Seth Abramson

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@bbcorgibutt Ah — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at RETRO: Ryan Reynolds’ and Rob McElhenney’s “Welcome to Wrexham” Shouldn’t Work. But It Does—Sort Of. An unfli… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bbcorgibutt Who? — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at RETRO: Ryan Reynolds’ and Rob McElhenney’s “Welcome to Wrexham” Shouldn’t Work. But It Does—Sort Of. An unfli… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: One of the most succinct summaries of the Elon Musk persona. https://t.co/YJXWFsiL2s — PolitiTweet.org

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@whisperfist I do think I transposed those two words by accident. — PolitiTweet.org

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@whisperfist That works too. — PolitiTweet.org

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(🔐) NEW at RETRO: Ryan Reynolds’ and Rob McElhenney’s “Welcome to Wrexham” Shouldn’t Work. But It Does—Sort Of. An unflinching look at the viral docuseries that comes to an idiosyncratic conclusion about it. I hope that you’ll read, subscribe, and share. https://t.co/j7KyQlr7Xn — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm watching these hearings literally wondering out loud, "Is this what they think Congress does?" and "Is this what they think a congressional hearing is?" and "Is this how they think adults speak and act"? We're watching the Lost Boys and Girls play adult dress-up on television — PolitiTweet.org

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If a few hundred small children paired off and hid under trench coats while the top half in each pair used a big boy voice to try to sound like an adult it would perfectly resemble the House GOP majority so far—a group whose sense of the adult world apparently comes from Spy Kids — PolitiTweet.org

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Fecking unbelievable. This little worm, I swear. — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a world in which SpaceX wanting to not participate even indirectly in military operations morally justifies the actions it’s taken. We do not live in that world. And we don’t live in that world because of things Elon has said and done publicly that reveal his loyalties. — PolitiTweet.org

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And he daily pals around publicly with far-right extremists who lionize Putin as a messiah figure for white Christians. Anyone who says SpaceX blocking Ukraine from certain uses of Starlink is a contractual matter rather than an extension of Elon’s politics is kidding themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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Don’t forget that Elon threatened to pull Starlink from Ukraine until the backlash made his plan unfeasible. And don’t forget he proposed a “peace plan” that legitimized—even rewarded—Russian war crimes. And he told America to vote for GOP candidates who *oppose* funding Ukraine. — PolitiTweet.org

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CNN: “This confirms the long-standing belief that Musk...[is] uneasy with Ukraine’s military use of Starlink.” What a polite way of calling Elon an unrepentant Putinist and implicit war-crime apologist—just like all his far-right troll buddies on Twitter. https://t.co/lFyhcpcAIt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) NEW at RETRO: The Top 200 Android Video Games Drawing from my years as a professional art critic and video game jour… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) RETRO EXCLUSIVE: The Top 100 Twitter Alternatives I wasn’t going to publish this until next week—but with Twitter cr… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @chrislhayes: You said what you said, buddy! No one made you say it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🔐) RETRO EXCLUSIVE: The Top 100 Twitter Alternatives I wasn’t going to publish this until next week—but with Twitter cr… — PolitiTweet.org

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My first takedown of #TheTwitterFiles focused on an aside by Matt Taibbi in which he acknowledged that censorship requests came from the Trump White House/GOP officials. Either a) Elon hid that data from Taibbi and Taibbi was okay with that or b) Taibbi hid it. Now here we are. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: One of the most succinct summaries of the Elon Musk persona. https://t.co/YJXWFsiL2s — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets And the reason I usually just instablock anyone who complains about the paywall is so I *do not have to write threads like this*. I want to do my job, do it well, sell my work product for an incredibly fair price, and be treated with basic respect as a professional. That is all. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets So don’t ever say to me that you “understand the need for a paywall” while literally demanding my professional work product for free *and* saying I'm not doing enough for devs. You’ve no idea what it’s like to be an independent journalist and I’d prefer you not pretend otherwise. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets I have literally zero reaction if someone decides not to subscribe to PROOF or RETRO. No more than a small business owner is enraged when a pedestrian passes by their business. But if you went into that business and demanded free food, you’ be thrown out on your f****** ass. Yes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets So on top of the obvious fact that as a working professional I should block anyone on my Twitter feed who comes into my *digital home* and tells me my professional work product is without value, having someone imply I’m not doing enough for devs is pretty rich on top of all that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets So my feeling with respect to the devs is that it’s great news for them that a video game journalist is giving marketing to their work for anyone willing to spend less than a cup of coffee for a month of my professional work product. And sometimes I do even give it away for free. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets Every day of my life, people who make thousands of dollars a month doing their professional work tell me a month of *my* professional work isn’t even worth the cost of a cup of coffee. And they say this to me like they’re not spitting in my face. It’s actually f****** incredible. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets I don’t mean this in a mean way, but no, you *don’t* understand the need for a paywall. Unless you’re fulltime indie journalist like me, you don’t understand how insulting it is for folks to think a month of your professional work product isn’t worth $5. It is a massive insult. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets As far as gamers go, $5 to save yourself much more than that by avoiding bad games and discovering the very best ones out there is nothing. This article pays for itself if one purchases it—and of course that $5 actually comes with 100+ other equally valuable articles. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pinkytweets By the time an article like this comes out, I've spent hundreds of dollars playtesting games. The plan is to make older editions of the list free. But we’re talking less than a cup of coffee—and when a dev sees their ranking they can tell as many folks as they like for marketing. — PolitiTweet.org