Brendan Halpin

I have always been here before. He/him
Trying Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

I'm EGGBoston#6595 on Discord if you wanna invite me to your server. Check out https://t.co/lzXPcOjZJI for pay-what-you-want ebooks! And if you're the last one out of Twitter, make sure to turn the lights out!

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Boston's Charter Schools in Crisis. Original reporting by me! #MApoli #Bospoli #MAedu https://t.co/0NIeYxUr4v

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@MassPolProfMo https://t.co/tpXj3AVnVG

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@bportersailing Love to have a functional health care system!

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

My doctor's office didn't offer paxlovid or even tell me to get it. But it's INCREDIBLY easy to access. Send this link to folks in MA who might need it. Free telehealth appointment, free Rx. Took me about ten minutes. https://t.co/ZtYtqEyMNN

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@katemicucci @netflix It's a fantastic episode--funny and deeply unsettling. The effectiveness of the whole thing hinges on your performance. All the phases of the character's journey felt completely authentic. Really great work.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

BTW, I do have a Discord server where cool people talk about music and movies and books and food and drink. Good vibes only. DM me for the link

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

A lot of my attempts to live closer to my values center on this question: "Am I contributing to harm?" I can't stop most kinds of harm by myself. But I can try not to contribute.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

So: me being off Twitter is not going to sink the platform. But I won't be contributing to Elon's right-wing dystopia. I won't be feeding the lie that this person is some kind of genius. It's not much, but it's what I can do.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@melnickjeffrey1 I'm gonna say go ahead and do it. It's not gonna cost you anything and might get you some new readers. If it sucks and it's unlistenable, well...it's no worse than the current audiobook, right?

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Ugh, so the Musk deal is actually happening, huh? Well. Start dropping those Discord/Mastodon/Whatever links!

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Further (and hopefully final) thoughts on yesterday's Matthew Perry thing. Addiction is a disease. Being an asshole is not. Addiction intensifies assholiness, but having your addiction in remission doesn't cure you of being an asshole. They're ultimately separate problems.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Saw Better Off Dead on a first date, which was actually pretty awesome.
Got dumped after Jagged Edge, which, looking back, seems pretty appropriate

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

What Josh said! (Also: thank you!!)

[Joshua Patterson @GroverDavid]

@WordsmithJenn @bhalpin .

Literally everyone should read Forever Changes.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@linuxlibrarian Thank you! Yeah, I'll take this yucky taste over serious complications. Fun-sized halloween chocolates haven't done anything for the taste, but maybe I just haven't eaten enough yet

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Paxlovid update: they warned me of a bitter taste in my mouth, and hoo boy do I ever have that.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@HillaryMonahan I feel like he must not have any friends. Cuz if he did, one of them would have told him to take the anti-Keanu stuff out. It's just so spectacularly dumb.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@matress_island Well, Leno was actually considered edgy in the 80's. But by season 9 he hadn't been edgy for years

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@RookTheBird @sdhouseholder45 I don't. The NP who prescribed it said the same thing, tho

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

Well, I held out for 30 months, but I finally got covid. Vaxxed, boosted, bivalent boosted. Feels like I have a bad cold/mild flu, which is a good deal but still not tons of fun.

[Brendan Halpin @bhalpin]

@normwilner So sorry to hear this.