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Mar 26, 2022 • 44 tweets • 8 min read
HEY YOUNG PEOPLE, I'm going to do a little thread about how people did normal office/business stuff before the internet really worked, back in the '90s/very early '00s. BUCKLE YOUR FAX MACHINES...
I'm maybe a decade too young to be the one with this knowledge, but I was a super dorky teenager who loved office supplies, so here we are!
Jan 24, 2022 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
I’d like to talk about people for whom Death Is Not a Counterargument.
I read about the recent anti-vaxx/mask protest in DC, where they played songs by Meat Loaf, an anti-vaxx/masker who reportedly died of Covid
To a normal person — to me — this would be embarrassing! Right? The person you’re lionizing was so wrong they (reportedly) died as a result of their wrongness. But they don’t feel that way. They don’t see his views as proven wrong.
Oct 25, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It seems I have this until-now unexamined belief that if you're not getting oil all over your stovetop and constantly burning yourself, you're not eating real food
Also, I try to have most meals be 50+% produce, but produce is HUGE (most shrinks when you cook it) and, like, no one has a ... cabbage box in or out of their fridge. I'm always trying to FOLD leeks or chard or something to fit it.
Oct 3, 2019 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
FYI, you can actually live your entire life without forgiving anyone and you can be just fine. It's totally possible to not forgive people and not be "eaten up by hate."
If you were raised super-Christian, you might think that, even apart from the demands of the religion, forgiveness fulfills some inherent need to the person doing the forgiving. Nope! Maybe for a few personality types. But nope, that's just Christianity seeping into the water
Aug 25, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Upon reflection, Aida is basically Jolene, making the princess the Dolly Parton figure. In the song, we never really find out if Jolene does, in fact, take the narrator's man.
So now imagine that she does but she and the man both die in a tomb. Princess is like, well, that's over now, I'm still a princess, this is fine. I'm definitely getting betrothed again. I will take to my fancy couch.
Aug 25, 2019 • 52 tweets • 10 min read
So, I took my 5 year old to see Aida outdoors at Lincoln Center, which makes me either the BEST EVER parent (my kid sat through a 2hr45min opera!) or kind of the worst (it ends with death by entombment!) #spoiler
I was not familiar with the plot of Aida. We actually were just wandering by Lincoln Center, saw a bunch of chairs set up, and discovered there was to be free outdoor opera. (It was actually a giant video of an opera previously performed at Lincoln Center, which is fine).
Jun 23, 2019 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
I went back to find this tweet because it is so relevant today.
The left: Kids are in concentration camps, they are being denied basic sanitation, this trauma will be with them forever.
The right: I have someone to blame – the parents – therefore it's not a problem.
This is also why they don't care that banning abortion means that women will die. They have someone to blame: the women. Therefore, they don't think it's a problem.
Nov 29, 2018 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
I'd like to talk about why conservatives say things like this, for my progressive friends who genuinely don't know anyone like this. I was a libertarian, sort of, as a teenager (I recovered) and have read Hayek, Nozick, and Friedman. Here goes.
Sure, there are plenty of Repubs who are just cruel and like seeing people suffer, especially certain kinds of people. But there are plenty who think they are being virtuous and morally strong here. Here is a brief anecdote about participating in college debate...
