Vlogbrother, TB hater, AFC Wimbledon supporter. Wrote Anthropocene Reviewed & Turtles All the Way Down (out now on Max). Biz Q's: johngreenteam
@unitedtalent
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Hi,
@elonmusk
. Is there a way that I/you can unverify my account so that I can change my name? I am accustomed to changing my name seasonally and I find this business of being forced to be merely John Green 100% of the time a little stifling.
The Fault in Our Stars has been removed from the YA section in the suburbs of Indianapolis and is now considered a "book for adults." This is ludicrous. It is about teenagers and I wrote it for teenagers.
Teenagers are not harmed by reading TFIOS. This is such an embarrassment…
Every few years, thousands of people are surprised to learn that I am a fan of Taylor Swift.
1. I am a fan of Taylor Swift. I have been since I first heard Speak Now in 2010.
2. I love Taylor Swift's music and lyrics. You don't have to. But I get to.
3. I love the Taylor Swift…
Today, I have been accused by strangers of 1. abusing children (which is a lie), 2. writing the worst book of all time (which is impossible because I didn't write Atlas Shrugged), 3. hating America (which I don't, but also twitter is neither America nor American)...
It's baffling to me that some of y'all see stuff in your mind. You SEE it? The way your eyes see? I always thought "visualize" meant thinking of the words/ideas/feelings associated with a thing, not actual visuals.
I am such a total 5 on this scale I didn't know 1-4 existed.
I feel so bad for the people who are coding twitter today. Like, it's already been a stressful week, but then in comes the Boss every five minutes to announce, "I am reuncanceling my uncanceled cancelation of Official status."
This is the greatest day in Indianapolis history.
The sun is shining.
The birds are signing.
AND THE ERAS TOUR IS COMING TO INDIANAPOLIS FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE NIGHTS. My daughter burst into tears of joy when I told her.
Thank you, Taylor!!!
Turns out it’s NOT the end of an era 😝 Miami, New Orleans, Indy and Toronto: The Eras Tour is coming to you in 2024 with
@gracieabrams
! Verified fan registration for all shows is open now - visit for more information
(for those who don't know, verified accounts currently can't change their name because unsavory/hilarious actors have impersonated verified accounts. But I do not want to impersonate anyone. I want to raise money for charity via the awesome socks and coffee clubs.)
now that john is logged out of this account, you’re just yelling your weird opinions at a harry styles stan who is dressed as a coffee company.
cheers!☕️
I want to be very clear that no one is SUGGESTING that people will die because Johnson & Johnson is trying to immorally extend their patent on bedaquline an additional 4 years after its 20-year term.
Instead, people are STATING THE FACT that people will die because of Johnson &…
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest…
4. hating those I disagree with (I love those I disagree with), 5. favoring the extinction of humans (I am strongly opposed to it), and 6. being part of a vast plot to protect one public health official from prosecution. This has made it much easier to leave twitter tomorrow!
Real tired of this free speech platform requiring me to be "John Green."
I AM A SOCK COMPANY.
Am I *also* a person? I guess. But PRIMARILY I am a company that sells socks to fund a maternity ward.
And if I've learned anything from America, it's that companies are people, too.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@JNJNews
, THANK YOU for choosing
#PatientsNotPatents
. Takes real guts to live up to your credo. Generic bedaquiline WILL BE AVAILABLE in almost every country with a high tuberculosis burden. I am so happy and grateful to the Stop TB Partnership, J&J, and especially…
Basically every criticism of my work or myself is devastating and true and cuts right to my bone and tears me asunder, haunting waking and sleeping hours in equal measure.
Except for "Teenagers don't talk like that," which is just silly. Like, I know? I'm aware? It's a choice?
My son loves
@markiplier
and Distractible so much. It makes me so happy to see him love something the way I loved stuff when I was his age. Just utter enthusiasm, no need for ironic distance. Beautiful.
At the comms meeting tomorrow:
"How did our statement go over online?"
