Tom Whitney

I draw things, play games, and seethe at all times with barely contained fury over the state of the world (but am trying to be kind in spite of it). He/him.

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

I'm at the better site as "tewhit" with the default domain. If anyone here is left you can find me there, I'm not sure how much longer I'll keep this running after I download some old art.

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@paranaturalzack Oh this is what you said nevermind my brain isn't functioning

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@paranaturalzack (I personally took it at face value because I have read this comic for a while and would not put it past you)

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@electrolemon Seeing this post and being able to grab a ticket is so far the one and only mark in the "reasons I am glad I haven't fully deleted this app yet" column

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@jplepore The last 2 nights I've stayed up until like 2am solving cases, oversleeping and having to rush to work so yeah. This is the opposite of rise and grind, that tracks.

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@JoINrbs I understand it's an uphill battle because of the rhetorical power of "a million dollars" but people really don't know how little $1M is either in terms of government money or billionaire taxes huh. Nationally speaking we are on a Dr. Evil level of financial literacy.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Here’s who he’s been replaced with:

[Zack Morrison @paranaturalzack]

HEY! Makeship has EXTENDED the Eightfold plush campaign due to MASSIVE EIGHTFOLD INTEREST!

You now have EIGHT MORE DAYS to grab an Eightfold if you missed the window yesterday! https://t.co/u097rV98sr

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@paranaturalzack How ironic, that *she* would be the one helping *you* to get that paper (congrats!)

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@DustyOldRoses Even as someone who played those old games I hate him lol. He's a one-note "joke" about "look at this big vaguely foreign guy with a mental disability" and DnD is so determined to bring him back as a mascot over and over (also matt mercer fatigue)

[olivia stowell @oliviastowell]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Turning the conversation about Palestine into a question of "manners" or "tough interviews" is "bullshit" because "The topic is apartheid. Apartheid is the topic."

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@paranaturalzack Several distinct moments of internal clapping, cheering and laughing at the nonsense you are getting up to here. Glad I stayed up for it and congrats on closing out the chapter!

[Zack Morrison @paranaturalzack]

✨UPDATE! It's the END OF CHAPTER 8! https://t.co/CPcLJAj0wb #hiveworks It's a great time to catch up! Help spread the word!

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

All the freaks in the world have been cast down…
(fanart of the latest Nethermurk by @of_rude )

[Zack Morrison @paranaturalzack]

This has already been the biggest Paranatural merch success ever, which is a HUGE help in precarious times. I can't tell you how grateful I am to everyone supporting me by picking up an Eightfold!

Buy one or share if you can't! I'd love to reach 1,000 by the end of the run!

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@atebbel That's my read at least. To abusers and harassers, being called out for their behavior and having their DMs shared is "an invasion of privacy" and Twitter is taking their side here.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Tom Whitney @SoulofTwhit]

@_sulcata man i'm not as tuned in as i used to be but I was shocked to see that in pcgamer, i didn't think things had gotten so bad over there that they would put this out at all, much less in the state it went out