My tweets

[kyburg]

• Wed, 14:40: RT @AOC: Actually, in NYC if you’re a bartender and knowingly over-serve to someone, you *ARE* liable for things they do after they leave t…
• Wed, 14:40: RT @AOC: The key here is in the advance knowledge. When you *knowingly* do something that you know *in advance* will do harm, and do it any…
• Wed, 14:42: @SouthwestAir What equipment is on flights 6551 and 5944?
• Wed, 15:36: RT @AOC: I guess college admissions isn’t that different from elections, where lots of money can buy your spot too. Also an enviro where t…
• Wed, 15:36: RT @EdKrassen: @AOC What are the odds that the Trump family were accepted to college based on money rather than merits?
• Wed, 15:36: RT @Ameribugger: @EdKrassen @AOC 1000%
• Thu, 10:45: RT @tedlieu: My view is that former Deputy AG Matthew Whitaker lied to me, or at the very least seriously misled the @HouseJudiciary Commit…
• Thu, 10:45: RT @nkjemisin: A late-afternoon revision-mode thought: People ask me sometimes why I'm so *blatant* re racism and other bigotries, in my fi…
• Thu, 10:45: RT @nkjemisin: SFF does subtle coverage of bigotry all the time, actually. Allegories all over the place, esp in secondary worlds. And prob…
• Thu, 10:45: RT @nkjemisin: Which is precisely how we ended up w/a genre that, for most of my life, thought of itself as anti-racist. Look at all the al…

• Thu, 10:45: RT @nkjemisin: That is, allegory allows readers who are uncomfortable with a topic to engage with that topic in a more comfortable space --…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: And as a first step in desensitization, for people who've developed a pathological level of discomfort -- which our racist,…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: Like, it's awesome that you also think Dragon Age 2, a game about a penniless refugee who becomes a heroine, is the best gam…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: But because it was the Done thing for so long, allegorical engagement became standard in the genre... obscuring the reality…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: This isn't just a genre thing. American society looooves to pull this shit. Cf. Our media's endless list of words to use ins…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: Reminder: calls for civility reinforce the status quo. They are a way of saying "Mmyeah you can mention X, but don't you dar…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: Writing prominent characters who are members of marginalized groups, describing realistic examples of bigotry, and *calling*…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: (This is apart fm the matter of how to do it *well.* When just mentioning a topic, or a group, feels like a slap in the face…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: Sometimes you gotta be uncivilized, when you live and write within a civilization built on bigotry. If it helps, remember th…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: So include green ppl... but also include black people. Make your character a refugee, and give them an indigenous Mexican na…

• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: You cannot trust your audience to just figure that ish out. Some of them will, because they've lived it or learned better. M…
• Thu, 10:46: RT @nkjemisin: Nothing can fix that except us writers. Only way to move the Overton Window on what feels normal in fiction is to set your f…