Kelly Swails’s Tweets

Nov 26

This? This is just one example of what Twitter can do. Also one example of why I will be So Fucking Angry When it dies its eventual heat death because of its current owner.

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Sam Ghali, M.D.

@EM_RESUS

Here’s a message that was sent to me by an ER resident physician in training who saved a patient’s life half way across the country from me. When people ask “why teach on social media?” This is why.

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Dec 2

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Nominate your favorites for the Best of Chicago

It appears the

's best-of nominations are open, and well, I'm trying to be better about asking for things, so if you feel up for nominating WHEN FRANNY STANDS UP for "Best new novel by a Chicagoan" I'd be friggin delighted!

chicagoreader.com

chicagoreader.com/best

Dec 1

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Nov 30

Thinking "I'd like to do X sometime"? "Well, Swails, you're gonna die someday, if this is actually a priority for you, make it happen." It's oddly freeing. Sometimes, I ca feel my shoulders relax when I think it.

But the whole "I'm going to die someday has added another tool in my arsenal. Worried about my debt level? "Eh, I'm going to die someday." Which isn't to say I'm quitting my job and traveling around the world tomorrow or anything. But it helps.

Over the years, with life experience and therapy, I've gotten a whole lot better, but I still worry a lot. My finances. My future. Am I doing enough with my life.

I've always kind of dealt with anxiety, even when I didn't have a word for it. Worried about getting into trouble. Getting good grades. If person X liked me. My weight. My face. Not being enough. I've had these sort of thoughts as long as I can remember, I think.

I think it was

who mentioned this several weeks ago. Apparently there's an account that tweets "you're going to die someday." At first I thought it was morbid. Like, thanks pal, but no thanks. Then I got to thinking about it.

The whole dichotomy of the statement "I'm going to die someday" has sort of been giving me life lately. A thread.

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Tom Nichols

@RadioFreeTom

Nov 30

As I said, the GOP goal for 2024 is this: /6

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Nov 29

Me: I like Ted Lasso and watching the World Cup also me: alright FINE I'll watch Welcome to Wrexham Me, after six episodes: oh, fuck me, am I a Wrexham fan now?! #WrexhamFX #WrexhamAFC

Chris Stokel-Walker ~ @stokel@infosec.exchange

Nov 29

Whoopsie-doodle, guess that's what happens when your entire HR department walks out the door

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@stokel

SCOOP: Twitter didn't pay its current and former employees on time in the UK and Germany today. “It has come to our attention that some of you may not have received your November 2022 salary yet in your bank account,” an email sent this morning says.

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I do have a handful of people whom I only touch base with once a year via holiday cards--they aren't on social media--but I don't think any of our lives would be negatively impacted if we didn't touch that base every December.

More and more I think about the unpaid emotional labor of sending holiday cards and each year I'm less and less inclined to do it.

There is no "one true path" to publication. Anyone who says "you have to attend X" or "you simply must have an MFA" is suspect (and may be profiting from your doing so).

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Michael Damian Thomas

@michaeldthomas

So I really have no strong feelings either way. If you are a new writer, a workshop might be great for you. Or it might not. Either way, you can still get published. There are millions of paths to publication.

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Oh, right, money. Got it.

Okay, I'm no dentist, by why on earth would you perform a root canal on a two-year-old? Wouldn't you just ... yank the tooth?!

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Kaiser Health News

@KHNews

Nov 27

Two-year-old Zion died days after receiving baby root canals and crowns at a clinic affiliated with a private equity firm. His parents sued and accused the clinic and the investment firm of putting profits ahead of patient safety.

: @FredSchulte khn.org/news/article/p

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Steve Stewart-Williams

@SteveStuWill

Nov 24

Wow! Scientists have observed a single-cell alga evolve in real time into a multicellular organism. The transition took around a year and was caused by the introduction of a predator into the environment. nature.com/articles/s4159

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Sesame street traditionalist

Because of course he did.

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@iwantobehigh

Elon banned the cyanide and happiness guy from twitter

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It's interesting how different my feed is compared to six weeks ago. Less ads, and the ads I'm seeing are from companies I've never heard of. Fewer friends, which I attribute to folks bailing on the site. And the news tweets seem to be at the top every time I open the app.

Nov 24

Watching The Crown and it's so hilarious that they were like "we have to prepare for the next Monarch" in the 90s and the Queen would be around ND for another 25 years 😹😹

Nov 24

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Kyle

@KylePlantEmoji

Nov 23

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

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If I ever get married again--and this is a big if--I'm stealing this idea.

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Ask a Manager

@AskAManager

Nov 23

was looking for something else and came across this comment from 2016 about someone's book-themed wedding and ... yes! all people getting married next year, do this.

Nov 23

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