"Well, three million people saw it."
"That's great."
"Forty people liked it."
"Is that good?"
"It's actually unprecedentedly bad. But I kind of think that happened because we're, like, wrong? If you let me…
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest…
The only media subscription that really feels indispensable to me is
@dropout
. Like, I could (easily) live without Hulu, but I watch something on Dropout every single day and feel great about the cost and the value proposition.
My reply to the board members of
@FishersIN
and
@NoblesvilleIN
seeking to remove my books (and over a hundred others) from the young adult literature shelves in their libraries. Heartbreaking for this to happen in Central Indiana, where I live and strive to support.
I want to be clear that while I think our pressure may have affected the timing, this must have been in the works for a while. The real heroes here aren't us but the Stop TB Partnership and other activists who've been working for YEARS to get to this moment. You rule. THANK YOU.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@JNJNews
, THANK YOU for choosing
#PatientsNotPatents
. Takes real guts to live up to your credo. Generic bedaquiline WILL BE AVAILABLE in almost every country with a high tuberculosis burden. I am so happy and grateful to the Stop TB Partnership, J&J, and especially…
One of the reasons tuberculosis continues to infect and kill more people is because you refuse to allow the widespread distribution of affordable bedaquiline, which is essential to stopping the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and curing those infected by it.
It takes…
“Tuberculosis is a curable and preventable disease, so why does it continue to infect more people?”
#JNJ
Anna Caravaggio shares how we can work together to tackle one of the world’s most deadly public health challenges in
@IFPMA
⬇️
So when
@msf
,
@pih
, and hundreds of TB researchers and caregivers signed a letter begging you to end secondary patents for bedaquiline.... they were lying?
THAT'S your response?
It is false to suggest—as some recently have—that our patents are being used to prevent access to SIRTURO® (bedaquiline), our medicine for MDR-TB.
In fact, we have already entered into a collaboration with the Stop TB Partnership’s Global Drug Facility (“GDF”)—the largest…
what's even the point of being on this god-forsaken web site if there's no fat bear week?
The right wing of the U.S. Congress wants to restrict our freedom to read AND our access to fat bears? Unacceptable.
During a shutdown, many agencies such as the National Park Service are also not permitted to update websites and social media pages.
That means the viral park service social media promotions of Fat Bear Week would halt.
In every majority-Christian nation, the systems are set up to ensure those with the most resources receive the most care and support. We're so accustomed to this that we may even consider it "natural." But this is not how Christian sacred texts want social orders designed...
Today and every day I am so, so grateful to librarians whose work is absolutely essential to making art and information available to all--even amid absurdly difficult working conditions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Some People: America has gone soft.
Me: That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Some People: That's why we need to ban books.
Me: Wait I have heard a new dumbest thing.
J & J had a really, really bad PR day today. They can have a really, really good PR day tomorrow, and I promise
@JNJNews
that I will celebrate that as loudly and as repeatedly as I have criticized the public-facing position up to now.
Some personal news: I deleted a tweet. I delete almost all my tweets. It felt good to delete. One day all of the tweets I've ever written will be deleted. What a wondrous day of sunshine and rainbows that will be.
Sometimes I remember being at a party and talking for 45 minutes with a smart young person about fame and ambition and the challenges of not being seen as a person and then after the party Sarah was like, "What did you and [one of the world's most famous people] talk about?" And…
Cool. What about my other books and hundreds of other YA titles? Award-winning classics of YA lit by everyone from Nic Stone to Judy Blume continue to be wrong shelved by a ridiculous policy that embarrasses Central Indiana. Change the policy not just for TFIOS, but for all.
