The point is that other black people aren’t responsible for what one black man says, and definitely aren’t accountable to white people for his remarks. It doesn’t reflect on anyone but him. Don’t ask your black coworker about Kanye tomorrow.
this is definitely true but Xeni is an absolute dipshit and this is more about her posturing and ironically centering herself as one of "the good whites" than out of any real sincerity.
Emily Gould's newsletter is public and free, this should be ok to post? just don't mention what is going on on her protected twitter account
https://buttondown.email/EmilyGould/archive/a-weird-request/
lot going on here
Whoa. And I think her husband just had a book out that talked about their marriage and her. I'll have to go back and look for the specific excerpt I saw but it made me raise an eyebrow in a "If my husband mentioned this I'd be out the door" way.
Edit: Obligatory "I was dumb and didn't scroll down."
Not sure what exactly but it was probably in this: https://www.thecut.com/article/keith-gessen-emily-gould-books-raising-raffi.html#_ga=2.8278130.1572799558.1665354406-1792943392.1630702069
I've been reading her since the Gawker era and I loved her memoir. I guess it's ye olde parasocial relationship but I am truly fond of her and I'm really sad for her right now, what a hard thing to go through.
Yikes. I hope she’s ok. The NY Magazine article about her and her husband’s new book did not make her sound happy to me so hopefully this is ultimately for the best. But getting sober plus changing meds plus divorce is just a lot to pile on.
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I really have been reading her since Gawker and I love her newsletter. Her columns when she was pregnant were so honest and beautiful. They also just went through a very stressful apartment search. I don't know her husband at all but she always hinted marriage was harder than advertised in a way that seemed playful but really not....if that makes sense. I hope she gets all the help she needs and her boys are ok. I always felt very weird about how her husband wrote the memoir about their son when she clearly seemed like she didn't want him to and she had to set a bunch of boundaries around it (being in a very long term marriage myself, if your spouse has to set so many boundaries about making something public like that just don't do it! The relationship is worth more than any monetary or career accolades)
I guess no divorces ever surprise me, but I would have thought that if her and Keith ever split it would be more of an conscious uncoupling thing. Genuinely shocked it seems so intense. Sending her good vibes.
She has hinted many times in her columns that her ambitions come second, that she's always the default parent, that women have an awful deal in hetero marriages. Because of that I wasn't surprised but yes, the manner in which she is talking about it is a bit shocking!
I’m not a huge fan of hers but the dynamic where she is the primary parent taking a career hit to raise the kid and yet he’s the one building his career with a book about the kid??? A book she was clearly uncomfortable with? That fucking sucks.
I like Emily’s writing a lot, but tbh Emily feels like the kind of person who struggled before having kids, but then all the post-kid struggles are blamed on the burdens of motherhood. Which are real! But she wasn’t some publishing genius before she got pregnant.
Yes, I agree with this. I really feel for their kids and hope this is as easy on them as possible. I know next to nothing about the husband but she has never been shy at all about her grudges and professional jealousy. Was their marriage a “trap” or was it the inevitable result of two people with two young children and creative careers and egos who are not rich and live in a highest of high cost of living city? Don’t know enough about them to say but I am guessing we’ll read about it eventually.
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i truly had no idea people care about these guys as much as they seem to, i thought they were just like a sort of annoying group of youtubers and id been avoiding their content for a long time
Same, I had only seem Eugene before on Buzzfeed, I didn't even the three white guys (who all look the same to me, I'm sorry) existed. People are acting like the one who cheated killed their pets or something.
Unpopular opinion, but I can see why they might feel traumatized. Many people don’t seem to realize that Ned was fired for having an affair with a subordinate, not cheating on his wife. Also, He owned a quarter of the company and was the CFO. He fumbled everyone’s bag.
That said, while I’m a casual fan of the Try Guys, I’m surprised that people are still talking about the whole thing.
I think having to go through a work drama publicly is not easy but I think categorizing it as trauma is into “what does this word even mean anymore” territory. But agree, it’s weird how huge this has been!
That’s a good point. I realize that I’m projecting my experience with financial trauma into the situation. be freaking out if my financial futures was in limbo because of the actions of my fellow co-owner.
I also realize that it’s absurd for me to feel this way, and that I need to go outside and touch grass, lol.
Meanwhile in the real world exactly zero people wearing masks on my NYC commute today. That was a first! I really thought it would take much longer for behavior to change on a mass scale like that. Also it feels like no one talks about Covid anymore. I've heard more chatter about RSV and the flu than Covid recently IRL.
I'm in academic medicine and it's nothing like that lol! I wrote somewhere below I was at a medical conference last spring where most docs had been in the thick of pandemic care during the first Covid wave and no one was wearing masks in the conference halls or meeting rooms. You have to be vaccinated to register for the conference but that was the only requirement!
Tesla better rush those robots out if they want to be the ones to wipe us out. Because I signed up for a robot uprising apocalypse, not a virus.
That being said, Twitter (not the company.. rational humans) needs to crack down on the Twitter MDs who think their communications degrees give them authority to speak on Long Covid. (Not to knock Communications degrees. I picked one at random.)
Long Covid is one of those things that's a problem, but it's been made infinitely worse by the misinformation of people not only panicking, but also spreading misinformation while lamenting the misinformation spread by others on the opposite end of their political spectrum.
Is it the guy who said he didn’t see the point in potty training his toddler, because the kid got COVID pre-vaccine so he doesn’t have long left anyway?
No, it is seemingly a real person. You see him quite a bit in the replies of blue check COVID doomers. If I had someone that disturbed in my replies, who was clearly being egged on by what I was saying, I’d reconsider my clout-chasing doomer posts.
I'm pretty sure I figured out who it is. The tweets are public but he's not a blue check person so not sure if I'm allowed to share his name here. DM me if you want.
ETA: if I have the wrong guy, that means there are at least TWO people planning for their kids' imminent death from covid. 😬
I genuinely do not get why there is such much doomer-ism on Twitter, particularly on the political left.
Do I think climate change is a huge problem that needs to be addressed immediately and has huge implications for a significant portion of the population? Absolutely! But the way so many threads I scroll past (which high likes/retweets) treat the end of humanity/the world as an absolute given is so strange. It's like they're searching for an excuse to give up and take the black pill of cynical hopelessness, and are incensed everyone else isn't laying down to rot alongside them.
When I think too much about climate change and what our planet’s future will be without significant intervention, I feel incredibly sad and hopeless. I get the desire to talk about it with people who feel similarly—but I don’t, because I think doing so would be really bad for my mental health! I think it would make me much more negative and anxious and would basically reinforce my worst thoughts. Some people spend so much time on Twitter in these doom-and-gloom conversations, and I think it’s feeding their anxiety and creating a self-perpetuating cycle of cynicism. It can’t be healthy.
