tired: rats leaving a sinking ship wired: rats climbing the rigging of a sinking ship, and denouncing each other as racist and transphobic and whipping up a rat mob to throw other rats into the water, making more room on the dwindling above-water wreckage
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3/ The funny thing about the rats climbing the rigging of the 3/4 drowned SV Trad Publishing and biting ferociously at each other is that selfpub / indie is a totally real / valid alternative model, and lots of people make lots of money at it. >>>https://twitter.com/ElamBend/status/1286351376159854594 …
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4/ It's hardly surprising that it's predomninatly men with "GFY!" attitudes that are doing SF etc in indy, and it's predominatently women w social proof / safety / security -oriented mindsets that are bitterly clinging to the "officially approved by the school teacher" approach
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5/ Men have always been drawn to frontiers: sailing, exploration, the western hemisphere, gold mining, tech startups. Women have always, on average: 1) stayed behind 2) once the frontier was conquered, shown up, batted their eyes, and taken it over.pic.twitter.com/6nVG6SKXaU
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