Every time I see a twitter thread that goes for more than 3 or 4 posts, I mourn the death of Google Reader and the rise of social media. Yes,…
cranky on main
Stop feeling the need to justify taking care of yourself
I see a lot of posts mocking people or HR depts or whoever who say “rest and relaxation makes you more productive,” because (they say) feeling the need to justify…
Twitter posts aren’t essays, they’re mumbles in a crowded cafeteria
Opinion: if you’ve only posted to Twitter about it, you’re not allowed to say “I have written elsewhere about __” (doubly if you don’t link to it) With the algorithm…
Cranky about memeified economic discourse
Sometimes (often?) I think that people who blame everything bad on capitalism don’t realize that greed and oppression predate it. By a lot? I’ve been cranky about memeified anti-capitalism at…
Phrasing
I think I’ve figured out what bothers me about the phrases “this is not normal” and “don’t normalize this.” I’ve said for a while that if you listen to marginalized…
Hearing complaints about California’s open primary
…and want to yell at the entire country that the solution is a ranked open primary, not closed party primaries.
Most primaries in the U.S. are inherently anti-democratic
I’m not 100% sure, but I’m pretty confident that tomorrow will be the first party primary I’ve voted in. n.b. – I’m specifically referring to party primaries. I’ve voted in…
yet another plea to advocate for social systems that prevent abuse instead of meme-hating on capitalism
bc of the magic of automatic reposting & my choice to follow an author on multiple platforms, i’ve seen the phrase “why psychopaths get rewarded in capitalism” several times the…
Twitter blip
Today I saw that an author I like had tweeted about something I care about, and I wanted to interact. So I signed up for an account, responded to their…
Tribalism and Branding Among Groups That Don’t Like Trump
“The Resistance” is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance” is not Indivisible. Indivisible is not the Democratic Party. “The Resistance,” as it’s commonly referred to, is like Anonymous – there’s…