Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Sunny Moraine (now on Bluesky) Profile picture
Sunny Moraine (now on Bluesky)
@dynamicsymmetry
Barely here; find me on Bluesky under the same handle. Writer of the horrific, creator of the GONE podcast. Repped by Connor Goldsmith/Fuse Literary. They/them
eDo Profile picture RK Profile picture Joshua Cypess Profile picture ben m caudron ⏸️ Profile picture TurboEasterEgg Profile picture 5 subscribed
Jun 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This looks like everything I want. Mass Effect but it’s Skyrim. Nothing emotionally challenging, nothing uncomfortable, just a story people put 1000s of hours into which I’ll immediately ignore and Todd Howard gently massaging my brain for months of my one wild and precious life Given how relentlessly committed to fucking myself up I am in terms of my media, I reserve the right to lust for comfortable undemanding sandbox SF
Jun 11, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
It’s really important to note this—and to understand, again, that the hypocrisy is not accidental. It’s not a bug.

The flex of not having the rules apply to you is meaningless unless they still apply to people you don’t like. Trump cult members actually love rules and norms—as tools for the capricious application of power, to constrain and oppress.

And of course, the rules still would apply to *them*, but Trump allows them the vicarious thrill of not having to worry about that.
Jun 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
oh for fuck’s actual sweet sake Obviously many companies don’t care but it can’t be emphasized enough that STUFF MADE BY THESE PROGRAMS IS BAD

IT’S BAD AND PEOPLE CAN TELL IT’S BAD AND THEY DON’T LIKE IT
Jun 8, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is actually the thing I can’t get over in terms of why tech is still trying to make this particular brand of fetch happen—*people do not like it, for very real and deep-seated social reasons*. One could argue that eventually people will feel differently as this kind of tech gets normalized—but the thing is that in order for it to be socially normalized, people need to adopt and use it in sufficient numbers first.
Jun 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I’m really tired of comforting myself with “well hopefully more Boomers will die soon”, it feels shitty Want to emphasize that I am not actively choosing to comfort myself with that thought, it’s a function of recognizing that a particular demographic subset of a particular age cohort has been clinging to power and obstructing progress for decades
Jun 7, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
😬 Photo of the AQI where I li... Y’all, this is another reason why masking needs to be normalized. This is just how summers are now, all over the country. If you don’t hate your lungs, watch the AQI and use respirators accordingly, this is so fucking basic
Jun 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
ICYMI, I wrote a thing It’s interesting to me—I wrote this essay/series of essays almost two months ago now, and while I’m still committed to the sense of “fuck it, I’m going to proudly own work I’ve done that I think is good no matter what category it falls into”, the actual fearlessness has faded.
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
If you still think they won’t go this far I am begging you to rethink that because they will absolutely go this far. They HAVE gone this far. They probably won’t call them camps, and they’ll probably try to keep them from looking like what we picture when we hear the term “reeducation camps”, but that is exactly what they’ll be.
May 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
jfc this is so grotesque and depressing Look, there’s just so much we don’t have insight into, and I do believe that she may be the one insisting on staying there of her own volition, but someone really, really, really needs to have the courage to step in here because I’m as angry FOR her as I am AT her now
May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
“Threatened with being subjected to” something they are begging for because they want to live to adulthood

Anyway Florida parents should understand that the government can now kidnap your kids if you try to support and care for them I promise you—I PROMISE you—that even most people who aren’t comfortable with gender affirming care for minors would and will be absolutely horrified by this

So it’s probably something Dems should emphasize
May 18, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Dear @NewYorker: if you must do pieces on Bigot Happy Hour, and I still wouldn’t necessarily recommend that you do, this is how it’s done. Present them as the weird, irrational, hateful, conspiracy theory-obsessed freaks that they are.
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I feel like there’s an understandable focus in a lot of places on the (absolutely monstrous and horrifying) sexual abuse allegations, which might make the whole thing feel a bit seedy, but also there are a ton of serious criminal allegations against extremely powerful people? Wtf Like this isn’t some tawdry sex scandal, this a story that features wildly criminal abuses of power, and it is utterly bizarre that these two major outlets wouldn’t do their own reporting on that

I mean maybe they’re working on it
May 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Me: I need to shower, it’s almost 11 and I got stuff to do today

Plot for new book: hi I exist suddenly I really hope this thing works, it might be the Deep Sea Horror story I’ve been wanting to write for a while now
May 17, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Literally her plan to deal with public safety is “hire more cops” and “bring back stop-&-frisk”, Philly wtf are you doing And this is what they’re doing. It’s not so much “Philly” as it is “Democrats”.
May 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This whole thread is great but this point especially is key.

The right has painted everyone who opposes them as a monstrous and inhuman existential threat. That framing virtually *requires* further self-radicalization. And they will not deradicalize themselves. Because they can’t. Because they’ve left no room for themselves to do so, even if they wanted to.

Mainstream liberals and the media still by and large treat the political right as though they’re mostly normal. They aren’t. They’re fantastically dangerous.
May 16, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
“Your children are only sixteen and the Internet has taken some of the control out of the hands of the institutions that shape them. They have seen the curtain rippling — your children are not stupid, even if white supremacy begs them to be.”

🔥🔥🔥 medium.com/@OliviaCole/yo… “Your children aren’t stupid. You’re terrified they’ll notice the curtain you have draped over their lives, but they’ve already looked behind it. They want to see all the ways you’ve trapped them in a tower of lies.”
May 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They’re also wildly antisemitic, because when they say “globalists”, they mean Jews. Globalist, global cabal, global elites—these are all conspiracist antisemitic dogwhistles going way back. Learn to recognize them.
May 15, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Now WHY ON EARTH would a lot of kids be feeling a ton of intense anxiety right about now Could it be the hundred thousand nested crises they perceive stealing their childhood and future and the fact that many of their parents seem at best complacent and often actively complicit? Dunno. Guess it’ll remain an enduring mystery.
May 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There’s been a lot of talk over the last couple days about the Parable of the Good Samaritan, so let me take this opportunity to share this piece about the historical roots of it and why people so often interpret it in harmful and even antisemitic ways ejournals.bc.edu/index.php/scjr… Among other things, the animosity between Jews and Samaritans has been seriously oversimplified and exaggerated, which throws the whole thing off in some ways which, again, leads to some pretty bad interpretations that aren’t even well supported by the text
May 14, 2023 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
“There is no level at which the site can be said to function effectively, except as a representation of Musk's priorities. In that regard, though, it is fascinating.” defector.com/burning-down-t… I really love this observation, because it captures something that was true about Musk long before he acquired Twitter: he cannot focus on anything long enough to have consistent specific priorities and most of his ideas for how to pursue them are historically bad
May 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
“That was Jordan Neely's whole and only life. It ended when he walked into a room full of people, homeless and hungry and thirsty and tired, and they helped themselves to his silence.”

This is quietly devastating and you should read it. defector.com/jordan-neely-j… I’m sorry, but especially after reading this, I just can’t get over it:

If your take on this atrocity is “people have a right to feel safe/not be uncomfortable on the subway”, I won’t say you’re a monster, but you are saying and thinking something monstrous.