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Sadly, I’m out. explodingcomma.com

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It’s weird how the people who shout the loudest about “Keep politics out of it!” are almost always the ones who insisted on bringing their politics into it in the first place.

\n","summary":"","url":"https://explodingcomma.com/2025/01/22/its-weird-how-the-people.html","date_published":"2025-01-22T12:22:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Exploding Comma","url":"http://explodingcomma.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fexplodingcomma.com%2Fsocial_preview.png","_microblog":{"username":"explodingcomma.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-22 12:22","date_timestamp":1737548546,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55562080","content_html":"🔗 against social media - by Lyta Gold - Lyta’s List:\n\n\"I think, despite a lot of handwringing about people not watching the same movies and TV shows, we actually live in a very narrow and dreary monoculture. The monoculture consists of everyone refusing to imagine alternatives to logging on the same 4-7 websites every single day for the rest of our lives, while all around us everything and everyone continues to get dumber and crueler and more violent.5 But what if—not that? What if we did literally anything else?\"\n\nAnd yes, I am aware—as I am sure the author themself is—of the irony that the post was... explodingcomma.com","summary":"","url":"https://explodingcomma.com/2025/01/21/against-social-media-by-lyta.html","date_published":"2025-01-21T13:35:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Exploding Comma","url":"http://explodingcomma.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.talqix.cloud/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fexplodingcomma.com%2Fsocial_preview.png","_microblog":{"username":"explodingcomma.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2025-01-21 13:35","date_timestamp":1737466554,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"55525245","content_html":"

Mr. Beans does not have time for your bullshit.

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We finished Skeleton Crew this evening and I think it might be my favorite Star Wars series.

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In the “Stong opinions, loosely held” category is my belief that Lost Highway is a better film than Mulholland Drive, and probably Lynch’s best work overall.

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While I didn’t think it was bad, I can think of at least five movies I would rank as better. It struck me as an exercise of st... explodingcomma.com/2025/01/1...

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We need to stop talking about discovery. explodingcomma.com

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We keep talking about the wrong category of problems. explodingcomma.com

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I love reading and watching science fiction, and I am all for scientific research and exploration, but the idea that humans in any meaningful numbers will ever live anyplace other than this planet is nuts.

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Making everything a you problem: explodingcomma.com

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At the risk of being annoying and stating the obvious, nearly all of the problems endemic to modern social media platforms could be mitigated by not letting these companies and their software get so large and ubiquitous.

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Go on and on about why aren’t more people upset about Issue X.
See that some group of people are finally getting upset about Issue X.
Make fun of that group o... explodingcomma.com/2025/01/0...

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It is probably not a good sign when I find that the snarky reply that keeps coming to mind in multiple conversations is “And other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

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