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Legal Editor, @BuzzFeedNews. SCOTUS Correspondent. Nat Sec Team, covering Trump & Mueller. Sober. Gay. Buckeye. Law Dork. DMs open. chris.geidner@buzzfeed.com

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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      I joined Twitter at 1:48am March 5, 2009, according to Twitter. I’d never seen the time stamp before — but there it is. I was “underemployed,” as I called it, by that point, and it was early Thursday morning, so the odds are pretty good I was a bit (or a lot) drunk.pic.twitter.com/K2wxVuDLfA

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    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      I had started back up my blog, Law Dork, and was still in my condo back in Columbus — but the truth was that things were looking pretty grim (although I don’t think I really quite realized it).

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    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      Being very active in my addiction at that point (and being bipolar), who’s to say what was technically going on with me when I joined this place that night! Broadly, I know that I felt like I should sign up to help out with my blogging and with my preparing to move to DC.

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    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      I had been convinced to join Twitter because that’s where the conversations that had been happening on blogs were happening now. And, I found out, it was true!

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    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      (I had basically disappeared off the internet for two years when I worked in state government. I re-started the blog when I left.)

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    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      What I quickly found out when I joined Twitter, though, was that — unlike the blogosphere — communities quickly overlapped, and you encountered people you’d never have seen back in the early blogging days.

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    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      And that was amazing, and it let me learn from people — and talk to people and, eventually, meet people — who had so much to offer me and my life.

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    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      I was able to follow one person, for example, who was sober — and who I told of my difficulties with drinking when I wasn’t comfortable talking with (and/or was actively lying to) the people I knew in my “real” life.

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    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      I also was able to follow people in DC before I moved (back) here, and get a feeling for the queer community that had changed so much since I’d left in ‘98.

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    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      Since then, of course, I moved to DC, decided that drinking was not working for me, got sober, and have proceeded on this truly incredible adventure of the past several years.

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      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

      It’s been wild. It’s been unexpected. And thanks to Twitter, I basically already have friends anywhere I travel. And they have a friend here when they visit. ... It’s truly a delight.

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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

          So, I might have been drunk or depressed or a bit manic (or some combination thereof) when I decided to join Twitter, but thank God that I did. Despite the days when I want to throw my phone into the street to hide from Twitter, it’s also pretty much helped save my life.

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        3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

          (I do recognize that being a white guy has helped improve my Twitter experience as compared to others. At the same time, tho, many people have shared with me that w/in communities, and despite the problems, they have had similar experiences within their chosen online community.)

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        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner Mar 5

          Anyway, that’s that. Thanks for joining me on this adventure, and here’s to my 10th year on Twitter! ... For now, though, I’m gonna head to bed. ... Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves.

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        1. Jackie Cecala‏ @Jacks53343083 Mar 5
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          This past year I learned a sober life is a better life. You have proven how it can be. I follow you for your recovery as well as your news. From a friend of Bill. ❤️

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        1. Kathy in KY‏ @Kathy_in_KY Mar 5
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          You don't know me - no reason you should - but you're one of my favorite follows. Your nightly benediction helps me, and you're just so darn decent, which is a reminder as well about just treating people well wherever we happen to be.

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