I think consistency is crucial, it's like anything, some weeks you just aren't going to be feeling it but you committed to doing it so you get it done.mine is also a (very small) part of a larger patreon funded thing so you have to deliver what you promisedI just feel like if you don't commit to a schedule (and not to say that it's not possible) 9/10 it's just going to fade outwhether it's monthly, weekly, whatever doesn't matter as much
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 May 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
or maybe that's me, I think even hobby stuff I have to make into a "job" in a sense especially in the sense of feeling like I owe it to other people to finish or I'll just procrastinate and let it go
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 May 2021 12:50 (two years ago) link
I think a consistent schedule is quite important for myself as a podcaster too, I just don't rate it at all as a listener.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:13 (two years ago) link
yeah I would agree, I personally tend to fall behind then get in a mood and listen to like 3 in a rowI do feel like we are in the minority on that though
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 May 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
Consistency yes, but it's consistency of schedule vs consistency of quality?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 10 May 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link
Elizabeth Bruenig knows that having children is a costly choice, but she wants to have children, and she thinks everyone else should pay for it. Christian nationalists approve this message.https://t.co/XtTXcXdwTP pic.twitter.com/3m2Hatm7rq— Joel M. Curzon 🇫🇷 (@JoelMCurzon) May 10, 2021
Liz Bruenig’s best quality is her ability to break these peoples’ brains.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:17 (two years ago) link
lol
We should actually fine people who have children, to own the Christian nationalists— tps12 (@twepius) May 11, 2021
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
I'm troubled by Noah Smith's and Elizabeth Bruenig's white extinction anxiety, which imo informs their shared fixations on immigrant/latina/mexican motherhood. I wish publications hired latina critics and opinion writers. For now, everything is about us... yet without us.— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) May 10, 2021
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing this woman it was a tremendous personal achievement to be repeatedly knocked up by an Internet troll she met in high school pic.twitter.com/eU30fZfUDB— Jude Ellison S. Doyle (@sadydoyle) May 9, 2021
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
twitter should be shutdown for public health reasons.
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
public health sounds like a nazi scheme
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/4d0iwOCUSb— Foreskin Majeure (@_JackDump_) May 10, 2021
I do like the visual of having the woman-hating trans menace loom out of the darkness at the delicate white cis lady, but you could put some extra sauce on it. Should I be in a bathroom, perhaps, or injecting hormones into one of her precious white babies? Things to consider. https://t.co/7zDDol9v6h— Jude Ellison S. Doyle (@sadydoyle) May 10, 2021
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:46 (two years ago) link
afaict there are no good guys
― Left, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:49 (two years ago) link
I have no idea why ppl are losing their mind at that essay, I could barely get through it it was very boring
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
which essay? the 2019 washington post one?
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
no, the nyt mother's day declaration of race war
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:02 (two years ago) link
oh, i just opened it and started scrolling but my eyes are not capable of reading about this topic. i do want to reiterate that i hate amanda marcotte, though.
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link
I don't understand any of this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link
A bunch of very online people got very mad at a slightly less online person for the most anodyne column about how having kids is cool even if you’re not ready and the government should help you more.
If it starts to make sense, that’s when you should worry.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
it's pretty simple really, people hate her for being anti-abortion and look for any excuse to get mad at even her mildest op-eds about having kids even though she seems to take pains to never ever reference abortion (because she's not a complete dummy and knows there's absolutely no demand for a "left" anti-abortion position). I agree with everyone calling the op-ed boring tbh - I get it, you like having kids. in fact it's only the vitriolic responses that make them noteworthy at all xp
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:26 (two years ago) link
also it really seems like anti-natalism is becoming more prevalent online but that's just my feeling
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
having kids, and especially not being depressed about it, is an offense against people who can't have kids or don't want to have kids. And asking the government to fund things like pre-K and paid maternity leave is right wing because it encourages more white people to have kids. And birth rates.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
What
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link
outlining the position of her detractors
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:31 (two years ago) link
That's absolutely batshit
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
That is an accurate summary of the views of some online ultraleftists who are indistinguishable from ops, yes.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link
i don't know who joel curzon is, is he an online ultraleftist? i'm ok with paying parents and letting them have tons of leave from work fwiw (though i think everyone including me should get tons of leave from work for whatever they want)
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:37 (two years ago) link
oh, looks like he's an "overpopulation" guy, cool
― superdeep borehole (harbl), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link
It is a boring and inoffensive article onto which a social media-savvy editor slapped an "AND I'M NOT SORRY" headline in order to make it sound like she was accusing 35-year-old primagravidas of missing out on What Is Good In Life
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
“Malthusian Marxist”
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
I mean yes the responses are terrible but getting responses like that is the goal of the publication in running the piece (i.e. not Bruenig's goal in writing it, I would think)
And I was going to say that the blame thus lies with the publication, but they have been left with no financial path forward that doesn't involve either clickbait-mining like this or selling the headquarters to a hedge fund and firing all the reporters so I don't even know if blame is the right word
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link
Anyway thanks to these freaks for reminding me to stay off Twitter.
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
being anti-abortion is indefensible and it seriously bothers me how so much of the online left seems to think it's nbd. she is also transphobic
the article excerpt seems fairly inoffensive in itself and all the critics cited here are also pretty terrible afaict
― Left, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
How is she transphobic?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
Let me count the ways
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I actually have no idea btw, it just seemed like the thing to say
childcare, housing and education should be more affordable. this is a good goal of public policy. it will allow people who wish to become parents to be able to do so. it will also benefit people who do not wish to become parents, as everyone benefits when fewer people are in poverty. crime rates decrease, healthcare costs decrease, people have more time and energy to volunteer and invest in other pro-social behaviors, etc.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
(because she's not a complete dummy and knows there's absolutely no demand for a "left" anti-abortion position)
catholic worker erasure
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
this is bruenig's position as far as i understand it. people who say she is worried about "white birthrates" are just lying. self xp
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
re:transphobia e.g. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExF1fYPWUAUX6YX?format=jpg&name=900x900
― Left, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:08 (two years ago) link
shit https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExF1fYPWUAUX6YX?format=jpg&name=900x900
well you can click the link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ExF1fYPWUAUX6YX?format=jpg&name=900x900
― Left, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
Left are you noah berlatsky?
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
lmao fucking disgusting screencap
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
xp no and i do not like him either. i just really fucking despise this crypto conservative subculture on the left
― Left, Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
why agree with jesse singal about anything
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link
I would not exactly be surprised if Liz saw that Noah tweet by itself on some "Oh, notorious dumbass Noah is doing bad opinions again" and didn't follow the thread up to find out he was making some oblique argument about transness
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:21 (two years ago) link
notorious dumbass and Pitchfork contributor Noah Berlatsky!
― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link
she's responding to signal though which is the giveaway that it's likely about that issue.
― treeship., Tuesday, 11 May 2021 19:24 (two years ago) link