“It feels like we are losing her to an addiction.” Man, @JaneLytv did her excellent thing and talked to family members of QAnon believers. No story about the QAnon delusion hit me as hard as this one. buzzfeednews.com/article/janely…
One person, about her mom: “Occasionally, I become emotional because we can’t have any normal conversations anymore."
Another, on her best friend: "We've gotten through life/death situations. Together....I've lost my best friend. I don't think she's ever going to come back.”
Ooof. "My cousin is divorcing her husband over his obsession with QAnon."
Frédéric, in Belgium, about his partner: "This poison is troubling our relationship, so we avoid the subject. But this is not the right thing to do, I would like her to wake up from this bad dream."
Will do one more:
"A divorced couple's previously successful co-parenting has broken down because of QAnon.
'My son is refusing to go to his dad's house,' a woman wrote. 'He is always telling me he wants his old dad back, and it has caused my son so much anxiety.'"
By the way, referring to it as a delusion is no accident — @DruMoorhouse and our copy team recently made the call to change the @styleguide to refer to QAnon as a "collective delusion," because it's far bigger than a conspiracy theory. Read more here: buzzfeednews.com/article/drumoo…
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I learned today is that a boycott is called a boycott because an English land agent named Charles Boycott was in charge of collecting rent from Irish farmers and he was so unpopular that someone was like “alright, no one acknowledge he exists!” and everyone was like “bet!”
I haven’t worked at TVO for about 9 years but I deeply care about the place. First, I was disappointed with how management treated workers through the strike. BUT this statement is genuinely infuriating. Now I’m mad.
After TVO and the union came to an agreement that included buyouts for some folks, it would’ve been so easy for TVO to take a crack at common decency and issue a boiler plate statement — hey, thanks for your service, we’re sad to see you go. Right?? Oh is that what you THOUGHT?
Instead, TVO insisted that employees taking a buyout sign a non-disparagement clause, only to turn around and disparage them with a bafflingly bad faith statement. “Hey! Promise not to say anything bad about me???” “Uh.. sure” “Great… now imma talk shit about YOU”
All my rowdy friends (are leaning towards mask mandates again)
I know we’ve talked about the pandemic being an alternate political reality but since the dissolution of the last mandate, the accepted wisdom was that mandates are politically toxic and that era was done. And then COVID simply said: lol you thought????
Ppl watching politics are watching political barges turn on a dime because there’s the thing you think is the problem and then there is…reality?
It’s already been said but those of us who have worked on social teams would’ve absolutely giggled at this suggestion.
It’s not just not true, it is comically far-fetched! And there are writers and desks (and types of stories) definitely thriving in this space, but on balance it is so absurdly untrue it can barely be refuted. You’re just like: no, a sneeze from Facebook drives more
The only update I have is that I saw that clip of Taylor and Sadie doing some red carpet shots, and to get to the red carpet area in the atrium, they both would’ve been briefly very visible and somehow no one noticed????? It was surprising!!!! That area is not like… not hidden
My view rn. I’m probably halfway through the line if I had to guess
V. weird vibe to be talking about The Letter in the DMs but not talking about it publicly so let's flesh out some stuff.
The letter has become a story in and of itself. But the point, as I understood it, was to draw attention to a lapse of nuance in covering Palestine/Israel.
Particularly, missing nuance when it comes to representing Israel and Palestine as equal forces, or representing the uneven fighting as “clashes” between matching powers. They are not. Trevor Noah did a good job covering this: theguardian.com/culture/2021/m…
So I wanna talk about a couple of things — one is that the letter quotes Derek Stoffel in AlJazeera. What has been ricocheting around the DMs later, is that was not a quote that was freely given. It was leaked and thus missing context. He was not on the record. That's significant