{"id":66812,"date":"2021-08-13T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=66812"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:03:07","slug":"best-tweets-week-of-august-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/internet-culture\/best-tweets-week-of-august-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Plans vs. the Delta Variant, deciphering Gen Z&#8217;s use of emojis, Sarah Paulson as Linda Tripp, and more are on this week&#8217;s Top Shelf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. Twitter isn\u2019t perfect, but there are individual tweets that come pretty close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each week in <em>Top Shelf<\/em>, we will be sharing the tweets that made us laugh, think, <a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/\">Pocket<\/a> them for later, text our friends, and want to continue the internet revolution each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what made it to the <em>Top Shelf <\/em>for the week of August 9, 2021, in no particular order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just for fun, call a young person &#39;the bomb&#39; today as praise, just to see what happens.<\/p>&mdash; joanna schroeder (@iproposethis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iproposethis\/status\/1426244481938976769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Couples around the country currently coming to terms with how much domestic work they actually do at home. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Census?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Census<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Avani Dias (@AvaniDias) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvaniDias\/status\/1424688435101540353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My fall plans.       The Delta variant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dW2b4DFOlZ\">pic.twitter.com\/dW2b4DFOlZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Adam B. Vary (@adambvary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adambvary\/status\/1425826998333546517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NFT folks: please stop sending me your tokens! I&#39;m not going to write about them and I have to burn them or send them back, which costs gas and is generally annoying.<\/p>&mdash; Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinroose\/status\/1425917079656435712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have wondered what the deal is with the ethnic aisle since I was a kid grocery shopping with my dad in the Dallas suburbs. In my latest piece, I got some answers. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ekYab9CoTj\">https:\/\/t.co\/ekYab9CoTj<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Priya Krishna (@priyakrishna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/priyakrishna\/status\/1425086872435441673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 10, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I did it \ud83d\ude0c <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kcM4Mk0Hhs\">https:\/\/t.co\/kcM4Mk0Hhs<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TaylorLorenz\/status\/1424749559993954308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I sat down with Apple\u2019s Craig Federighi to talk about the company\u2019s child protection features. <br><br>He spoke about the stumbles the company made in the announcement. I pushed him to explain everything in plain english. <br><br>Here\u2019s the exclusive video interview:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZpcXfns05j\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZpcXfns05j<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Joanna Stern (@JoannaStern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoannaStern\/status\/1426176337878913025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m trying to figure out his deal but I have a toddler, who\u2019s loud and arguably more annoying than a tiktok influencer<\/p>&mdash; Rani Molla (@ranimolla) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ranimolla\/status\/1426278901098106885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Gen Z is so goddamn inscrutable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GKxgJgsIYU\">https:\/\/t.co\/GKxgJgsIYU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PL94ZGwA24\">pic.twitter.com\/PL94ZGwA24<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Eliot Brown (@eliotwb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eliotwb\/status\/1424836563200921600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 9, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She&#39;s coming for that Emmy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8beaHt5Kg\">pic.twitter.com\/z8beaHt5Kg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Stacy Lambe (@sllambe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sllambe\/status\/1425889088025071629?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Mozilla, we believe part of making the internet we want is celebrating the best of the internet, and that can be as simple as sharing a tweet that made us pause in our feed. 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