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Ariel Edwards-Levy

27 Aug, 6 tweets, 1 min read

FIRST WITCH
when shall we three meet again
in thunder, lightning, or in rain

SECOND WITCH
how long will the meeting run
got this other Zoom at 1

THIRD WITCH
I can't do ere the set of sun

FIRST WITCH
... I'll set up a Doodle

impossible to give an eldritch reading of the word "doodle"

SECOND WITCH
does anybody have Macbeth's new work email

MACBETH
your virtual background is very confusing
I swear that it looks like the trees are all moving

https://twitter.com/julwindhoevel/status/1431296399879065615

(absolutely unsurprised to find Pratchett got there first and better...and clearly this means I need to finish the rest of the series sometime soon)

https://twitter.com/julwindhoevel/status/1431296399879065615

incidentally, the way you know when the hurlyburly's done is that if you pop a toothpick in the hurlyburly it comes out clean

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy

10 Sep

Feels like maybe some people have taken the (correct) premise that a disproportionately energized base on the unpopular side of an issue can shift the political calculus in their favor, and missed that the anti-vaccine faction doesn't actually seem to have intensity advantage.

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(The remaining question is whether politics is more likely to shift current views about the vaccine or whether the vaccine is more likely to shift current views about politics, and I suspect the answer to that is possibly "yes.")

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy

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1) the children's cartoon "Arthur" includes two goldfish named Vladimir and Estragon, according to the "Arthur" wiki

2) there is an "Arthur" wiki

truly, the internet

there had better be a comic misunderstanding subplot where somebody is petsitting and panics because they think they've somehow lost a third fish named Godot

"shall we go?"

"yes, let's go"

"...go where?"

"what are you -- ooh, plastic castle"

(yes, I know the goldfish memory thing is apocryphal, work with me here)

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Ariel Edwards-Levy

@aedwardslevy

13 Jul

would read: a comparative study on the quantity and engagement levels of posts on different social media platforms whose main premise is that the social media platform in question is bad