Tigger Lunney

Writer/talker/rabble-rouser/game-player/dad, not always in that order. Mixing Pop and Politics.

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Never thought amateur gearheading + spectrumy obsession with arcane aspects of criminal trial procedure (h/t V. Bugliosi and @AoDespair) + years restraining people on concrete outside rock clubs would somehow end up equally relevant knowledge base writing for @moveforjustice1

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Apparently yesterday's GenX Cool bro self-own was Lemonheads fans snidely tweeting about not knowing the band Jawbreaker? Fuck 90's alt-kids were so agonizingly incurious.

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this is my dog there are many like her but this one is mine @harperthepartypoodle https://t.co/zyQZs2xc3F

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/Xoqz6yano7

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Week late: the TC deserves trashtalk for dudes burying feels in beards and cra(p)ft beer, but Jawbreaker should remember that Husker Du did feelings first and better. Also, Dear You is unfun because it ain't Unfun.

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@vensanik @lenovoUS @Lenovo honestly my favorite horror in that second horror story is when random internet dude mansplains to the woman whose entire work existence has been upended by bad support that she should have bought a workstation instead.

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y'all I'm officially old I miss only use Twitter to politely express frustration with big corporations' CS departments. Hey @lenovoUS @Lenovo sales reps lying to me about your price match policy and putting me on hold for 90 minutes is not good for customer retention.

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@lenovoUS @Lenovo Hours of my day wasted by unprofessional Lenovo reps. Gonna close Twitter and actually do something productive now. Can't wait for your DM with a rational explanation.

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@lenovoUS It's very weird when both @lenovoUS and @lenovo is signed by the same person. At any rate, I sent @lenovo a PM with the requested screenshots and background information. I don't care about the price change, I care that I was lied to about price match.

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@Lenovo I look forward to an explanation although my faith in your company is pretty shaken, @lenovo @lenovoUS.

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@Lenovo sure, I can do that. Because I tried really really hard to buy a Lenovo computer today. And your sales team basically bent over backwards to force me to buy from another company.

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@lenovoUS @Lenovo When I called to ask why I was being told the policy I was looking at on the website didn't exist, I was put on hold. And I only tried the price match the computer I originally planned to buy changed prices three times overnight.

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@lenovoUS oh @lenovoUS I'm still on hold. guess it has only been 85 minutes. A rep told me via e-mail @lenovo doesn't price match identically spec'ed competitor computers, only Lenovos sold by other retailers (not true per policy.

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it never ceases to amaze me how often people mistake "somewhat successfully navigating the extreme mental gymnastics required to exist in a broken society" with "maturity."

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January 2: carrying on the time-honored tradition of counting how many notable (mostly POC) individuals who passed away in the last 12 months were omitted from end-of-year tribute lists.

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@fizzbhau @Papapishu I have been frustrated for years at their quality decline and still feel terrible for the staff-even the mediocre ones-getting dumped after doing their best in an environment that clearly does not encourage quality. G/O seems to be going for "make it TMZ but 19% nerdier."

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@ShannonL_Miller @TheAVClub good work can be and is produced ANYWHERE if mgmt wants good work.

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@ShannonL_Miller Absolutely this. @TheAVClub mgmt clearly continuing the move towards hot take clicks and away from the amazing in-depth culture writing that made this the best pop culture website ever. Not naive enough to think this will result in more actual direct reporting about anything.

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as someone who's lost literally hundreds of thousands of published words due to the capricious actions of mgmt "making changes," current and former @TheAVClub staff better get intimate with @waybackmachine real quick if it's not already part of their daily self-care routine.

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The A.V. Club's new editor-in-chief told his primarily Chicago-based staff that they were being "invited" to join a Los Angeles office.
https://t.co/wbrJgM0Wpt

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@Mandford Sometimes it's nice to put on a suit and walk around just pretending to be on my cell phone talking about selling stuff and buying stuff ya know?

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@Mandford When I'm not feeling manly enough I just skip a shower for a few days until everything is a bit itchy then don sweatpants and think about how important my cultural contributions are