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Solomon Freilich | he/him | photog | fan of podcasts You're Wrong About, Maintenance Phase, If Books Could Kill, & 5-4 | ✡️ atheist anti-occupation activist
Apr 15, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
You see this "scrolling for hours" stuff a lot, but why is it bad if people are doing an activity they enjoy for hours? You may dance, or paint, or walk, or bike, or play chess, or play a musical instrument—for hours, so how is any of that different than watching TikTok? I know this may sound strange, but I believe that it's cool if a teen wants to do a fun or social thing for hours at a time!! It doesn't have to be playing a sport. It doesn't have to be reading. It doesn't have to be playing a musical instrument.
Feb 6, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Please do not give any person, especially not a disabled person, this advice:

Why don't you go work for [one of the most unethical corporations in existence]?

Giving this advice to someone because they posted something about a kind of job hunting or wanting $$ is no exception. In that circumstance, it would still be awful advice, and when you give it to a disabled person, it's bad, awful, ableist advice.

It's so frustrating that I'm almost out of my 20's and any family member of mine still thinks this is okay.
Jun 30, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This is good! Arming non-security employees is bad (though I think armed security employees, including cops, at schools, is also bad).
Jun 29, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"The second thing that I think one has to recognize is present is what I would call the combination of, and here, I'm focusing on something that would seek to answer the question of why is the pattern different in science and engineering, [quote continues…] and why is the representation even lower and more problematic in science and engineering than it is in other fields. And here, you can get a fair distance, it seems to me, looking at a relatively simple hypothesis. [quote continues…]
Jun 20, 2022 • 31 tweets • 8 min read
🧵 All episodes of @yourewrongabout I've listened to from start to finish: Crack Babies
castbox.fm/episode/Crack-…
Jun 7, 2022 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
I think it's appropriate for any journalists, like the progressive and conservative journalists who have rushed to cast David Weigel as having been unjustly punished, to do so *instead* of QT'ing @oliverdarcy to decry the decision. This includes a quoted tweet by an author who deleted the tweet (I can only imagine because of a torrent of abuse by misogynists). I have redacted their identity, so as to protect their privacy and safety.
Jun 7, 2022 • 33 tweets • 9 min read
Thread of my QT's of stupid, offensive stuff that Dave Weigel has tweeted; he didn't retweet the all women are bi (sexual or polar) joke in a vacuum. Also some related commentary
Jun 6, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I've written about how BJG is awful before, so I don't find this shocking.
Jun 5, 2022 • 26 tweets • 7 min read
🧵 by @PrestoVegetable (as a webpage, which was generated by a bot at their command):

It would be good if I could get some confirmation of the authenticity of these screenshots. @daveweigel, did you tweet/RT these?

CC: @feliciasonmez

unrollthread.com/t/153216732279… I have confirmed the authenticity of some of these tweets myself by downloading the images, using Google Lens to copy the text so I could search it on Twitter, bookmarking the tweets, favoriting the images corresponding to the bookmarked tweets, and moving the images to a folder.
Jun 5, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
As I wrote in a thread yesterday, @feliciasonmez doesn't even have a Wikipedia entry (though she deserves one). If she has been clout-chasing for years, she hasn't gotten much clout out of it.

Also, internal complaints don't do crap. The only reason @daveweigel got fired from the @washingtonpost is his emails that included commentary on conservatives leaked. Within two months of being fired by the @washingtonpost, he was hired by @Slate, then and now owned by the @washingtonpost company.
Jul 28, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
"You know, sometimes, Black women,
Sometimes we are accused of
You know, when they want to slam you and slander you
Being angry

We can’t be aggressive or assertive
We angry
We can’t be determined
We angry Well, sisters and brothers,
This morning,
I am here to say to you,
That my name is Nina Turner and I’m a angry-ass Black woman

I’m mad!
I’m mad about a whole lot of stuff, ‘Cause if you ain’t mad about something,
Then, baby, you are not awake!

