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7 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I finally had to use my desktop computer for editing this week after basically never using it for anything but audio work and games for multiple years and I was like

the fuck is this
Yes, I know you can set the word processor to autocorrect a double dash into an em-dash. Thing is, not in every case, not always automatically, and that’s still a couple of extra steps when I’m used to just double-dashing that shit and moving on with my life
No one has done this yet, but the second I hit send tweet I knew Twitter was going to do the Twitter thing of explaining how it’s actually a very easy problem to fix if you just do these things and like I JUST WANTED TO COMPLAIN, HOW IS THIS HARD
Can we make it Twitter Law to not suggest things or offer advice unless someone explicitly signals that they want to hear it

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7 Oct
Thinking about how Zdzisław Beksinski’s paintings are basically a gigantic troll to search engines because none of them have distinguishing titles of any kind
It’s actually kind of a troll to language, because it means that it’s almost impossible to talk about his work in any coherent specific way unless you just show people the one you’re talking about.
He may have intended that, I don’t know and can’t remember if I saw that info in the museum in Sanok when we went there
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7 Oct
I mean it’s so much more exciting to pretend to focus on saving nonexistent children from Democrats and Satan
That is honestly what it comes down to for a lot of these people, I believe. It’s good optics to wring your hands over THE CHILDREN. The Unborn require nothing of you and are convenient for your culture war. And Satanic Pedophile Babyeaters make for a much more exciting LARP.
Which would you pick? Getting to be in a fictional apocalyptic battle of God vs Satan where nothing more is required of you than to post and make popcorn, or having to reckon with complicated policy which might happen to benefit people you vaguely dislike?
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6 Oct
*stares in attack helicopter*
I’m sorry, just no. No. We are subject to the most awful, toxic, ridiculous, unnecessary bullshit to the point where more than once in the last couple of years I’ve questioned whether I really have a place here.
Been hesitant to say that last but whatever, gonna say it
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6 Oct
Why is everyone talking about kidney transplants and will my life be materially affected in a negative way if I never know
Feel like I should remain aggressively ignorant at this point
Eternally me
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5 Oct
Watching the FB whistleblower hearing and I have to say that I’m frustrated by how much this is centering on THINK OF THE CHILDREN
The problems there are real! I’m not saying they aren’t! But I’ve been listening for like half an hour and not once has anyone mentioned political radicalization, while we’ve spent like a third of that time on how scary it is that kids have accounts their parents don’t know about
And anytime discourse like this plays heavily on parental paranoia it just… it does not tend to end well.
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5 Oct
Watching In The Earth and it’s hitting me so hard in the fist few minutes, how watching the simple fact of what has become life—testing, masks, disinfecting—*still* looks like total future dystopia in the context of film.
Has anyone else experienced this? That initial instinctive sense of being jarred by how dark this future is, to be immediately followed by a feeling of “…oh. Right. That’s now.”?
So much of the sense we make of our own personal story is based on the language of fictional narrative in ways I don’t think we’re aware of most of the time
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