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Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land |
I keep a folder of notes from people who’ve reached out to thank me for stuff I’ve done using social media, like getting their dad or their child the meds they need to not die. Or making Rochelle cry. So this feels like a really weird take?
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nic (they)
@crankible.bsky.social
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feels like something that's an ax to grind on a particular thing, and there's surely some things in might apply to, but the thousands of ways it doesn't apply... over the past 15+ years i personally learned so much from voices i wouldn't have otherwise heard via twitter, tiktok, insta even
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Pumpkin
@pumpkinstars.bsky.social
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it’s the usual ableist take that comes around often~ it shows the person saying it doesn’t know / isn’t a part of the disabled justice spheres bc we’ve been saying how online activism helps for years now lol i literally saved millions of people doing online stuff
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jashead
@jashead.bsky.social
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Mr Sagal would be mortified, if he were to understand that shitting on others work and achievements blinds him to a good portion of the world. What a way to go through life.
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Bo Thompson
@gaudipern.bsky.social
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Agreed. One of my first viral posts happened to be an accessibility trick for using your fingers to compensate for near-sightedness. It was published as a cartoon in a major publication a week later and I still occasionally get thank yous for it.
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Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
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(That folder is why the death threats don’t actually work)
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Matthew Cortland (they)
@matthewcort.land
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And that’s the fairly direct stuff, not counting the “hey the info you posted helped me afford my (normal) meds” or “get a covid vaccine” or “get reasonable accommodations”
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Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
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Social media, the aggregate of strangers and near-strangers on a website working together, literally saved my life from threat of impending death like 5 times in the past 10 years, but I suppose this too is "nothing" to this guy. I know that's not rare, either.
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Sean Eric Fagan
@kithrup.bsky.social
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I'd muted that account a while ago, so it'd already come across as "annoying/assholish/rude but not enough so to prevent from seeing book giveaways."
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sith-shenanigans
@sith-shenanigans.bsky.social
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My parents and I are still (probably, as far as I know) on zero COVID infections partly because of the information you’ve provided. Once the CDC moved to minimization, my benchmark has been “okay, what has Matthew Cortland been saying?” and it hasn’t led us astray so far.
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Rieve Alavaix
@rieve.bsky.social
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Because of social media I met you, and bc of you I was able to keep my medical coverage... that I would die without. Also bc of you we've been informed enough about covid that neither of us has had it. I have low immune function. It could kill me. But I'm still here, because of you.
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debbshock
@debbshock.bsky.social
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agreed. I still get messages and emails and thank yous for a post I did that went improbably viral so pffft. sincere, genuine thanks from all over the place.
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Periwinkle Pachyderm
@periwinklep.bsky.social
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Your posting has helped me immensely. You have helped me prioritize my efforts to make change off line. Your posts have helped me push past feeling helpless.
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The Creatively Maladjusted
@tyrotcm.bsky.social
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Also ableist
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