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If I had to summarize the current contents of my brain, it would sound more or less like the Lady Gaga scream from A Star Is Born. I’m not the Joe Biden Chillin While You Tweeting Man President Shirt one, either; as the world anxiously awaits the results of the 2020 presidential election, it feels like everyone—or, at least, everyone on Twitter—is on the verge of absolutely losing it. There’s a lot of discussion going on right now about the best pop-cultural counterprogramming to soothe your overtaxed brain when you just can’t refresh the CNN home page anymore. While there’s certainly an argument to be made for unwinding with The Great British Bake Off or a classic rom-com, I’ve taken a different tack; over the last three days, I’ve watched three full seasons of the HBO series Veep, and I hope to finish the entire series by the time they call Nevada.
Once I’d weeded out the Joe Biden Chillin While You Tweeting Man President Shirt so you should to go to store and get this quar-flouters from my feed, I turned my attention to Twitter. Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter very much, and feel nothing but gratitude for the friends, dates and jobs it’s brought into my life, but the app is also…a hellhole, particularly in the pandemic era. While muting rule breakers had brought me peace on Instagram, muting overly smug rule followers—the kind of young, healthy people who brag that they “haven’t left their house since March,” with seemingly no concern for the imperiled gig workers whose labor is required to meet their at-home needs—calmed me down on Twitter. One day, when I’m a little more stable (and allowed to gather with my friends indoors again), maybe I’ll go through and unmute all of the accounts I found fault with over the last year. Or maybe I’ll keep my Instagram and Twitter feeds divinely pruned forever, logging on only to interact with my friends, glean new pie recipes, and enjoy spookily precise targeted ads. What a world that would be!