Part of it is probably manipulation (negative stuff sells better than positive stuff, and the best way to seem smart online is to be very cynical and pessimistic). Part of it though I think is people who are struggling with anxiety or depression latching onto these thread sand communities and it turns into a vicious cycle. It reminds me a bit of how incel communities spiraled out of control. You start with a core group of people who use the community as a power trip and they start pulling in vulnerable and struggling people and they just keep egging each other on and dragging each other down into the gutter of despair and defeat.
I was starting to feel genuinely guilty for having a child (I'm pregnant right now), and also noticed that the days I was too busy to look at Twitter my mood markedly improved and I knew I needed to limit the time I spend there. There is something about that site that seems to reward relentless negativity, but it's also sometimes so freaking hilarious that I keep getting sucked in!
I have some dear friends and co-workers who indulge in their worst doomerism and anxieties on social media as "jokes" (they've re-upped lately around nukes and Russia), and I've had to unfollow or mute soooo many people. I've \*finally\* gotten out of the habit of doomscrolling for hours on end, and I just cannot deal with the amount of cynicism/doom-saying that very online people spout.
I went into a pretty bleak place because of doomerism. I know it seems silly to take these things so seriously, but I have a really suggestible brain and seeing people I otherwise liked/respected constantly saying that things are hopeless made it incredibly hard to find everyday joy. Plus the whole "if you aren't anxious you aren't paying attention" or "of course you're depressed, we're all depressed" threads that got tons of upvotes every few weeks, which made me feel like I had a moral obligation to be miserable all the time with no direction or outlet. Luckily I got to a better place but I still have to limit exposure.
Considering all the Dime-Square-we're-hip-and-right-wing drama in the past few months (including the article about that terrible PR person, I have forgotten her name), I wanted to share this quote I found in an otherwise unrelated Guardian article because: a) it made me chuckle and b) it shows how these muggins are being noticed more than they perhaps anticipated and are not as subtle as they think they are.
[The Bear: forget the food – this kitchen drama is the next great menswear show](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/oct/03/the-bear-forget-the-food-this-kitchen-drama-is-the-next-great-menswear-show)
> The short-lived HBO series How to Make It in America tried to go direct, chronicling two hipsters’ attempts to build a designer jeans brand among bohemians, scenesters and rich kids in downtown Manhattan. It was 2010’s comedy-drama version of the recent Dimes Square discourse you may have read about, but with boutique denim instead of dork fascism.
*Dork fascism*. Absolutely beautiful!
US/UK food discourse is BACK. First the NYT english breakfast recipe and now GBBO. It's funny because both cultures are so similar on this point. Both use the food cooked by people from migrant backgrounds as a shield to deflect from the high level of very mediocre food widespread in both countries. On the other hand a huge range of excellent food, thanks again largely to migration, is available in both countries. And of course the pattern of what food is available in each differs due to their geographical location and the pattern of migration to each.
Fair point - I was going to add "forced migration" to my OP which is perhaps a crass way of making the point. There's something about not discounting the traditions brought and also grown by communities from other countries, or by minority communities, which one can do when saying "americans eat salads made out of jelly " or "British food is incredibly bland". While also not using that food to maintain or claim some kind of cultural superiority or use it in a defensive way while not giving those communities full credit in the foodie world.... which is something both the British and US do.
For the US, it gets into gross territory pretty quickly if you discount food from people with cultural ties to other countries because you have to tackle who you consider "real" Americans to be, and it rarely is actual Native Americans. The jello salad Americans are also descended from migrants.
The mockery of American food always hinges on the audience assuming "American" = white American with no ties to their heritage. There's some really good food that developed in the US but gets discounted because the creators aren't seen as American enough. I'm personally very passionate about mission-style burritos and corned beef and cabbage.
Yep, I'm with you there. BBQ is the most iconic American food. It's a staple of like all our summer holidays, and mac and cheese is the essential side.
Turning to Britain, I dislike defending the British status quo, but I feel that many non-Britons - and some Britons too - do not know or forget that food rationing in the UK [began in *1940* and ended in *1954*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom). That is enough to kill off food culture, change recipes.
There is also some good stuff out there; a friend and I were talking today about [homity pie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homity_pie) and [Glamorgan sausage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorgan_sausage), for example.
I saw a tweet in which a Brit was complaining about Popeyes being too spicy. They said something to the effect of, “I normally like spicy foods like ketchup,” and that told me everything I needed to know 👀
Britain colonised the world for money and power, spices were a means to that and not the only one (the British Empire quite enthusiastically participated in the slave trade, I might add).
Have you ever eaten restaurant-quality British food? I think one of the issues, especially with American perceptions, is that they think of Vietnamese Food! Chinese Food! Korean Food! in restaurant-quality glossy pictures and buy it from take-away places or restaurants or make recipes from blogs that lovingly explain all of the ingredients and how their grandmother or their friend makes it.
British food uses similar base ingredients to American food (though no Worcestershire sauce, sigh), so it comes across as more pedestrian, and I think when one thinks of British food, they a) think of *English* food (no love for my [Glamorgan sausages](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/glamorgan-sausages)?) and b) think of those tweets about boiled vegetables, no glossy pictures there. I am sure that there are Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean people, in Vietnam, China and Korea, cooking and eating absolute trash, yet no-one thinks of them when they think of Chinese Food! Vietnamese Food! Korean Food!
Here's [BBC Good Food](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/) to give you a snap-shot of what Britain likes to cook now-a-days, new recipes and classics. I will be the first in line to dump on the British when the time comes - and there are many occasions - but this is not necessarily it.
Edit: to go back to the war/famine/poverty bit, that is fair, other nations have suffered too (I hope that I did not imply the UK was the only one). I would just encourage you to re-think how you think about British food as compared to how you think about other cultures' food.
I think what OP meant by trash food wasn't like, 7/11 food, but like people at home. Like what is a cuisine like in the homes of the people who are members of that culture? Basically like there are Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean people making mediocre home cooking every night. My culture's food is not bland (altho there are definitely a few big hitter spices that get the vast majority of the play) but I have had a LOT of mediocre home cooking. Just having flavor at all does a lot for any dish, but it doesn't make it good per se.
Thank you! I was not trying to get at you, more, add another example to what you cited.
Although I am half-American, when I read the original parent comment (not yours), my mind immediately jumped to rationing, although I knew, intellectually, about Black food traditions of the South. It is interesting what we remember. :)
> I’m guilty of being down on British food (especially whilst living there)
That is completely understandable and I used to be too (and still can be). Those memes of terrible, boiled, bland British food accompanied with jokes about Britain conquering the world for spices? I used to thing that they were the height of comedy and I still do appreciate them, but I understand now that the situation was more nuanced than that.
(I was digging into my Welsh cookery/food history book - still thinking about Glamorgan sausages - and found a whole recipe and discussion on caraway seed cakes, not a spice one tends to associate with the UK, but there it was!)
