Jenna DeWitt (she/her)

YEP

Mood. I could do without all these dysfunctional systems (respiratory, digestive, etc.)

Tbh same. It makes sense!

Yep. Can verify. Suburb to suburb too, not actually in either city.

speaking from experience: $80k on the west coast is about the same as $40k in the midwest. possibly less.

If you, as an editor, accept money to do an edit, you should set aside the time to do the freakin' edit. This is gross.

(Carolina is livetweeting a session, not endorsing.)

So true!

this tbh. Tempted to write about it... again. lol Need to find something to say I haven't already said, though. 😂

It's easier to scroll past and not confront people because they perceive anything besides encouragement as aggressive/defensive, no matter how much time you spend finding sources they will accept or meeting them halfway. But the conspiracies, assumptions, lies, and gossip continue to spread.

So watching it happen, it is hard to nip it in the bud because by the time it turns harmful and/or delusional, it is solidified in the identity and belonging brain. "That seems like a logical jump. Can you spell that out for me with support?" is met with "sad, you're just as bad as Them!"

"That's actually not true. Where did you hear it?" and "Can you tell me how you got that number?" and "This seems to exclude the voices of the people you're talking about" are dismissed as "siding with the enemy" and associating with/defending the impure, which makes you evil too by contamination.

You can say "no, there's another explanation for that" or "yes, there's an answer to that leading question. Here's what was actually said." But the facts are not actually the point. It's their feelings about them that are in control. So fact correction and accountability are rejected as an "attack."

The only sources of authority they now recognize are those that support their POV. Legit concerns and fears that needed to be informed by facts and nuance are now spiraling into thread-board "it's all connected" assumptions and believing the worst about people.

They can start with a very valid point and I agree, so we develop a sort of mutual support. Then they use hyperbolic language, which is justified by rhetorical use and persuasion. Then emotive generalizing, which is clearly trauma or contextual vagueposting coming out as "everyone" and "all."

One problem with watching people get radicalized into conspiracy theories and social contamination fears is that emotionally heightened people just don't respond well to logic.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.

Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

They don't need to pause because that is the point. They want to "protect" kids by cutting off any mention of queerness that could reach their kids.

Your instincts are correct.

I just don't see "large swaths" or even anyone I know using either. I only ever hear them mentioned in replies like this one.

If we all decide on a single alternative though and mass migrate together, I'm all in! Just needs to be a massive enough user base (like Bsky vs X) and something everyone else will actually use 😁 I'm not a big enough deal that anyone follows my lead from one to another, so it has to be agreed upon.

And if I scroll the app, it's also 99% people I'm following, and vice versa, with notifications from my followers. Not defending it, but seems like S is neutral when they shouldn't be while X exists TO be a Nazi factory? If S is scrapping content for an AI that produces cp, that's different though.

For me, it's much, much more compartmentalized. I'm primarily experiencing it as an email distribution system, more interactive and shareable than MailChimp but more email focused than WP.

🤐🤐🤐

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

Because we tried other platforms and no one was willing to read them. I keep everything on both WordPress and Substack, and I do not get nearly the subscriptions, opens, or shares on WP as I do on the publishing platform everyone else is on that functions more as social media.

i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later

This is both a slick linguistic take and an excellent parallel to the complete farce of western individualism.

Used flower pot at Goodwill for $13

Stop donating to Goodwill!!! Their CEO makes millions because they're taking all the stuff they get and marking it up 2000% so people you think ur helping can't even afford it. Seriously, stop donating to Goodwill. Give things to ur neighbors or domestic violence shelters. Stop donating to Goodwill.