lol
― mens rea activist (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
My theory is that white folks try to tattletale to the media employers of black folks (like Matty Yce tried it on me last week) on the theory that the white people in charge honestly don't know what the Negroes are running around saying.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 29, 2021
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
tried to figure out what happened but matty has his tweets on auto delete
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
i tried https://polititweet.org/figure?account=15446531 but don't want to spend time on it, you might
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
I think Matty was upset about some of these replies though his own tweets are gone now:
I know hurting white feelings is a big no-no on your feed, but I have literally no time for the white use of the word "riot" especially as it was used in the context of the Floyd protests. The violent/nonviolent distinction whites use to drive a wedge here is tiresome.— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) October 21, 2021
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
i think it was this column https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-election-shor/
― certified juice therapist (harbl), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451257638990323712https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451301248938938374https://polititweet.org/tweet?account=15446531&tweet=1451313842697428998
too bad polititweet doesnt preserve images and threads but third one is where matt tags the employer i guess
― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
I saw that Elie Mystal tweet and thought he was talking about someone named Matty Weiss
― jaymc, Saturday, 30 October 2021 23:09 (two years ago) link
Have to admit, Matty's gotten better at the throwaway joke:
In addition to turnout, the big question in Virginia is which candidate do the voters vote for.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 2, 2021
Is this what the kids call a shitpost?
― o. nate, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
Revolting little cockroach
She would never do it, but easy opportunity here for Kamala Harris to say the SF DAs office was better when she was running it and become more popular.https://t.co/fjkW8MAYBA— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 9, 2021
I have no idea — maybe the way she ran the office was terrible and all of his changes have been for the better. But my guess is that *she* doesn’t think it was terrible, and it would improve her public image to make a public case for her way.— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 10, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
the Real America expert has logged on
One thing I think you see here is that writers who live in New York City tend to underestimate the life of material abundance enjoyed by the typical person who living outside a high-cost metro and working in a more normal industry. https://t.co/ca1fd8zZgn— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) November 12, 2021
― mookieproof, Friday, 12 November 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
The central funny/infuriating thing about this bit of would-be reverse snobbery is Yglesias was raised on velvet cushions inside a vitrine in New York City and Hamilton hails from Shithole, Fla. https://t.co/5jKsWs7d86— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca) November 12, 2021
― lag∞n, Friday, 12 November 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
The rough draft lyrics of “Walk On The Wild Side” needed some work.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 12 November 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
I'm a fan of @mattyglesias' creativity on twitter.— Ronald Klain (@WHCOS) December 3, 2021
― jaymc, Friday, 3 December 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
fireable offense
― lag∞n, Friday, 3 December 2021 01:31 (two years ago) link
it's like watching a kid make a sculpture out of dog poop
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Friday, 3 December 2021 15:26 (two years ago) link
I don’t think the American left is going to get far until it can acknowledge that average living standards in this country are actually very high, and that’s the appropriate context in which to think about specific problems. https://t.co/Ma7JhPZD81— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) December 6, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 6 December 2021 05:23 (two years ago) link
This stupid motherfucker.
1 admit living standards are high2 ???3 profit
― lag∞n, Monday, 6 December 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
never think about specific problems like such as "this post doesn't even say the thing i'm responding to and my substack subscribers don't care"
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 6 December 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
you know, in roman times they didn’t even have iphones
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 December 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
this pareene essay from a few years ago is more or less a nice rebuttal to that way of thinking
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/consolation-prizes-pareene
― k3vin k., Monday, 6 December 2021 13:27 (two years ago) link
This is the key thing with him, at least as far as his Twitter presence goes - it’s hard to say he’s wrong, per se, as he’s too glib and vague for it to be clear what he’s actually arguing or what he would do differently.
You could spin out a wonk take that exaggeration of the US’ problems makes them seem more intractable than they might actually be, or that it makes middle-income voters who are doing ok think you’re alarmist, or encourages the tendency to pull up drawbridges…but he’s too lazy to do anything other than point to a graph and say ‘ah, seems like you might be incorrect’.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 6 December 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
in lieu of a better thread
I just assumed that American teachers discovered they like working at home and burnout was a device to allow them to do so.— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) December 8, 2021
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:52 (two years ago) link
You try teaching a bunch of first graders over zoom, Ms. McArdle. Remember, if any of them fail to learn the curriculum, it's YOUR FAULT.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
really the worst xp
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:55 (two years ago) link
she's so consistently a moron about everything
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
meggy mcglesias
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 December 2021 19:58 (two years ago) link
I think pretty much everyone who has had the option of working from home has discovered that it has some pretty nice side benefits. Wouldn't be surprised if the same was true for teachers.
― o. nate, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
no. nate
― mookieproof, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
the three teachers I know well couldn't stand it and said it was the worst year of their career
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
as a parent, having to endure the cacophony of 30 elementary kids on zoom was terrible even for a few minutes
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:15 (two years ago) link
I dont know maybe teachers are the one group of people in the world who don't like sleeping in and saving an hour or more of commute time every day.
― o. nate, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:17 (two years ago) link
says the man who has never discussed his hypothesis with a teacher
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
So if teachers hate ZOOM so much how does having more ZOOM help burnout?
― o. nate, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
it doesn't
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
megan makes matt look normal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
I taught college students over Zoom for two semesters. Not the same experience as teaching kids obv, and while I didn't loathe it I would never do it again unless compelled to.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
my friend that taught special ed was depressed all year, it just didn't work and the kids were all from a pretty low income urban district, he just started losing kids as it went on, they had so many technical difficulties because it was hard for some of them
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
In exchange for having to corral 30 children and listen to them scream over your iMac speakers all day.
It's a bit different if your WFH experience is a couple of zoom meetings with adults and typing in Excel while you listen to podcasts.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
are we really have this convo based on a mcardle tweet???
― rob, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
now the convo is based more on o. nate's posts. megan's idiot tweet was just the catalyst.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
robPosted: December 9, 2021 at 3:51:26 PMare we really have this convo based on a mcardle tweet???see what these freaks do to us
― lag∞n, Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I would say, *I* like working from home way more than my friends who are teachers like working from home. Among people I know, teachers are among those who like it least.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 9 December 2021 20:58 (two years ago) link
You could spin out a wonk take that exaggeration of the US’ problems makes them seem more intractable than they might actually be― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, December 6, 2021 8:39 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
I believe this is absolutely the case, alarmist media (mainstream or social) tend to overlook how well americans have it compared to the rest of the world. Any acknowledgement of that fact only gets you scorn from populists.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 9 December 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
the original quoted tweet was not about income and that, among his other bad qualities, is why he was scorned and will continue to be scorned unless he shapes up
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:00 (two years ago) link
When it comes to many things outside of standards of living metrics, say stuff like quality of life and civil rights, US remains one of the best countries to live in. Not saying there isn’t room for improvement, there is obviously much to work on. But if the US is a dystopia, what is the DRC?
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
in terms of quality of life and civil rights, the US is certainly in the top four of the four countries i've lived in, it's true.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
Ah, the old "well you could live in Ethiopia during the famine, quitcherbitchin"
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:38 (two years ago) link
this is so pointless to argue about. literally a 2 a.m. throwaway tweet.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Thursday, 9 December 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link