Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey

Vertebrate, mammal, primate, Homo sapiens. In that order. 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

“Normal” and “weird” require each other. You can be weird and well-socialized. In fact, if you are “weird,” sometimes they best thing your parents can do is help you find a community that reflects your interests, allowing you to develop social skills more easily

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

It’s delusional to believe you can force your child to be “normal” and that it can be done via keeping them away from “weird” kids. “Normalcy,” aka, the extent to which you align with common behaviors and interests, is a continuum and you fall where you fall on it

[easy e @eatpraydiehard]

i came across this woman on tiktok and she’s actually great. her whole thing is to well socialize your kids. discourage them from strange obsessive hobbies or interests. don’t let them have weird friends. it’s a message we don’t hear enough of and is increasingly important

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@tracewoodgrains It also helps “weird” kids learn to socialize to have interactions within their sphere of interest. Other than extreme outliers, most kids will develop some social skills by being (sans parents) with peers with a natural reason to talk to them.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@Absyrte @CartoonsHateHer No, being weird has negative connotations but there is absolutely nothing wrong with being different or having fewer people who “get” you. I feel sorry for kids whose parents make them feel that their natural interests will make them unlikeable outcasts.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@Absyrte @CartoonsHateHer Weird and socialized are different. Sure you can accustom a child to social interactions, but their personalities matter.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@CartoonsHateHer And as for “annoying,” can’t do much about that, either. You can teach manners, but there’s a ceiling for social adeptness, and most folks (outside of extreme outliers) pretty much hits theirs in early adulthood, no matter what.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@CartoonsHateHer You can’t force a kid to be “not weird.” You either are or are not weird. These ladies aren’t doing anyone any favors by treating being odd as a disease that kids can catch by spending time with anime fans.

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

There is one team that has played both World Cup finalists

They also didn’t lose to either over 90 minutes

Cape Verde

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

Unlike the Parthenon Marbles, England is going home.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@bendreyfuss I’ll root for England when they send back the Parthenon Marbles.

[Philadelphia Inquirer Sports @phillysport]

Terry Thompson lost $1.5 million on bets he placed with FanDuel.

The company gave him VIP treatment — including a personalized video message from the Phillies' Bryce Harper.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

These are the roots of many “new” societal problems: an over-generalization based on limited information from social media, combined with people selectively using that information to validate previously held beliefs.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

The truth is that many men are naturally timid and fearful.

Social media algorithms reward crazy, sensational, outrageous videos. So when you see these clips, and I’m sure both of you have seen them, of some girl doing squats at the gym while recording herself, with a caption underneath like, “Oh my God, some creep just looked at me,” guys watch that and think, “Oh, girls don’t even want to be looked at in public.”

So they go into this mode of eyes forward, blinkers on, don’t look at anyone, don’t make any woman think you might be interested in her. But most women at the gym are probably either indifferent to being noticed, or, if they’re single, maybe even positively inclined to being approached in a normal, respectful way. The problem is that men see the video and think that is reality. They get this distorted view of what women are actually like in public.

The other thing is that a lot of guys use Me Too, or these videos of women posting mean comments about men, as a justification for what pickup artists call approach anxiety. They’re already afraid of approaching women. Now they have a socially acceptable excuse. “Oh, I don’t want to be accused of harassment.” “I would totally go talk to her, bro, but I don’t want to get Me Too’d.” “I would approach that girl, but what if she records me and posts it online?”

That becomes the story they tell themselves. But the truth is, they probably wouldn’t approach her anyway. They would be afraid regardless. So I think there’s a lot of excuse-making mixed in with genuine fear.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

She said way worse things than that he was a “colonized Cameroonian.” Not sure why they’re leading with that instead of the part where she said he grew up among chimpanzees, suckled on coconuts instead of breastmilk.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: The Paraguay government said it “deplores and rejects” comments directed at Kylian Mbappe from Senator Celeste Amarilla. Mbappe said her remarks were “despicable” and “racist” after she called him a “colonised Cameroonian.” https://t.co/viQHtFKdHb

