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Elizabeth Picciuto 🌱
@epicciuto
Writer, wife, mom of three boys—one with multiple disabilities. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan. Will garden for food and flowers. #3A!
Jul 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
If you think voting for Dems is important, think about how to reach voters who are left of center but currently disappointed with Dems in power. If you were doorknocking, would you insult or berate someone who expressed that? I hope not! Not great on social media, either! If someone is expressing anger or frustration at Dems from the left, that’s often an opportunity to reach out. Instead of telling the potential voter how they’ve messed up or don’t understand, just explain why you feel differently and you’re enthusiastic.
Jul 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Activate the queen!

I wondered, reading this thread and failing to understand wtf is going on, if this is how people in other countries feel when confronted with the electoral college. I mean “yes, Trump got millions fewer votes but he won 2016 because 18th century slave-owners wanted to protect their interests” is pretty weird…
Jul 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Today's garden diary: when I moved away entirely from Maryland, that owner gave me one of my favorite sedums. Still thriving here on Long Island! Ones of these is in my garden
Jul 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I wasn't a philosophy major and this was me after every class for the first three years of the PhD program. Seriously SEP enabled me to get through grad school.
Jul 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today's garden diary: lots of pics today! First up, I didn't realize something dark purple could glow untill I grew this bunch of morning glories that I had ordered in a different color. I am very grateful for the shop's error! Image This zinnia looks like a sunrise Image
May 29, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
It turns out my husband barely remembers anything about GOODFELLAS, a tragedy I only discovered because he actually asked, "What was Lorraine Bracco in before THE SOPRANOS?" and clearly we can't go on like this. We are now watching. Phew!
Feb 16, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Re-watching DEADWOOD to see if it remain one of my favorite shows or if I liked it so much because there was less good TV then. Nick Offerman is in the first couple episodes! Don’t know if I knew who he was the first time around.
Nov 24, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Seems well past the time to go back and re-read a bunch of Wayne Barrett columns on Giuliani and Trump, but I didn’t do it in 2015 and suddenly feel compelled to now. I bought @Barrett_Reader. May drop things here in this thread if they are interesting. (If you know already that you find the 1980s and 1990s careers of Trump and Giuliani uninteresting, may be a good idea to mute this thread.)
Nov 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This has a real “remember when we were so worried about y2k and it was nbd?” energy. Lots of these problems (including violence) didn’t come to pass because people were vigilant! Ah, people are already saying this and others are already mocking it. I’m tired. A screenshot of tweet that screenshots a tweet saying vigila
Oct 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
I just woke up and remembered that a Supreme Court justice argued last night that an inaccurate vote count would enable people to trust the electoral process more than an accurate one. He didn’t even suggest that the late ballots were illegitimate, just that they might make people feel icky. Something that would never happen, apparently, if their votes weren’t counted.
Sep 12, 2020 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
DUNE 1984 is a paradigm case of a movie I love but which I would never call a great movie. It's fun and inventive and quotable. It's also awkward and cheesy. Writing the below tweet put me in mind to do a thread on philosophical aesthetics, on good and bad artworks. 1/n (Muting this conversation is probably a good idea if you have zero interest in philosophical aesthetics and are focused on your doomscrolling.) 2/n
Jul 8, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
I wrote a piece critical of the Harper’s letter. I am a very big on free speech, and am frustrated that so many authors, including some I really admire, missed the forest for the trees. arcdigital.media/the-real-free-… There are grave violations of free speech occurring daily for a few months. Critics of this administration and law enforcement have been arrested, permanently injured, and killed for speaking out. Journalists have been targeted. This is a far more emergent violation of speech.
Mar 13, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What are all y’all hoarding? I have an obscene amount of orzo. I have no idea why I’m so enjoying reading all these, but I am.
Aug 13, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Holy crap, @Cigna. I've dealt with crappy insurance. This is the absolute worst.

They have made an error that has been costing us more than $500 a month. And we just got a letter saying they will REFUSE TO CORRECT IT. AND WE CAN'T ASK AGAIN. My son's tube-feeding formula is supposed to be covered if that is his sole source of nutrition. He literally does not eat a bite of any other food.

Yet despite documentation, I am not allowed even to prove this. Nice work, @Cigna.
Aug 9, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. About Quillette. Hoaxes happen; people get tricked. Those who published them should have some egg on their face, whether in academic or popular publishing. Some things stand out about this particular hoax. 2. The first is that the primary beat of Quillette is the failings of the left. And yet they really seem not to understand the left at all, or they would have sniffed this out a mile away. They don't understand the criticisms some parts of the left have about others.
Apr 5, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
My latest from @ArcDigi. Don't forget Rod Rosenstein! It's more clear than ever that Rosenstein should have recused himself from the Mueller investigation. And yet he's been lending his name to all of Barr's nonsense. arcdigital.media/are-we-sparing… Since it is DoJ policy not to indict a sitting president, avoiding Comey’s mistake in releasing derogatory info about Hillary would always mean that anything harmful to Trump’s reputation in the report could never see the light of day. This is hardly reassuring to the public.
Feb 26, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. I'm so glad @yashar began a discussion about ADHD yesterday. It inspired me to write a piece about my own experiences with ADHD. arcdigital.media/how-i-learned-… 2. If you haven't seen @yashar's great thread on the topic, it's here twitter.com/i/moments/1100…
Feb 2, 2019 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
1. I have seen this from others sharper than Junior, also. That a Republican would be driven away from politics for a history of racism. How....is it even possible to think that? 2. Steve King google.com/amp/s/www.vox.…