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Not to tweet this at 2pm on a Wednesday but it’s not an exaggeration to say I think about this every single day
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With global warming and all….can we pls just keep the park water fountains on year round….. those pipes are not freezing….
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Nice that even tweets necessitating a giant reader context box will still be accepted as promoted ads on here! Lol
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Like … not that this behavior is surprising but it can still be jarring and depressing
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Saw someone post a vid of a rich girl, subtext being “so this is how the rich live lol must be nice” Girl seemed perfectly nice albeit in her own world. The comments were the most vitriolic stuff about her appearance, weight, whether ppl will care if she dies??, etc
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Many have pointed out that certain white men respond to critiques about white women & make it clear they aren’t actuskly interested in talking about whiteness and just hate women… This def applies to rich people discourse too lol
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What did we even do before we could like Instagram stories like I have nothing to say
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Just finished listening to The Power Broker…it was 66 hours long… lol…but if I’m honest, there’s no way I would’ve finished the 1300 page book… but truly u can finish this in a few weeks just like doing errands/chores/cooking
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Some ads I’ve gotten on Instagram in the past week:
Verkada (lol)
Frog/human ceramic (love)
Teletubbies mary Janes (appreciate the effort)
Sigourney weaver life size prop (?? ive never even seen any of her movies???)
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our society rests on the shoulders of posters…give them the respect they deserve…🙏
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I know the broad cultural trend lately is to be anti-posting…but…counter argument…!…last night I googled my great grandma and found out a distant relative posted a YouTube video of a photo album with her + her family in Ireland ~ 100 years ago lol
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Keith Chapman got back to me today: conclusively, NO, Bob the Builder ≠ a reference to Robert Moses
“Interesting to know that the name Bob the Builder had been used in a newspaper article as far back as 1946 but I’d never heard of Robert Moses or seen that article.” Thx king 🙏
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I was like probably not but I have to know for sure. So on Saturday I emailed the agency that reps Keith Chapman, who created Bob the Builder (& Paw Patrol & several other shows!) and was like is this a coincidence or no
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So I’m listening to the Power Broker rn and I recently got to this quote from a 1946 newspaper article that calls Robert Moses “Big Bob the Builder Moses”
… so I was like wait… is this a coincidence or does the kids’ show Bob the Builder secretly reference Robert Moses…
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Thinking about this detail from the power broker (very inconspicuous, Caro wasn’t making a big point of it) where Robert Moses wanted a fish chowder menu at the opening of an aquarium
I don’t want that weird talking button system with my cat but I do wish I could send him a text and he could text me back
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(Its on-site search tool is meh so would rec googling archive.org + book title) (you'll prob need to make a login and "borrow" a book for 1 hr at a time but I've never had an issue/had someone borrowing a book I wanted)
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Fwiw, I learned recently that archive.org's ebook selection is a lot bigger than I thought...like significantly more than project gutenberg or any other free book site ive used...it's worked like 9/10 times for me lately
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The Proud Boys just showed up to the Jackson Heights Library in Queens where there’s a protest and large counterprotest in response to a Drag Story Hour happening inside. Small kids are seeing this from a window on the second floor.
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Thought this turkey trot shirt was fake, but there’s race day pics of ppl wearing it on the group’s facebook. ….that said, this abridged history of the past 45 years includes select events like “unabomber arrested,” “finding Nemo grosses 340 million” and “osama bin Laden killed”
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One of the craziest status quo shifts I’ve lived through was shift from weak hand dryers to really really powerful ones….few acknowledge this
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Is it common knowledge that Elon’s sister Tosca Musk directed a 2016 Christmas romcom about a misunderstood millionaire celeb with a heart of gold that’s high up in the Hulu recommendations for holiday movies
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Does anyone know if this 2.5 billion number is random or tied to some specific fringe delusion? Because it's not creationist (I think?) And also like we wouldn't have sexually reproducing eukaryotes for another approximately 1 billion years lol
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So I read the insane book by Anita Bryant, big homophobe whose 70s "Save Our Children" crusade largely set the playbook for modern anti-gay mobilization
There's this random line that says male x female sex is the story of "two and a half billion years of civilization" and ???
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Obviously this is bad but….lol i don’t think Elon understands he’s created the perfect situation for people on here: making self promotion an act of Resistance twitter.com/TwitterSupport
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Full context of the Coppin line about Koch, which was about his fringe, radical anarcho-libertarian activism: (this is an excerpt from 's Dark Money, where she talks about this and quotes Coppin)
politico.com/magazine/story
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On Elon Musk buying Twitter and silencing voices that don't praise him... thinking about this line by Clayton Coppin, which was written about Charles Koch:
“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him"
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TGIF- Thank Goodness It's Fiona!
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Like not to state the obvious - but for the far right to see an “eye for an eye, let’s see how they like it” playbook in response to a crafted censorship narrative and be thrilled … not gr8 for sure
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His personal transphobia fits with the agenda of transphobes. And broadly with a symbolic leader like Elon, any personal enemy he chooses can be explained by the collective far right in a way that fits/furthers their agenda
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Imo one of the most concerning things about what’s happening on here is that Elon’s individual actions may be selfishly motivated, but beyond him, you see some on the far right viewing it as an empowering collective rallying point and an example of punitive/retributive justice
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Yk I have no idea what I expected this announcement to be but it was not NFTs
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Tongue out Tuesday!
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My 2023 predictions:
- statement toilet seat covers
- brooches
- posting on LinkedIn
- Tetris
- cropped denim jackets
- polka dots
- mushrooms as a trendy food
- billionaire narcissist launches a fashion line
- viral story/backlash/panic involving group therapy
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Yesterday a still-in-uniform off-duty cop made an illegal left turn, knocked me off my bike, then cursed me out and drove off ❤️ his front license plate was concealed by a print of an american flag ❤️🇺🇸 (I’m fine) just like… ❤️ big lol you have to laugh…
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