@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
so, our fuckwad governor called a special session to try and do a whole bunch of evil shit. just a total laundry list of absolutely horrible things. so that started last week, iirc?
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
so, our fuckwad governor called a special session to try and do a whole bunch of evil shit. just a total laundry list of absolutely horrible things. so that started last week, iirc?
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
the governor is allowed to call special sessions. they can last for 30 days max. gov gets to decide the topic, they can't stray from it.
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
back in may, republicans were trying to rush passing a voter suppression bill. i did a thread back then:
on a sunday night, an hour before it would pass, enough dems physically walked out of the legislature, preventing it from passing.
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so uh, reading SB7, the voter suppression law being jammed through the legislature i can see from my window
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/html/SB00007I.htm
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
the texas legislature meets for like, a few months every other year. jan to may, roughly. that's it. there's interesting history here but it's not really relevant. point is, by law, you only have so much time to actually do stuff.
so, for those of you *not* playing along at home with
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@AshLopezRadio ("Ashley Lopez") wrote:
It's official.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
👇🏾
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@tzimmer_history ("Thomas Zimmer") replied to a tweet by tzimmer_history:
It’s often said that white working-class GOP voters, and Trump voters in particular, voted “against their interest.” I prefer to take these people seriously and assume they understand what they’re doing, and that many of them made white grievance politics their core interest. 7/
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@JermaineJupiter ("Jermaine Jupiter | Career Coach & Tech Recruiter") wrote:
Some people have DM'd me asking if this tweet is real and if I'm serious. I am. I have a personal mission to help 100 Black folx find new jobs in Tech this year. Im at 61/100 and if you're reading this, I hope you can be part of that 100.
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@JermaineJupiter ("Jermaine Jupiter | Career Coach & Tech Recruiter") wrote:
If you're a Black person that recently applied for a role at a company & you've yet to hear back. Please feel free to ping me and I'll be happy to message the hiring team/Recruiter for you. Sometimes we just need a heads up to surface a profile to someones attention. #Jupiter100
@AshLopezRadio ("Ashley Lopez") wrote:
It's official.
@schneierblog ("Schneier Blog") wrote:
Analysis of the FBI’s Anom Phone https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/analysis-of-the-fbis-anom-phone.html
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@heaberald ("summer 🖕") wrote:
nuclear welcoming messages
@scotthoying ("Scott Hoying") wrote:
.@PTXofficial coming out of hibernation each winter
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@DanRiffle ("Dan Riffle") wrote:
Congrats to @richardbranson on going to almost-space in a plane, thus adding to the long list of billionaire “achievements” that are really just mediocre versions of much cooler things we already did decades ago through collective endeavor financed by taxes.
@KamalaHarris ("Kamala Harris") wrote:
.@TheDemocrats are taking the fight to protect and expand the right to vote directly to the states—holding Republican lawmakers accountable and helping to turn out voters. Chip in now to ensure they have the resources to defend the right to vote.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vpf-july-2021?refcode=tw_20210712_kdh
@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:
"users are entitled" isn't about users pushing back against their reasonable rights (privacy, for example) being attacked non-consensually. It's about them wanting free features and free labor and not taking into account that there's humans behind OSS projects too.
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@workingjubilee ("5G💉💉jubilee") replied to a tweet by workingjubilee:
"users are entitled"
hell yeah they are... so what? to them you're tentatively an extension of multitrillion dollar industry which profits by exploiting them. to say they should simply be cozy with exploitation is to surrender the last fragment of your humanity.
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@ChaseMagnett ("Chase Magnett 🌹") wrote:
How do we respond to the promises of billionaires?
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@morganastra ("Rosa Astra") replied to a tweet by morganastra:
There are about 11 million people in Cuba and over 1 million of them are literally in the march depicted in the photo on the right. The people of Cuba OVERWHELMINGLY support the socialist revolution and will fight to defend it.
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@morganastra ("Rosa Astra") wrote:
what the US media tries to spin as "mass uprisings against socialism" in Cuba VS the actual real-life mass socialist movement in Cuba that the US media will tell any lie to stop you from finding out about
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@libel_vox ("𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕨 𝕣𝕖𝕚𝕟𝕓𝕠𝕝𝕕") wrote:
I'm evaluating presos to mention in the next version of Net API Notes. If I have one suggestion for speakers, it is that YOUR 'ABOUT ME' SLIDE *SHOULDN'T BE ABOUT YOU*.
That seems paradoxical, I know. But let me explain.
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@meatcomputer ("kit patella 🏳️⚧️") wrote:
woah, cool friend!
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@dailyseafriends ("daily sea friends") wrote:
today’s sea friend of the day is the candy crab!
@Oatmeal ("The Oatmeal") wrote:
A comic about reaching your followers in 2021 https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021
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@ayyy_vuh ("Eva ''No Nuts Girlfriend''") wrote:
Queer discourse is truly insufferable but at the end of the day I'll take it over whatever the fuck is going on with straight sexual politics
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Casual sex is basically men using u to masturbate if we being real
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by steveklabnik:
> "courage" leads to so many legitimate restrictions that non-courage is the norm under rust.
so i'm reading this conversation automatically translating german to english, and it's changed "mut" as in, the thing you do to make a variable mutable, to "courage"
"you have to write "courage" if you want to change the value"
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
Oh hey did you know I've got a cute little newsletter about the various projects I'm working on? In this week's I reflect on what may have been the two nerdiest lines I've ever stood on in my entire life.
https://mailchi.mp/55e97d1eeb04/ds9
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
Allow me to ~amaze~ you
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@chakotaytramps1 ("chakotay’s tramp stamp") wrote:
AN AMAZING VIDEO JUST CAME OUT. https://twitter.com/MattBaume/status/1413528874109997059
@fakedansavage ("Dan Savage") wrote:
Operators, aka “the tech-savvy, at-risk youth” are standing by….
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
Don’t talk to me or my son ever again. @gottmik is on the channel! https://youtu.be/yOdHoT3UubE
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@jentrification ("#JenX 🦄 ♎︎") wrote:
Fayetteville State University has used pandemic relief funds to clear $1.6 million in tuition debt for nearly 1,500 students https://www.wfae.org/education/2021-07-11/north-carolina-university-clears-tuition-debt-for-nearly-1-500