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Can't stop making bad decisions.


lutz
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Hi there, and welcome to "Behind the Scenes with Lutz", a new segment where I take you backstage to explain the inner workings of posting.

Today, we'll be looking at the above post. Sure, it's kind of amusing, and everyone loves ghosts, and the way that it uses basic formatting tools to mimic the rhythm and form of Cohost's notifications tab is pretty neat. But where does such an idea come from? How does this, of all things, appear in a human mind before it is posted?

Funny story, actually. This post was inspired by making a joke on Bluesky in which Christmas features somewhat tangentially. The post did reasonably well and I saw in my notifications that it was faved by a person with the phrase "Fuck Christmas" in their username. "Wow," I thought, with no real sense of prophesy, "I'm definitely going to be hearing from you."

Wouldn't you know it: three seconds later they replied to my joke with "I don't believe in Christmas."

And that, as we say in the business, is the real magic of the holidays.


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Saying they don't believe in Christmas would be a weird way to claim they are not Christian. So, I'm imagining they do not believe in the holiday itself? Has Santa wronged them? Do they blackout between Dec 24th and 26th with no memory of the 25th every year? Have they never actually perceived Christmas day? This might be the person who magically transforms into Santa every year.

this is what i found so charming about it, honestly. like the specificity of disbelief in christmas at apparently the conceptual level, despite it being a manifest cultural practice