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1 Jul, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Instagram v. TikTok
No offense to Freddie Mercury or glamorous self-branding but I think I’m throwing in with TikTok
Leave the FB dystopia and join me among the misfit cakes?
I don’t think Gen Xers fully get how much our jam TikTok is
Instagram is look at my garden & girlfriend link in bio Brand of You

TikTok is look at my mental illness I’m a loser baby fuck you in bio

Cc @zinoman
.@joncaramanica says we olds are not watching enough TikTok and I agree:

nytimes.com/2021/01/01/art…
.@CathyNDavidson — the brilliant philosopher of education — sees TikTok as one of the few sources of blood flow to the brain on the current sterile internet
Another canny scroller of TikTok - especially for body-joy and -joke content - is my beloved @SpicyBrianna

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The dance of death is that the Man would *also* rather be thought sadistic than incompetent.
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Republicans can’t win democratically, so they have turned on democracy. That seems clear.

But American democracy also has momentum of its own & voters seem increasingly ready to do battle with voting restrictions.
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Lesson for all: You don’t have to fight the narrative
Let the narrative be.

Lay down your narrative burdens.
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