There is no "tension" here if you realize that the voters who are up for grab don't live in mental universe where ideological categories like "liberal" or "conservative" have strong purchase. Rather, their orientation is prosystem vs. antisystem — with conflicted voters having a… https://t.co/ECn8rYw9Ic— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 18, 2025
I’m glad people are learning that the cost of community is annoyance / inconvenience/ sharing your space and things. More of this realisation please.— martha (@mxmsworld) March 11, 2025
Divya Venn on X: "the rules around using your sex appeal (as a girl) to get ahead are obvious intuitively but are very hard to codify. sometimes sex appeal raises your social status and sometimes it lowers it it's an interesting problem and i would like your thoughts 🧵" / X
sometimes sex appeal raises your social status and sometimes it lowers it
it's an interesting problem and i would like your thoughts 🧵
— Divya Venn (@divya_venn)
Large numbers of people are heaping abuse and mockery on a seemingly nice lady who's proud of earning a PhD, demonstrating that the worst thing you can be on social media is earnest and vulnerable, especially if you're a woman.
— Zack Stentz (@MuseZack)
In Boerum Hill, an older couple just stepped out of a brownstone and started banging pots and pans. Nobody on the streets reacted, so they added “Guilty! Guilty!” then walked back inside.
— Blair (@__seab)
andrew (spring '24 classes are now open) 🌹 on X: "video games, and the people who play them, are deeply misunderstood it's difficult to clarify in a tweet, but feel free to AMA" / X
Monger on Twitter
It’s ludicrous watching it as a non American. All this potential, all these smart brains and so much anger and discourse. In 1984 everyone had 2 minutes of hate daily. Americans on Twitter is like 2 hours of hate daily 🤯— Monger (@sunnyndsardonic) October 30, 2022