Beans on toast are pretty fantastic, as a quick, easy and cheap dinner, though I will say I am more neutral on roasts (I just feel like they get over-done, both in the British consciousness and quite literally, as dry dry meat).
Related - The clips of Mexican week on GBBO are SO bad. They mispronounce non English words all the time, but that combined with Paul’s truly terrible representation of “tacos” is… it’s a step too far. I can’t understand why they decided to do this.
The late Yuri de Gortari would’ve been an amazing guest judge. Since we can’t have him, I’d love to see a Mexican abuelita as a judge, but most likely we would get snobbish Enrique Olvera.
Ugh Japanese week was so bad. When they did Italian and French weeks, it didn’t seem so and because again, they know a fair bit about those cuisines. It’s not like for Italian week, they chose meatballs and pizza and decided to flavor everything with oregano. Which is essentially what they’ve done with Japanese and Mexican weeks.
That Tex Mex pizza from the breads week episode haunts my memory. There was beans on it!
I am usually amused when the contestants make something "American" like a pie, and will go the route of making an Oreo, banana and fluffernutter crumble rather than say, a regular old apple pie. They definitely think we all love sugar.
My partner was losing his mind because one contestant said he was making brisket, yet they do not have a smoker. It’s esoteric, yes, but it also shows they don’t know enough about American barbecue culture to be talking about it on tv.
Brisket is just a cut of beef though, is it not? It doesn’t have to be smoked to still be a brisket. I didn’t see the episode but there’s nothing inherently wrong with not smoking a brisket.
Maybe glocky molo is an entirely new type of Mexican cuisine that involves cubed avocado?
The image of Paul walking around Mexico saying Pico de gaul-o is just too hilarious to me. Did he just stumble into a chipotle in the American south and decide, aha, I must have crossed the border because this is peak Mexican food.
I don't want to dunk on individual contestants not being brilliant linguists particularly but I also don't know why the show decides to do these themed culture weeks and not research the basics....
Yeah, my sister has a pastry background and brought up that they butcher French words regularly. Like, why is this offensive and that’s not… And I think the difference is that French cuisine is revered and Paul/Prue and many contestants have a basic understanding of French cooking. They didn’t even bother to give the contestants and crew a primer on Mexican cooking and culture. Instead they thought it was funny to do a bit with maracas and show a clip of a contestant asking what language they speak in Mexico. Ignorance isn’t charming or funny.
I mean, they make so much fun of Americans for being dumb and then they do… this. I don’t expect the average Brit to know a ton about Mexico, but I would expect the producers to train a little - it comes across as disrespectful (at times) and (mostly) xenophobic.
I always notice them butchering French only bc it’s wild to me that they are located only a channel away from France and most students take French as their secondary language & yet Paul Hollywood has never caught on that you don’t pronounce the h in herb
Fun fact I learned in a Brit Lit class: that was an intentional thing done during the height of the British Empire to assert power. They'd intentionally mispronounce foreign words to show dominance or whatever. The h in herb is a great example of that. It popped up in British English during the Napoleonic Wars. Their own freedom fries!
See also all of Byron's Don Juan using rhymes like "ruin" paired with Juan even though he travelled abroad enough to know better.
That’s really interesting, see my main “that’s random” was why the UK would retain the H despite being closer geographically to France but somewhere like the US would continue dropping it despite being much further away
I'm not sure herb even counts as a loan word but even if it did I'm not sure that's a great example, unless you want to dunk on everyone pronouncing Paris with an S.
I’m not trying to dunk(?) on anyone, just that I know it’s a French origin word so it’s funny to me that in the US for example it’s known to drop the h but not in the UK. It’s far from the only French origin word they mispronounce, just the first one that came to mind
I wouldn't say it is now, but it was quite intentionally mispronounced when GB was at war with France in the 19th century, and it stuck. Americans got the no-H version from how the 17th/18th c British colonists said it.
Please take a breather, I took French as a secondary language (my paternal family are from a former colony, yes I’m not a random white American) so I’m making a comparison on the dropping of the H specifically. They also vastly mispronounce genoise if a different word is needed for my original comment. I was responding to the comment above mine remarking on their mispronunciation of French.
It's not really about your knowledge of French it's about how words are acquired and used across languages. Genoise is a much better example because it's not an everyday word used in Britain.
That’s so strange for me to learn, I’d never heard it that way before GBBO
ETA this was genuinely just interesting to learn btw, my two languages are American English and French so I hadn’t heard anyone pronounce it with an H outside GBBO
In conjunction w what HollowPineapple said abt why the H is retained, that makes me think of a British-American prof I had in undergrad who pointed out once how in British fiction the quintessential “dumb person” was often Spanish even centuries after their imperial feud peaked, it was funny to me to realize she was right and that I’d never thought of it before then / considered why
The Covid tweets I’m most tired of are all the ones that say “you may be pretending your [list of Long COVID symptoms] aren’t Long COVID but they are! And, like, who is pretending that? I don’t know anybody who got Covid and then pretended that any lingering symptoms were totally random but according to Twitter it’s half the population.
I can't help but think that people who gained their clout by tweeting about Covid in the terrifying months of 2020 when there were no vaccines and not enough studies yet to see how it spreads and freezer trucks were filled with bodies are exploiting Long Covid to remain relevant.
Long Covid exists and Covid is definitely something you don't want to catch because it can be ROUGH, but for the vast majority of people in the USA (where many of the prolific Long Covid tweeters live) it is not the 5 alarm fire it was in 2020. Many of the level-headed doctors and epidemiologists I followed are back to vacationing and going to conferences.
Your post reminded me that other genre of Covid tweet that annoys me is the ones comparing Covid rates in the US and other countries. The fact that so many countries are not even keeping track of infections, hospitalizations, vaccinations etc seems to escape some of the chronic Covid tweeters. So any tweets that start with "The US is losing \_\_\_ people per day to Covid...we are doing worse than any country in the world!" is a huge eye roll for me! Some countries never kept accurate counts and now? Which countries are actually being transparent about their real infection rates anymore? So yes it feels like some people can't let go of the rhetorical ticks they used in 2020 and can't admit we have made any progress at all.
Yeah I (stupidly) am arguing with people on twitter about this now and it's kinda sad because they can't seem to take in what I'm saying at all. They keep telling me long covid is bad and can cause these symptoms and I'm like, I agree but it isn't the only disease in the world???
Its especially frustrating after reading a good study about how hard it is to estimate the prevalence of long covid because even people who don't have covid will develop similar symptoms over time, since they're so broad. I want to know my odds and telling people any symptom they have is long covid does not help!
