Essential Kami

IT Professional by day. Storybuilder by night. 🤓 Never completely serious.

[Essential Kami @Kamiccola]

I know that Twitter is dead just by looking at the number of new followers every day. Suddenly I'm popular. 😂 Yeah, not likely.

When bots outnumber people, I think it's a sign to look elsewhere for real interactions.

I don't want to lose my Twitter friends though.

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Testing something.
If you saw this post, sing yeah

[Kayla MacNeille 🍁is querying🍁 @kbmacneille]

ENOLA HOLMES x SIMONE ST. JAMES

Despite her disbelief in the supernatural, Coretta falls in with vengeful, secret-keeping ghosts. She must open up to romance and risk her own life and sanity to discover who killed the ghosts, and if that same person is after her. #PitDark #T #A

[Essential Kami @Kamiccola]

X, wtf?
I haven't been on here lately and I'm really confused.
What is this trend with posts made by bot accounts, getting only bot replies?
Is this something people engage in? Or is this app filled with bots only?

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@Scottholmesart @elawreads It's not meant for prose and it shows.
I find it useful with creating summaries. It can actually discern nuance and meaning from disconnected sentences.
But nothing coming out of it is okay verbatim. It always needs to be tweaked.

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@PortNYNJ We're all pretty shaken.

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@lindsayskeeling I love the first one the most

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@Ch33r10

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@TerribleMaps Yes! Frugo is awesome!
Like Snapple but it actually tastes like fruit and not sugar.

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@awesomebrandi I might have ADHD? Not sure, never tried getting diagnosed.
But I'm fairly certain that my brother is autistic. No one ever tried to diagnose him. Back then, he was just written off as a bad student. No one tried to find out why he struggled in school.
Kinda sad in retrospect.

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@timecaptales @fasc1nate It's as if he was an actor or something

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@rpsilvester @TerribleMaps Poles ate all the potatoes. Mystery solved.

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yes, me

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@HayleyReeseChow Cool. My journey isn’t as long as yours, but I think it would be cool to make it, if anything for archiving purposes because I won't remember all of this in 10 years.

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@hourlyFox

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@john_c_roth How are you doing?
I checked my twiends list (which now is a xiends list?) and apparently, you’re the only active one here.
What's your official opinion? Is it worth sticking around here when everyone's jumping ship?

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@john_c_roth Hmmm. Looks like a writing prompt to me

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@museofdestiny

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

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@SarahKateIshii I find that my favorite lines are very context-dependent. They're favorite because they express the feelings/mood of the scene. And that's not universal.

Hehe, I was just editing this today so it's on my mind. I guess "Rivers make for poor cemeteries" is universal.

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@campfirewriting Omg, so many updates all at once!