"This book should be moved back to the Teen section immediately," Hamilton East Public Library Board President Laura Alerding said in a statement Sunday afternoon.
ranking my names:
john: 9/10 it’s a solid name
guy from crash course: 11/10 because crash course is amazing
hank: 3/10 not a great name tbh
mr green: 10/10 because it’s a Clue character
the awesome coffee company: 100/10 my final form
ranking my names:
payton: 10/10 it’s my name!
payt: 7/10 not bad, a few friends call me this
P: 11/10, i love when my besties call me this
paypay: 0/10 unless you’re my nanny kid
petunia: 9/10 but only my family calls me this
tooner: -1/10 cursed variant of petunia
This may also be why I am often wrong about what's behind a particular cabinet in our kitchen even though I have lived in this house for a decade. I also cannot, like, tell you the layout of a room unless I'm in that room and looking at the layout. And i have no sense of…
Hey
@jnjnews
I DM'ed you with my number. If you need help with the press release you are hopefully writing, I'm happy to help advise on what it needs to include--a pledge that this deal will last forever, that it will not limit the quantity of bedaquiline available, and the list
god calls me to love my enemies god calls me to love my enemies god calls me to love my enemies god calls me to love my enemies god calls me to love my enemies god calls me to love
Tomorrow, I'll be handing the keys to this account over to
@paytmitch
, so it can promote the stuff we're making--from coffee to movies. I will miss being part of this weird, wild conversation, and I am grateful for all the stuff I've learned from and with you. See you on YouTube.
In just 22 hours, 578,000 people have watched this video about Johnson & Johnson's pursuit of secondary patents for bedaquiline and how this will lead to millions being unable to receive curative treatment for tuberculosis.
#PatientsNotPatents
@JNJNews
Are you familiar with the printer ink business model? Sell a printer for a modest profit because you'll make the real money from forcing people to buy your ink? IT's also known as the razor blade business model.
Danaher sells its diagnostic machines at a small profit and then
I dislike having my books banned (and mischaracterized by folks who haven't read them), but what I really dislike is when hard-working and deeply committed librarians are fired for no good reason by vindictive, unprofessional culture warriors who care nothing for actual kids.
Why was this Alabama library director fired? I got an answer from the library board director. And then another, and another ... You just have to read it.
People are like, "If twitter is so terrible, why are you here?"
Because I'm a fool. Like, I'm literally an ape.
I am not some rational actor.
I'm a series of chemical reactions seeking not happiness or fulfillment or nuance but jolts of outrage, fascination, and thrill.
Penicillin, but no drug has anywhere NEAR the impact on human history as public health initiatives. Clean drinking water, sanitary disposal of human waste, vaccines, and food safety regulations have improved and lengthened vastly more lives than any surgery or medicine.
If I had a nickel for every time nerdfighteria has pressured a large corporation into reducing prices for critical tools to address the tuberculosis crisis, I'd have two nickels--which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
@StopTB
I am so overwhelmed with gratitude to y'all and everyone who has worked on this critical issue. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. This is a big step to better treatment for all. And now onward to 1/4/6x24 and to comprehensive global programs for searching for cases, treating them,…
HUGE NEWS and what it means: This morning,
@USAID
,
@StopTB
, and
@GlobalFund
jointly announced that Danaher will lower the price of their standard TB test cartridge by 20% to $7.97. This isn't the 50% reduction we hoped for BUT...
@DanaherCorp
is also committing to ZERO profit in…
I HAVE RETURNED TO MAIN because I am FURIOUS that
@JNJGlobalHealth
is preventing millions from accessing life-saving treatment with bedaquiline, thereby costing innumerable lives and increasing the global risk of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis.
.
@DanaherCorp
makes 8 billion dollars in annual profits. Much of that profit comes from price-gouging the world's poorest countries for life-saving tuberculosis tests. Danaher has done this in the dark for 13 long years.
Today, we shine the light.
#PeopleOverProfits
I can think of a single image that better explains where our country is now. We spend 2x on healthcare and get far worse results than other countries due to a right-wing U.S. belief that we can't "afford" universal healthcare, when what we really can't afford is not having it.