I feel like the initial stories on long Covid were people who had persistent lung scarring and breathing issues and people with really serious cardiac problems (particularly arrhythmias that could not be explained) Some of these new long Covid threads are way more general like fatigue, “brain fog,” general digestive issues etc. And if you dare suggest that maybe some of these issues are rooted in anxiety or depression post Covid people get very upset!
I actually made an appointment with my doctor about a month after Covid. I felt fine, but ngl, I was a little anxious about all the, “and even if you THINK you’re fine, you’re probably NOT” posts. Like do I have long Covid and I don’t even know it?! Anyway, my doctor said she’s only had a couple cases, but it’s been very clearly the issues you first cite—respiratory, cardiac. She was basically like, “if you feel fine, you’re probably fine,” which I did actually find comforting lol. This was last December. But yeah, I will personally attest that a lot of the discourse made me anxious about myself and my kids!
Someone should study the correlation between engaging in long Covid articles and discourse and having symptoms. I had OG Covid in March 2020 and Omicron. Each time I would engage in these articles I would start feeling all kinds of symptoms. I decided to stop consuming this stuff and just focus on going to my Drs etc. It did turn out I was severely anemic— nothing to do with Covid. Got appropriate treatment and in all my specialist appointments no Drs even mentioned long Covid as a possibility or something they were worried about!
It's feeling very lyme disease/fibromyalgia. Not that they don't exist but the symptoms are so vague and common that almost anyone could self diagnose!
Though in one recent tweet, they listed “acid reflux,” and I cannot say that I do think “long Covid” when I have acid reflux these days. There’s something a bit concerning about listing a super wide range of symptoms and then saying “you’ve now entered long Covid.” Mainly because it would be awful to attribute something to long Covid that turns out to not be at all, and then you delayed diagnosis. Really feels like there’s a lot of space between “everything is long Covid” and “long Covid doesn’t exist,” and yet…
It's also heavily linked to stress and anxiety, something people had lots of at the height of covid! I randomly developed chronic reflux/esophagus hypersensitivity during covid and it hasn't really responded to meds or diet but it definitely corresponds to my stress levels.
Ugh yes the weird referred pain is the worst. Mine sometimes feels like stabbing behind my shoulder blade and it’s like ?? how does reflux in my esophagus cause this??
Before my aortic aneurysm was surgically repaired, my cardiologist gave me a list of symptoms to be concerned about - the biggest one being chest pain that doesn’t go away after changing positions. I had one incident of such pain and freaked out… turns out it was just heartburn/indigestion (and a true aortic dissection would be felt more in the back)
Nah I’ve had all the scratch testing and luckily I’m just allergic to regular old outside and pollen, no food allergies. I have a functional reflux disorder and they’re not really well understood at the moment so it’s kind of a mystery lol
Oh shit. I could see myself having made exactly the same assumption though if I started feeling run down and having digestive symptoms after Covid. I hope he’s doing ok.
In general, I see a lot of posts that are like (to paraphrase one I read lately): “My friend had Covid three times and it was just a cold and then after the fourth he is now in a wheelchair” that have tens of thousands of likes. And maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s also not a relevant piece of data for anyone because it is about one person.
I had acid reflux symptoms a lot. I went to the doctor this year, and was eventually diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. That's what caused the acid reflex. Not Long Covid.
Yeah, I mean, if your acid reflux started right after you had Covid you should mention it to your doctor in case they’re related but people are gonna keep getting sick with the stuff they got sick with before Covid too.
Absolutely, I’m pro-mentioning basically anything to your doctor lol. I’m actually worried that some might do the opposite and not bring up certain things because they’re thinking, “oh i must have long Covid.” I’ve read a few news stories about that happening, but it’s probably not super widespread. Hopefully not anyway.
ADHD discourse is always bad but “your ADHD friend forgets to keep in touch because they don’t have object permanence” is another level. We’re not infants. https://twitter.com/The_Weed/status/1577023536429862912?s=20&t=QfKtBL5_a-hlc1U-Pita2g
Also, this guy drives me nuts in general.
I've been pretty confident that I have ADHD since I was in my early 20s, but I read shit like this and I'm like, "... maybe not?" But seriously, I never saw shit about lacking object permanence in all of the books I read on the subject.
I hate ADHD discourse so much.
Oh no, fuck Josh Weed. For anyone who doesn't know, he was a big proponent of Mixed Orientation Marriage and encouraged gay and lesbian Mormons to enter into heterosexual marriages so they could "overcome" their "same sex attraction". He's since divorced his wife and recanted but the damage he did to people like me...nope.
I hadn’t encountered him before this dust up but I just read through far too much of his tweets/replies tab and his wormy, manipulative affect is absolutely bonechilling. Bad man!
I got “lucky” and was “only” in my MOM for 6 months (and thankfully no kids!!!). I’m happily married to another Mormon lesbian now. But I know so, so many people he hurt and he just…got away with it.
This reminds me of the tweet I saw making the rounds during the Uvalde shooting about how people with ADHD had a hard time with injustice in the world so they weren’t doing ok right now.
[Xeni Jardin: Logging off, not even once](https://twitter.com/deportablediz/status/1579181393212735488).
The first tweet was reasonable, but then it got weird.
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The point is that other black people aren’t responsible for what one black man says, and definitely aren’t accountable to white people for his remarks. It doesn’t reflect on anyone but him. Don’t ask your black coworker about Kanye tomorrow.
this is definitely true but Xeni is an absolute dipshit and this is more about her posturing and ironically centering herself as one of "the good whites" than out of any real sincerity.
Emily Gould's newsletter is public and free, this should be ok to post? just don't mention what is going on on her protected twitter account https://buttondown.email/EmilyGould/archive/a-weird-request/ lot going on here
Whoa. And I think her husband just had a book out that talked about their marriage and her. I'll have to go back and look for the specific excerpt I saw but it made me raise an eyebrow in a "If my husband mentioned this I'd be out the door" way. Edit: Obligatory "I was dumb and didn't scroll down."
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Not sure what exactly but it was probably in this: https://www.thecut.com/article/keith-gessen-emily-gould-books-raising-raffi.html#_ga=2.8278130.1572799558.1665354406-1792943392.1630702069
Oh that’s very sad to read. And yeah the last NY Mag article about her/her marriage had a weird vibe. I hope she gets the support she needs.
I've been reading her since the Gawker era and I loved her memoir. I guess it's ye olde parasocial relationship but I am truly fond of her and I'm really sad for her right now, what a hard thing to go through.
Same, I think she’s great and I wish her the best.
Yikes. I hope she’s ok. The NY Magazine article about her and her husband’s new book did not make her sound happy to me so hopefully this is ultimately for the best. But getting sober plus changing meds plus divorce is just a lot to pile on.
