I had just thoroughly cleansed my Substack subscriptions as they were surpassing my utility bills. I vowed to take the Marie Kondo approach and only pay for a new one if I canceled one in exchange.
Now you fucked me up with this piece you just wrote and I broke my vow. Love every word of it and clearly the 10% of the 10% I thought I knew is not representative either.
It's a good reminder for all of us, and I should be more like that.
I mean, there are a few big name people on Twitter where I reserve the right to think that they are horrible individuals, no matter what their life story (some that I remember from long before Twitter and know from decades of exposure are not good individuals to be around, some who ganged up to get a friend of mine fired from her activist job, some who are well known to be straight up sex offenders who keep getting away with it), though even then, I'll only really dunk on one of mildly on Twitter, and sadly, the person I dunk on is the least harmful of the ones I think are horrible (though that person is the one that annoys me the most).
(In person with other people with decades of experience with this particular Vox writer is different story, one where I'm not at all mild in my dunking. I try to be a much better person on Twitter than I am in real life, in a shocking reverse of the norms.)
And I mostly have the same attention span and move on but occasionally I get fixated and not healthy. My fixation right now is Canadian issue (I’m dual citizen) with our government not acknowledging hiring a literally violent anti-semite to do anti-racism training. If it was US there would be lots of divergent views but ultimately it would be acknowledged as a mistake.
I had just thoroughly cleansed my Substack subscriptions as they were surpassing my utility bills. I vowed to take the Marie Kondo approach and only pay for a new one if I canceled one in exchange.
Now you fucked me up with this piece you just wrote and I broke my vow. Love every word of it and clearly the 10% of the 10% I thought I knew is not representative either.
Ah, thank you so much! (And I know that Substack pain. Rent or Substack? Hard choices.)
It's a good reminder for all of us, and I should be more like that.
I mean, there are a few big name people on Twitter where I reserve the right to think that they are horrible individuals, no matter what their life story (some that I remember from long before Twitter and know from decades of exposure are not good individuals to be around, some who ganged up to get a friend of mine fired from her activist job, some who are well known to be straight up sex offenders who keep getting away with it), though even then, I'll only really dunk on one of mildly on Twitter, and sadly, the person I dunk on is the least harmful of the ones I think are horrible (though that person is the one that annoys me the most).
(In person with other people with decades of experience with this particular Vox writer is different story, one where I'm not at all mild in my dunking. I try to be a much better person on Twitter than I am in real life, in a shocking reverse of the norms.)
It's just too easy to hit the send button. Maybe Twitter should build in a 10 second delay?
Twitter Blue has it and it doesn’t help much. Maybe a walk around the block and take deep breaths button? 🤣
And I mostly have the same attention span and move on but occasionally I get fixated and not healthy. My fixation right now is Canadian issue (I’m dual citizen) with our government not acknowledging hiring a literally violent anti-semite to do anti-racism training. If it was US there would be lots of divergent views but ultimately it would be acknowledged as a mistake.
https://quillette.com/2022/08/25/the-increasingly-blurry-line-between-anti-racism-and-racism/