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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
writing this thread was cathartic for me but i think it also suggests something really unfortunate about twitter dynamics. i think something a bit bad happens when you swallow your reaction to a tweet that really gets to you, and that makes me a lot more sympathetic to angry QTs
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
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i don't think i've really allowed myself to notice how much i dislike this but i actually feel sad and angry every time i hear messaging about how women (exclusively) have [a problem that i also have] twitter.com/Virtual1nstinc…
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
like insofar as a tweet might piss you off enough to feel, even slightly, like a boundary violation or a value violation or anything like that, maybe swallowing your reaction to it could feel like acquiescing to that violation in a way that can feel unacceptable
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i've been feeling blocked wrt twitter for months now - like it shocks me how much better my tweets were in 2019 and 2020 when i didn't feel blocked, i just don't tweet fire anymore - and maybe it means i have a new set of things to unsuppress related to anger and resentment
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agrippa
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@QiaochuYuan
Yeah I think about this often. For me its that I feel confident the internet could serve me an endless supply of anger-triggering content and "interactions" if I allow it, so I just don't even start. certainly there is something that feels wrong about turning the other cheek.