Reminder that nuanced debate is what social media absolutely does worst. Always assume that if I am writing about a thing, I am writing about it through the lens of that specific event or historical context. People and institutions are complex. They can be simultaneously good and bad and are.

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Social media absolutely encourages people to take everything posted in bad faith. Bad faith readings create reaction and reaction drives interaction, triggering those like and repost endorphins. So i'm trigger-happy about bad faith stuff. Gotta cut it off before it starts and spreads.

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The insistence that everything, and everyone, has to be either 100% "good" or 100% "bad" is the absolute worst outcome of the social media age. And it's absolutely NOT how history has ever worked, nor ever will.

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I hear AO3 is down and people are looking for “fics” to read elsewhere so here’s one about an Englishman and a Swede on an intimate camping trip together. There is only one tent…

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THE EX: A Ghost Story (kindle or paperback) "a delicious blend of spookiness, social satire, terrifying apparitions, binge drinking, sexy interludes, and a fine cat" "as if Harold Lloyd had strayed into The Omen" "clever, creepy, wickedly funny" www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1916057845

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