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after last night, i'm seeing a lot of people expressing despair and wondering how to find hope. i've shared some thoughts on that before, but i think they're worth re-upping

I Get that, on a structural level, all other things being equal, men have more power than people who aren't men, and I Get that individual men often take advantage

oh i have found the underwater cave where my love is i get depressed, sometimes (often) — sometimes it is ice, but sometimes it is cold black water, a quick

last night i was talking with an old friend, and the subject came around to the Notre Dame fire. and i said that one of the things i thought about

i think i have a pretty different relationship with social media/Twitter than a lot of other people, and it's gotten to the point that my therapist has commented on it

0. here comes an extremely long thread about intersecting systems of oppression spurred on by calls for scores for female composers! it is EXTREMELY tentative, so take it with salt,

the problem, fundamentally, with Ariadne Auf Naxos, is that Act I is a tight 45 minutes taking the absolute piss out of everyone and everything involved in making opera, and

0. time to do a thread about that timeless high school classic about British schoolboys Jack, Ralph, and P-something-or-other who wind up stranded on a tropical island with no adult

1. back in November, i did a thread about Yom haShoah/Holocaust Memorial Day and the question of when it should be observed, but i didn't really say anything about *how*

0. i have been seeing a lot of takes like this (https://interlude.hk/the-future-is-livestreaming/) and this (https://medium.com/@AubreyBergauer/why-i-dont-like-free-concerts-8ac7948c80c4 ) recently, and i want to write a thread about them, because th