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5 Jul
The most disturbing parts of TikTok, incl the old Claudia Conway vids, remind me of Samuels Richardson’s Pamela (1704), one of the first novels in English. In it Pamela is repeated sexually assaulted & somehow keeps real-time notes under her pillow & gets them out to the world. Image
I was going to post TikTok screenshots of bruised women hiding in bathrooms & bedrooms making TikToks but the images are too sad & terrifying.
That would be 1740. Robinson Crusoe came first. Mea culpa. 18th-cent English Twitter, if you exist, check out epistolary / hiding / fleeing corners of TikTok and see if you see similarities to Pamela & Clarissa. @AaronRHanlon?
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1 Jul
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?
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29 Jun
It’s hard to know what to call the climate crisis now that it’s far, far from a political meme and deep into the late-stage life-or-death phenomenon that anyone who wasn’t too stupid or greedy to notice has always feared it would be. nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/…
Humans around the world — and right now our friends in the beautiful PNW — are being physically tortured in conditions that can’t be withstood by human flesh.
Call your friends there. 115 is unsurvivable.

Heatstroke and organ failure set in when the core body temp reaches 104.
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26 Jun
At times it’s easier to believe the patriarchy is sadistic than to believe it’s unreliable
Capricious tyrants are worse than consistent tyrants
The dance of death is that the Man would *also* rather be thought sadistic than incompetent.
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25 Jun
Parents of young children might need to be reminded right now to get The Backyardigans by hook or crook — I just fear it might be forgotten
Only parents who fully understand every single genre of music from Kenyan Highlife to Baroque to Countrypolitan can skip it
Janice Burgess + Evan Lurie — too good
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25 Jun
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.
The 2022 elections should be explicitly reframed as the voters v. the voting restrictions.
There’s a clear role for the private sector here.
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