2️⃣121: On a Twitter Heater 🚂

As humans in the 21st century, few things compare to catching a ride on that elusive “flow state” we’re always hearing about.

You know what I mean.

We know about flow when it comes to work, sports, or creative tasks.

But what about flow when it comes to scrolling through social media?

I know, I know, the algorithm is terrible, and we hate that Instagram shows us a bunch of old posts we don’t care about instead of recent ones from our friends. A regular complaint you’ll get from people across all platforms is that they’re not seeing what they want to see, and it’s usually blamed on whatever evil agenda they think their platform of choice is trying to push.

I’m not here today to complain about the algorithm or how annoying Adam Mosseri’s explanation of Instagram updates are.

I’m here to do the opposite of that.

I’m here to celebrate the moments when the algorithm hits just right.

I was lucky enough to experience this fateful occurrence just last year—Saturday, July 6th, 2024, to be exact. It was a warm summer night in Miami, and I was spending a beautiful evening by myself, getting better acquainted with the couch in my living room while watching movies on my projector. I had just finished watching one movie and was figuring out what I wanted to see next. It was still early, around 7 pm, so there was plenty of time to watch whatever I wanted.

Maybe a movie.

Maybe a TV show.

Maybe a show and then a movie, maybe the other way around!

The possibilities were endless 🤩

I unlocked my phone to check my watchlist on Letterboxd, but first I had to make another stop.

I wanted to scroll Twitter 🤳

I opened the app, and settled on the couch for a few minutes of jokes, memes, news updates, and random shit that was sure to make me smile.

The next time I looked up from my scroll to check the time, it was 45 minutes later. My body had slid halfway off the couch but refused to fall, so I was basically holding myself up with my feet on the floor and my head on the edge of the cushion while the middle part of my body hovered in the air, and I was still scrolling.

Think of something like this, but way more awkward and with an actual torso:

I’m telling you, the content was really that good. Everything was hitting.

But you don’t have to take my word for it. In the middle of this scrolling flow state, I realized I needed to somehow save this experience to share with others.

That’s what I have for you today.

Here’s a casual narration of me through my Twitter flow state, along with many of the Tweets I enjoyed at that moment.

Enjoy.

My Twitter heater began, like most wild rides on the Internet these days—with stupid shit that somehow ties back to Elon Musk.

The person who runs @Teslanomics unironically posted a video of their Cybertruck struggling to get through a puddle with the caption, “People laugh at me, until they find out what my Cybertruck can really do”

An important thing to remember about my Twitter experience is—my algorithm is actually good. I’ve spent years curating what appears on my feed. Even during the past few months when many of my favorite internet writers and social accounts lamented that their Twitter feeds had been enshittified into crypto and right-wing sloplands, mine was still pumping out #GoodContent.

Which means that immediately after seeing that hilariously unironic Cybtertruck tweet, I was served this quote tweet dunking on it:

It makes me fond of having a Toyota Tacoma and thinking about every mechanic who has ever said, “You take care of this car, change the oil and treat it right, and you’ll go 500,000 miles on it, mark my words.”

I had a good laugh, and then kept scrolling to see some beautiful nature shots:

Cool birds, they look angry, though.

Here’s Manny Jacinto looking hot AF and wearing the shit out of a light blue suit I’d like to rock myself some day:

They made some good points here, I’m going to verify and get back to you:

This guy always shares cool design stuff, and these ads are great:

Comedian Gianmarco Soresi making a good trans joke and proving you don’t have to punch down to be funny:

The 90s were a great place:

Dentists scare the shit out of me, yet I have to go regularly. That’s why I always make sure it’s a Latina woman who can be an easygoing motherly figure while I get through whatever I have to get through:

Nothing like a good reply to give the original tweet an extra punch:

Basically me at this point as I’m slowly sliding deeper and deeper into the Twitter abyss and eroding off my couch:

Looking like:

Or maybe more like:

Doesn’t matter, the tweets are good, we gotta keep rolling.

Facts. Nothing to argue. Kelli was top-tier comedy in Insecure. While we’re here, gotta give a shoutout to my girl Molly. One of my favorite all-time character arcs in modern television. I put her up there with Jamie Lannister for the number of times you hate her, love her, and then hate her again. When it came to dating, she was the issue. Should’ve had a good life with Andrew but went and fucked it up.

Dammit, Molly.

This next tweet was deleted from the internet as I was putting together this email, which confirmed that I should screenshot all of these to make sure this email is still readable years from now.

The tweet had no images, it only said:

Not sure what he’s referring to because that’s another instance of the tweet getting deleted as a sacrifice to the digital ether, but he’s not wrong:

It always comes back to one man, though (and the replies):

Oh shit, things are getting deep. Why do I feel like this tweet is just for me?

These guys might be on to something:

Holy shit, Cybertruck guy is doubling down and he’s not giving up 😭:

You know they’d have Cybertrucks as company cars if we built Jurassic Park today (also, I would visit):

Love this color, let me save it for later:

This guy might be getting laid or arrested, anything can happen:

Oh, that’s a beautiful home:

This guy fucks:

Two months later, people were still talking about it:

Hold up, I need to lock in and do some professional development for a second:

One more thing while I’m focused:

I’d always be naked if I lived here:

This is what they mean when they say make it great “again”:

Can you believe there are people today who cook because they’ve been ordering food delivery their entire adult lives:

Good thing I screenshotted this one because I lost the link:

A good Dad post:

The American Dream in action:

I’d get this not just because it’s cool but because I’d tell myself, “Girls will love taking pictures here,” even though no girls are visiting:

Quentin Tarantino ripping off Not Another Teen Movie making fun of She’s All That:

Shoutout to a renowned author being confident enough to say, “The TV version of my character is actually better than the book.” Especially someone who likely feels somewhat responsible for Game of Thrones Season 8:

Despite being 5’11 (don’t verify it, just believe me) I always laugh at jokes about 5’11 guys being very short:

And the cherry on top of a magical 45 minutes of scrolling, Tom Cruise doing what he does best:

I hope you enjoyed some #GoodContent.

RIP to Twitter, now you have to scroll through the same ad repeated 6 times with 8 offers for Grok Premium and “Trending” updates about red-pill bullshit to get to one organic post—and it’s not even funny.

But at least we’ll always have the day Black people gained their magic powers.

PS

I was going to stick this idea in the intro because it came to me while editing.

However, I would rather not upset the delicate balance of making sure I write enough words to get my point across, but not too many that you’ll stop reading.

My thought was:

Adam Mosseri is the evil version of Manny from Abbott Elementary.

That is all.