Or how to write about drugs, textiles, logistics, behavioral psych & fiction. ‪Um... so who wants to tell the new followers that my primary Twitter time is not usually about drugs? ‬

Hi, I’m a research shrink (PTSD, but mostly stats) & I write fiction, because I’m a story addict. Fiction pays in money, not academic journal copies! (Not a lot of money, but a little). I thread when my research & the news happens to coincide.

(Updated 20 JAN 2019 with 3 new threads) I have a deep & long love of textiles and the Industrial Revolution (and eventually, another doctorate on the women’s labor movement in textiles in East Anglia, 1775-1835), and I sew at a semi-pro level, so I talk about menswear a lot.

Also: I’m a Wobbly (International Workers of the World), a non-theist Quaker, and an unapologetic Social Justice Cleric, but I’m also a scientist, so I will have the math and if I can’t find what you cite, I will ask for your source.

My threads display brevity for me, at the sentence structure level. I’m primarily a writer; I’m happiest in the blog & novel format. Twitter makes me tighten my sentences, but I don’t talk about easy, tiny things. If my subjects fit in 280? We wouldn’t need to talk about them.

Fashion Culture Threads Donnie & Vladdie:

Okay, I’m doing this. Donnie & Vladdie wear the clothes. And starting with a history lesson. @SamuraiKnitter tagged. https://t.co/HmF6nsRhjI

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 16, 2018

As promised to @SamuraiKnitter, a thread on Obama’s suits.
And his other clothes. Compare and contrast time. (With guest stars!)

Starting off: White tie. His fit is on point; per Michelle, he’s owned 1 & only 1 for 8 years, he knows how to wear it. Experience counts! pic.twitter.com/tDMv1RYXtE

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 18, 2018

#TailorSnarkWar

Battle 3.1: the 1st Women’s Wear Air Assault.

It’s much easier to show behavioral fashion going wrong than getting it right.
I’m giving this a caveat: for once, it’s not her politics driving my snark. It’s her background. For that, I pity her.

A thread.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 19, 2018

#TailorSnarkWar, Battle 3.2: the 1st Women’s Wear Ground Campaign.

This episode has TRIGGER WARNINGS. It discusses spiritual abuse, specifically Modesty Culture.

(I did edit this one, I swear. It’s just a lot of data.)

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 20, 2018

#TailorSnarkWar Battle 4: The Russian Front.

High fashion. Visual primer. Patterns. Some demographics. (If you don’t have photos turned on for Twitter, you might want to do so this thread & turn off after. Many pics this time. Settings/general/display& sound/media previews: on)

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 23, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars
Battle 6: Paulie Walnuts & the Jackets of Doom

I’ve done some drive-by commentary on Paul Manafort’s … erm

TASTE

But I looked at the exhibits.

Oh, Lady Bright, what did that man do to be so cursed? I know someone fully colorblind who picks better clothes.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 11, 2018

Per @SamuraiKnitter ‘s request...#TailorSnarkWars

Battle 8: Bernie Sanders, or Why Looking Like You May Own an Iron & Know of a Professional Laundry is in Fact a Route to Success in Politics.

(No, I don’t hate him. Exasperation is the strongest emotion I have for him.)

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) September 16, 2018

OH GOD. Yoga socks glued to a shoe sole ARE NOT SHOES. They’re SHITTY SOCKS made by someone who hates both heels and Kitchener stitching. pic.twitter.com/CQ9SrvYAzk

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) September 22, 2018

Some good summer suit pics to folllow. We see so many bad ones, but YES you can wear nice light weight clothes in summer & not look like you’re buying from the Boy Scouts Reject Factory Outlet.

Just clothes, minimal comment. Models & makers shots unless obvs.#TailorSnarkWars https://t.co/FPN0KM23b9

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 18, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars

**Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning**
Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It

Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 26, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars

Battle 7.1: Pants Planet In the Beginning
**Battle 7.2: Rubber, Plumbing, Roadsters: 20th Century Pants**
Battle 7.3: Everybody Else Is Doing It

Long promised, fully overdue, women & trousers.