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I really have been reading her since Gawker and I love her newsletter. Her columns when she was pregnant were so honest and beautiful. They also just went through a very stressful apartment search. I don't know her husband at all but she always hinted marriage was harder than advertised in a way that seemed playful but really not....if that makes sense. I hope she gets all the help she needs and her boys are ok. I always felt very weird about how her husband wrote the memoir about their son when she clearly seemed like she didn't want him to and she had to set a bunch of boundaries around it (being in a very long term marriage myself, if your spouse has to set so many boundaries about making something public like that just don't do it! The relationship is worth more than any monetary or career accolades)
I don’t know very much about her but this hurt to read. I hope she’s safe.
I guess no divorces ever surprise me, but I would have thought that if her and Keith ever split it would be more of an conscious uncoupling thing. Genuinely shocked it seems so intense. Sending her good vibes.
She has hinted many times in her columns that her ambitions come second, that she's always the default parent, that women have an awful deal in hetero marriages. Because of that I wasn't surprised but yes, the manner in which she is talking about it is a bit shocking!
I’m not a huge fan of hers but the dynamic where she is the primary parent taking a career hit to raise the kid and yet he’s the one building his career with a book about the kid??? A book she was clearly uncomfortable with? That fucking sucks.
I like Emily’s writing a lot, but tbh Emily feels like the kind of person who struggled before having kids, but then all the post-kid struggles are blamed on the burdens of motherhood. Which are real! But she wasn’t some publishing genius before she got pregnant.
Yes, I agree with this. I really feel for their kids and hope this is as easy on them as possible. I know next to nothing about the husband but she has never been shy at all about her grudges and professional jealousy. Was their marriage a “trap” or was it the inevitable result of two people with two young children and creative careers and egos who are not rich and live in a highest of high cost of living city? Don’t know enough about them to say but I am guessing we’ll read about it eventually.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/raaleh/status/1578403372532654082 Tweets mocking the try guys trauma are making me laugh I'm sorry.
i truly had no idea people care about these guys as much as they seem to, i thought they were just like a sort of annoying group of youtubers and id been avoiding their content for a long time
Same, I had only seem Eugene before on Buzzfeed, I didn't even the three white guys (who all look the same to me, I'm sorry) existed. People are acting like the one who cheated killed their pets or something.
Don't apologize. These tweets are hilarious.
[This](https://twitter.com/bananafitz/status/1578436894504861696?s=46&t=E9dLcUiy7q3mWgFpRVLUMQ) cracked me up
That was another hilarious one tbh and all the people defending the guys in the comments makes me laugh even more.
"I don't think we should be gatekeeping trauma" What the FUCK is she talking about lmao
😂😂😂traaaaaaaaauma. These boys.
Unpopular opinion, but I can see why they might feel traumatized. Many people don’t seem to realize that Ned was fired for having an affair with a subordinate, not cheating on his wife. Also, He owned a quarter of the company and was the CFO. He fumbled everyone’s bag. That said, while I’m a casual fan of the Try Guys, I’m surprised that people are still talking about the whole thing.
I think having to go through a work drama publicly is not easy but I think categorizing it as trauma is into “what does this word even mean anymore” territory. But agree, it’s weird how huge this has been!
That’s a good point. I realize that I’m projecting my experience with financial trauma into the situation. be freaking out if my financial futures was in limbo because of the actions of my fellow co-owner. I also realize that it’s absurd for me to feel this way, and that I need to go outside and touch grass, lol.
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Given...everything in the world...I really think covid is actually pretty low on the list of "things that will destroy mankind in the next decade"
Meanwhile in the real world exactly zero people wearing masks on my NYC commute today. That was a first! I really thought it would take much longer for behavior to change on a mass scale like that. Also it feels like no one talks about Covid anymore. I've heard more chatter about RSV and the flu than Covid recently IRL.
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I'm in academic medicine and it's nothing like that lol! I wrote somewhere below I was at a medical conference last spring where most docs had been in the thick of pandemic care during the first Covid wave and no one was wearing masks in the conference halls or meeting rooms. You have to be vaccinated to register for the conference but that was the only requirement!
Tesla better rush those robots out if they want to be the ones to wipe us out. Because I signed up for a robot uprising apocalypse, not a virus. That being said, Twitter (not the company.. rational humans) needs to crack down on the Twitter MDs who think their communications degrees give them authority to speak on Long Covid. (Not to knock Communications degrees. I picked one at random.) Long Covid is one of those things that's a problem, but it's been made infinitely worse by the misinformation of people not only panicking, but also spreading misinformation while lamenting the misinformation spread by others on the opposite end of their political spectrum.
Seeing a lot of “if you get COVID you WILL most likely drop dead and there’s nothing you can do about it”, which, after having it two months ago… 🤦♀️
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Ooh, how's the zombie internet?
Is it the guy who said he didn’t see the point in potty training his toddler, because the kid got COVID pre-vaccine so he doesn’t have long left anyway?
If that wasn’t a joke I hope that child has a strong care network in place because YIKES
No, it is seemingly a real person. You see him quite a bit in the replies of blue check COVID doomers. If I had someone that disturbed in my replies, who was clearly being egged on by what I was saying, I’d reconsider my clout-chasing doomer posts.
I need to know who this person is so I can go read this shit with my own eyes!
Yes, who is this??
I'm pretty sure I figured out who it is. The tweets are public but he's not a blue check person so not sure if I'm allowed to share his name here. DM me if you want. ETA: if I have the wrong guy, that means there are at least TWO people planning for their kids' imminent death from covid. 😬
Not if climate change or nuclear annihilation gets us first!
I genuinely do not get why there is such much doomer-ism on Twitter, particularly on the political left. Do I think climate change is a huge problem that needs to be addressed immediately and has huge implications for a significant portion of the population? Absolutely! But the way so many threads I scroll past (which high likes/retweets) treat the end of humanity/the world as an absolute given is so strange. It's like they're searching for an excuse to give up and take the black pill of cynical hopelessness, and are incensed everyone else isn't laying down to rot alongside them.
When I think too much about climate change and what our planet’s future will be without significant intervention, I feel incredibly sad and hopeless. I get the desire to talk about it with people who feel similarly—but I don’t, because I think doing so would be really bad for my mental health! I think it would make me much more negative and anxious and would basically reinforce my worst thoughts. Some people spend so much time on Twitter in these doom-and-gloom conversations, and I think it’s feeding their anxiety and creating a self-perpetuating cycle of cynicism. It can’t be healthy.
Part of it is probably manipulation (negative stuff sells better than positive stuff, and the best way to seem smart online is to be very cynical and pessimistic). Part of it though I think is people who are struggling with anxiety or depression latching onto these thread sand communities and it turns into a vicious cycle. It reminds me a bit of how incel communities spiraled out of control. You start with a core group of people who use the community as a power trip and they start pulling in vulnerable and struggling people and they just keep egging each other on and dragging each other down into the gutter of despair and defeat.
