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Jan 16,, 4 tweets, 1 min read
As you can from this brief documentary I produced with my own funds, Florida has entirely too much nature
2/ I think people like touristy South Florida because there is a certain guilelessness to it. At the end of the day we all just wanna walk around beautiful palm-studded places drunk and/or on cocaine, w/occasional breaks to look at alligators. Why dress up basic human desires?
3/ Also, everyone is at least a little bit gay and/or Cuban and/or Jewish, personality-wise, which explains Miami's popularity.

(I'm really good at this and should be a travel writer.)
4/ This is the most beautiful thing I saw down there though

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Jan 18,
I've reached a point where I have absolutely no fucking clue who to believe about anything omicron-related. I just think the informational landscape is so awash in complete grifters, and that supposed public-health experts have loudly beclowned themselves so many times. It's bad!
2/ I don't think people fully understood, at the time, just how devastating it was to public trust in science when so many big-name public-health types did complete 180s on covid precautions when the protests started. It was just like, Oh, so none of them were ever trustworthy!
3/ You layer atop this the endless drumbeat of WE MUST CENSOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T *TRUST THE SCIENCE* coming largely from individuals with mileslong track records of wrongness... it's just a really bad time epistemically
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Jan 15,
Reminder that many prominent youth-gender clinicians are opposed to the idea of young people getting comprehensive mental-health assesments before obtaining permanent medical procedures designed to alleviate gender dysphoria, and they get quoted credulously in major news outlets
2/ Would be interesting for someone to ask @jack_turban what his general approach would be in a situation like this. My sense is he doesn't think there are any situations where adults should intervene to delay/stall transition, but I'm blocked so can't pose the question directly.
3/ Turban appears opposed to even a six-month assessment process before putting adolescents on medical treatments with permanent effects. He should expand on this a bit. More in-depth writing and dealing with counter-arguments, less snarky tweeting. These are serious decisions.
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Jan 9,
1/ Thread about the latest episode of BARPod, which just went up for our Primos:

Anyone who looks into the tumult in the young-adult fiction world will come to the same conclusion: What is really driving the drama, the cancelled books and ruined careers and general atmosphere
2/ of fear and accusation and bizarre Facebook struggle sessions, is white agents and editors. Every book and every controversy gets filtered through the particular racial politics of white, privileged NYC gatekeepers within YA, and they (shockingly) have different politics from
3/ members of genuinely marginalized groups. This leads writers of color to feel like tokens, and to be exposed to noxious 'benevolent' racism from some of the most outspokenly (supposedly) righteous white people on the planet.

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Jan 8,
1/ Michael Hobbes is caught so far down a Too Online rabbithole that he lives in a world in which Texas legislators make their laws because of... who signed a milquetoast pro-liberalism Harper's letter? It's hard for me to imagine how anyone's brain could be so melted. Image
2/ Broader point here is that this dude is a serious fraud. He blocks people and refuses to engage with them and then makes shit up about them over and over and over. In the process, he's gotten wealthy as a debunker, as the one Reasonable guy in the room cutting through the BS. ImageImage
3/ Hobbes could have at any pointed reached out to me or any of the other signatories. He would have found the vast majority of us are against these GOP laws. Much easier for him to relitigate his obsessive grudges for the 100th time. Get a life, man.

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Dec 29, 2021
Culture writing is so bad right now. I feel a bit morally torn about even exposing my followers to this paragraph
2/ Parks and Recs "is now widely considered" to be bad because a half dozen similarly neurotic tastemakers who don't know what fiction is or is for said so on their glorified blogs
3/ "I am mad at this sitcom because it does not reflect the up-to-the-minute politics of my most influential Twitter follows" is a view held by perhaps 1% of the population and 80% of mainstream culture writers
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Dec 20, 2021
1/ This journalist said he'd been cured of his trauma in 2011 via violent sex. A decade later, he again says he's been cured, now via major, risky surgery. I think there are some really fraught journalistic challenges inherent to covering the first-person accounts of folks who
2/ have dealt with profound trauma and/or other mental-health problems. One key thing you'll be taught in any Psych 101 course is that individuals often don't have a great grasp on what treatments will help them or why. Very tricky to find the right journalistic line to walk here
3/ Similar dynamic in a NYT Mag article about a very disturbed young person in 2019. I feel like anything involving gender identity is held to a different evidentiary standard and that this doesn't necessarily help people.

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