The 20th c is massive, because this is when we start wearing them.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 28, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars Official White House Christmas Photo Edition

We live in the Matrix, my friends.
It’s not just Fake News & Madison Ave selling us models with shouder fingers in their hair. We are in the midst of a fundamental assault on how to trust sources of information. pic.twitter.com/sJurzeWvZI

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 24, 2018

The Metabattles on consciousness:

The Five Metabattle threads: Cognition & why people dress like they’re still 16 when they’re 76.https://t.co/Ah6reMT3kbhttps://t.co/nOPbBFVIJwhttps://t.co/uUNC7qfaU9https://t.co/VUvUBHHwMDhttps://t.co/c7i8cEatVQ

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) September 3, 2018

Your Brain is out to get you

#TailorSnarkWars

MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition

I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 13, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars

MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Battle II

I. Our own brains are out to get us
**II. Dementia comes for us all**
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 14, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars

MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition: Toddler Narcs

I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
***III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness***
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 15, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception & Cognition

I. Our own brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
***IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are***
V: Defense Against Dark Arts

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 16, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars
MetaBattle: Self-perception&Cognition
I. Our brains are out to get us
II. Dementia comes for us all
III. Narcissism is an underlying feature/bug of consciousness
IV. Try not look like a 40 year old vampire even if you are

***V. Defense Against The Dark Arts***

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 17, 2018

A Thread.

A subtweet thread. I won’t mention what prompted it. If I’m sufficiently annoyed to give a snark response, that’s (often) an accomplishment.

If I write the outline for a Winter Break Seminar for 1-2 credit hrs? Congratulations, I never want to meet that trash fire.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 21, 2018

1. This does not fit into #TailorSnarkWars
It doesn’t fit into #Fiction.
Maybe #MediaCrit and #RecentHistory with a dose of #HowTherapyActuallyWorks

It’s my experience, and not everyone’s. I’m a behaviorist, and trauma is my jam.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) September 15, 2018

#TailorSnarkWars #Metabattle: Satanic Panics, Daycare, Memory, Pantsuits, Nerve clusters.
The war for all the marbles.

(Or at least one of the wars.)

ALL THE FUCKING TRIGGER WARNINGS I HAVE EVER MADE.

EVERY CONTENT WARNING.

THIS WILL BE A TOUGH THREAD.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) September 2, 2018

How to find a therapist of your very own to feed & pay & make pouty faces at twice a month, while rebuilding your brain so it doesn’t fuck you over quite so badly when it just wants to lay on the floor, reading Wolverine/Loki hurt/comfort fic.

At @StrangeAttract5’s request.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) November 24, 2018

Hospice & Medical Orders of Treatment: Die Well

Two years ago today, I had to make Gran’s last call. Her nursing home got hit with a wind storm; they were on generator & backup battery power.

She always had a strong living will. We didn’t transport when last stroke hit, per her wishes.

I asked for fentanyl & Ativan. #Hospice

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 25, 2018

I’m a liberal pain in the ass, but I grew up with Bundy-types, so I can talk to those assholes if forced threads Money Laundering with Jason Mendoza, Breaking Bad and Real Estate

“Current conditions mirror what happened after the housing market collapsed. Prices tumbled and property was abundant, but the only people who could afford to buy were those who hadn’t been crippled by the financial crisis.”

Who has cash? Money Laundries. https://t.co/83mXjZQbS3

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) January 27, 2019

Have you lived on the border? Probably not.
I grew up there. During the Reagan/Bush years, when the border was fairly open. My BFF’s fam owned property on both sides, since the 18th century. I was the immigrant; look up Gadsden Purchase. US only acquired S Az in 1854.

THREAD https://t.co/NjuAb9sJOA

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 28, 2018

A thread on healthcare.

I made some 1st cup of coffee statements about being unenthusiastic about single payer as long as insurance companies are involved.

I wanted to expand that thought, so the next two tweets are my initial blabber, then there will be FRESH THREAD MEAT!

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 30, 2018

In terms of climate, I’m a communist.

We have one planet. Nobody gets off, not even Elon. We all piss into each other’s water every single day. We have more genes in common than not.

Our wealth is merely doing each other’s laundry & selling each other rocks.

