cam @empathy2000@schelling.pt

do you ever just wanna go apeshit (post relevant but cliche quotes with black and white photos behind them that you took from tumblr)

"some of you guys are alright, you should come to school tomorrow" (i'm giving out cookies my mom made)

wild to me that these are the two things the word "gossamer" refers to:

can just be pomos together or anything else

i wanna cowork today dm me if you wanna cowork

partially planning on staking my immediate future on a set of ideas around this

i think IFS is essentially correct but doesn’t take the amazing lessons it learns and apply them to the external world which it should

gn twitter friends

now that i've talked it out of my system i fully don't care anymore and think the original AP tweet is basically fine in terms of content

it's just worded poorly

thinking on it more, the striking part of this tweet is its attempt to make a general rule out of a situation that really only makes sense for marginalized classes of people

yeah, it's bad to reduce _some_ people to _some_ parts of their identity. but not everyone for all parts!

hmm now im wondering if this is historically blind. idk how much political work was actually done by people to get everyone to not say e.g. the n-word

but i do know that work wasn't done by AP news lol

if the culture reallllllly changes, so too will the language. but not until then.

everything in our language has markers about how we feel about it, and trying to fully circumvent those markers will never work (nor should it!), because it feels too unnatural to adjust

you would never say "people with frenchness"

you would say french people

because "people with frenchness" implies frenchness is bad

which is the whole problem in the first place

it kinda reminds me of the n-word observation where:

"obese" is not like the n-word because we say obese and we call the n-word the n-word

our language around things will never fully obey our desires for political action

gay peop- sorry, i mean people with gay
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RT @APStylebook
We recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing “the” labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses. And use these descriptions only when clearly relevant.
https://twitter.com/APStylebook/status/1618658301750689792

"adjusted for divorce inflation"
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RT @micah_erfan
Fun fact: the divorce rate is the lowest it’s been in 40 years
https://twitter.com/micah_erfan/status/1618432343135649792