Seth Abramson

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: LINKS/ Here are other places you can find me online if Twitter shuts down, by order of frequency (most to least): 🟥 RETR… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (PS) To those who don’t head over to PROOF—either as a free subscriber or as a paid one with full access to the site—I wa… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) ATTENTION READERS: We’ve been through a lot together. With #RIPTwitter trending due to a mass walkout at Twitter, it’… — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ My friends and I—then, once we met, also my wife and I—used to go to *many* concerts when we lived in Madison, WI. Too many great ones to name, though I think my favorite (sober) was Temples. But John Darnielle sweating on me during this song was cool. https://t.co/jBxmWwlD3X — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ The Beatles, Beach Boys, Billy Joel and early MTV singles got me into music—like music, period. This is one of maybe two dozen songs that got me into *sixties* music for the long haul. (Most folks <55 only know these guys from “For What It’s Worth.”) https://t.co/pAk1wEIPXs — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ I played several instruments as a kid, at various points—piano, drums, hammered dulcimer; I was in a number of singing groups and even a Billy Joel cover band(!)—and if I could play drums today (I cannot) I would probably like to play them on this song. https://t.co/JUKWqjflhf — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ You know what type of song people don’t talk about nearly enough? Not the one you listen to when you’re at rock bottom, but the one you listen to as the first glimmer of hope starts shining through the storm clouds. This song was very that for me, once. https://t.co/yN6qWz349E — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ There are a number of musical artists I greatly admire who know who I am—which is something that will never make sense to me or be something I can process. Two who come to mind at the moment are Sturgill Simpson and Weyes Blood. This is from the latter. https://t.co/brrrDf0Kg7 — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Well, here it is: the song I’ve listened to the most while high. Got me through a lot. (Haven’t smoked in many, many years now. But as I like to say, I *did* go to art school.) https://t.co/g5Vi8aznGl — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ This one is from what’s probably my favorite album of the Long Sixties. Not the best album of the era, but probably the one I enjoy the most and have listened to the most. https://t.co/XmONH5wNOH — PolitiTweet.org

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@shogun_joy Jesus Christ. You have no idea of the life I’ve lived or the things I’ve seen. Almost none of them online. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ A guilty pleasure. One of the songs I listen to when sad. Not *really* sad; those songs I don’t in general post publicly, as they remind me of people and places and events in ways that are just too personal and hard. But this one’s beautiful, even so. https://t.co/z5fqQvfh8F — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ From one of the best LPs of the 1960s. Criminally overlooked. Criminally. It is so delightfully weird, melodic, alternately wise and absurd—much like Forever Changes by Love, which is in my view (and many other music critics’) the best LP of the decade. https://t.co/261Tdr6XWU — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Here is the first song I ever published at RETRO. (RETRO—my second substack—is where I post all my music and writing on music. Many folks do not know that I was a radio DJ specializing in 1960s psychedelia back in the 1990s.) This cheers me up a little. https://t.co/3C2QysvCPT — PolitiTweet.org

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(THREAD) I really hadn’t thought about how I’d want to spend my last hours on Twitter, if that’s what these are. But I told a filmmaker once that my favorite part of any day I spend here is sharing music. That’s always been true. So maybe I’ll share a few favorites, if that’s OK. — PolitiTweet.org

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If everything I’ve learned about Trump as a Trump biographer has any purchase in trying to understand a megalomaniac like Elon—it may not—Elon is more likely than you or I would be to just shut off the platform suddenly to make a point (and begin his comeback story with a bang). — PolitiTweet.org

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If Elon were smart he’d spend the next 12 hours finding his replacement, announce his exit from Twitter as an active participant in the operation by midday tomorrow, then have his successor beg everyone who quit today to come back Monday (or sooner if the platform is unstable). — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter may not go down tonight but barring something unforeseen it will have to be shut down fairly soon. It can’t be run on 1/8th its full workforce. The only hope Elon has is to raid Tesla and SpaceX for hundreds of employees and hope they can learn how Twitter works in hours. — PolitiTweet.org

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Look at it this way: picture a company, any company, and then fire seven out of every eight employees and order them to head to the exits immediately. How long do you think that company would be a going concern for? — PolitiTweet.org

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Fortune is reporting that Twitter has lost 75% of its remaining employees. Not 75% of the employees it had when Musk bought the company, 75% of the employees that remained after he fired more than half the company. I’m bad at math but I think it means Twitter is at 1/8 workforce? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: LINKS/ Here are other places you can find me online if Twitter shuts down, by order of frequency (most to least): 🟥 RETR… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (PS) To those who don’t head over to PROOF—either as a free subscriber or as a paid one with full access to the site—I wa… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (📢) ATTENTION READERS: We’ve been through a lot together. With #RIPTwitter trending due to a mass walkout at Twitter, it’… — PolitiTweet.org

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JFC it has come to this. https://t.co/P5h3PBLXWE — PolitiTweet.org

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Not too much longer now. — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

They told you their first concern was gas prices. They told you their first concern was grocery prices. They told you their first concern was the border, crime, and a host of other things they never had any interest in. They lied to the whole nation—for the whole election cycle. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Sam_Schmir That is strange because I remember seeing his bio yesterday or the day before. Perhaps he has flicked it on and off. — PolitiTweet.org

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(FWIW) I’m glad to see many are feeling more optimistic than me. I think when a man’s profile consistently identifies him as the head of a company and he blanks that bio as his entire company walks out on him it’s generally not a good sign. But we will see soon enough, of course. — PolitiTweet.org

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@big_AZ76 Read the thread — PolitiTweet.org