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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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Elon Musk’s Latest Fail Whale

Posted on July 1, 2023July 1, 2023 by Whitney

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…

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Hockey & Homophobia: Ivan Provorov

Posted on January 23, 2023January 22, 2023 by Whitney

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…

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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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What to do: Speak up? Sweep it under the rug?

Posted on August 28, 2022August 26, 2022 by Whitney

I spend a lot of my time on TikTok, and I’ve found myself on the outskirts of BookTok. Mostly because I was looking for more books with Latine characters. My FYP (For You Page, for the uninitiated) has been taken up with discussion about romance author Kate Stewart, and criticism after it was discovered that…

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Collateral Damage: the verbal kind

Posted on April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 by Whitney

Every so often, I feel like I have to step forward to talk about the concept of collateral damage. Because there are a lot of people who proudly describe themselves as progressives, leftists… or just not being conservatives – that seem to have zero concept of what collateral damages are. I remember people I thought…

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Back Up Your Facebook & Instagram media

Posted on October 4, 2021October 27, 2021 by Whitney

Today, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp were unavailable for most of the work day. You were likely wondering if you were going to lose all those photos and videos you’ve made over the years. Now that it’s back up – it’s time to back up your media on both Facebook and Instagram. Thankfully Facebook makes it easy. You can…

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A Child of the Desert and the Sea

Posted on August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 by Whitney

I was born in the desert.  Well, in a hospital in the desert.  My mother jokes that the Sonoran Desert is in my veins, so much more than anyone else in her family.  I never cried when the clasp of my seat belt touched my skin when they buckled me in, even though it was…

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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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