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Please come find me at https://t.co/YNKTAaXEYj Comics creator: Leftycartoons, Hereville, SuperButch, Wings of Fire. he/him
Mar 30, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Di'Rico walked back from saying "Fatphobia is a joke" in comments. But I want to talk about the rest of his tweet.

In this thread, I'll show how the health advice given by Fat Acceptance (FA) is better and healthier for most fat people than telling us to stop being fat. But before I get started, let me say: I like Di'Rico, I've been on his YouTube, and I'm glad he and I get along.

And there are SO few critics of fat acceptance that are open to respectful discussion, that I value the few I find.

So please, *don't* be mean to Di'Rico.
Mar 30, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I've attended four colleges, and I was fairly well-informed at most of them (staffs on two student papers).

In every case, the school didn't announce who it was considering for commencement speaker until after the person had been invited and had accepted.

(thread) So the rule Alex implies - that to say "we should disinvite X" once X has been invited is attempted censorship - would, in practice, mean there's no time students could say "I don't want X speaking at my commencement" and not be censors.
Oct 10, 2022 • 31 tweets • 18 min read
@glukianoff @glukianoff
Oct 9, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This NYPost headline is misleading as hell.

The case wasn't about marriage at all; it was about if a deceased leaseholder's live-in lover counts as a “non-traditional family member” when being evicted, if the deceased leaseholder is married to someone who lives elsewhere. If the relationship between the deceased and his live-in lover had been exactly the same, in every way, but the deceased hadn't been married to someone living elsewhere; then the lover would have been protected from eviction. No question.

(As I understand it; I am not a lawyer).
Oct 8, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I had *almost* straight A's at PSU.

In my mind, I gamified the classes, which made it easy. In every class, the professor, usually in the first class of the semester, would tell us the rules for getting good grades.

Each professor had different rules (with lots of overlap). Play by the rules, get an A.

Some professors' rules rewarded being on time and participating in class discussion.

Others had rules that rewarded clearly-stated arguments with legit citations.

Other rules rewarded showing you did the reading and comprehended its points.
Oct 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What happened to that poor dog is completely horrible.

What happens to many people arrested in NYC is also horrible.

It's reasonable to be bothered by both these horrible things. I think he should be arrested; I suspect he'll be abused and his rights not respected if he is. Depending on how badly he's abused, I could even prefer the arrest not take place at all - for instance, if I know that him being arrested would lead to his death.

Or if I knew he'd be giving a disproportionate sentence carried out in a prison system full of abuse.
Oct 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1) We absolutely should have a society in which someone who randomly kills someone's dog should be arrested.

2) We also should have a society in which we can be confident that, once arrested, he'll be treated fairly by the justice system, not abused.

nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyr… It's reasonable for people to be worried about both 1) and 2), and to want both 1) and 2).

And smart people pretending that 2) isn't a legit concern and instead making cheap culture war points aren't being at all helpful.
Aug 14, 2022 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
@StephenFrug @bjthoi @FuzzyMarth @CathyYoung63 I think you're downplaying the government's involvement. McCarthyism was a true public/private collaboration; the government fingered people, and employers fired those same people.

writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/… ImageImageImageImage @StephenFrug @bjthoi @FuzzyMarth @CathyYoung63 And the lines between private and public were often blurry. Red Channels was a private company - but it was run by ex-FBI agents, who used FBI-gathered information to compile their blacklist.
Apr 2, 2022 • 30 tweets • 9 min read
One reason the "do diets work?" debate interests me is because so many things that are terrible for fat people (and others) rests on that foundational belief that fat people could stop being fat if they wanted to.

(thread) .CathyYoung63 wrote "Obesity should be met with compassion, not 'acceptance.'" But if weight loss diets don't work for most fat people, then telling fat people not to accept our bodies is the opposite of being compassionate.

nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…
Mar 10, 2021 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Something to keep in mind: This is something a physics teacher may have said to a high schooler who then passed it on to Bari Weiss.

Is there a "woke" trend to call Newton's Laws the "three fundamental laws of physics" in order to "decenter whiteness"? I tried searching for webpages that are over a week old, that used the string "three fundamental laws of physics."

I found approximately fifty mentions. But none of them that I found were about "decentering whiteness."

google.com/search?q=%22th…
Dec 12, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD: @TomChivers wrote an article disagreeing with this cartoon I did.

