i am not going to start appending everything i write with a million caveats designed to disarm every possible person who might respond but i can certainly understand people who do

That moment when you realize you've been suckered into having to explain how reality works to a troll.

might not work anyway, angry people read what they want to no matter what was written

What’s crazy about this moment in time is that you totally could. There are numerous tools to host all those caveats but if you did, and attached it to every post, no one would actually read it.

One of my late editors used to discourage me from such caveats by accusing me of “writing for people who can’t read.” (Of course it was a different world then.)

well hold on now. I take issue with this post. In my reply, I will

@cait.bsky.social has posted a lot about how she's started to find herself doing that in conversation with people who respond with "you're not posting you don't have to apologize before you start talking" and i think about that part of being alive a lot

Indeed - though one reason I’m on here now is not to have such a tiresome atmosphere.

Wait are you saying that you love John Roberts and want to marry him???

That is what we call the online appendix that we send along with our articles when they go out for peer review.