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@honigmaydl
@juleslipoff
Except he dies mysteriously in the first episode, and his normcore girlfriend takes his place as they try to find the killer and it turns out he was in a cult like in Hot Fuzz. In the end, the two sleuths ride off into the sunset together with normy's head on goth's shoulder
@nick_budhiraja
@beeplogic
@ashmayur
Someone writes that they get to keep their job plus gets free training to do their job less awfully?
If a woman or a black person in tech looks at someone funny in a meeting they get fired for not being a good cultural fit.
"No single election result could send a greater chill up the spine of Donald Trump than the nomination of
@ZephyrTeachout
for New York attorney general in Thursdayβs Democratic primary."
The Nation:
@SoniaPoulton
No, you get called a trans-exclusionary radical feminist because you don't understand that trans women are women. It's right there in the acronym.
In your case it seems a pretty accurate description, so what's your problem?
A reminder that most "red states", particularly the South, are really a relatively small group of conservative white people maintaining illegitimate control over everybody else through dishonest and anti-democratic means.
I honestly think the biggest thing we can do to stop sexual harassment in professional settings is to stop tolerating arrogant jerks just because the person seems smart or effective.
Require teamwork and better behavior, and don't reward assholes with leadership positions.
@nick_budhiraja
@beeplogic
@ashmayur
I mean, how did the word "caucasian" even come up? This isn't just a typo. And how many people saw this in the process of listing the job?
@sxinxm_
1. It's true white people can be very subtly racist, but
2. Ain't nothing subtle about this!
If there wasn't a kid at stake I would just fire this client. Probably the parent will run away after being called out anyway.
@karyn_ruffin
@CNN
Actually it is that simple. We can't create a better system of community care protection until we let go of the idea of police. Abolition is the only way.
@BlacksAndWealth
@fams2gether
If we hadn't ruined their homes surely they would rather stay there. We made this mess. We are entirely responsible for it.
These little NC towns like Graham and Pembroke are choosing to suppress peaceful expressions of protest (that are a foundation to our democracy functioning) rather than protect their residents from violent threats from white supremacists.
After peaceful protesters were met by armed counter-protesters, the Town of Pembroke in Robeson County has ordered there to be no demonstrations and has instituted a curfew
@nandoodles
@donaldball
Damn. βΉοΈ
Why is this so freaking common? I'm sick of hearing these stories. Men need to DO BETTER. Can you see why many of us don't want to work with you?
It's amazing how few people understand that Gamer Gate led *directly* to the alt-Right and the rise of Trump.
No-one paid attention to GG because of the expectation that tech is just a sexist cesspool and can't be changed. How many white men just ignored it as a chick problem?
2/ To recap history, in case any reporters read this, Gamergate was going to be relegated to 4chan, Reddit and 8chan. It was dying down.
And then Bannon decided to dump gasoline on it by hiring Milo Yianopollis to cover it daily on Brietbart, making it a right wing issue.
@peasonearthh
@nathanTbernard
Spoken like someone who is definitely not a MILF.
Our sexuality belongs to us and we have no reason to hide it or feel ashamed.
White parents, we can AND MUST do better! My son is 9 and sometimes his views are overly simplistic, but already he grasps that racism is so much more than just personal interactions.
We can't fix systems if we don't see them.
Of the white middle-class parents in the study:
65% didnβt talk with their kids about racism at all.
30% talked about it with a βneutral or defensive color-blind frame.β
*Only 5% drew attention to issues of power and privilege.*
@gedougen
@kept_simple
@staplemusical
Yep. The regional rail project had been planned and discussed and optimized for decades by the time Duke suddenly objected to running rail next to the hospital (which already has transit infrastructure that could have connected).
This is what central auditory processing disorder is like.
The part that I get gaslit about is podcasts. I can listen to them, but I have to stop doing *everything else* to process it.
Even though I've said I don't do podcasts, people keep sending me audio links. π΅βπ«
βasking you to repeat yourself for a 5th time seems excessive. So I only half grasp the conversation weβre having. Or you ask me a follow up question and I realize I have NO IDEA what weβre talking about.β
@MarkSKrikorian
@nhannahjones
Congratulations. It takes some incredible mental gymnastics to embrace a symbol while ignoring everything that it stands for.
@newsobserver
I already voted for Cal by mail and I can't stand him. So now I still don't like him and he's still better than greedy cretin Thom Tillis. This changes nothing.
