Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷

High School English Teacher. Cheerfully gaining 1-2 stress pounds each year since 2011.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

For the record, I get awfully tired of people who don't understand capitalism using it as their punching bag in an attempt to sound sage and virtuous. If you could blink and erase its footprints, you'd retain all the cruelty of mankind while forfeiting most of the progress.

[Angel Eduardo @StrangelEdweird]

@Tibbletoad I am a “person of color” and I relate to Superman—and other characters who look nothing like me—more deeply than you can imagine. Skin color is a terrible proxy for representation. We connect with characters and each other through the human condition.

https://t.co/yfTwbkdPGo

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@ClimateBen This is not “BREAKING.” The word used to mean something until thirsty tweeters drove it into the ground.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

Great last words for a dying atheist: “Well, here goes nothing.”

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@jmasseypoet Every generation thinks society is eroding all around them. It’s why they were tortured and burned heretics. Why they decimated the heritage of western civilization as soon as they got the keys to Rome. Spiritual soundness and moral clarity.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@Acyn “… he lives in Canada. You wouldn’t know him.”

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@benedictevans I have an Oculus headset, and the worst thing about it is how Meta tries to curate and nanny the whole experience instead of just letting independent innovators and market forces lead the way.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@KoyRent @rickperlstein To be so smug and so cowardly.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@rickperlstein @KoyRent Not even a person, a character from Ted Lasso.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@elonmusk *TO Hell with it. (You’re welcome. I accept Venmo.)

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

I know we’re supposed to be afraid of him, but Michael Myers has had 44 years and still can’t figure out how to kill an ex-babysitter.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@ElsaJansen Sharon Van Etten, “Seventeen.”

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@visakanv Any administrative or beurocratic oversight. Better not to interfere than to interfere poorly.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@iudprincess Anyone with two thumbs, a lowered chin, and a face bathed in cold blue light feels themselves the bester of any mere expert.

[Angel Eduardo @StrangelEdweird]

Art can be made for its own sake. It need not have some overarching message or political agenda.

Art can be purely about the beauty, tragedy, tension, and comedy of being human.

Not every moment of our lives needs to be obsessively, joylessly preoccupied with “the movement.”

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@rickperlstein Just have to figure out how… to… celebrate…

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@rickperlstein @Empty_America @PeterStillma The whole causation v correlation thing gets lost on some people.

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@gmiller @Aella_Girl The fair-minded care about fairness. Pretty groundbreaking stuff.

[Seerut K. Chawla @seerutkchawla]

Human rights:
• freedom from torture
• freedom of thought, belief, religion, speech
• liberty
• security
• lawful treatment

Not human rights:
• validation
• celebration
• universal acceptance
• unconditional agreement

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@RichardDawkins @sapinker @howtoacademy Got my copy signed after a keynote address he gave this spring!

[Aaron Kinney 🇺🇦🇮🇷 @swhnyc]

@bmfriedman @DanProft @GregHinz 🤣 You think Biden’s a socialist. Oh, heavens… do you hire yourself out for party entertainment, or do you just make yourself look foolish as a free service to the community?