Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘death threats’

Migraine means a recycled post. Sorry!

Terrible migraine all day. I can’t think, so I’m going to post something from September 22, 2013. I wrote it before the 2014 Gaza war, which was when the death threats became a daily thing. Wouldn’t it be funny if it weren’t a migraine but actually a cerebral hemorrhage? I’ll know in the morning. Detox…

 

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Toad? Okay, I’m a toad. Consider becoming one yourself

I’m a toad. Like the poet Stephen Crane. Social media is the playpen of mental patients. Today someone who followed me on Twitter sent me this. You can tell a lot about people by what they find attractive. Sinister, mannered, bitter, hostile, grim, pompous old men don’t do it for me. Denise A. Rubin and…

 

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Death to memes

Back when I was trying to be an author, my fake publicists opened a Twitter account for me. The publishing industry is full of stories about authors selling a million copies of their books by using social media. I’d looked at Twitter before July of 2013—that’s when I hired the fake publicists—and decided it wasn’t…

 

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Proud to make your shit list, Warrior Princess

My posts “A fake atrocity video from Gaza” and “More Palestinian fakery” have drawn the attention of the virulently mentally ill. One goes by the Twitter handle of “Warrior Princess.” I knew I’d heard the name before, but I couldn’t remember where. Then it came to me. Xena: Warrior Princess, a fantasy TV Series from…

 

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Detox

I did it. Through sheer willpower, I’ve broken the last of my really bad habits. This was one of the most corrosive. It’s been several days now, and I’m still clean. The detox worked. After changing so much about myself that I didn’t like, I couldn’t stop going on a particular Website and fighting with…

 

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