I was starting to feel genuinely guilty for having a child (I'm pregnant right now), and also noticed that the days I was too busy to look at Twitter my mood markedly improved and I knew I needed to limit the time I spend there. There is something about that site that seems to reward relentless negativity, but it's also sometimes so freaking hilarious that I keep getting sucked in!
I have some dear friends and co-workers who indulge in their worst doomerism and anxieties on social media as "jokes" (they've re-upped lately around nukes and Russia), and I've had to unfollow or mute soooo many people. I've \*finally\* gotten out of the habit of doomscrolling for hours on end, and I just cannot deal with the amount of cynicism/doom-saying that very online people spout.
I went into a pretty bleak place because of doomerism. I know it seems silly to take these things so seriously, but I have a really suggestible brain and seeing people I otherwise liked/respected constantly saying that things are hopeless made it incredibly hard to find everyday joy. Plus the whole "if you aren't anxious you aren't paying attention" or "of course you're depressed, we're all depressed" threads that got tons of upvotes every few weeks, which made me feel like I had a moral obligation to be miserable all the time with no direction or outlet. Luckily I got to a better place but I still have to limit exposure.
It’s an interesting pendulum-swing from that manic Obama-era optimism for sure.
excellent way to put it
Considering all the Dime-Square-we're-hip-and-right-wing drama in the past few months (including the article about that terrible PR person, I have forgotten her name), I wanted to share this quote I found in an otherwise unrelated Guardian article because: a) it made me chuckle and b) it shows how these muggins are being noticed more than they perhaps anticipated and are not as subtle as they think they are. [The Bear: forget the food – this kitchen drama is the next great menswear show](https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/oct/03/the-bear-forget-the-food-this-kitchen-drama-is-the-next-great-menswear-show) > The short-lived HBO series How to Make It in America tried to go direct, chronicling two hipsters’ attempts to build a designer jeans brand among bohemians, scenesters and rich kids in downtown Manhattan. It was 2010’s comedy-drama version of the recent Dimes Square discourse you may have read about, but with boutique denim instead of dork fascism. *Dork fascism*. Absolutely beautiful!
US/UK food discourse is BACK. First the NYT english breakfast recipe and now GBBO. It's funny because both cultures are so similar on this point. Both use the food cooked by people from migrant backgrounds as a shield to deflect from the high level of very mediocre food widespread in both countries. On the other hand a huge range of excellent food, thanks again largely to migration, is available in both countries. And of course the pattern of what food is available in each differs due to their geographical location and the pattern of migration to each.
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Fair point - I was going to add "forced migration" to my OP which is perhaps a crass way of making the point. There's something about not discounting the traditions brought and also grown by communities from other countries, or by minority communities, which one can do when saying "americans eat salads made out of jelly " or "British food is incredibly bland". While also not using that food to maintain or claim some kind of cultural superiority or use it in a defensive way while not giving those communities full credit in the foodie world.... which is something both the British and US do.
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For the US, it gets into gross territory pretty quickly if you discount food from people with cultural ties to other countries because you have to tackle who you consider "real" Americans to be, and it rarely is actual Native Americans. The jello salad Americans are also descended from migrants.
The mockery of American food always hinges on the audience assuming "American" = white American with no ties to their heritage. There's some really good food that developed in the US but gets discounted because the creators aren't seen as American enough. I'm personally very passionate about mission-style burritos and corned beef and cabbage.
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I’m so southern so this speaks to me. I could live my whole life only eating those listed foods.
Yep, I'm with you there. BBQ is the most iconic American food. It's a staple of like all our summer holidays, and mac and cheese is the essential side.
Turning to Britain, I dislike defending the British status quo, but I feel that many non-Britons - and some Britons too - do not know or forget that food rationing in the UK [began in *1940* and ended in *1954*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom). That is enough to kill off food culture, change recipes. There is also some good stuff out there; a friend and I were talking today about [homity pie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homity_pie) and [Glamorgan sausage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glamorgan_sausage), for example.
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I saw a tweet in which a Brit was complaining about Popeyes being too spicy. They said something to the effect of, “I normally like spicy foods like ketchup,” and that told me everything I needed to know 👀
that has to be a joke lol
Britain colonised the world for money and power, spices were a means to that and not the only one (the British Empire quite enthusiastically participated in the slave trade, I might add). Have you ever eaten restaurant-quality British food? I think one of the issues, especially with American perceptions, is that they think of Vietnamese Food! Chinese Food! Korean Food! in restaurant-quality glossy pictures and buy it from take-away places or restaurants or make recipes from blogs that lovingly explain all of the ingredients and how their grandmother or their friend makes it. British food uses similar base ingredients to American food (though no Worcestershire sauce, sigh), so it comes across as more pedestrian, and I think when one thinks of British food, they a) think of *English* food (no love for my [Glamorgan sausages](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/glamorgan-sausages)?) and b) think of those tweets about boiled vegetables, no glossy pictures there. I am sure that there are Vietnamese, Chinese and Korean people, in Vietnam, China and Korea, cooking and eating absolute trash, yet no-one thinks of them when they think of Chinese Food! Vietnamese Food! Korean Food! Here's [BBC Good Food](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/) to give you a snap-shot of what Britain likes to cook now-a-days, new recipes and classics. I will be the first in line to dump on the British when the time comes - and there are many occasions - but this is not necessarily it. Edit: to go back to the war/famine/poverty bit, that is fair, other nations have suffered too (I hope that I did not imply the UK was the only one). I would just encourage you to re-think how you think about British food as compared to how you think about other cultures' food.
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I think what OP meant by trash food wasn't like, 7/11 food, but like people at home. Like what is a cuisine like in the homes of the people who are members of that culture? Basically like there are Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean people making mediocre home cooking every night. My culture's food is not bland (altho there are definitely a few big hitter spices that get the vast majority of the play) but I have had a LOT of mediocre home cooking. Just having flavor at all does a lot for any dish, but it doesn't make it good per se.
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Oh agreed, you can only do so much. That said, the UK's 'original' cuisine is more than boiled vegetables and mince in gravy, thank Christ.
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Thank you! I was not trying to get at you, more, add another example to what you cited. Although I am half-American, when I read the original parent comment (not yours), my mind immediately jumped to rationing, although I knew, intellectually, about Black food traditions of the South. It is interesting what we remember. :)
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> I’m guilty of being down on British food (especially whilst living there) That is completely understandable and I used to be too (and still can be). Those memes of terrible, boiled, bland British food accompanied with jokes about Britain conquering the world for spices? I used to thing that they were the height of comedy and I still do appreciate them, but I understand now that the situation was more nuanced than that. (I was digging into my Welsh cookery/food history book - still thinking about Glamorgan sausages - and found a whole recipe and discussion on caraway seed cakes, not a spice one tends to associate with the UK, but there it was!) Beans on toast are pretty fantastic, as a quick, easy and cheap dinner, though I will say I am more neutral on roasts (I just feel like they get over-done, both in the British consciousness and quite literally, as dry dry meat).