Thread. pic.twitter.com/Z0n7r3R243

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 21, 2018

Fast way to ensure I shun: whine about paying taxes, brag about tax avoidance, advocate for lower taxes on rich ppl (income/investment/wealth/estate) while pushing poor taxes (sales/VAT/consumption.)

That tells me one is 100% OK stealing from society if they benefit.

THREAD.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) December 17, 2018

This morning’s Philly bust? There’s something weird going on. REALLY weird.

Let’s have a thread and work this out... https://t.co/FQsh562lrf

This dog is barking at the wrong stuff.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) January 10, 2019

Stepping back in, with a clarification:

The news of the Philly Bust hit the wires for the national/international audience THIS MORNING. Probably because somebody needed a BIG DOSE OF ATTENTION.

Yes, the actual bust happened in June. News sometimes goes REALLY slow these days.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) January 11, 2019

My #ExposeChristianSchools
I always attended nominally public schools, but my HS was in a town of 5K Mormons, founded by polygamists in 1870s, in a Mormon dominant county, in the Mormon Corridor.
Only a Bishop could get elected to school board - so white, male, LDS, wealthy.

1/

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) January 19, 2019

Huh. There’s something interesting in this.

Gather round, my lovelies, and cue up the streaming device for early 2000s television. We’re going back to Neptune, CA, to the second season of Veronica Mars, and a clever kid called Cassidy Casablancas. https://t.co/sN85PgOCgW

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) January 20, 2019

Okay, Iowa. I blame you.

You let your GOP sell votes as a fundraiser for 35 years. You thought it was FUN! A gag between the weird fried Nfood on a stick & the butter sculptures at the state fair.

You know that was WRONG, right? You shoulda shut DOWN the Straw Poll.

THREAD.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) November 18, 2018

The Quaker Resistance threads Punch Up

I punch up.

I shouldn’t be punching at all, but I go back to a great-uncle’s advice, that he got from his uncle. Unc’s unc was a conscientious objector in WWI; there weren’t a lot of protections for religious objectors in those days.

Unc’s unc spent the war in federal prison.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 22, 2018

Let me tell you the story of the State Lege trips.

My mother comes from a small town; her family has been in the area for almost 200 years now. Her g’g’grandparents on both sides founded 3 of the small towns in the area. She’s related to everyone.#TailorSnarkWars Foundation

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) October 7, 2018

Good morning #Resistance.

How to be a Legal Pain in the Ass: Tactics Edition

A #TailorSnarkWars production (I will mention clothing, at least a little.)

If you’re unfamiliar with the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, now is a good time to download & read. https://t.co/yAgzVZoIiA

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) October 8, 2018

A thread on basic neighborhood defense once fascist flyers appear. This applies primarily to urban and dense suburban neighborhoods. Ex-urbs are less likely to be targeted (not dense enough) & sprawl urban tend to lack public gathering places like parks.#Practical #Resistance https://t.co/8W7AeQD4bp

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) November 8, 2018

Liberals should move to red states

On the regular, someone says “liberals should just move to red states”.

I issue a preemptive curse on this nonsense: a lifetime of overcooked pasta, a perpetual salt shortage & unsweetened carob.

A THREAD on community, access, resources, resistance.#TailorSnarkWars Foundation

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) October 7, 2018

Citizenship

A thread on citizenship.

(Caveat: I have terrible parents.)

When I was born, Smother was pissed off with my father. They weren’t yet married. (Yes, indeed, I am a bastard.)

So Smother didn’t put his name on my birth certificate. (Or anyone else, or *unknown*)

Mature.

*sigh*

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) August 30, 2018

Ebook readers

Ebooks, a primer thread for those skeptical but willing to consider.

Most people get engaged, they get a ring or a tattoo or piercings. Spouse bought me a Handspring Visor in 2000.

I’ve got some history with ebooks.

There’s one out there you will like.

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 31, 2018

Breast feeding & formula

Trigger Warning: A thread on the commodification & conscription of women’s bodies. You’ve been warned. Exploring relationships between childbearing, work, coercive control, breast feeding, formula, gig economies, capitalist exploitation, colonialism and colonialist paternalism...

— CZEdwards (time for Truth & Reconciliation) (@CZEdwards) July 9, 2018