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4 years

@pookleblinky I get really ill when I see those “heartwarming”’stories about buying a car for the guy that walked 40 Miles to work every day because his municipality didn’t fund public transit

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@CagninaPaul @NaqiyNY I bike to the grocery store. Carried a 20+ pound bag of rice with bikeshare @baywheels the other day from the Korean grocery store 😃 keeps me fit

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2 years

I don’t understand why higher gas prices aren’t pushing people to smaller cars and electric cars. It feels suspect

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3 years

@JenRubinSpaghet @LRNROSE I always get really bloated and gain weight if I eat Trader Joe’s dinners all week. It’s good in tiny doses like dating guys who wear backwards baseball caps

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3 years

Never buy a house next to a freeway! The amount of dust and dirt that snuck it’s way inside my place was super nasty. And people getting off a freeway ramp are the worst humans and drivers on earth. Freeways should never be in cities and should be demolished

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@NaqiyNY it's a joke, but unfortunately I think a lot of anger from right wing people is that they live very sedentary, suburban lives. walking, being around other people, seeing nature, it calms a lot of people down so ironically NYC people are more laid back 😃

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4 years

@IDoTheThinking @louismirante I get what you're saying but the idea is that "selling your body" refers exclusively to women & revolves around the patriarchal control of the woman's body as she technically is owned by her husband/father. I know, I know... but this is why the USA is so obsessed w abortion. etc

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10 months

@ShimminyKricket @chosenguymike Marriages last longer when men earn more because often women can’t escape 😹😹 and stupidly ditched their careers during their prime years

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2 years

@RobertMSterling I mean I know it’s a joke but moving to a walkable neighborhood solved a lot of mental and physical as well as financial issues for me 😅

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3 years

@brandsusan @berkleeAnthro @jonathanbfine The diss got thicc

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4 years

@FungeonMaster1 @AthertonKD Wow that looks so nasty. Who buys stuff like that?

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2 years

@joeyhiles1 Yeah I suspect a lot of isolation and depression in the USA is caused by car culture and sprawl and lack of indie main streets 😳

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3 years

@naanking I think people romanticize getting pregnant & don’t Communicate how horrible giving birth is. This tweet is nice! Also people who say your body is the same a year later are liars

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2 years

@amandamull Nyc is so real.I often spaced out and left my apartment keys in the elevator. My neighbors were huge families of close knit Dominicans who couldn’t speak English they’d send their grandson after me with my keys and watch out for me. Each street there was a village in the 1990s 🥰

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3 years

@derek8185338005 These people are horrible but at least they don’t live in the Sf mission anymore . Can’t we just keep them there so they’re contained ?

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3 years

I don’t get it. I bike around Oakland and every unprotected bike lane has a car parked in it. Why do people think unprotected lanes work??? The people driving are spaced out slovenly and their cars are way too big for any populated area 😰

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2 years

@fantakokiri @dynamolights @walkabilityfan That is why people all over the world love to visit European cities and nobody likes American cities except nyc sf and New Orleans

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1 year

I'm still shaking my head over how my SF. Bay Area reddit is trash. It's weird it's full of transplants from Las Vegas, Texas & San Diego (military guys?) none of whom are capable of taking public transit. all of them drive their cars into SF during rush hour & whine a lot

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2 years

@CastIrony @anildash Wow so sad 😞 I’m suspicious of the people who are behind twitters takeover. I feel like musk is just a front and soon this site will be unusable for women especially

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5 years

@_KatieWags What’s even weirder is that in the past ballet was a form of prostitution for working class girls (degas’ ballerina girls were called ugly rats by art critics), but now it’s a cute bougie hobby for rich girls. The costumes are pretty racy. Male ballet dudes work hard tho

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9 years

Diana Zamuda has awesome swift nails #wwdc http://t.co/ac3ocSbLvs

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7 months

Talking about the @godotengine architecture at this in person open source godot game engine meetup at @noisebridge hackerspace in the sf mission! Object oriented programming isn’t always a dirty word

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1 year

Start of the funeral 😬

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3 months

@infi1trate @barkmeta 😂😂😂 I don’t know many rich and successful people in Silicon Valley that DONT smoke weed

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3 years

@asonofdave Pretty sad. The only thing I don’t respect about frida Kahlo is her marriage to her husband. Have no idea why people romanticize it and he was gross 🤮

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3 years

@joshtpm @owillis this is such awesome fodder for a men's studies / gender studies seminar at Columbia / Barnard, they gotta do it! throw in some queer theory too!