Hi,
@JNJGlobalHealth
. Here you can clearly see, even if via meme, that you did NOT fund the majority of bedaquiline research. It was mostly funded by the public. You've had the patent for 20 years. That's enough. Pledge not to enforce secondary patents in nations with a high TB…
Thank you. Congratulations. I know this was not easy, but it's a very important step on the long and challenging road to a world where no one dies of tuberculosis.
Danaher is helping expand access to millions more high-quality tuberculosis tests for people living in the least developed countries where the need is most urgent.
BIG NEWS:
@JNJNews
just publicly confirmed it will not enforce its secondary bedaquiline patents in ANY of 134 low- and middle-income countries. That's HUGE. Full credit to Johnson & Johnson for this commitment. This is what we've been waiting for.
Authors often get most of the attention when it comes to issues around book banning and intellectual freedom, but those who really deserve the plaudits and attention are the teachers and librarians and community members doing the work every day to keep books available.
They…
Today and every day I am so, so grateful to librarians whose work is absolutely essential to making art and information available to all--even amid absurdly difficult working conditions. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I keep crying out of nowhere. What a good day to support
@MSF
,
@PIH
, and all the global health orgs and activists who've been fighting for tuberculosis treatment access for decades. These people are my heroes, and today I'll be making donations in honor of TB survivors around the…
Can't believe they paid for this ridiculously bad logo but didn't pay to license DMX's "X Gon Give It To Ya" so that every time you send a tweet, you hear, "X GON GIVE IT TO YA."
Johnson & Johnson claimed they needed to evergreen their bedaquiline patent to invest in new breakthrough therapies for tuberculosis.
Well,
@JNJNews
just ended all research and development into infectious disease. Despicable to claim R&D and then...abandon R&D.
TB WAS raging! It killed around a third of all people in London.
BUT WHAT IF I TOLD YOU:
1. Tuberculosis chic is still our beauty standard in much of the world.
2. TB killed about 200,000 people per year in Europe in the Victorian era. It killed about 1,600,000 people last year.
the Victorians were so fucking funny like tuberculosis was RAGING it was killing all of them and they were like wait… what if we… made this the beauty standard…?
So great that
@JNJNews
has committed to working with GDF to make generic bedaquiline available in most low- and middle-income countries.
BUT WE ARE STILL WATCHING, J&J. AND WE WILL KEEP WATCHING.
This is nerdfighteria, Johnson & Johnson. We don't dress for women. We don't…
The world moves on, another day another drama, drama
But not for Nerdfighteria, all we think about’s big pharma
And then the world moves on, but we’re watching it
#PatientsNotPatents
, now it’s time to commit.
@JNJGlobalHealth
@JNJNews
Like, when those pedants read Romeo and Juliet and see how their first lines spoken to each other when added together form a perfect sonnet, do you think they're like, "Teenagers don't make accidental sonnets when they talk?"
(Yes, I am aware that I'm not Shakespeare. But like…
🚨someone stole the Awesome Coffee Club breakroom couch🚨
we were airing it out because we spilled delicious high quality charity coffee all over it. ☹️
if you see it, submit the details here:
Twitter monetization update:
25,000,000 impressions
1,000,000 profile views
>300,000 likes and retweets....
It all ads up to ........ seventy seven dollars.
(which I'm donating to partners in health.)
We recognize that many of our followers enjoy coffee from many different companies. However, we will no longer allow you to mention other coffee companies on Twitter.
@a_fangirl3
Yeah for me everything has always been made out of language, so language is a natural fit. I feel like if I could picture things with my mind, I'd want to make visual art or movies or video games or something.
I have a fever and am going to bed but before I do I made this meme for you. I'm a real pleasure to be around at parties, and in restrooms, because I simply do not stop talking about equitable access to diagnostic tools for the world's most impoverished people.
#PeopleOverProfits
…
If Johnson & Johnson backs down from their pursuit of unjust secondary patents on a drug that could save hundreds of thousands more lives per year if it were less expensive, I will become the biggest
@JNJNews
fan. I will make free ads for them.