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15 May
Zero people need my opinion on mask use but what the hay:

My sole purpose in life these days is to proselytize for the vax.

So I have to think like Ned Flanders or a Jehovah’s Witness or Mormon or Scientologist on commission for how many appointments I book.
But like any good salesman or evangelist my techniques change depending on who I am trying to bend to my will.
Hippie antivaxers are a whole different kettle of fish from Trump antivaxers. People who think it’s expensive to get the (free) vax—they’re their own thing.
Sometimes not wearing a mask & telling people it’s bc I got the vax and feel so free finally, right? — that’s the best way. Other times, wearing one & bonding hating anti-mask assholes & how you definitely got the vax, right? No? Oh well lemme sign you up. Sometimes that does it
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15 May
Sudden flashback to 7th grade when my best friend NEEDS TO TALK.

“A lot of us have been saying you are only into the Doors because of me.”
“Oh my God I’m so—“
“So I was thinking maybe you should get into Air Supply”
Deep moral failing at the time was not to have your own THING.

Is this still the case?
Also the devastation of those words, still hurts today:

Air Supply
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13 May
My lemon 2019
Mac is in the shop & I am using a loaner iPad, my least favorite of all devices.
I just spent 20 minutes digging around for the right combo of USBs, USB-cs, “lightning” thingamabob, and good old 2-pronged plug to get things into the wall.
Mediating among cables and cords and apps that represent competition among tech companies AND planned obsolescence is a huge waste of anyone’s executive brain.
Read 10 tweets
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11 May
2 reasons I just heard for skipping the vax:

“I’m scared. I never even got a flu shot.”
and
“I already had Covid and I’m immune.”

Most people are not vax ideologues. They just have the usual resistance & confusions. A few words of reassurance or facts can bring them around!
More:

I heard it hurts a lot.
I don’t know which one I should get.
I hate needles.
I can’t afford it right now.
I just want to wait.

No pitched battle. Very simple to engage.
These are not the vaccine-resistant who get airtime for being loons. But I bet they are the majority of vax-resistant.

No culture war. Just scared or short on information.
Read 5 tweets
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9 May
The first ever terrifying episode of SNL $DOGE

+ ⁦@richstanislaw⁩
Earlier

I’m gonna sell at
I’m gonna sell at
I don’t
I’m gonna hold
A bump on Elon’s decent German accent
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8 May
To Facebook, democratically elected public servants have authority only insofar as they are “influencers” in its rigged rapacious game. wired.com/story/trump-ab…
At this point the authority of the Grand Theft Auto leaderboard seems more legitimate.
GTA is less hackable & not primarily a data-gouging enterprise.
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