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Twitter roundup: Look for joy and find it in absurdist tweets

Have fun! There's only one sports tweet in this roundup and I consider that to be a blessing for you.

Nat Gingerich
Aug 24, 2020
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These are some tweets that I’ve liked this week and I hope you like them too!

At some point in the future these posts will be for paid subscribers only, but I’m breaking my own rules for a while. You deserve it.

Let’s start with a well-loved motif, r e l a t i o n s h i p s. This tweet is extremely relevant to the recent heatwave and I won’t comment further.

Twitter avatar for @TheCatWhisprermark @TheCatWhisprer
DATING: can’t wait to see you again MARRIAGE: part of your knee was on my side of the bed again last night

August 21st 2020

28,195 Retweets239,680 Likes

Listen, Avril Lavigne was my first concert, and yes I wore a loose tie over t-shirts in middle school. Anyways, there’s an Avril song that doesn’t exist on every major lyrics website. They’re there, I checked.

Twitter avatar for @marysuewriterSarah Z @marysuewriter
one of my favourite little online mysteries is that virtually every lyric website has (incoherent and misspelled) lyrics for an avril lavigne song called "dolphins". this song doesn't exist and has never existed, but its words are on almost every lyric site
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August 22nd 2020

3,643 Retweets17,270 Likes

The sports jokes have to go somewhere, I’m only human.

Twitter avatar for @LeBronMaclean🥴 @LeBronMaclean
when zoomer Leaf fans meet someone from the 90s Leafs
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August 23rd 2020

5 Retweets35 Likes

SOUND ON

Twitter avatar for @GatorsDailyGators Daily 🐊 @GatorsDaily
don't mind me just floatin by
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August 22nd 2020

158,145 Retweets474,415 Likes

FRIENDS doesn’t hold up but part of me is happy that Courteney Cox and Jen Aniston are still friends, and even more of me is happy that one of them is the worst pool player…maybe ever.

Twitter avatar for @jessmcguireJess McGuire @jessmcguire
Courteney Cox’s video montage of Jennifer Aniston being bad at pool needs to be nominated for an Oscar
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August 21st 2020

6,922 Retweets36,289 Likes

[just vibing, letting the joy of extraterrestrial photos wash over me] [Also go follow Joalda for the most excellent space content - she’s an expert in her field!]

Twitter avatar for @solarrsystemJoalda Morancy @solarrsystem
I think my favorite thing about the planet Mars is how much variability there is on the surface, like some of this looks like works of art!!
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August 22nd 2020

139 Retweets649 Likes

I recently listened to an Melittology (BEES) episode on Ologies and then this appeared. Call it fate. Save the bees!

Twitter avatar for @thegallowboobRob N Roll @thegallowboob
This beekeeper hero got a call to remove a colony of bees from a backyard compost bin and she SAVED THEM ALL 🐝
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August 20th 2020

58,810 Retweets290,983 Likes

Ugh, it gets me every time. Sound on!

Twitter avatar for @anatawaminikuihe’s got beef but im a vegetarian @anatawaminikui
I pee my pants every time this resurfaces
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August 17th 2020

20,088 Retweets56,603 Likes

And this thread has some GALAXY BRAIN stuff going on:

Twitter avatar for @celestelabedzCeleste Labedz @celestelabedz
What's something that you technically understand, but still seems a bit like magic? I'll start: pulleys.

August 18th 2020

1,531 Retweets31,844 Likes

The story of Black excellence and and the racial divide in craft food:

Twitter avatar for @CiaoSaminSamin Nosrat @CiaoSamin
THIS is the jam story we all need to read.
For Black Jam Makers, the Power Is in PreservingAs the conversation turns to racial issues in the craft food movement, canning quality fruit is often the easy part.nytimes.com

August 18th 2020

371 Retweets2,071 Likes

Thanks to Shea Serrano, a real one who stands 6’3”, for putting this on my timeline. To quote him, “my chest”

Twitter avatar for @EsaIndigenaI love rocks @EsaIndigena
So...imma go cry
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August 18th 2020

116,661 Retweets565,868 Likes

And in terms of audible laughs this week, these ones take it.

Twitter avatar for @stinkyrink🐓 @stinkyrink
It's gotta feel insanely good to be a cow and let out a huge moo

August 17th 2020

46,206 Retweets290,194 Likes
Twitter avatar for @nicodebenitoNico de Benito @nicodebenito
I’m a FISH I’m a STURGEON I’m a CARP I’m a TURBOT I’m a SALMON I’m a HAKE I live inside a LAKE

August 11th 2020

5,804 Retweets35,809 Likes
Twitter avatar for @AnnaGHughesAnna Hughes @AnnaGHughes
Many people have been using quarantine as a time to perfect their bread or coffee making skills, but I personally have taken this as an opportunity to make increasingly unsettling eggs
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August 14th 2020

72,982 Retweets427,625 Likes

Hope this brightened your day! I spend too much time on Twitter!

Your friend, Nat

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