I had rather have one scratch my head i’ th’ sun
When the alarum were struck than idly sit
To hear my nothings monstered.
This account is for whatever I feel like tweeting about.
one-legged juggler
he/him // Black Lives Matter
so i've been tentatively keeping an eye on this, but it really does look like the Observer getting sold to Tortoise Media lead to Sonia Sodha losing her job as Editor/Lead Writer for the Guardian UK.
Since then the paper has stopped doing fanatical anti-trans pieces and now is just reporting about trans issues as if we're citizens.
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@babe the machines have achieved sentience
@babe are pylons angels?
https://www.tumblr.com/fortjester/757326311962427392?source=share
“Ernest Hemingway was paid $1 a word in 1936. That's more than $21 per word in today's dollars.“
The average for most major publications these days is $1 a word (if you’re lucky!) https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places
You can always tell who in Hollywood has family money by their Instagrams. People like Dakota Johnson, who have a Hollywood lineage deeper than the Mariana Trench, post only rarely. They post about social justice causes they care about, or personal announcements. Even someone like actress and musician Maya Hawke mostly posts previews of upcoming […]
I just saw a toot explaining a useful "youtube fixer" firefox add on that removes "for you..." and "people also search..." from search results.
This made me realize how far we have come the wrong way: we are now in THE AGE OF ADVERSARIAL FEATURE DESIGN. Product creators introduce anti-features to attempt to divert user attention AWAY from what they want. Users are captive to the ecosystem because the software USED TO BE useful, and they actively have to block against new features to keep it so.
CJ "siege" Bellwether
Clayton Cubitt
The Whore of Blahbylon
Taylor Lorenz
Cogito ergo mecagoendios
Richard Parker 🍻