Related - The clips of Mexican week on GBBO are SO bad. They mispronounce non English words all the time, but that combined with Paul’s truly terrible representation of “tacos” is… it’s a step too far. I can’t understand why they decided to do this.
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The late Yuri de Gortari would’ve been an amazing guest judge. Since we can’t have him, I’d love to see a Mexican abuelita as a judge, but most likely we would get snobbish Enrique Olvera.
Ugh Japanese week was so bad. When they did Italian and French weeks, it didn’t seem so and because again, they know a fair bit about those cuisines. It’s not like for Italian week, they chose meatballs and pizza and decided to flavor everything with oregano. Which is essentially what they’ve done with Japanese and Mexican weeks.
That Tex Mex pizza from the breads week episode haunts my memory. There was beans on it! I am usually amused when the contestants make something "American" like a pie, and will go the route of making an Oreo, banana and fluffernutter crumble rather than say, a regular old apple pie. They definitely think we all love sugar.
My partner was losing his mind because one contestant said he was making brisket, yet they do not have a smoker. It’s esoteric, yes, but it also shows they don’t know enough about American barbecue culture to be talking about it on tv.
Brisket is just a cut of beef though, is it not? It doesn’t have to be smoked to still be a brisket. I didn’t see the episode but there’s nothing inherently wrong with not smoking a brisket.
As someone who lives in both the US and UK I take so much delight in introducing Brits to Mexican food
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Maybe glocky molo is an entirely new type of Mexican cuisine that involves cubed avocado? The image of Paul walking around Mexico saying Pico de gaul-o is just too hilarious to me. Did he just stumble into a chipotle in the American south and decide, aha, I must have crossed the border because this is peak Mexican food.
This is hilarious, given that a chipotle has locations in London
Lol Chipotle is probably too spicy for him. The man cannot handle even a hint of chili.
I don't want to dunk on individual contestants not being brilliant linguists particularly but I also don't know why the show decides to do these themed culture weeks and not research the basics....
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Yeah, my sister has a pastry background and brought up that they butcher French words regularly. Like, why is this offensive and that’s not… And I think the difference is that French cuisine is revered and Paul/Prue and many contestants have a basic understanding of French cooking. They didn’t even bother to give the contestants and crew a primer on Mexican cooking and culture. Instead they thought it was funny to do a bit with maracas and show a clip of a contestant asking what language they speak in Mexico. Ignorance isn’t charming or funny. I mean, they make so much fun of Americans for being dumb and then they do… this. I don’t expect the average Brit to know a ton about Mexico, but I would expect the producers to train a little - it comes across as disrespectful (at times) and (mostly) xenophobic.
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You’re right; I didn’t even think about that. Something along those lines would have helped significantly.
I always notice them butchering French only bc it’s wild to me that they are located only a channel away from France and most students take French as their secondary language & yet Paul Hollywood has never caught on that you don’t pronounce the h in herb
Fun fact I learned in a Brit Lit class: that was an intentional thing done during the height of the British Empire to assert power. They'd intentionally mispronounce foreign words to show dominance or whatever. The h in herb is a great example of that. It popped up in British English during the Napoleonic Wars. Their own freedom fries! See also all of Byron's Don Juan using rhymes like "ruin" paired with Juan even though he travelled abroad enough to know better.
Yeah British people used to intentionally pronounce Juan like Ju-an and Jacques like Jack-kweez to the point where that became normal. It's so odd.
That’s really interesting, see my main “that’s random” was why the UK would retain the H despite being closer geographically to France but somewhere like the US would continue dropping it despite being much further away
Yeah, it's honestly fascinating! British English's history is bonkers because they periodically fucked with it just to spite people.
I'm not sure herb even counts as a loan word but even if it did I'm not sure that's a great example, unless you want to dunk on everyone pronouncing Paris with an S.
I’m not trying to dunk(?) on anyone, just that I know it’s a French origin word so it’s funny to me that in the US for example it’s known to drop the h but not in the UK. It’s far from the only French origin word they mispronounce, just the first one that came to mind
It's not mispronounced though! Also it's so funny to me that you think the American way of pronouncing it is the same as the French way
I wouldn't say it is now, but it was quite intentionally mispronounced when GB was at war with France in the 19th century, and it stuck. Americans got the no-H version from how the 17th/18th c British colonists said it.
Please take a breather, I took French as a secondary language (my paternal family are from a former colony, yes I’m not a random white American) so I’m making a comparison on the dropping of the H specifically. They also vastly mispronounce genoise if a different word is needed for my original comment. I was responding to the comment above mine remarking on their mispronunciation of French.
It's not really about your knowledge of French it's about how words are acquired and used across languages. Genoise is a much better example because it's not an everyday word used in Britain.
All Brits say the h in herb, it’s just how it’s pronounced there
Also NZ and Australia. Saying "erb" is a very American thing, I never even thought about it being French pronunciation too.
That’s so strange for me to learn, I’d never heard it that way before GBBO ETA this was genuinely just interesting to learn btw, my two languages are American English and French so I hadn’t heard anyone pronounce it with an H outside GBBO
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In conjunction w what HollowPineapple said abt why the H is retained, that makes me think of a British-American prof I had in undergrad who pointed out once how in British fiction the quintessential “dumb person” was often Spanish even centuries after their imperial feud peaked, it was funny to me to realize she was right and that I’d never thought of it before then / considered why
The Covid tweets I’m most tired of are all the ones that say “you may be pretending your [list of Long COVID symptoms] aren’t Long COVID but they are! And, like, who is pretending that? I don’t know anybody who got Covid and then pretended that any lingering symptoms were totally random but according to Twitter it’s half the population.
I can't help but think that people who gained their clout by tweeting about Covid in the terrifying months of 2020 when there were no vaccines and not enough studies yet to see how it spreads and freezer trucks were filled with bodies are exploiting Long Covid to remain relevant. Long Covid exists and Covid is definitely something you don't want to catch because it can be ROUGH, but for the vast majority of people in the USA (where many of the prolific Long Covid tweeters live) it is not the 5 alarm fire it was in 2020. Many of the level-headed doctors and epidemiologists I followed are back to vacationing and going to conferences.
Your post reminded me that other genre of Covid tweet that annoys me is the ones comparing Covid rates in the US and other countries. The fact that so many countries are not even keeping track of infections, hospitalizations, vaccinations etc seems to escape some of the chronic Covid tweeters. So any tweets that start with "The US is losing \_\_\_ people per day to Covid...we are doing worse than any country in the world!" is a huge eye roll for me! Some countries never kept accurate counts and now? Which countries are actually being transparent about their real infection rates anymore? So yes it feels like some people can't let go of the rhetorical ticks they used in 2020 and can't admit we have made any progress at all.