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2 years

It’s pretty interesting young Americans aren’t that into cars. How long until they can influence land planning policies and reverse the damage that’s been done by the DOT?

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2 years

@ilichRodriguezG @EmeryvilleDi He shouldn’t be allowed to drive anymore for sure

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5 years

@_KatieWags Nice article about degas’ ballerinas - it’s pretty gross but it’s nice how ballerinas now are a respectable profession. It seems tough to break into it if you’re not wealthy though

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@NaqiyNY @CagninaPaul @baywheels I never use my gym's exercise bike. why use it when I can bike around town and get groceries with my bike? also never ever understood treadmills :P

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3 years

@sashaperigo What’s weird in my life is when I’m an adult men mistake for a teenager (child) so that’s super creepy … grooming is definitely a thing

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9 months

@the_transit_guy Any young American should visit at least 10 walkable cities with good transit and bike infrastructure before settling on a suburban American life

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2 years

@josheidelson It’s pretty obvious for me. I went to high school in Florida and Public transportation is nonexistent there. People were close to bankruptcy on car maintenance costs and barely surviving. It must be worse now that housing is no longer affordable

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4 years

William dalrymple’s the anarchy is so good. The east India company put the C in corporate colonialism

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1 year

@AmericanFietser Eating and dining in a strip mall is like eating food on a garbage can cover

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1 year

Makes sense! Millennials and gen z don’t like to drive like boomers do!

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1 year

We tabled at @FanimeCon in San Jose to introduce our new anime mascots and to provide attendees with free promotional BART tickets and postcards with public transit information. The line to BART table went out the building and needed crowd control, per staff at scene 😭

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2 years

This is my first year as a homeowner in the USA & the way the taxes play out its so weird. Renters dont get any tax breaks at all! This country is made for rich people 😅😅😅😅

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2 years

@alexch I’m sad the Honda fit is no longer available as a new model in the USA 😅 my old Honda fit could hold queen sized mattresses and tables and had more cargo space than a large luxury suv I rented

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2 years

@walkabilityfan Yeah it’s why American cities generally suck and people don’t really want to visit them like they want to visit cities in Europe

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2 years

@hkarthik @DanGrover Yeah tech offices are always in the most miserable locations that are unwalkable and impossible to reach by transit 😳

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8 months

@lishiyori You get the same vibes when you go dancing 🕺 with people! Or skiing or bike riding. I wish more business events focused on physical activity rather than being stationary and sitting and getting drunk. The adrenaline alone creates good vibes 😎 no alcohol needed

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2 years

@Pflax1 Yeah it sucks 🤕 SoCal has so much potential to be a Beautiful place though but the cars squander the potential

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1 year

@BrentToderian The only thing keeping america from being a beautiful and healthy safe place to live is usually Americans themselves 😅 imagine if drivers couldn’t block safety measures like this from happening ❤️

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2 years

Some more moments from yesterday’s bike ride. It’s so wild I can just bike to these places from my downtown urban Oakland apartment 🤔🤔🤔🤔 I can’t think of any other American city where this is possible really (Los Angeles doesn’t count it’s too dangerous to bike there for me)

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3 years

@aureliusraines2 @laripley @EmmmieG @rinewithoutacat @rokwon Just the physical appearance of middle aged male professors is a huge turn off to me and I’m middle aged 😂😂😂 imagine being a young woman wasting your opportunities to be with attractive young men in college how sad

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3 years

@laripley @EmmmieG @rinewithoutacat @rokwon I knew a professor who slept with female students (he was gross) & the young kids got depressed … one girl dropped out of School! Don’t get the allure tbh when there are so many younger attractive men in school

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1 year

@the_transit_guy Living in a 15 minute city with a strong community 🕺

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7 months

Stuff that never gets on the news about Oakland California

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1 year

Critical mass bike family in downtown sf!!!

