Why do people care so much what they “identify” as? What difference does it make? It seems to me just to be one’s consumer branding, neoliberal swill applied to one’s life. I identify as “alive.” Good enough.
Month: May 2022
Basis
1/Many things about @adam_tooze's new op-ed in the New Statesman do not make sense to me. https://t.co/y1buwoYtB9
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) May 20, 2022
Another fallen to Russian propaganda. Tooze is German, so it sort of makes sense I guess — though his column does not at all. None of the claims have any basis in reality. They aren’t even self-consistent in the same column, which always bothers me when anyone does this, even people I agree with.
Strike
nothing is quite as smooth-brained as “the US supporting Ukraine is just as bad as the US invading Iraq” takes
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) May 21, 2022
Ian Welsh and many others believe this. Should put them in a Russian T-72 so they can fight alongside the “liberators” of Ukraine until a Javelin finds them.
Frosted
I love the word “glacé.” It’s got everything a word needs, in French or English.
Shelter
The first ten on today’s playlist:
Up Doc
I’ve hesitated making this post because it feels incredibly vulnerable to discuss something so personal on social media. However, the universe – and my own gut- keep telling me I need to tell my story because I believe it very likely may save someone’s life.
-A thread-
— Kara Edwards (@karaedwards) May 16, 2022
Posts like this make me wonder why are so many doctors so bad? Bet it has a lot to do with pushing the medical system into the capitalist sphere and that we treat doctors like minor deities.
Do they not mind being so terrible at their jobs? I would.
RP
It’s interesting how the fact that PMC libs can only imagine having sex for power perverts (word used very deliberately) their entire worldview.
30 Hurts Me
Limiting 4K to 30 Hz will be a deal-breaker for some.
Should be a dealbreaker for anyone with fucking EYES. Fuck that.
Power Games
I think we’re (culturally) evolving to be like the non-social big cats — terrified of each other, with intimacy and sex as only a means to an end or as an exercise of power, and who live isolated most of the time.
This is the PMC lib utopia.
No Scrawn
we need a daybitch (fighter of the nightbitch) https://t.co/29JPy0X8Ik
— Dr. Pimp (@ItsPhetz) May 19, 2022
Amy has been working out. She’s not scrawny anymore. (No opinion on the movie.)
Branch Covidians
I've intentionally stayed quiet on Covid policies of late. It's not fun arguing against the zeigeist. But a quick reminder of how problematic our local media has been.
A quick thread (ugh)
— Paymon Rouhanifard (@Rouhanifard) May 19, 2022
The Covidians are an interesting case. Some of their criticisms are correct, but the problem is that they expect society to live in lockdown for years and years at a time, or worse, for something that is not even achievable. It is extremely like fundamentalist religion in this respect.
Great Try
Yes. We need many more Solyndras. The safe projects aren't the ones that need public help with financing. https://t.co/ps6903Noe2
— JW Mason (@JWMason1) May 19, 2022
A billion crying libs won’t make this untrue. If you’re trying for great things, some percentage of it will end in utter failure. That’s the way it should be.
Any Cost
I don’t know how the people who believe we should (somehow) force peace in Ukraine at any cost realize how insane that sounds and is. Would that even save lives long term? Russia has ambitions beyond Ukraine territorially, and anyway that’s ignoring the genocide that would occur in Ukraine if they are allowed to win.
Peace cannot be had by kneeling before an enemy who wants to destroy you and others. That is just not how it works.
P as F
Puritanism is fascism whether you're agitating on TikTok for no kink at pride so Citibank will show up with free pens or broadcasting your trauma over seeing Twilight Sparkle scat/vore porn while searching for fanfic and turning it into truly bizarre consent discourse https://t.co/GIVG7VENvd
— molly tanzer, somewhat online (@wickedmilkhotel) May 19, 2022
Some people just need to be punted into the sun. I don’t care how much it costs.
Job Job
The unfortunate thing about MeToo is about 10% of it was anything real and the rest of it was about competition for scarce jobs and PMC bullshit.
Could’ve been different. Wasn’t.