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Is emotion communicable?

I’ve been having this idea for a few weeks now, since I wrote about “Love hurts haters brains.” What if emotions are communicable? What if, when people post outrage on Twitter, that rage passes to you, and you pass it to others. When we live in a society that
Pete Carr Apr 30, 2023
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So long Twitter

Last week, Elon Musk’s Twitter denied 3rd party Twitter apps access to the Twitter API. No reason was given. No-one from Twitter mentioned it or offered to look into the issue. Something clearly happened though, and a week later we were told that 3rd party Twitter clients were breaking
Pete Carr Jan 20, 2023

New Year in The Hague

hello friend How are you this week? It’s week n of Lockdown or Semi-lockdown or Laxdown or whatever this is. Are you doing ok? After getting caught up in Cancel Culture recently, with the best of intentions to do some good, I took a long hard look at my
Pete Carr Jul 31, 2020

Communication

hello friend It’s been a week since I last emailed and it feels a lifetime ago. I’ve been to Manchester for a comedy gig, had a migraine, had a Christmas Party, caught the flu, seen the new Star Wars and I’m writing this on the train to
Pete Carr Dec 20, 2019

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