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Rachel Zegler and the internet mob

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Posted in celebrities, entertainment, Geek, personal, Pirate, sexism
August 14, 2023
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I made a promise at the start of the strikes not to give any struck companies promotion for free. And…

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Twitter continues it’s downward spiral, what now?

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Posted in Geek, personal
July 6, 2023
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I’ve previously written two versions of this post, talking about Twitter’s downfall and my thoughts on successors. So I thought…

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Elon Musk’s Latest Fail Whale

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July 1, 2023
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Twitter’s taken a sharp backslide in the time since Elon Musk purchased the social media platform. Elon immediately began firing…

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Hockey & Homophobia: Ivan Provorov

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Posted in personal
January 23, 2023
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This post is about something personal, so it’s taken me time to find the words. For that I apologize. As…

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Updated: Twitter, what’s next in social media

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Posted in Geek, personal, The Wired Mom
December 22, 2022
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It was only a month and a half ago I blogged about what was going on with Twitter and what…

an illustrated image that used to display when Twitter was over capacity. Over a twitter blue background a white cartoon while is being lifted by 8 orange twitter birds

Twitter and What’s Next

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Posted in Geek, personal, The Wired Mom
November 7, 2022
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With Elon in charge of Twitter, a lot of changes have happened in the last week. He decided that anyone…

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

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Posted in books, entertainment, Geek, personal, Pirate, racism, representation matters
August 28, 2022
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I spend a lot of my time on TikTok, and I’ve found myself on the outskirts of BookTok. Mostly because…

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Collateral Damage: the verbal kind

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Posted in personal
April 18, 2022
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Every so often, I feel like I have to step forward to talk about the concept of collateral damage. Because…

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Back Up Your Facebook & Instagram media

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Posted in personal
October 4, 2021
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Today, Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp were unavailable for most of the work day. You were likely wondering if you were going to lose…

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A Child of the Desert and the Sea

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August 7, 2021
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I was born in the desert.  Well, in a hospital in the desert.  My mother jokes that the Sonoran Desert…