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12 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Off Twitter all day but I heard the North Idaho siren and must answer the call: there are many parts of North Idaho that are not what my family would call "in the toolies" but this company is IN THE TOOLIES

krem.com/article/news/l…
Look at this website. The copyright was last updated in 2008. The design is straight out of.....2002? They are the people you call when you live in the woods and no other company will get you internet. Based in Priest River, serving Priest Lake.
I used to go to church camp in this area and it's the sort of place where you'd be out hiking and find an RV in the middle of nowhere and shut the fuck up v quickly and back away. It's prime American Redoubt real estate.
Anyway if you want to read about why a North Idaho ISP would actually cave to these demands to block Twitter/FB here are a few primers; also if you don't want to sound like an idiot don't call it Northern Idaho

buzzfeednews.com/article/annehe…

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10 Jan
I hope you'll spend some time with these stories — filled with joy, deep loneliness, epiphany and mourning — of people navigating the pandemic while living alone:

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29 Dec 20
I thought the @benyt profile of Heather Cox Richardson was quite good; I think her success (and prominence of many academics on Twitter) evidences a twinned liberal skepticism of journalistic process / embrace of academic authority

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@benyt Like Ben, I rarely open the newsletter, but I also recognize that I'm not the audience. When I talked to Ben about it he described it as "PBS Newshour, but online" and that feels right. Descriptive, authoritative, historically rooted, and most importantly, once a fucking day
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16 Dec 20
I talked to @Patrick_Wyman about Bro Culture + Joe Rogan + Yakima, WA + Local Gentry + Empire in Decline + Going from a PhD to doing public history on a podcast & a newsletter. A real fucking delight:

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@Patrick_Wyman "The militarization of the police and the ideology of the Thin Blue Line are archetypal products of this extended Bro Universe, because most police are archetypal Bro subjects."

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@Patrick_Wyman Actually this whole damn section on how this type of ubiquitous bro hides in plain sight:

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13 Dec 20
I wrote about what's actually going on when your day is filled with meeting after meeting after meeting and no one's paying attention and then you have to schedule another meeting:

annehelen.substack.com/p/too-many-mee…
When I started looking at this graph it took me awhile to realize that the big jump about 2/3 of the way into the year coincided almost perfectly when kids went back to school — people started scheduling *even more* meetings
To me, this gets to the heart of constant-meeting-culture: scheduling meetings feels like a way to assuage concerns about productivity (and precarity); in practice, more meetings almost always just makes you feel less productive, more like shit
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11 Dec 20
Unmanageable traffic, neglected public transit, no parking downtown, roomy homes with backyards a solid 45 minutes away in traffic, untenable extended summers, you know, the dream
Forgot to mention an ever more white and homogenous population in the urban core!!!
The only way I'd ever move back to Austin is if I never had to get on I-35 again so guess I'm never moving back to Austin
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4 Dec 20
I really really really really love movie theaters
I loved my old picture palace in Lewiston, Idaho growing up, I loved the cinder block multiplex with 4 screens that's now a doggy daycare, I love shiny new mall 20-plexes with 17 escalators and I really love tiny indie houses figuring out how to make it work
I love my weird rituals (no one touches the popcorn until the credits roll), I love previews, I love the weird AMC quasi-commercials, I love shushing the person behind me, I especially love going to the movies by myself
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