Twitter Weekly Roundup
10/18–10/25 2024
You voted for it, so here it is!
This is the first installment of the Twitter Weekly Roundup. Designed for people who enjoy Devon’s long-posts, but who don’t want to keep themselves glued to twitter.
Question: Will this be retro-active?
Answer: Yes, my dream is for this to be a complete archive of bangers, but no promises on speed.
Question: You initially had a goal of taking Devon’s long-posts, combining them thematically, and editing them for clarity, grammar, and to make them less response-to-today’s-main-character and more evergreen. Is that still a goal?
Answer: Yes! But, it’s significantly hampered by the fact that only the first 240 characters of a tweet are searchable, even in the Export Archive (which, annoyingly, exports the first 240 characters… then pops in a link to the rest of the post)
Question: I already follow Devon on Twitter. I don’t need this to clutter my inbox. How do I prevent clutter?
Answer: Good news! I’m putting this in its own “section” and Substack, and you can unsubscribe from it, specifically. Here’s how!
Have further questions? Ask them in the comments section!
10/18/2024: On Kamala, and the left’s continued bumbling attempts to appeal to white men.
When leftists approach the economy with a hunter-gatherer mentality, the value they are "finding" belongs to white men, because it was created by white men. And the leftists capture it and redistribute it.
Imagine, if you will, a Paleolithic hunter-gatherer tribe wandering the world, and coming across a Neolithic village, surrounded by herds of domestic cattle. Well, they're hunters. They know what to do with wild cattle. And the idea of domestic cattle hasn't even occurred to them. So they spear a bunch of them, and cook themselves a feast. And when angry Neolithic herdsmen, armed with spears, show up to punish the thieves, they are... confused.
"Why are these guys so angry? There's plenty of meat for us to redistribute. And we offered them a fair share!" The hunter-gatherers have no conception of what it took to raise that herd, of the effort that went into it. They have no conception that if they continue to treat that herd like a free resource to extract meat from without putting work into, then the herd will die out and everyone will starve.
Hunter-gatherers will always eat the seed corn, because they don't understand the concept of farming.
10/19/24: On the Daniel Penny trial, why chivalry is dead, and why it’s open season on women in urban areas.
This is what men really mean when they talk about Daniel Penny. They may not have the words to express it, but this is the true meaning.
It's not about Penny being arrested.
It's not about him being put on trial for murder.
It's not about anything that the bureaucrats of New York City did.The offense was committed by the women of New York City. Yes, all of them. Every single one.
Your grave offense, your sin, for which men may never forgive you, was that you, the women of NYC, did not rise in a single, outraged mass, swearing that no one currently in office, from the mayor on down, would ever receive one single vote from anyone with girl parts, if the charges against Daniel Penny were not immediately dropped.
Men are refusing to rise in your defense because you refused to rise in theirs.
10/23/2024: On the appeal of mediocrity
Working for talented and productive people also makes mediocre people afraid. Perhaps, they, too, will be expected to be talented and productive.
And this fear is often fully justified.
Most corporate enterprises, even in America, are very inefficient, and far less productive than they could be. They often contain a great number of people whose real function is to draw a salary by looking busy, and engage in activities like attending meetings.
The real function of most meetings is to shelter individuals from responsibility for mistakes, by running individual decisions through a group discussion to turn them into collective decisions, with collective responsibility.
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10/24/2024: On Tim Waltz and his continued inability to appeal to male voters
So, what about the women in my life, who I love? What, exactly, is it that you think is good for them?
Abortions, apparently. Lots and lots of abortions. That's your thought process. Because you don't know them. You don't know anything about them other than the fact they have girl parts, and, based on your evident confusion about basic questions like "what is a woman?" and "who needs feminine hygiene products?", you apparently don't even know that.
10/25/2024: On the challenges of Sara’s cancer.
We spent most of yesterday in the hospital, and today looks like another hospital day. Sara has lost about 10% of her body weight in a few days. I've written a lot about George Martin, and his failure to deliver, and I think his great offense wasn't just the delays, it was the dishonesty.
So I'm going to be honest with you.
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8/17/2024: Related Post from the archive: the announcement.
That’s all for now, folks! Since this is only the first one, the format of these things is not set in stone. Feel free to leave a comment with any advice or feedback you have for me, notes of encouragement for Sara, and whether or not you think I should continue this new feature!
You thought this post was done? Of course you didn’t. You know what’s coming. A Signature Christine Eriksen Goose Post
But! Surprise! I know that by now you are aware of Devon Eriksen’s hit debut scifi novel Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1. You’ve maybe read the 3-chapter preview. You’ve bought it on Amazon, or DRM free on Smashwords, or on Apple books, or somewhere else. You’ve added it to your To-Be-Read shelf on Goodreads.
You’ve even back the Audiobook Kickstarter!
You are all Theft of Fire’d out.
So, since this is my post and I can write about what I want… I’m going to highlight a project I think is fun. I discovered this artist randomly on Twitter, and just love his work. He’s recently created & illustrated a card game based off of Greek myths, and if it’s a hit, he’s going to expand into Viking mythology. Yes! I want this!
If you want a fun looking, beautifully illustrated game, created by an artist who lives pretty close to me and who isn’t brainwormed (as so many artists tragically are…), check out Panomachea!
just became a paid subscriber! Thank you from canada.
Yeah, I can see the issue with the link-backs. Which makes the content vulnerable to X outages.