Devin Nunes Beclowns Himself
Rep Devin Nunes is suing Devin Nunes’ Mom and Devin Nunes’ Cow for defamation. No, really.
Tagged: Twitter
Someone is Lying on the Internet
This video checks all the boxes for your garden variety tin-foil hat Q Anon tweet, including the main characteristic of a Q Anon offering: It is not real.
In Which I Step in Some QAnon, and Can’t Get it Off Me
While I ponder how to extricate myself from the gooey mire of QAnon Twitterland, please learn a lesson from my folly: You cannot troll those who have attached themselves to perhaps the biggest troll of all time.
The Martyrdom of Jesse Kelly
In banning Jesse Kelly, Twitter managed to create a martyr and shoot themselves in the foot at the same time.
Ordinary World 26 Nov 2018
Your Ordinary World for 26 Nov 2018 with links about healthcare, community, AOC, regulating Big Tech, a different take on red state/blue state, China’s revisionist history, and the death of charity walk-a-thons.
Droning the Libs
So, the other day I tweeted disagreement with popular Twitter personality Jesse Kelly, and found myself at the bottom of a dog pile.
Fighting on Twitter Doesn’t Have to Make You a Loser
You know what they say about fighting on the internet: even if you win, you’re still a loser. But Twitter has taught me that it can actually be good for you, if you do it right.
Alt-Right Memes Go Mainstream
The Alt-Right has capably pushed its memes into the mainstream. Can it succeed when limited to its own platforms?
Switching Horses Midstream
An assessment of executive managerial skills put on display for the nation to see.
Trump Channels Jackson, Gets Tepid Applause From Nixonians. Sad!
Burt Likko reacts to Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech, 140 characters at a time.
The Latest Front In Twitter’s War On Harassment: Weird Twitter – BuzzFeed News
Over the past year and a half, in response to bad press brought about by torrents of abuse often associated with Gamergate and the alt-right counterculture, Twitter has stepped up its effort to fight...
Twitter is a Business, Not the Government
Valuing one set of customers’ wishes over another’s is not the harbinger of Freedom and Liberty’s End Times.
The Santa Barbara Shooting
A horrific event at Burt Likko’s alma mater leaves him meditating on whether the modern age has somehow magnified and distorted the difficult-enough trials of youthful sexual frustration.
Is this weird, funny, or sad?
The twitterverse’s rather bizarre right-and-left alignment to cancel the Colbert Report for racism.
Twitter and the Social Archipelago
Twitter is a place where boundaries, and privilege, are constantly overcome. It’s not perfect, but the good, and the potential for good, far outweigh the bad.
Bringing Baby to Dinner
What’s to do when some parent (who obviously isn’t you because of course you have better judgment than that) brings their child to an inappropriate place? Also: food porn from Chicago!
Richard Dawkins on the Emptiness of Theology
Does it matter if Richard Dawkins is ignorant of theology? If he’s going to write about it, then yes.
