I am celebrating so this is a thought for tomorrow but: I woke up at Too Early this morning thinking about how much the ~left is willing to ascribe to right-wingers cooking themselves online and how little analysis of why centrist Dems are so weird takes X into consideration RE:

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Alexis Madrigal (@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social)

I am worried about all the centrist Dems who are cooking their brains on an Elon Musk-tuned Twitter, imagining that is what “real life” is in t...

incidentally, the populations of NYC and the state of Virginia are real close to the same size

I would have thought that, given how much news I read, the act of just putting little summaries of immigration and data/surveillance next to each other in a chrono list (with many other people) would not make me break out in a cold sweat, but yeah, no.

turns out I have the inner resources required to stay furious about Teen Vogue for days, even now

2 things I accidentally taught autocorrect today but will never change: 1.) hollering > hollewrong, 2. cringe > crunge

oh god let me make dopey little posts that do not go to discover let me have this LET ME HAVE IT

It's almost as if letting the ultra-rich own the entire mainstream press and also all the big social platforms had a downside.

I looked a couple of weeks ago and I was on blocklists that claim to list genocide promoters, Russian assets, MAGA supporters, general haters (fair), etc. The people who are using these bad-faith and/or trolly and/or dumb lists from randos are not my people.

Well, this is quite bad. RE:

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) (@lexmcmenamin.com)

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust ha...

skipped live game to avoid torment, watched abridged version, still died multiple times, wtf RE:

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meetar (@fjord.style)

this base ball has been transmuted by arcane alchemies into a noble ball