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Guess who’s back, back again

Posted on January 20, 2025February 6, 2025 by Whitney

Well, that was fast. TikTok is back, and the message welcoming back Americans thanked Trump. I’m pleased to see a number of creators who are glad it’s back, but feel like it’s been tainted. At moments like this, where you have Zuckerberg sounding like every toxic podcast bro, Elon vying to be treated like he’s…

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On the temporary death of TikTok

Posted on January 19, 2025January 19, 2025 by Whitney

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…

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movie poster for The Lost City. A man and woman walk through a jungle with a volcano in the distance. She is Sandra Bullock, a slim brunette, with hair down past her shoulders, wearing a pink sequined jumpsuit that has been cut into shorts. He is Channing Tatum, wearing a dirty white t-shirt and khaki pants with a backpack and an travel neck pillow around his neck, pulling a rolling suitcase. There are also ruins in a background as well as a small blue car with a luggage rack. A goat stands in the rack.

Review: The Lost City

Posted on March 1, 2024January 10, 2025 by Whitney

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…

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movie poster for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Several people stand in a V formation in front of a graphic that resembles a red dragon on a white background. They are dressed in fantasy type clothing. Chris Pine stands in the front, holding a Lute behind him. To his right is Michelle Rodriguez dressed as a Barbarian in furs with an axe, then Sophia Lillet as a Tiefling - she's dressed in green with black horns sticking out of her red hair. To the left of Chris Pine is Regé-Jean Page, dressed in the silver armor of a Paladin, and behind him is Justice Smith wielding a magic staff.

Review: Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves

Posted on January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 by Whitney

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…

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Rachel Zegler and the internet mob

Posted on August 14, 2023August 23, 2023 by Whitney

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…

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Twitter continues it’s downward spiral, what now?

Posted on July 6, 2023July 30, 2023 by Whitney

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…

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RIP The Athletic: It isn’t Dead, Just Forgot Its Purpose

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Whitney

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…

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Lack of tone: the trouble with the internet

Posted on January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 by Whitney

I am internet old. I was 14 when we got AOL in our house, and yes, I absolutely did tie up our phone line constantly. I’ve come here today, my lovelies, to talk about something that people seem to not realize… Which is all about text, tone and mind reading. And that’s this- you can’t…

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Updated: Twitter, what’s next in social media

Posted on December 22, 2022December 21, 2022 by Whitney

It was only a month and a half ago I blogged about what was going on with Twitter and what was next on the horizon with social media. While I think we all predicted that Twitter was on the decline, I don’t think that anyone would have foreseen just how quickly things would devolve –…

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Twitter and What’s Next

Posted on November 7, 2022November 6, 2022 by Whitney

With Elon in charge of Twitter, a lot of changes have happened in the last week. He decided that anyone who wanted to be verified could pay $8 a month, defeating the purpose of verification. Elon fired employees who are responsible for things like accessiblity. He fired the ethics team, who had focused on the…

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I am a writer, artist, mother, and geek. I write about what catches my attention- whether it's fandom, politics, hockey, life as a Latina, or life with Crohns disease. Sometimes I write about marriage and kids, but that's not very often these days.


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  • Guess who’s back, back again January 20, 2025
  • On the temporary death of TikTok January 19, 2025
  • Flightlessbird: a hoax and responsible activism August 17, 2024
  • Review: The Lost City March 1, 2024
  • Review: Dungeons & Dragons Honor Among Thieves January 22, 2024
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