Sad thing about the cat waking up and leaving the chair is now you have no excuse not to write
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn
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GUILLERMO DEL TORO’s CABINET OF CURIOSITIES - MANDY - THOR: METAL GODS - jackass of all trades
@debcha and it’s good to be able to wrest some personal control of getting word out yourself!
Was a lonely champion of Mike White’s Enlightened, whereas season 1 of White Lotus left me annoyed & even angry by its end. And yet season 2 episode 5 of White Lotus is one of the most wonderful works of tv acting & writing I’ve ever seen.
@Robyn780 I dunno I see billionaires trying to turn this planet into Venus every day
Remember a few years ago overhearing in a restaurant some people in publishing discussing how many followers on social media a potential author had as much as their manuscript and yeah, we all just made this part of our unpaid work, I know that’s part of why it’s so hard to quit a site gone to hell.
Don’t think we really reckoned with how we all became so dependent on a single site for promotion of our work because the companies that produce & distribute it have become so bad at it.
Gwen Snyder is uncivilThat's really my takeaway on all of this.
Journalists and antifascists got too good at what we were doing, especially accountability and deplatforming.
Thiel in particular figured this out and set out to destroy journalistic and then antifascist platforms and community.
@joshuatopolsky thanks this helped a lot
Joshua TopolskyI have mentioned before but this is for you if you’re trying to find your people from Twitter https://www.movetodon.org/ (anecdotally I have suddenly found WAY MORE folks I follow as of today)
@oneunderscore__ appreciated your insights tonight while I was eating dinner late, too. Never heard someone render a space silent. And yeah we’re really caught in a recurring loop.