Friday Five: November 11, 2022

Happy Friday, you beautiful person! Thanks for being here, in my silly newsletter in your crowded inbox. Monday’s Twitter roundup seemed to bring lots of joy by the response I got, so your Friday Five is yet another Twitter roundup, because, I’m not quite sure how much more the platform has left… See below:

rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac

currently an emergency twitter all-hands going on with Elon Musk answering employee Q's Elon was asked: "How are you going to deal with the expected attrition and align everyone on a shared vision?" Elon Answer: "I don't know....we all need to be more hardcore."

“We all need to be more hardcore” is what I would’ve told my friends while playing Disturbed’s “Down with the Sickness” on Rock Band 2 on Wii in 2008. It’s not what I expected a billionaire CEO who haphazardly bought a social network to say to his concerned employees.

Trying to whittle down five tweets into a single newsletter is too hard, so we have some categories to guide us.

Tweets that made me LOL:

Antferny @ntferny

STOPPPPP @NickCannon https://t.co/pW0NlSg5my

UberFacts @UberFacts

The human population is set to cross 8,000,000,000 next week

darth™ @darth

did a dog write this

The Wall Street Journal @WSJ

People around the world have discovered the joy of digging holes. "It's a random thing that anyone can do." https://t.co/Cf8TaaXXPH

yasmin @ycsm1n

MUST READ

Axe @westernunion2k

Tweets that made me think:

Octavia Butler knew... @NotNikyatu

"Anger has its place. Anger has fire, and fire moves things." -- Nina Simone

T @tinnkky

The story of Steven Spielberg hiring 2 ppl to puppeteer ET around the clock so Drew Barrymore would keep believing he’s real & her friend has had me emotional for a week now. Like. She had no adults in her life that cared about her except her coworkers. That is insane

Ashley Reynolds @Ashley_Reynolds

Julia Roberts childhood is fascinating. Her parents running an acting school and being the only white folks in Atlanta welcoming Black students. All the racism (there is a story about one of their cars being set on fire). The close friendship with MLK, Coretta and their family

Annika Hansteen-Izora @annikaizora

When bell hooks said: “To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.”

Tweets that haunt me:

Sydney Battle @SydneyBattle

if u start to feel like u have no control u should roast a tray of vegetables. for the next half hour (at least) u are their god

Matt Ravey @MattRavey

What Joan She Didion Means

abi balingit 👩🏻‍🍳 @theduskykitchen

just discovered an etsy seller who makes realistic food-themed fascinator hats and the deviled egg one is making me want to enter a harper finkle era

This tweet deserves its own category:

🌺🚃lesser themdad🚃🌺 @lenasabrewing

The best trait of humanity is our willingness to, without prior coaching, just act like the muppets are independently sentient entertainment professionals

toby☭ @joanofheaux

i will NEVER get over this https://t.co/SpNjTEF13s

I will write separately on “The Masked Singer” at some point because the dynamics of that show are constantly on my mind. In the meantime, I’ll watch this clip of Kermit emerging at least twenty more times.

We all need to be more hardcore,

Roya