@AliBangtani
@starkrings
Nagul king: "No man can kill me."
Eowyn: Takes off helmet to reveal herself. "I am no man!" βοΈ
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On a rare snowy day in Carrboro, NC when I was 11, I made a snowman. But I gave it snow "boobs" and told anyone who would listen that it was a "snowWOMAN."
@travisakers
Thank you from North Carolina!
We're sick of the GOP trying to control, divide, and conquer us. They wouldn't even have majorities here if not for extreme gerrymandering.
@AP_Politics
@mbieseck
Just enough backpedaling for US media and top Republicans to act like everything is normal, even though all facts point to the contrary.
Great thread on white liberals trying to police protesters who are fighting for their lives.
And don't even think for a second that white liberals didn't say the exact same things during the civil rights movement.
@SoniaPoulton
And my child knows trans people and has no issue with who he is or who they are. Nothing sexual about it unless you make it sexual. Why do you insist on doing that?
@insanewomenfan
True story!
These same bros also gatekept the tech things I was interested in which had a forever impact on my career as my male friends started programming and I didn't think I was good enough to do the same shit.
@newsobserver
And I should add that I super don't care how consenting adults do their sex and relationships as long as no one gets hurt. So his wife might have some grievances if this wasn't agreed to, but I don't give a single fuck.
@DaveBaldwinJax
@jessicamalaty
@OmanReagan
@bethlinas
Yes but as a country we have decided not to do any of the things that would protect us from gun violence.
Sandy Hook should have been the end of free-flowing gun sales in the US. And yet.
The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened β how fast people on bikes βappearedβ β once streets were transformed. You canβt write this off as βParis was always this way,β because it wasnβt. It took leadership.
@fsf
My dudes, this ain't it.
It's becoming increasingly clear that you don't need to kick Stallman off the board. The entire board just needs to resign.
Do it now while you still have some dignity and good will intact.
@YaaAsantewaaBa
Too many white people still think the solution to white supremacy is to have a random bystander magically appear with their phone every time a cop wants to do a brutality. This kind of magical thinking is much easier to swallow than reckoning with how we benefit from racism.
@chaedria
Thank you for sharing this story. I'll literally never be loved as much as this. I hope she goes to therapy bc there are a million people out there who would love a man with emotional intelligence and patience and dedication like that.
@AlyssaMandel
@DrPowerHays
@HKalodimos
It's policy-makers that need to solve this, not doctors. The solution exists, it's Medicare for All. Ask why they don't want to do it.
On a rare snowy day in Carrboro, NC when I was 11, I made a snowman. But I gave it snow "boobs" and told anyone who would listen that it was a "snowWOMAN."
It's entirely disturbing and depressing how well
@tomtomorrow
's 19-year-old book describes our current politics. Trumpism didn't just appear out of thin air. And we are obviously never going to learn, even if a snarky penguin smacks us on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper. π₯
@BreeNewsome
Exactly! He's only facing possible consequences bc he's now a liability to the white supremacist cause. They loved him when he kept the base riled up and broke laws on the daily.
If the media hadn't normalized Trump in the first place he would not have been such a useful tool.
@AITA_reddit
Wow ESH, but you didn't have to do that. Her suffering isn't going to make you hurt less or get your money back. Be a grownup and walk away.
@lsaravinda
@Robert_E_Kelly
Yeah that's certainly a silver lining. Kids and pets in the background (and sometimes foreground) should no longer be considered "unprofessional." We're all whole human beings with complicated, uncontrollable lives.
@dansinker
I don't feel like this is the right framing because it's not like they just sat there helpless.
Trump & Republicans worked to make the pandemic worse than it would have been if they had done nothing They hoarded PPE & π°, and actively spread disinformation & disease instead.
This is horrifying and also correct. How are we going to deal with the imbalance of privileged people who were able to avoid getting COVID and frontline workers who have had multiple infections and face permanent organ & brain impacts from Long COVID?
It's absolutely dystopian.
If Dem leaders won't even acknowledge that they played a part in primaries by forcing losing/boring/conservative candidates on us, then I know they aren't about to even consider changing their ways.
If
@SenSchumer
is afraid of change, he needs to get the hell out of the way.
NEW:
@SenSchumer
told party donors during recent calls that the death of RBG & subsequent confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, and the fact that Cal Cunningham "couldnβt keep his zipper upβ crushed Democrats' chances of regaining the Senate
w/
@ByGlenJohnson