My tweets

• Thu, 20:06: This book is basically about the knee-jerk defensiveness of white people who are under the false impression that we are exempt from or beyond perpetuating white supremacy, and it is one of the most illuminating I have ever read. I finished it with three profound takeaways: 1) None of us is immune to the deeply ingrained and endless social conditioning of racism in a white supremacist society. 2) All white people are beneficiaries of and complicit in white supremacy, regardless of intention. 3) Challenging racism within ourselves is a work in progress to which there is no end, and the greatest hope is only to learn how to receive feedback and criticism with grace and humility—much of which can be learned from this book—so as to break a chain of problematic thoughts and behaviors. As such, reading a book like this is the beginning, rather than the end: it's a jumping-off point, just one of countless perspectives that are worthy of consideration and attention. (As in: bit.ly/392G3U6) https://t.co/jPGGZNdfsl
• Thu, 22:39: Freshman U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene—who just filed articles of impeachment, against ... President Biden—is living proof that, while Georgia quite rightfully turned blue after massive efforts pushing against voter suppression, the state is still filled with some batshit weirdos. Who get elected to federal office. Fact check: 11 false claims Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has tweeted in the last month
• Fri, 06:55: The Betty Ford Center for TikTok Dependency

MTM etc

— चार हजार नौ सौ चार — Shobhit had a later shift last night, until 8:30. I filled the time after work and before he got home by watching and then reviewing a movie rented on Prime Video, Ammonite, which was very good in spite of its pointless revisionist history. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are great in it. I started watching the movie right around 5:00, and after needing to pause it a few times, it was over shortly after 7:15 or so. It was then around 8:00 by the time I finished writing the review. I caught up on social media. Exciting stuff. — चार हजार नौ सौ चार — — चार हजार नौ सौ चार — Shobhit got home around 9:00 as expected. We had only the last two episodes of the last season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to watch, so we watched those. I really loved that show, and am kind of amazed I never got around to watching it before. Actually, back in the days of Netflix being only DVD delivery, Shobhit and I did watch the first season, around a decade ago I think—and I just never got around to the rest of it. Binging shows sure is easier when they are available streaming. That show ended in March 1977. Not only was that forty-three years ago, I was less than a year old at the time. It's strange to be old enough to remember someone like Mary Tyler Moore still being alive and, to some degree, relevant (I can still remember when Flirting with Disaster was released, in 1996), but also now so old that those older people are dead now. Betty White was also on the later seasons of that show, and she was in her fifties then. She just had her 99th birthday and clearly will not be with us a whole lot longer. Anyway, Shobhit has asked about what Mary Tyler Moore did after the show, so I do have her most notable post-show movies on my lists to watch: 1980 Best Picture winner Ordinary People is on Prime Video, and Flirting with Disaster is on HBO Max. Once we watch those I'm going to want to re-watch Up on Disney+, the most recent high-profile gig with Ed Asner. — चार हजार नौ सौ चार — [posted 12:28 pm]