Jack Lawrence

Reading through Reddit forums like r/professors is often deeply depressing.

Some of the educators on there seem to just really hate their students and teaching and have a reductive us vs them mindset.

If you hate and distrust the students that much just quit?

We love links because we love the open web

kitten 😸 or frog 🐸
you decide

Twitter is cratering. Despite the inevitability I still feel sad.

He didn’t buy that place to save it, to grow it…he bought it to shift the Overton window to the right.

But it was also home for millions of people.

Realising I have followed far too many American lawyers on this site today.

Looking for anyone not falling into this category to follow now (unless you’re like a cool American lawyer)

Coming back to Bluesky after some time away and seeing gifs are now allowed.

If I see any of you using any of these ones I’m blocking you instantly. Please leave them on twitter.

I have a spare ticket for Lion King on Sunday (tomorrow) at 14:30 at the Lyceum theatre. It is a Disney Magical Mondays ticket so only £29.50 (a big saving on the normal price). The seat is in row ZA at the back of stalls. Anyone interested?

Can We Finally Stop Pretending Elon Musk Is A “Free Speech Absolutist”? He’s Not A challenge for the mainstream media: can you stop saying that Elon Musk is a free speech absolutist? Over the past few years, we’ve had a number of posts highlighting just how laughable it is that…

I am begging and pleading with the media (I see you @bloomberg.com) to stop taking Elon's false framing that he's a "free speech absolutist" at face value. It is actively misleading people and is journalistic malpractice. www.techdirt.com/2024/08/16/c...

Things we're leaving in 2023:
-apologizing for credit card fraud
-being a people-pleaser with the FBI
-feeling shame about the things that bring us joy (walking around cemeteries looking for names to put on loan applications)

Giving a big talk tomorrow in Brisbane about the decline of free expression globally, and its particular impact on LGBTQ+ communities and sex workers, and how it's all intertwined, just as human rights are interconnected. I'm excited and also a bit anxious—this is my first keynote since 2019!

Period 26: Journalists - stop saying that menstrual products are tested with saline and please do so... Ok, sidebar newsletter. Share this one, please. Last week for the weird period fact I shared a recent paper that looked at menstrual product...

https://buttondown.email/KateClancy/archive/period-26-journalists-stop-saying-that-menstrual/

doctor: your parents were in a car accident

me: how are they?

doctor: extremely critical

me: so they're awake, that's good

Elon Musk understands the value of the block feature. I know this because he blocked me over this post:

Phew. I'm in, thanks to @jackmlawrence.bsky.social. I feel like a bank robber reaching the vault. Except without the robbing. Or the bank. Or the vault.

RFK Jr: Pee is stored in the balls, OK?

Rogan: Wow. In the balls? How does nobody knows this?

RFK Jr: There are literally tens of thousands of studies that show pee is stored there, in the balls

Rogan: Wow. Wow. So like, does that mean girls don’t pee?

RFK Jr: Now you’ve gone beyond my expertise

Oh man I loved his early work!

Should note I was/am a reporter (still freelance), and I’m trying to sell a book right now.

So I 110% get the business importance of these huge platforms - but I’m not sure I believe it’s *worth* it anymore.

Or ethical.

It's perfect.

Threads stole Elon Musk’s idea, a social media platform that sucks

Every screenshot of Threads I've seen is basically

𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐳
who getting they ketch upped??
8,729 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 · 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘰 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘴𝘣𝘺

legitpat on threads asking “what if we made twitter cheugy”

The perfect summary of Threads

If by lit you mean awful then yes

It's somehow so much worse than that. @zitron.bsky.social said it's like a "truncated Facebook comment section where everyone wants you to follow them" and it could not be more accurate.

Only feed you get is filled with random bullshit.

Threads is fucking awful

This is god damn awful. Jesus Christ

This feels like a platform specifically designed to drive me mad with animal rage

100% agree. Threads vibes are very bad

thread review: absolute dog shit app for terminal cases of linked in

everything you hate about instagram with nothing you like, assuming there's anything left of insta to actually like

The vibes on there are awful. Absolutely gross place. Feel like I need a shower after using it. Not a fan at all

Vibes on Threads are utterly rancid. Much prefer Bluesky. Corporate accounts are thriving and no one is being threatened with hammers