Tag Archives: social media
Google Me
The creepy Google machine has found my books, which could be good or could make things weird and scary. I can only hope it will make Andrew Hindle a little bit more visible, should anyone be randomly Googling Andrew Hindle. … Continue reading
Hatstand Pro
Day 63. 64 pages, 30,172 words. I’m considering levelling up the blog again. They’re offering me a slight discount, so two years of premium would cost €120 instead of €180. I feel a bit wealthy right now, but I’m just … Continue reading
A Shallow Dive into Deep Waters
Day 42. 106 pages, 48,176 words. A wise person once said that social media is so distressing because what we see of everyone else (and what we share of ourselves) is a Greatest Hits reel, while the reality that sticks … Continue reading
The Big Weekender of Meta Reviews, Part 2: Red Letter Media’s Turn
Day 39. 99 pages, 44,958 words. So there was an interesting thread on Twitter the other day, basically calling out Red Letter Media with some pretty specific and pretty damning criticisms. In honor of Red Letter Media's "review" of THE … Continue reading
Bye bye, Info Wars
Day 15. 25 pages, 10,510 words. I was delighted today to see that Alex Jones, the big crazy stupid daddy of Info Wars, has been taken off some of the big social media platforms. Now let’s get something straight: This … Continue reading
Gunned Down
Mere days after my long rant about how PC culture, SJWs and the self-destructive left aren’t the enemy here, we have this delicious little clusterfuck. So James Gunn apparently sent a bunch of “edgy” tweets several years before he worked … Continue reading
Solo and the new Star Wars era
The following blog post, amalgamated from a fascinating Facebook conversation I lurked through on my esteemed associate Ilya’s wall, as well as another article and discussion I nabbed from my other esteemed associate M. “Cat Protocol” A.’s wall, requires very … Continue reading
The state of the male / female divide in the closing weeks of 2017 AD
This morning, one of the administrators of the George Takei bot on Facebook[1] posted this interesting article about what happens when jackasses and the Internet collide. [1] He used to actually post, I’m sure, and was really engaging and clever. … Continue reading
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