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Angus Johnston Profile picture
@studentactivism
Nov 10, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Hey, everybody! I found @DeanBrowningPA's "black gay guy" alt: @DanPurdy322.
Here's @DeanBrowningPA's "I'm a black gay guy" tweet, since deleted.
And here's a selection of times @DanPurdy322, whose account is brand new and who replies to @DeanBrowningPA A LOT, has described himself as a black gay guy.
Oh, honey, no.
Here's a screenful of the accounts Purdy is following. One of these things is not like the others!
And an excellent question, to which I do not expect a reply to emerge.
You may be asking, "Angus, does this whole @DeanBrowningPA situation get worse?" Yes, dear reader. It does.
"And does it get weirder?" Yes. Yes, it does.

So ... this whole thing is so bizarre that I want to tread carefully here. But I've done a bit more digging, and there's at least one more layer of weirdness here.
Apparently the "Dan Purdy" in the video IS a real guy, but isn't actually named Dan Purdy—the Dan Purdy account was, wait for it, a BURNER. Of his. None of which makes any of the rest of it make any more sense.
And now people are telling me that William Holte, the guy LARPing on Twitter as "Dan Purdy," is PATTI LABELLE'S SON? (Or maybe nephew?)
Twitter, you have broken me. At long last, you have broken me.
UPDATE: Apparently he's Patti LaBelle's son AND nephew. Because of course he is. Why wouldn't he be? What else could he be, really?

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I ran the first paragraph of Orwell's 1984 through ChatGPT, asking it to fix any "spelling, grammatical, or usage errors."

I think my copyediting gig is safe. Check it out:
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It's only—the quoted text—not dangerous because it's so ignorant. If your goal is to "evaluate grammar" in order to determine whether a manuscript is publishably competently written, all you need to do is have a copy editor spend three minutes reading a random page. (1/?)
It's not an onerous task. But it's not also a useful task. Because lots of books that get published are written by authors who have a shaky grasp of grammar. Lots of GOOD books are written by such authors. Such manuscripts are the baby, not the bathwater.
Me, to my partner, also a copy editor, or vice versa: "How's the book you're working on going?"

Them, to me, or v-v: "It's fine. The author doesn't know how commas work, but it's fine."

This happens ALL THE TIME.
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"Meryl Streep is grievously miscast in Postcards from the Edge."
My view: Streep was perfect in the breakup scene with Dennis Quaid and a few others, but she needed to (1) be meaner to, and more like, her mom and (2) give the impression that she'd be a fun person to get high with.
I can buy Streep being Maclaine's daughter in Postcards, and I can buy her living the life she's living in the movie, but to believe the former I have to disbelieve the latter, and vice versa.
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It would have been SO EASY to leverage the cachet of the celeb blue-checks in monetizing the new buy-in system. It really is astonishingly perverse how far he’s gone to do the opposite.
Obvious Step One: Give the legacy blue-checks access to the paid features for free. Get them talking up the product, beta-testing it, debating it.
Obvious Step Two: Announce that the "For You" feed will be people you follow, legacy blue checks, and paid blue checks.
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When people ask me why I think decency is a better organizing principle than civility, I'm going to point to this right here.
Seems like this may be about to reach exit velocity, so to be clear: I'm applauding Megan Hunt here. She is upholding and insisting upon decency by refusing to reciprocate empty civility from her colleagues.
Don't hurt my family and send me a Christmas card. Don't reveal yourself to be a bigot and ask me how my weekend went. Don't vote for evil and assume my ongoing goodwill. Don't be indecent and expect civility in return.
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A thing I say to my students on the first day of class:

"Let's say your childhood best friend moved away, and they're visiting town for the first time since then, and the only time they could see you was during a class time. That'd be a pretty good reason to miss class, right?"
They agree—usually a little hesitantly, suspecting a trick. And then I ask how many of them would ever ask a professor for an excused absence in that situation.

And they look at me like I've lost my mind. And then a light goes on over their heads.
Every student in every one of my classes gets a set number of excused absences for exactly this reason. I have no way of assessing what's a legitimate absence, and it's absolutely none of my business anyway.
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