The problem with Twitter is there will always be a group of people experiencing freshman year of college out loud, at everyone, in perpetuity, forever.
@DJHammurabi1 Can't judge whether it's bad or not, but I don't think their anger and frustration goes into the air. I suspect it ends up getting paid forward to other people. :(
My favorite part while seeing "The Batman" :
Movie: *Shot of a dark alley next to some criminals*
Kid in the audience: "BATMAN IS IN THERE!"
Movie: *Nothing happens and the scene changes*
Kid in the audience: "I'm sorry everyone. I thought he was in there"
I once watched a colleague (who had just returned to work after maternity leave) highlight every email in her inbox and press delete. When she saw the look on my face, she shrugged and said, "If they really need to talk to me, they'll find me." I think of her nearly every day.
"Why do people stay on twitter when there's so much junk/toxicity mixed in with the good tweets?"
Do you understand that that's exactly what makes it addictive? It's a "random" reward, like a slot machine, or "rare" drops in a video game. The junk keeps you pulling the lever.
The Mcminn County School board in Tennessee just voted to ban a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust
The vote was 10-0
https://t.co/kpgjoLZQq9
Thinking about biological collections lately I'm reminded of the time that somehow at age 4, I got a personal tour of the @UCBerkeley entomology collection (Essig?) from a kind scientist (anybody know who?!). Asked my parents how on earth THAT happened, and it turns out...🤯