Principal SWE
@indeed
. Progressive politics. Ultimate frisbee, turn-based strategy games, The Bachelor, and pretending I still play Magic: the Gathering. He/him
@prchovanec
@ClaraJeffery
Eradicating a disease is the biggest flex in all of humanity. It’s one of the most incredible achievements we have, full stop.
True story, at first I didn’t realize
@SheRatesDogs
was an aggregator. I thought it was one woman who somehow had all the creeps in the world harassing her.
@paleofuture
@syvelior
People ascribe mythical powers to ChatGPT. It’s scary as fuck. Even if it were actually self-aware it couldn’t do some of the stuff people think it does.
@sloopjawnB
“How’d you get the job?” 🤣
Bill Maher clearly has nothing to say so he falls back on cheap homophobic jokes. Roddy Piper has the facts on his side and is a better comedian.
@bessbell
A student teacher in elementary school called me “Brook” because she said I talked too much. I warned her not to do that or my mom would get her fired. This triggered a conference with the principal and my parents.
My mom got her fired.
Figured a little
#justice
would help.
@edzitron
My favorite takeaway is that one reason he had limited reach is because of how many people muted and blocked him.
I’m so glad to have done my part.
@socialistdogmom
I had a long Twitter conversation with the department head overseeing the AP photos as NFTs program. It was shocking how poorly he understood NFTs.
For instance, he believed making NFTs of high rez images would reduce the number of people using AP photos without a license.
@fasterthanlime
I didn’t see it at the time, but there’s reporting on Jedi Blue from January. Damningly, it “allowed the companies to terminate the deal ‘in the event of certain government investigations of the agreement’”.
@DavidMann95
Chewbacca knows his entire race was enslaved and murdered by the Empire. But the Rebellion has done some bad things too. Chewbacca knows there are bad eggs on both sides, and we should all try to be nicer to each other.
@wgangelinab
I will never understand why people will choose to support billionaires over millionaires… much less over thousandaires. Have some context!
@TheStephenWood
Such a perfect example of getting people to vote against their interests.
Part of why the Post Office doesn’t make a profit is because it’s required to give full and regular service to people in rural areas.
@IwriteOK
It’s funny because they’re right that cooking can, in many cases, be more expensive than eating out. But they fumble the argument so miserably.
“Sam Asghari allegedly wants his estranged wife, pop superstar Britney Spears, to pay him more than what their prenup provides in order to keep her secrets following their split, Page Six has exclusively learned.”
@DrJenGunter
Reminds me of a recent Planet Money where a pregnant woman “comparison shopped” countries to see who had the best maternal benefits (childcare, parental leave, gender pay gap). The US was the negative example.
@AnaMardoll
The defining ethos of the 90s and 00s was that you show affection by being mean. It took me way too long to realize how fucking sick that is.
Instead of roasting your friends, tell them you love them.
@bessbell
The really wild thing was telling this story to my therapist and suddenly realizing I held onto guilt that I *had* been “babbling”, only to see it through my therapist’s eyes and realize this student teacher was a monster.
@rafaelshimunov
What’s startling is that this is the possible results when someone is just poking fun. You could do way worse if you actually wanted to manipulate the market.
@Esqueer_
Beginning to think the guy who that legally has to have some of his uses of the platform pre-approved by a lawyer to prevent him using it to violate the law *again* shouldn’t be allowed to own the platform.
@BlondeOh
@ChrisJoor
@DrRachaelF
It’s very easy to defend a policy if you only assume people will always do the right thing. Unfortunately history has taught us that actually people often do the right thing to serve their own agendas… agendas that often have nothing to do with educating kids.
@IwriteOK
I’ve been that level of sunburned before. I had to sit in a dark room for hours. I had chills and was in agony.
I was just dumb, but these people deserve it.
@michaelsayman
I’d like to actually be able to block content. I have a number of accounts blocked, but I keep seeing their content quote tweeted into my timeline.
If I blocked it, I don’t want to see people QRT and responding to it. And there seems to be no way to avoid it.
@QueenMab87
Timothy Chalomet is there because he’s had Starbucks and Lady Gaga is there because she performed in Israel a decade ago. This is a deeply unserious list.
@AyannaPressley
Even if you’re not against the death penalty for moral reasons (and you should be), there are plenty of ethical reasons to be against it. We keep killing innocent men, usually men of color, while not testing DNA samples that would exonerate them.
@tx_pros
Is this why prosecutors threaten innocent people into taking plea deals for crimes they didn’t commit because they’re afraid of a twenty year prison term?
@RyanMarino
It makes his refusal to treat her cancer even weirder. How much did he really care for her if he’d let his feelings about taxes interfere with keeping her healthy?
@lolacoaster
He wasn’t going to the bathroom. He would try and strain but he couldn’t poop. I became convinced he had swallowed a stick and it was blocking him up.
Turns out his fur just matted together and blocked the exit ramp.
@SethAMandel
The guy swatted a whistleblower. The fear isn’t that he will set up a transparent and objective content moderation policy and actually enforce it. Exactly the opposite, in fact.
@diannaeanderson
There have been some times where the other cast members on Whose Line made problematic jokes, and he’s called them out for it *on air*.
@james_mccoy_t
Or maybe it’s not a zero sum game and we don’t have to pit different groups together to make them compare their suffering for your amusement.
@theashleyray
Somebody once made the comment that being Extremely Online and translating for your friends is like being the character in an urban fantasy novel who has to explain that magic is real.
@duckvalentine
I think we need some kind of digital preservation law. So many things are no longer available for sale or to watch and they’re just gone. Terrible.
@dieworkwear
@jmhenner
@HurricaneMomo
@riveong
The story is the problem, not the framing of it. There’s not any way you can dress up “Jews misunderstood God’s teachings, but luckily Jesus came by to fix everything” to fix the underlying problem.
@neilhimself
@spacelesbian7
For everyone being upset Aziraphale and Crowley aren’t canonically gay, I’ve also seen people who find them a very positive portrayal of an asexual relationship.
@rokwon
@hvbeg
Things that are truly pro-life:
Comprehensive sex education
School lunches
Universal pre-K
Literally just not passing the GA anti-women bill
@KatyMontgomerie
@HasBezosDecided
As far as I can tell, there are only a few ways to become a millionaire:
Be born a billionaire
Exploit lots of people
Get extremely lucky
To become a billionaire, you have to do that several times over and then become extremely selfish and hoard your wealth like a dragon.
@AnneofManyNames
@evilplasticfork
The aunt was the woman at the train station with a big green exclamation over her head, indicating she had quest importance.
@_ElizabethMay
@AnaMardoll
All that “she’s not going to sleep with you bro” stuff. I can be kind to someone because being kind is awesome.
Those people are really telling on themselves that they are only nice transactionally.