108.02/ My kids asked if they can watch TV to help get through the fast. I said after chatzot and as long as it's not laugh-inducing or super fun. They asked for an example & this year it's perfect: the home debut of #DeGrom! It's bashert.
107.02/ The absolute ghoulish glee I'm seeing people directing vitriol & dogpiling violence against @AnaMardoll is frightening. I see what you allow yourself to do to people you think are "acceptable" targets.
1/ This morning a vituperative troll lobbed attacks in response to the thread below. I responded to him in order to fulfill my own ideas of internet ethics & try to model the behavior I'd like to see normalized.
2/ Since I blocked him, I'll recreate the conversation with screencaps (which is proper netiquette for trolls, anyway). He sent two responses in close succession, the first here:
3/ Second here:
Note: The "59% Disruptive" is from the @BotSentinel app. Which told me immediately that I was dealing with a probable troll.
106.03/ This is an explosive thread about entirely plausible whistleblower backlash at the NewYorker - a mag my family have been subscribers to as long as I can remember - shows what real "cancel culture" looks like.