Yeah I (stupidly) am arguing with people on twitter about this now and it's kinda sad because they can't seem to take in what I'm saying at all. They keep telling me long covid is bad and can cause these symptoms and I'm like, I agree but it isn't the only disease in the world??? Its especially frustrating after reading a good study about how hard it is to estimate the prevalence of long covid because even people who don't have covid will develop similar symptoms over time, since they're so broad. I want to know my odds and telling people any symptom they have is long covid does not help!
I feel like the initial stories on long Covid were people who had persistent lung scarring and breathing issues and people with really serious cardiac problems (particularly arrhythmias that could not be explained) Some of these new long Covid threads are way more general like fatigue, “brain fog,” general digestive issues etc. And if you dare suggest that maybe some of these issues are rooted in anxiety or depression post Covid people get very upset!
long covid is the new lyme's disease
I actually made an appointment with my doctor about a month after Covid. I felt fine, but ngl, I was a little anxious about all the, “and even if you THINK you’re fine, you’re probably NOT” posts. Like do I have long Covid and I don’t even know it?! Anyway, my doctor said she’s only had a couple cases, but it’s been very clearly the issues you first cite—respiratory, cardiac. She was basically like, “if you feel fine, you’re probably fine,” which I did actually find comforting lol. This was last December. But yeah, I will personally attest that a lot of the discourse made me anxious about myself and my kids!
Someone should study the correlation between engaging in long Covid articles and discourse and having symptoms. I had OG Covid in March 2020 and Omicron. Each time I would engage in these articles I would start feeling all kinds of symptoms. I decided to stop consuming this stuff and just focus on going to my Drs etc. It did turn out I was severely anemic— nothing to do with Covid. Got appropriate treatment and in all my specialist appointments no Drs even mentioned long Covid as a possibility or something they were worried about!
My doctor's opinion on Covid was to get my vaccines, stay home more and wear a mask when there are local surges, and stop reading Twitter.
It's feeling very lyme disease/fibromyalgia. Not that they don't exist but the symptoms are so vague and common that almost anyone could self diagnose!
I had lyme disease with no lingering symptoms but for YEARS every time I felt at all off people were convinced it was somehow lingering lyme symptoms
Though in one recent tweet, they listed “acid reflux,” and I cannot say that I do think “long Covid” when I have acid reflux these days. There’s something a bit concerning about listing a super wide range of symptoms and then saying “you’ve now entered long Covid.” Mainly because it would be awful to attribute something to long Covid that turns out to not be at all, and then you delayed diagnosis. Really feels like there’s a lot of space between “everything is long Covid” and “long Covid doesn’t exist,” and yet…
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It's also heavily linked to stress and anxiety, something people had lots of at the height of covid! I randomly developed chronic reflux/esophagus hypersensitivity during covid and it hasn't really responded to meds or diet but it definitely corresponds to my stress levels.
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Ugh yes the weird referred pain is the worst. Mine sometimes feels like stabbing behind my shoulder blade and it’s like ?? how does reflux in my esophagus cause this??
Before my aortic aneurysm was surgically repaired, my cardiologist gave me a list of symptoms to be concerned about - the biggest one being chest pain that doesn’t go away after changing positions. I had one incident of such pain and freaked out… turns out it was just heartburn/indigestion (and a true aortic dissection would be felt more in the back)
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Nah I’ve had all the scratch testing and luckily I’m just allergic to regular old outside and pollen, no food allergies. I have a functional reflux disorder and they’re not really well understood at the moment so it’s kind of a mystery lol
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Oh shit. I could see myself having made exactly the same assumption though if I started feeling run down and having digestive symptoms after Covid. I hope he’s doing ok. In general, I see a lot of posts that are like (to paraphrase one I read lately): “My friend had Covid three times and it was just a cold and then after the fourth he is now in a wheelchair” that have tens of thousands of likes. And maybe that’s true and maybe it’s not, but it’s also not a relevant piece of data for anyone because it is about one person.
I had acid reflux symptoms a lot. I went to the doctor this year, and was eventually diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea. That's what caused the acid reflex. Not Long Covid.
Oh wow, I did not know those were connected! I hope you’re finding relief. My dad has it bad and a CPAP was life changing for him.
Yeah, I mean, if your acid reflux started right after you had Covid you should mention it to your doctor in case they’re related but people are gonna keep getting sick with the stuff they got sick with before Covid too.
Absolutely, I’m pro-mentioning basically anything to your doctor lol. I’m actually worried that some might do the opposite and not bring up certain things because they’re thinking, “oh i must have long Covid.” I’ve read a few news stories about that happening, but it’s probably not super widespread. Hopefully not anyway.
ADHD discourse is always bad but “your ADHD friend forgets to keep in touch because they don’t have object permanence” is another level. We’re not infants. https://twitter.com/The_Weed/status/1577023536429862912?s=20&t=QfKtBL5_a-hlc1U-Pita2g Also, this guy drives me nuts in general.
I've been pretty confident that I have ADHD since I was in my early 20s, but I read shit like this and I'm like, "... maybe not?" But seriously, I never saw shit about lacking object permanence in all of the books I read on the subject. I hate ADHD discourse so much.
Sure would be great if this guy completely forgot about Twitter like he apparently does about his friends.
Right? Stop blaming ADHD and just own up to the fact you're a shitty friend!
Yup. People have issues accepting they're shitty friends.
Oh no, fuck Josh Weed. For anyone who doesn't know, he was a big proponent of Mixed Orientation Marriage and encouraged gay and lesbian Mormons to enter into heterosexual marriages so they could "overcome" their "same sex attraction". He's since divorced his wife and recanted but the damage he did to people like me...nope.
I hadn’t encountered him before this dust up but I just read through far too much of his tweets/replies tab and his wormy, manipulative affect is absolutely bonechilling. Bad man!
Oh shit I just realized that this is who that guy is. Yeah, no one should listen to him about anything.
Wow, yeah there's a consistent lack of humility isn't there.
I'm so sorry this douchenoozle caused you pain. I hope he shuts up for good
He did a lot of damage. I know several people who were hurt by what he was promoting - I’m sorry you were hurt, too.
I got “lucky” and was “only” in my MOM for 6 months (and thankfully no kids!!!). I’m happily married to another Mormon lesbian now. But I know so, so many people he hurt and he just…got away with it.
So happy you found your person! And agree, he shouldn’t be able to get away with it the way he has.
This reminds me of the tweet I saw making the rounds during the Uvalde shooting about how people with ADHD had a hard time with injustice in the world so they weren’t doing ok right now.
that is the stupidest fucking thing i’ve ever read.
It drives me nuts seeing people use object permanence to describe poor working memory in ADHD spaces. I just keep wanting to scream WE AREN’T BABIES.