Good morning! As many of you will know, I like to use Twitter to respond to Canadian journalism. I love it because it’s dynamic and spur-of-the-moment — and it creates a living and active response to a bad segment or show. I never set out to use it in this way but as the quality of journalism has declined, it’s more and more become by go-to location to vent, analyse and criticize the news.
I've gladly and proudly deleted dozens of accounts over my brief 34 years of existence.
Sometimes I even delete two accounts at the same time because of how wonderful it feels!
University of Waterloo saw several suicides not too long ago, as did University of Toronto. The purported reason: queues were too long for counseling. Are we all in a simulation, is this an instance of Two Point Hospital where the level is a tertiary education institution? Amazing how much they gripe about rigor when their careers, their work, their research, their institutions are built by a dogmatic delusion, purely to further that dogmatic delusion of superiority. I was a student there and nobody cared about anything I had experienced - we would get shunted to counseling services, sometimes with a literally flippant wave of the hand, when what was necessary at that point in time was to recognize that a dehumanized person was in their offices. I posted on Twitter that these students had been murdered and was told that I was "harassing" the university by such writing. I gladly deleted that account and have deleted several more accounts across numerous major services since.
Facebook has twice deleted the following comment and admonished me, a deadass male-identifying, male-presenting man, for saying hateful things about an identifiable group:
Men are pigs.
- Dr. Greg House
I was going to appeal the second deletion. marshalling arguments expertly (for I am a goddamn expert at this) about satire, sarcasm, sardonicity (there’s the noun English lacks) and how, for the benefit of Zuck’s dim learning machines and vapid stuffed animals, “men are pigs” very obviously does not mean all actual men are actual pigs.
I was also going to point out that “men are [virtual] pigs” is an archetype useful for behaviour comparisons, and also for shouting late at night just about anywhere, without signifying actual hatred against actual men.
Anyway, Facebook has deadlines and I was busy, so I didn’t appeal. Maybe if Musk takes over Twitter tomorrow I’ll use House’s immortal line to stress-test his libertarianism.
Rock on Nora, people will follow you wherever you are.
I’ve been suspended twice on Twitter now. It sucks. Hope it gets resolved soon. I appreciate your voice on there.
I've gladly and proudly deleted dozens of accounts over my brief 34 years of existence.
Sometimes I even delete two accounts at the same time because of how wonderful it feels!
University of Waterloo saw several suicides not too long ago, as did University of Toronto. The purported reason: queues were too long for counseling. Are we all in a simulation, is this an instance of Two Point Hospital where the level is a tertiary education institution? Amazing how much they gripe about rigor when their careers, their work, their research, their institutions are built by a dogmatic delusion, purely to further that dogmatic delusion of superiority. I was a student there and nobody cared about anything I had experienced - we would get shunted to counseling services, sometimes with a literally flippant wave of the hand, when what was necessary at that point in time was to recognize that a dehumanized person was in their offices. I posted on Twitter that these students had been murdered and was told that I was "harassing" the university by such writing. I gladly deleted that account and have deleted several more accounts across numerous major services since.
🙂
Facebook has twice deleted the following comment and admonished me, a deadass male-identifying, male-presenting man, for saying hateful things about an identifiable group:
Men are pigs.
- Dr. Greg House
I was going to appeal the second deletion. marshalling arguments expertly (for I am a goddamn expert at this) about satire, sarcasm, sardonicity (there’s the noun English lacks) and how, for the benefit of Zuck’s dim learning machines and vapid stuffed animals, “men are pigs” very obviously does not mean all actual men are actual pigs.
I was also going to point out that “men are [virtual] pigs” is an archetype useful for behaviour comparisons, and also for shouting late at night just about anywhere, without signifying actual hatred against actual men.
Anyway, Facebook has deadlines and I was busy, so I didn’t appeal. Maybe if Musk takes over Twitter tomorrow I’ll use House’s immortal line to stress-test his libertarianism.
Rock on Nora, people will follow you wherever you are.
I appreciate your voice! Thanks for the pep talk on needing ways to organize that aren't at the mercy of social media tech giants.
You're such a repugnant C U
"After careful review" LOL
12 hour ban (I think? not over yet) for answering Nick Knudsen musing about how to stop "the war of religion". My answer? Stop breathing. Life is war.
Of course it was sarcasm.