Brett Abelman

@Babelwright

Aspiring playwright-author-creator of stories, wannabe futurist, eater of food. Professional organizer, hire me: / .

Washington, DC
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Joined July 2009
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    21 Sep 2021

    We are fighting to ensure that the most powerful media corporations on the planet treat the film and tv workers who produce their content with basic human dignity. RT if you stand with us in this fight.

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    14 Jun 2021

    [THREAD] I hate how DC liberals talk about the SW Waterfront/Wharf. It represents everything that liberals/leftists constantly get wrong about housing and urban development.

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    20 May 2021

    Dear theatre twitter, This is a 🧵. About mentorship, being in your 30s, career advancement, and capitalism.

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  4. 17 May 2021

    people keep saying the gov't is releasing more UFO stuff to "prepare us" for aliens being here, but i think it's more likely they're trying to prepare us for knocking on our doors and asking who sent the drone into protected airspace

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    6 Apr 2021

    2000: Rs block manual recount after memory card is found to have inexplicably deleted 16k votes from Gore’s total on a Diebold machine in Volusia county; no other races were impacted. Bush declared victorious by 537 votes. History forever altered. 1/

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  6. 23 Mar 2021

    WELL. Amazon just booted us from their affiliate program, which we use to sell *their* sex toys and copies of our books on sexual health, because Oh Joy Sex Toy features explicit images. They informed us they do not have to pay us any of the money we earned before this.
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    1 Mar 2021

    America's 660 billionaires could give everybody in the country a $3,900 survival check and still be as rich as they were before the pandemic. If that doesn’t convince you we need a wealth tax, I don’t know what will.

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    21 Feb 2021

    Thelma, a Black woman in Minnesota, was kicked out of her home. Why? The landlord had been charged with a misdemeanor for not evicting her family after white neighbors repeatedly called the police on her for things like barbecues and kids playing outside.

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    15 Feb 2021

    Someone better than I needs to write a thinkpiece about the virality of tiktok videos of white women with yoga bodies in upper middle class kitchens making "gross" food.

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  10. 10 Feb 2021

    i feel like it's been a while since we had a full thinkpiece comparing current politics to a Shakespeare play someone should get on that important work

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  11. 31 Jan 2021

    "we already let you exist, and now you want stimulus checks & health care? no no no, YOU got to be elected, now you pass what WE want. that's fair and balanced."

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  12. 31 Jan 2021

    the "waaah what about bipartisanship" thing is pitched to middle America who think of Democrats as a bunch of coastal gay black Latinx immigrants & to whom "allowing Dems to be in gov't at all" is already an"out there" compromise, so Dems pushing "their" policies is "unbalanced."

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    28 Jan 2021

    Anyone who's not noticing literal Nazis and far-right disinfo grifters like Mike Cernovich rabidly tweeting in support of the GameStop squeeze is a fucking dumbass, and as usual, is correct. Nazis will try to co-opt *any* movement that's mostly disaffected white people.

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    27 Jan 2021
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    Imagine a hedge fund bailout happening before $2000 checks It reads like the too-on-point final action of a collapsing fictional country

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    18 Jan 2021

    The MLK quotes *they* won't use but you should know, a thread

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  16. 12 Jan 2021

    establishment GOPers work for big business and called on racial (and gender) resentment to stay elected. now the beast they fed is biting them so they're trying to cut ties. (we'll see just how entangled they really are) i mean, they did already get their tax cuts & court seats.

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  17. 9 Dec 2020

    Numerous reports of delays online - Lenovo tells some folks their repair center is closed due to Covid. The phone reps are clearly instructed to try to avoid saying so. If the shop is closed, either send the units back or refund them. Is the plan to sit on them until June?

    . My brand-new laptop (bought Sept, blue screen of death end of Oct) has now been in Lenovo service center for OVER A MONTH. Endless run-arounds. No clear answer on if there's even ANY STAFF WORKING in the shop. How many others having this problem?
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  18. 9 Dec 2020

    . My brand-new laptop (bought Sept, blue screen of death end of Oct) has now been in Lenovo service center for OVER A MONTH. Endless run-arounds. No clear answer on if there's even ANY STAFF WORKING in the shop. How many others having this problem?

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  19. 24 Nov 2020

    The atoms don't have to continue text, they have to continue audience's understanding. Each atom forwards the audience's question one step towards an answer. That's why indeterminate-order hypertext or choose-your-own-adventure still work as conveyors of plot.

    Realized from the answers that unconsciously I am thinking of serialized atoms. There’s no reason the atoms have to be continuous segments of text. Though I can’t think of a candidate counterexample. Maybe a thread?
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  20. 24 Nov 2020

    A change in tactic (that is, a beat ends when the tactic changes). A character wants X and tries A to get it. When A doesn't work, they change to B, and that's a new beat. E.g. Beat: Hero tries to convince villain to stop the evil plan, villain says no. Beat: Hero tries punching.

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    What does beat mean in this context?
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