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

Some of our brightest minds are discussing how to boost well-being among all human workers. (Haha. Just kidding. They’re worried about whether AI “likes” its job.) https://t.co/xg7594keLf

[Çınar ÖZCAN 🗽 @cinarozcan19]

Şu haritaya bakıp hâlâ "Burnumuzun dibinde Yunan adası mı olur, burası aslında bizim olmalıydı" diye gerçeklikten kopuk yorumlar yapanların anlamadığı çok temel bir şey var: Haritayı sadece coğrafi bir yakınlık sanıyorsunuz ama oradaki her bir mavi nokta, yüzlerce yıllık askeri ve demografik bir realitenin sonucudur.

Bu adaların yerel halkı tarihsel olarak Yunan'dır, bugün de resmi olarak Yunanistan toprağıdır. Evet, adalar Anadolu'nun dibindedir ama Ege, coğrafi yapısı gereği doğal olarak bir Yunan gölüdür ve bu durum onlara muazzam bir stratejik avantaj sağlar. Bu sınırlar size tuhaf, hatta kabul edilemez geliyor; çünkü tarih bilginiz yok. Eğer normali, yani o dönemki güç dengelerinin doğal sonucu olsaydı, bugün sadece o adalar değil, İzmir ve tüm Ege bölgesi de onların olacaktı!

"Burnumuzun dibi" dediğiniz adalara gidecek tek bir yolcu geminiz bile yokken, Yunanistan Ege’de modern bir savaş donanmasına sahipti ve Balkan Savaşları'nda o adaları tek tek, ellerini kollarını sallayarak zaten aldılar. İngiltere, 1. Dünya Savaşı’nda Yunanistan’ı üzerimize salarken onlara tam olarak bu yoğun Yunan nüfusunun yaşadığı Ege bölgesini vadetmişti. Kara savaşındaki askeri direnişimiz bu planı bozdu da Lozan'da İzmir’i kurtarabildik. Yani bugün milliyetçilik yaptığınız o adaların durumu Lozan'ın bir başarısızlığı değil; denizde sıfır askeri güçle masaya oturmanın kaçınılmaz, zorunlu bir diplomatik dengesidir.

Konuyu anlamayanlar için daha net soralım: İzmir’e neden yüzyıllarca "Gâvur İzmir" denildi, hiç düşündünüz mü? Osmanlı’nın sırf nüfus dengelensin diye Türkleri yerleştirdiği Karşıyaka semti hariç, İzmir ve çevresi tamamen Rum ve Yunan bölgesiydi. Cumhuriyet kurulup 1923'teki nüfus mübadelesiyle o devasa takas yapılmasaydı, bugün övündüğünüz İzmir’de Türk hakimiyeti bile olmayacaktı. Haritaya bakıp cehaletle hayıflanmayı bırakın; deniz gücünüzün olmadığı bir dünyada, burnunuzun dibindeki adaların başkasına ait olması "anormal" değil, tarihin en yalın gerçeğidir.

​Bu yüzden artık Yunanistan ile aptalca bir gerilim yaratmayı ve hatta savaşa girmeyi tetikleyecek söylemleri bir kenara bırakalım. Macera aramanın lüzumu yok; aksi halde Lozan'ı geçersiz kıldığınız, o masayı devirdiğiniz an, sadece adaları alamamakla kalmaz, Lozan'da binbir zorlukla kazandıklarımızı da masada kaybedersiniz.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@devastatingstan @DistractedAnna Also, Beowulf is 3,000 LINES long, not words.

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@devastatingstan @DistractedAnna Ozymandias is about 100 words long and it’s a sonnet. She said it was a mix of fiction and poetry. Even if the fiction was only one paragraph long, that’s still like five sonnets, not some epic tome. People just can’t be put out in the slightest to be polite anymore

[Georgia Evdoxiadis Garvey @gcgarvey]

@BeepBoo09508727 @DistractedAnna Unless she mistyped and instead of 1,000 words, it was 1,000 pages in which case accept it, thank her profusely and then change your phone number.