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Writer. Working on a book. I'm not really here right now but will probably be back some day. Adrian802@gmail.com
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I am deleting my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Gmail. To reach me in the future please find me on the battlefield in Fortnite Mobile.
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ok I'm done
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I know I'm on a break but I gotta get some hot takes off before Twitter ends...
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It's going to suck if Elon Musk buys Twitter but imo it's just as bad that Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. As lays it out in FULFILLMENT it was a pretty obvious bid for DC influence at a time Amazon was massively ramping up lobbying. (great book btw)
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I'm slowly forgetting how to use Twitter. Feels good.
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(she has deleted the original tweet, but the internet doesn't forget)
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They deleted the tweet, but this is the Russian neo-Nazi who people are falsely claiming is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi.
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He turned up a lot during Maidan. I think they were planting him to get images of "Ukrainian neo-Nazis." Not saying they don't exist, but he's not one of them.
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Russian neo-nazi Alexey "Muha" Maximov performes nazi salute in #Lviv, Ukraine streetmob.org/nazi/category/
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pro-Kremlin media set me up with M in 2015 to make it look like I was trying to recruit him for the CIA
nytimes.com/2015/06/07/mag
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This guy isn't Ukrainian! He is a Russian neo-Nazi named Alexei Maximov aka "The Fly". I met him in St. Petersburg. Long story. twitter.com/NatashaAustinC
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*Alexei Maximov
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Ok, I'm crawling back into my bunker.
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Ok, I think it's time for a Twitter break. While I'm gone I aim to send out a newsletter more frequently than never: dispatches.substack.com
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while I'm here I might as well update my pfp
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I'm just a man, tweeting from the heart of Empire, asking it to Do Better.
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it's weird to me that when it comes to foreign policy, Americans seem to lose the ability to think systematically. No one who cared about justice believed that George Floyd's murder was just about Derek Chauvin. And yet now to focus on anything but Putin is "whataboutismism".
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I condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine as I condemn US interventions, and Israel's occupation of Palestine. People say "focus on Russia" but now is the time to look at all imperalisms and their connections if you want to get at deeper principle than "Russia bad," "US good".
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that's anti-imperialism 101
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re: "whataboutism"- imo it's important to highlight US hypocrisy in condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine when we did much the same thing in Iraq, etc bc it shows how one nation can't + shouldn't dictate what is right or wrong for the rest of the world, as the US tries to do.
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They need to legalize loosies until this is over
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to be fair I also just finished "V" and the whole second half was like that... I think I blacked out for the whole epilogue
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I've been reading a lot of contemporary novels for the first time in a while and it seems like most of them have long flagging sections in the second half where you're like, um, ok, sure, but... why? I get very excited now when a novel doesn't do this (i.e. "Intimacies").
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I'm reading the recently-declassified transcripts of the meetings between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. They're something.
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This Russian video game I play had its economy briefly wrecked because it pegs the in-game ruble to the actual exchange rate. So, that also is a thing.
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I was especially curious bc the latest of his translated into English, "S.N.U.F.F.", is a dystopian epic about a Russian war on Ukraine started under false pretenses... it's not his best but connects domestic corruption and foreign aggression in a way that seems v relevant.
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I was looking to see if Victor Pelevin, one of my favorite authors, had weighed in on the invasion. Turns out he was just tracked down in Thailand after disappearing from public life for ~20 years. So that's a thing.
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I gotta fucking get off twitter man
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"Sit on the phone, watch TV/ Romance, action, mystery"
no indie lyric has hit me harder than, like, early Modest Mouse.... Thank u Big Thief.
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Let's get #FoodNotRent trending and make sure the 365,000 tenants in LA now at risk of eviction get the support they need to cancel rent. bit.ly/FNRFund
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Also, if you rent in Los Angeles: Get involved with your local ! The energy and solidarity in LATU zoom meetings have been one of the few bright spots of this whole thing. latenantsunion.org/en/locals/
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Taking a break from my Twitter break to say: Donate to the #foodnotrent solidarity fund! Money goes directly to support LA tenants on rent strike, fighting to stay in their homes: foodnotrent.org/donate/
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Same, whenever I see or hear a lot of his quotes!
I’m like, oh he knew what words go together to just get to me so exactly
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"It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist."
Ralph Waldo Emerson just fucked me up.
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This is spot on. Read the whole thread:
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LA locked down for months to save lives. But then we hastily reopened -- and now our outbreak is exploding.
We're seeing record hospitalizations. The most since April.
But unlike back then, businesses are open. And workers are in danger. (thread) latimes.com/projects/calif
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yes yes yes! i have a piece coming out pretty soon arguing that community radio(!?) is actually a really good model for thinking about the problems we have w platforms
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