matthewterrill.bsky.social
Poetry, art, music, urbanism, justice. Runner for sport and cyclist for transport. Arts & Culture finance leader. Learning to thrive with ADHD. Finding the sacred all around. (he/him)
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You do not get to go on fucking TV and say "the people have to stop this." Are you fucking for real? "The people" are in the streets. YOU DO YOUR GD JOB, losers.
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Tom's wages of Whiteness is the purging of other identity markers.
I also find it interesting that self-styled Whiteness Arbiters (a) only have this energy when critique against oppression is salient and (b) don't extend this logic to, say, annual Irish & Italian heritage festivals
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Totally agree. 5 yrs ago, we had dozens of "friends" via a church we were struggling to leave as theology evolved. Once we officially left, 4 mos into covid, 90% of them ghosted us overnight. Twitter was a lifeline & met a few new kindred souls. All those lost connections still ache sometimes.
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Love this thread Alyssa, and glad you're here. I'll be borrowing -- and resonate with -- your "triple bomb" coinage.
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If it grows to a certain point and then gets somewhat smaller and that’s where it settles, that’s fine! The goal of every endeavor does not have to be world domination. I feel like people used to know this. A business could just be a business, stable and profitable.
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Abroad nothing, I travel all over the US for work and my family got legitimately angry when I told them Portland wasn’t on fire, I safely walked to the Minneapolis Somali district to get some good food, and Chicago was lovely and nobody street crimed me.
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there is/was no migrant crisis. the trade deficit is no immediate threat and is the result of macroeconomic forces. inflation was already at an acceptable level in nov 2024. we did this because of boomer facebook memes. like, none of it is real
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Never tire of this view of Boston and the Charles River. 😍
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Ugh, yes, unfriendliness to elderly or mobility impaired folks is another very good reason why this sucks!
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Oh 100% you’re both correct.
Just another one of those things that make all our lives worse bc “market research” indicates being hostile to your customers lets you extract more from them.
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LOL it seems they're putting the troops on 29-day rotations so they don't have to give them active-duty benefits
Remember what I said about how authoritarians need the troops to actually be willing to kill for them for this to work?
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how the fuck do you come back from 0-40 on your own serve facing three championship points and win like that, nerves of fucking titanium
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honestly might have been the best match I’ve watched since the Fed/Nadal Wimbledon final, which will probably never be topped
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The lower-ranked player has now won 10 of 13 in the series, which is just fabulous. Really hope that continues, one way or the other.
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