It's probably the most-read cartoon I've made. (If I had known, I would have worked harder on the drawing.)

A cartoon like this one works by stripping away all nuance and "yes buts" from a situation, until nothing is left but a single naked idea for us to laugh at.

Tom's article rightly points out nuances the comic leaves out. Which is fair enough.

unherd.com/2020/12/how-th…
Nov 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
It's called a printer. Despite the #ArtificalIntelligence hashtag, this machine is essentially a big printer with a computer using a "make this photo look painterly" filter. It's not making anything up.

It's cool, but it's not AI.
Nov 13, 2020 • 24 tweets • 10 min read
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What @AbigailShrier says here about current-day censorship encapsulates what's terribly wrong with most of our free-speech-advocate pundits and journalists.

She's talking about Amazon, which sells her book, not accepting ads for it, and various places not reviewing it. Quote says: "This is what censorship looks like in 21st Contrary to what @AbigailShrier thinks, censorship in 21st-century America often IS the government sending police to people's homes.

It's just that people who are censored - the most harmed victims of censorship - aren't people Shrier or her peers pay much attention to.
Nov 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Some examples of how @DeanBrowningPA used his "black gay guy" sock puppet account to post racism and misogyny. Image More of "Dan Purdy's" nitwit and wisdom. ImageImage
Nov 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Dean, print this out and tape it above your keyboard.

1. Log out of twitter.
2. Log into your puppet twitter account.
3. THEN post as "black gay guy who loves Trump."

Just read that print-out next time you get confused.

(Alternative plan:

1. Log out of twitter.

That's it.) Whoops! Dean deleted it.

Fortunately, it's been preserved for our enjoyment and edification. Image
Oct 15, 2020 • 44 tweets • 8 min read
I got my ballot in the mail today. And that means - time to vote! Time to go through the whole ballot and figure out who I want to be Circuit Court judge (4th district position 12), who should be the east soil & water director-at-large 2, and many other exciting races!

(Thread!) And before anyone asks, yes it is legal to take photos of your ballot in the state of Oregon.
Oct 13, 2020 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
David French's thread defending the anti-lgbt Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) is nonsensical and illogical.

He's angry that people call ADF "hateful." But he never addresses or even acknowledges the arguments for ADF being a hate group, choosing to focus on irrelevancies instead. For example, he says the ADF signed on to a brief against Qualified Immunity, and that's a good thing, therefore the ADF can't be "hateful."

It is a good thing! But doing a good thing in one area doesn't preclude a person or org from being hateful in other areas.
Jul 10, 2020 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
A thread.

Here's the thing about "cancel culture."

You can either treat it as if it's a unique threat coming from the SJ left.

Or you can actually take a stand about the problem, in a fair way that holds everyone to similar standards.

But you can't do both. Is there a problem on the left of some people being too dogmatic and lacking in mercy or a sense of proportion? And that sometimes manifests in angries on the internet overreacting and people getting fired? And this can chill speech and make some people fearful of dissent?

Yes!
Jul 6, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Another example of right-wing "cancel culture," that no one calls "cancel culture": At least 20 health officials around the country have been fired, or left their jobs under great pressure (including personal attacks and threats), because they're pro-masking and/or pro-lockdown. Image In Ohio, a health official with the awesome superhero name Amy Action faced "armed protesters at her home bearing messages including anti-Semitic and sexist slurs. One Republican lawmaker linked Acton, who is Jewish, to Nazi Germany," until she switched her role to "advisory."
Feb 11, 2020 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
1. Working longer hours ignores unpaid work. Who's taking care of the kids, and of the elders?
2. People who are paid more have more incentive to do more paid work.
3. Paying more taxes and receiving less welfare are both results of being paid more.

(thread) 4. Men retiring later also reflects higher average pay. The more you earn, the higher the incentive to work a couple more years. (On average, women retire at 62, men at 64.)

5. Men die on the job MUCH more often. Let's talk about that.
Nov 26, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Piracy.

Here's the thing: Piracy is not taking money out of our wallets. Getting rid of pirated comics won't cause readers to spend more money buying comics.

To illustrate why, let me talk about when I was a teen. I'm Gen X. When I was a teen, I bought a new album every week or two. Everyone once in a while, I saw a concert.

And I had a collection of ten times as many albums as I bought. Mostly on cassettes tapes, illegally recorded from my friend's albums.