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2 years

@DanielleFong @uneventomato @metaauthor It’s disgusting. And there’s no excuse it’s next to the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains Everyone with a clue refuses to live outside of San Francisco

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3 years

@MenshevikM Casting was mostly on point except for the fremen girl ; Chatelet was the awesome choice (he’s always been the guy women love but men have no idea) - have no idea why people complain the film is slow though so not everyone loves it. I mean the books are slow

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2 years

@Henryz_mom Its not possible to be happy and live in most of the USA. I think Most people dont realize its the environment & they dont Need antidepressants. Live in a walkable city with cyclists and pedestrians like Davis sf or nyc

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2 years

I see so much bad financial advice for young people online. A car payment is pretty high and you could be using that money to be living somewhere walkable - don’t waste your youth in a strip mall 😅

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5 years

@blamethestxrs @hoperhenderson @tess_cox @hermit_hwarang A lot of cool nerd girls in the Bay Area meet boyfriends & husbands through board game nights. It’s nice you spend several hours with guys at a time, it’s less creepy. My friend just married a board game ♟ meetup guy this year! So great Suggestion

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5 months

if the big sports in the sf Bay Area are hiking, mountain climbing, etc. shouldn't the city governments remove spending on stadiums and direct it to group events sponsored with our tax money for kayaking, trail running etc. and have big celebrations like those instead?

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1 year

Funeral for public transit !

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7 years

oh wow, most popular female musicians don't write their music or lyrics. explains a lot of the scary stuff! nice segment on @VICE tonight.

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1 year

@4_the_babies Yeah women get raped a lot. They don’t really talk about it in public. There are also tons of near rapes I guess people only discuss in private

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3 years

Places for people!!

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4 years

Expanded my William Dalrymple collection to "return of a king" - British historians seem so much better at roasting colonialism than Americans, this Afghan history book reads more like an exciting novel!

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10 months

@ShimminyKricket @chosenguymike “He used to wish me dead on the phone…if I don’t talk to him politely enough, he won’t pay the bills. I have to do as I am told. He’ll always have control.”

“It’s hard, I’m drowning” - older women facing greater financial problems

Personal debt is at record levels in the UK, and 17% of pensioners live in relative income poverty. Now, new research from The University of Manchester has found that women aged 55 years and older...

www.manchester.ac.uk

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1 year

@BrenBartholomew Page slow street is so dead

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1 year

Classic San Francisco mission … yesterday was 50F but today is nice !

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1 year

@AP But then little girls are allowed to be in beauty pageants and be cheerleaders and in dance teams at boys football games 😬😬😬😬

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3 years

@derek8185338005 I feel so bad for the Guatemalans

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3 years

@unclefeezus @FortifyDaNetwrk @adamkotsko It’s objectively terrible art

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9 years

Palo Alto is awesome: women working on start ups for healthcare, energy, hard sciences - not just education / non profit / for kids

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3 years

@champagnesnova @JenRubinSpaghet @LRNROSE yeah dating guys who wear backwards baseballs caps is pretty bad but variety is the spice of life! 😆

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6 years

@kylegriffin1 @chrislhayes This year is making so many female political heroes!!!

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4 years

@troutgirl I never realized how crazy non competed clauses were outside of California - it’s wild there are stories of tech support guys barred from working a year in Massachusetts and Texas 🤔

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2 years

@luke_metro 😸 yeah it’s so bad people think Santana row mall is a cool place to hang out on weekends that’s pretty sad

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2 years

@nabeelqu Yeah the suburbs, corporate takeover of every third space and car dependence makes the USA a lonely and soulless place often 😅😅😅 the only places worth going to are the walkable ones

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3 years

@kevin_degood Yeah it’s a public health hazard. Also looks like it’s impossible to get a good tax base so no beautiful parks or funding for museums. You’ll gain 40 lbs and never use your new home gym and you’ll get hit by a truck crossing the street by foot or bike within a year

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2 years

@maxlugavere So many of Americas health problems would be solved by walkable neighborhoods with healthy food 😭😭😭

