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On the temporary death of TikTok
For some time, Sunday Mornings meant that I would get up to feed Ash (he does not understand the concept of sleeping in – he is a cat who wants his breakfast) and scroll on TikTok until everyone else woke up. This morning, it meant logging in to a ton of meta push notifications, and…
Flightlessbird: a hoax and responsible activism
Over on TikTok, my FYP was dominated last week by a woman whose screenname was flightlessbird. She was documenting the sudden and scary spiral of her husband in a mental health crisis – where he was turning her family and his against her, and threatening to have her committed. She admitted this week, that the…
Review: The Lost City
The Lost City was another movie that we’d meant to watch awhile ago. We decided to watch it while celebrating our anniversary. This ended up being the perfect choice, as it’s a story that’s filled with romance. Not always in the way you might expect. Think of it as if Indiana Jones was written to…
Review: Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves
This had been a movie on my to see list, and we’d planned on seeing it in theaters, but life got in the way. I am Dungeons & Dragons adjacent. I’m someone who plays a multitude of tabletop games, but not D&D regularly. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and written by them…
Rachel Zegler and the internet mob
I made a promise at the start of the strikes not to give any struck companies promotion for free. And so much has happened, but I’ve been content to write drafts and save them. Something that’s happened online this week requires a comment (without talking about the movie itself). The silence from a lot of…
Twitter continues it’s downward spiral, what now?
I’ve previously written two versions of this post, talking about Twitter’s downfall and my thoughts on successors. So I thought I’d go through the good, the bad, and the buggy. In the last week alone, Elon rate limited Twitter, made it so that you had to login to see tweets – which resulted in Google…
Elon Musk’s Latest Fail Whale
Twitter’s taken a sharp backslide in the time since Elon Musk purchased the social media platform. Elon immediately began firing staff, trying to backpedal on Twitter policies – and lost a lot of advertisers in the process. The latest in this series of missteps was entirely preventable, and frankly, it’s hilarious. Twitter’s had a sharp…
RIP The Athletic: It isn’t Dead, Just Forgot Its Purpose
In the sports world, The Athletic just went through another round of layoffs. With their layoffs focusing on “less popular local coverage” – with their MLB, NBA and NHL coverage hit the hardest. I think a lot of people are still waiting to see who is gone, but that seems to be the where the…
Hockey & Homophobia: Ivan Provorov
This post is about something personal, so it’s taken me time to find the words. For that I apologize. As most of you know, I’m a queer woman, part of the LGBTQ community. I’m bisexual, and I’m a hockey fan. Those are two things that don’t often mesh well. As a whole, the NHL tries…