With these hands, we will rise up!
Apr 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
.@caresource, my managed care of Medicaid just told me that the reason my dermatologist's prior auth. request for tacrolimus for my atopic dermatitis was denied was they would need me to try a specific brand of that med first before they'd approve prior auth. for the generic. Generics are generally cheaper, right? Who the hell do they think they are serving by only covering a brand name of a particular medication, not its generics? If I hadn't called them, I would have not known and neither would my doctor who didn't get any memo explaining their
Apr 20, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
4/19 @FedEx statement says 4/15 shooting victims' "lives represented different ethnicities and religious faiths," but it doesn't say the word "Sikh" in it at all, even though four out of eight people who were shot and are now dead were Sikh. newsroom.fedex.com/newsroom/india… I would like the company to acknowledge that these four were Sikhs and commit some money to anti-hatred. More importantly, I would like to see @FedEx stop commiting money to hatred: as in, giving money to Republicans.
Jan 22, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Dr. Seuss was a racist. Here's one of his cartoons, published Jan. 13, 1942, mocking pacifist John Haynes Holmes: Source: "Dr. Seuss, 1940-47, and 2017" by Richard H. Minear
apjjf.org/2017/16/Minear…

This page includes two distinct articles by two authors, and the articles contradict each other. I do not endorse Deb's view because, unlike Minear, they don't provide evidence for assertions.
Jan 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
.@nberlat proposes prioritizing voting and labor rights over M4A for now. He's making people very mad with this view. I also propose prioritizing other things over M4A. Lots of things that are not M4A are essential to tackling COVID.

independent.co.uk/voices/biden-m… Not that it should be the only priority, but it's going to take a lot of bandwidth. I think healthcare, immigration, climate change (Green New Deal), Democratic reforms, UBI, labor rights, voting rights, reparations, and foreign policy are all important. But the way to work on
Jan 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Two notes: 1776 wasn't the start of a revolution in defense of Democracy. Indigenous and Black and poor people of that era would not think of it as that. In addition, Britain already had a democracy. The colonists didn't get to elect members of parliament

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… but again, when the US was established, women, the poor, Black people, and Indigenous people had no representation, so show me some who cared about King George and "taxation without representation."
Jan 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Proposing calling the Trump insurrectionists and Trump supporters in general neo-Confederates. I don't have a problem with somewhat imprecise terms. Just add neo which means new therefore implies changes, not just reprisal. Confederates were terrorists, racists, and slave owners. We should not shy away from Neo-Nazi. I've noticed fascist is commonly used to describe people who probably don't call themselves fascists, but Neo-Nazi is infrequently used for people who don't call themselves Neo-Nazis. Why? If someone hates Jews, Black and Brown people, and
Dec 15, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#Lizzo believed that a temp. "detox" would help her health (which isn't just about weight) and people were angry at Lizzo, so her name's trending.

I looked up Lizzo's net worth: about 10 million USD

I looked up the alt med industry's value: about 70 billion USD globally (1/7) While not everyone who is poor relative to the global alternative med industry believes that you can "detox" by drinking smoothies and eating nuts, many people do!! Some of them go to nutritionists who agree that their clients have toxins that "detox" diets will expell. (2/7)
Dec 13, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This article by Joseph Epstein, is complete with:

• calling Dr. Jill Biden kiddo
• asserting that Americans understand "Dr." to mean physician and not a person with a doctorate, which is beyond comprehension
• asserting universities have lowered their standards for granting honorary degrees, but Biden's Ed.D isn't honorary
• asserting that political correctness must be to blame for Black women being awarded honorary degrees in any given year which doesn't just mean the author thinks that Black women are undeserving; because of the prev. point,
Nov 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Trump is a fascist terrorist who banned Muslims from entering the United States, pardoned war criminals and a concentration camp designer (Arpaio), ripped families apart, committed a terrorist attack on the people of DC using the military to assault them with aircraft, gas, and other weapons, lost track of where the families he ripped apart were so they couldn't be re-united, made refugees wait in a dangerous country to seek asylum, inspired terrorism like the pipe bomber and the Tree of Life shooter, said Unite the Right had good people on both sides,
Oct 27, 2020 • 37 tweets • 8 min read
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