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3 years

@brookeeeyer People in California are so much more isolated and depressed than New Yorkers due to the car culture

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5 years

@johnjkim_me @juleslasalvia But amazon has a high attrition rate so you can sort out by hire date so by the time you start chatting they will have been fired by amazon

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3 years

My bike ride today - man there was so much traffic!!!! Why is everyone driving around instead of taking the train or biking 🚴🏾‍♀️🚴🏾‍♀️😎😎😎

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1 year

@CartoonsHateHer Pretending that American food and meat is served with as much quality as even the $3 train station egg sandwiches in the most ghetto euro train station is wild. And the huge quantities of sugar laden food eating out - even pasta- it’s just so much better in Europe

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9 months

After his widget talk @littleossa performs a breakdance move 🕺🕺🕺🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷 yay #baswiftable @baswiftable

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1 year

@BrentToderian Paris became Paris went from being a sketchy place to ride a bike to being a cyclist paradise. They also converted so many highways on the river banks jnto great public spaces

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7 months

A book of patterns from Japan along with retouched historical films 🎥- this is a website (internet archive) but it’s quite delightful how I can pluck individual pages and view them in space #visionpro 🥰 @internetarchive

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2 years

Yay!! Sf bike party!!! @SFBikeParty

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4 years

@mnolangray I’m guessing it’s the lawsuits. Germany has some awesome kids playgrounds that would never make it past the legal teams in the USA

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2 years

@YIMBYLAND There are none in the USA 😅

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3 years

Gothic dolphins !

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3 months

Noooo rest in peace Lynn Conway 💔💔💔

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4 years

@hellokelechi This is so spot on after knowing all my Nigerian American friends 😂😂😂🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

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1 year

@SupJaniceHahn It’s always so depressing to go to San Diego or Los Angeles - SoCal is one huge waste of opportunity due to all the car dependency and backwards road design. This could be a paradise with great cycle lanes and beautiful parks but it mostly looks like this 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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3 years

#AugmentedRealityart in downtown fairfax last weekend! So great to see h the is stuff escaping my iPad #iosdev I think 🤔 I just want to do a simple public art app #arkit #iosdev #spritekit #realitykit the engineers at Apple did such a great job with the apis

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8 months

My last day of being 47 years old 👵🏾😹😹😹

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5 years

@rennon_amalie @blamethestxrs @hoperhenderson @tess_cox @hermit_hwarang Look I’m middle aged now so it’s ok to be uncool & go on vacations to Anglo countries & do @board games 🤓 I did my time as the cool person guest listed to limelight & the top of the World Trade Center Bars so it wouldn’t be crammed with boring suits. But now we’re old. 😂

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7 years

@fawfulfan @nytimes It's telling when unqualified men start freaking out because they get passed over for positions by more qualified women / minorities

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2 years

@PottsJustin I tried to love strip malls in Los Angeles - they’re where the best Asian and even Italian food is. Just can’t because the parking lot and experience of driving to the strip mall kills all good vibes

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2 years

Heavy #fogust at sf critical mass !!!

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11 months

@kattenbarge Male chefs cook for the joy and creativity - in private all the mothers I know who cook for their family secretly hate it. It’s a joyless unhappy grind that is a prison sentence for most 🙃

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1 year

@StrongTowns It is politically hard to do the right thing on a lot of easy wins. Making the roads even a tiny bit safer for cyclists and pedestrians inconveniences a lot of car drivers and delivery companies who have outsized power and influence. they overrule even dozens of deaths yearly

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8 months

First day of being 48 is going great so far!!!

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11 months

@AMB0915 @ShimminyKricket Men with money attract women who want to be housewives and mothers but they’re often attracted to strong independent women who don’t like dating men with money 🙃🙃🙃🙃

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7 months

Meeting in person for the godot developer meetup at @noisebridge - we have a lot of people randomly walking by 🥰🥰🥰 some kids practicing music next door said they’d like to do music for our indie games @godotengine

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1 year

@Carnage4Life Uk programmers and even German and French programmers are paid like $60,000 a year even for experienced ones. They are also treated more like junior IT workers, don’t tend to get allowed mich input into product like they do in California & aren’t respected as much as mba types

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