe's survivors. Education and innovation incr.
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Apr 17, 2020
I'm going 2 tell you stories-- stories from the future. I feel you're ready 4 them now. Even the telling may change the events I describe, but that's fine. Our present always exists in the tenuous line btw thought & action, focus & distraction, what shd be & what's allowed to be.
This story starts in "Stone City." You can see it scratched in the cement by the corner store near where I grew up. 105th & Apricot. "Hunerts." Place they used to call the "Kill Zone."
But Stone City was never real 'till I made it. I carved it out of the borderlands btw Oakland & San Leandro, fortified it from Knowland Park down to the BART tracks and then back up again from Tassafaronga up to Keller, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
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Apr 12, 2020
I've finally reached media saturation. The shocking revelations are predictable, they will keep coming, our current systems are insufficient to deal with this, the solutions are obvious but will continue to be rejected, true justice & the common good are lost in the struggle.
Many sources observe the same things but they are best received in digested form from a clear-eyed Cassandra like @sarahkendzior
I have been a baby bird, stretching out my neck for news for quite some time. My belly is distended, my gut is full of the most perplexing dystopic worms. This puts a different spin to "twitter" since we all imagine ourselves the 🐦 birds, "chirping"
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