HELLO.
In exactly 3 weeks my new book, YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, will be in stores! This is the thread where I try to entice you to buy it, plying you with photos of:
1. dog
2. cat
3. a cool spooky house
4. my ass in a bikinibecause surely everyone likes *one* of these things pic.twitter.com/Q12CGjvQjO
— Kat Rosenfield (@katrosenfield) December 20, 2022
One of the reasons I like Kat is that she’s not a prude.
But I’d rather pet the kitty than the booty tbh. (I mean, it’s a nice ass. But…kitty!)
The thing about masks, they were never a panacea. We treated them like they were at the expense of talking about the harder structural things in a serious way. The lack of sick pay. The congregate living issues. Vaccine hesitancy and public trust.
— Angie Schmitt🚶♀️ (@schmangee) December 19, 2022
For a lot of people masks were the equivalent of 1,000 feet of lead shielding: unassailable, unquestionable, better than all vaccines, better than any other alternative. This was fine with the powerful because the other alternatives would’ve required concessions, changes, and money spent.
It sucks when something becomes an identity marker. Really makes your brain turn into mush.
"Lockdowns" (or rather, the half-assed social distancing stuff we called "lockdowns" were a great idea in 2020, until we got vaccines that worked. Then they became a bad idea. If that's a nuanced or difficult idea to understand, well, I'm sorry!
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) December 20, 2022
Correct. This harms the fewest people for the least time while reaping the largest benefits for the many. We live in a society, as much as the neo-Thatcherites hate admitting it. Perpetual lockdown (or some equivalent) was never the answer.
How is it that they made a chart with 18 different sleeping positions and I'm none of them https://t.co/nQoyLOVhqO
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) December 20, 2022
Also none.
My partner thinks my method of taking mandatory online training classes is amusing: I leave the videos playing in a browser window somewhere, pay no attention at all, then take the exam at the end and get 94% correct.
I like having a big brain sometimes. Wish I didn’t have to do this BS to renew a cert, though.