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13 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
My hot take is that it's corny to use any kind of professional title -- academic, medical, military, religious, etc -- outside of a professional context
Previously on Contrarian Grumbles
Tangentially, the habit of calling former presidents by that title for life is not only corny but downright Un-American! slate.com/news-and-polit…
Even more tangentially, the president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, not of the country. If you are not active duty military the president is not your commander-in-chief. This one actually does bother me!

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14 Dec
The Electoral College runs on Google platforms. It's in the Constitution. Google it.
It's impossible to make a joke about a conspiracy theory because it almost certainly exists before you can make it and also you might ascribe it to the wrong ideological group
This is not meant to imply that Trumpers did not also immediately jump to a conspiracy about the google outage. I'm certain they did.
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31 May
My daughter is 10. She watched videos about Frozen 2 on your site. The algorithm started recommending alt right rants about why there should not have been black people in the movie. Fuck right off with your blood money.
I get this impulse but "don't watch YouTube" is neither practical nor sufficient in the long term. White parents have to teach kids about 1) racism and 2) how tech companies manipulate them. Protect kids by empowering them. 7 is not too young to start.
Since this is blowing up I should be clear that what I called "alt right rants" were not the aggressive, shouty videos adults get. They were cutesy & subtle: "Haha I guess even Disney is politically correct now!" Kids without tools to recognize racism would not have spotted them.
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29 Mar 19
The neverending tour that is #BD969 now enters the 1990s with a new thread. Backstory: I'm listening to all 969(ish) officially released Bob Dylan songs in chronological(ish) order. If you're just joining us here's an unrolled version of Part 1: 1961-1964: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1097693…
For whatever reason this thread seems to break @threadreaderapp so Part Two: 1965-1969 is itself in two parts. Here's #BD969 Part 2a:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1101132…
And #BD969 Part 2b: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1104041…
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20 Mar 19
The #BD969 thread is now being born again right here. In case you missed it, I am listening to all 969(ish) officially released Bob Dylan songs in chronological(ish) order. If you're just joining us, here is an unrolled version of Part One: 1961-1964: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1097693…
For whatever reason this thread seems to break @threadreaderapp so Part Two: 1965-1969 is itself in two parts. Here's #BD969 Part 2a: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1101132…
And #BD969 Part 2b:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1104041…
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9 Mar 19
My #BD969 project -- every Bob Dylan song in chronological order -- now enters the 1970s, which means it's time for a new thread so we don't get tangled up in... tweets. (The thread is going to better than that)
If you're just joining #BD969 here's part 1
And here's the unrolled #BD969 Part 2: 1965-1969 threadreaderapp.com/thread/1101132…
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8 Mar 19
I may not get much argument here, but out in the world if you say that Bob's original of All Along the Watchtower is superior to Hendrix, people think you're nuts. Hendrix is great-Bob himself considers it the definitive version & has played it that way ever since-but no. #BD969
Supposedly these lines originally came earlier in the song before Bob moved them to the end, creating one of the most ominous moments in pop music history. #BD969
When assembling the epic song tournament, I was genuinely surprised that Frankie Lee & Judas Priest did not meet the 7 minute requirement. There's so much packed into it. And I love how little the "moral" clears everything up. I have it on a painting my wife made for me. #BD969
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