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@zkat__ ("kat marchán") replied to a tweet by @zkat__:

there needs to be a named genre because I hate it and I honestly don't want to deal with it.

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:

there needs to be a named genre for "progressively brutally murdering all your favorite characters over the course of the story" at this point, tbh

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@mekkaokereke ("Mekka 💉💉🎉 *My Mask Protects You* Okereke") wrote:

🤔This can't be true.

If it were true then why are most of the public facing "safety and better conversations" features designed to protect VCs from being criticized by Black and Latinx women?

I can only conclude that VCs are the most abused demographic. Verify and protect VCs!

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@bambinoir ("Rooting/for everyone/resisting oppression 🇵🇸") replied to a tweet by @bambinoir:

I don’t often say anything but…
women on Twitter are attacked every 30 secs, an Amnesty international report shows. Black and Latinx women experience greater hostility from men who disagree with them. Black women are 84% more likely to be abused online.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2018/03/online-violence-against-women-chapter-1/

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@andrewrsorkin ("Andrew Ross Sorkin") wrote:

Reminder: @SouthwestAir accepted $3.2 BILLION from taxpayers. That money kept its pilots employed during the pandemic. It also made @SouthwestAir the first airline to post a profit. And now, apparently, many of those pilots don’t want to help society by getting vaccinated.

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@_panicpanic ("Marc is FREAKING OUT") wrote:

I'm on my 4th or 5th rewatch of DS9 now, on the episode where Miles and Keiko's unborn baby ends up getting transplanted into Major Kira, and I am haunted by this tweet, as I always am

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@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

I want a relationship like Keiko and Miles O'Brien, who make their marriage work despite obstacles like hating each other so, so much.

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") retweeted:

@Marceline2174 ("💀💀маsнё👩‍🚀*Harrow the Ninth spoilers*") wrote:

@bascule ("Spooky RFC5280 Section 4.1.2.7 (SPKI) 🎃👻🦀🌹") retweeted:

@ConSelfOwns ("Conservative Self-Owns") wrote:

@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") wrote:

breaking my silence to say there is no need for the bottom lip of the urinal to be set that high except to embarrass and bully me, personally, into performing the acrobatically risky but crowd-pleasing tippy-toe pee

@zkat__ ("kat marchán") wrote:

Tried to fix a face. A lot. Just made it worse. Art sucks 😒

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@nataliesurely ("Natalie Shure") wrote:

the “worker shortage” is corporate PR spin for a capital strike. They’re holding off on hiring in an attempt to force workers to take lower wages. They even try to enlist customers on their side with those bullshit “sorry we’re slow, no one wants to work right now!” signs.

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@Chinchillazllla ("i bless the rains down in castamere") wrote:

I've been applying for entry-level jobs I'm perfectly qualified for, but no one ever gets back to me. the worker shortage is fake

@attackerman ("Spencer Ackerman") wrote:

A lot of you never saw the vision with Noah & still didn’t see it when he got the Rolling Stone job. Probably won’t see it now… your loss

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@NoahShachtman ("Noah Shachtman") wrote:

EXCLUSIVE: Eric Clapton isn't just spouting vaccine nonsense. He's bankrolling anti-vaxx protesters.

One of a bunch of WTF moments in @RollingStone's investigation into Clapton's long journey on the fringe, including some shockingly racist episodes.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/eric-clapton-vaccine-lockdown-racist-comments-1239027/

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@leonardkl ("Kimberly Leonard") wrote:

Billionaire Peter Thiel has a Republican US Senate candidate on his corporate payroll who is earning more than $1 million, documents show https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-blake-masters-senate-finances-arizona-2021-10?utmSource=twitter&utmContent=referral&utmTerm=topbar&referrer=twitter via @businessinsider

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@_bigjerk ("Hunter") wrote:

dot day once again

#ドットの日 #pixelartday

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

This is the last thing I'll say about this today. The main thing I want managers and non-managers to understand. Even with the power differential, we're all adults. We all have an important part of the work that needs doing. We should be working together.

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

It's hard to convey how big a win it is to have people talking like this about management. A relationship with your manager has gone from being adversarial to potentially being a huge asset. But a lot of folks don't get it and aren't taking advantage. https://twitter.com/shreyas/status/1424882120984469527?s=20

@bascule ("Spooky RFC5280 Section 4.1.2.7 (SPKI) 🎃👻🦀🌹") wrote:

At 4tx/sec, and consuming a whopping 4.2GW, Bitcoin is not only among the slowest blockchains in terms of both latency and throughput, but could likely win an award for the least energy efficient technology ever created in human history

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@michael_saylor ("Michael Saylor⚡️") wrote:

#Bitcoin is superior due to engineering, not tribalism. The protocol is better suited to organic growth of a decentralized network with integrity & security across political jurisdictions. The stability of the base layer drives faster⚡️innovation in the application layers above.

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@pghfashwatch wrote:

Hey Pittsburgh. A community member recently found a Patriot Front sticker at the East Liberty busway station. If you see similar stickers, please remove them. If you'd like to let us know when you do, that'd be great as well.

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@RexChapman ("Rex Chapman🏇🏼") wrote:

This weather forecaster is a huge Texas A&M fan.

The best thing you’ll see all day...

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@effragedaviswx ("Effrage Davis") wrote:

There should be a rule that you don't forecast during a tied 4th quarter TAMU vs BAMA game 👍 can you tell when we won?

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@SDonziger ("Steven Donziger") wrote:

U.S. taxpayers funded Moderna's vaccine but the greedy company largely refuses to send it to low-income nations while reaping profits of $60 billion.

Moderna pilfers countries like Columbia and Botswana by charging double what U.S. gov pays. Disgusting. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/business/moderna-covid-vaccine.html?smid=tw-share

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:

Right. I've gotten a lot of "we do the real work" comments today already. It's fascinating to watch people deal with the dissonance. Supposedly management is not real work. Yet you're sure you don't wanna do it. Even though it supposedly makes more money and that's what you want.

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@cydharrell ("Cyd Harrell") wrote:

this is a second really good thread about management; some of the other discussion asks what the heck do managers do anyway? & I can't help thinking that some of this is the weird yet prevalent idea that meetings & communication work aren't work. https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1447338850485817346

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@lacroixcommie ("Chilly Bones ⸸") wrote:

Oh fuck these are great

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

A big part of my argument around these things is that managers don't have all of the power, but they do have power. And it's important for middle managers to understand what power they have and to wield it thoughtfully and intentionally.

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

A lot of middle managers have also ceded much of their power. Or allowed themselves to become marginalized and ineffectual. That's a whole conversation too, but we probably don't have time today.

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@JookpubStock ("Jen / Jenny 🌙") wrote:

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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

My biggest leveling up as a manager was understanding that outcomes are mostly due to problems in the system, rather than the performance of any individuals in the system. The best managers start to understand how to make changes in the system that incentivize better results.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

The skills you have to develop as a manager are about how your team can produce the right outcomes despite all of the unpredictability that comes with individual humans. You can try to control people, or you can learn to develop plans that have flexibility.

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

If you don't know what the plan is and how your team fits into it, you won't be a very effective manager. If you don't learn to get good at translating the plan to your team, your team will blame you for being ineffectual. (They will be right)

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@ai_maruuu ("💙 Aimaru 💙 @🖤🧡 no QRT!") wrote:

Week 1 for my 2021 Inktober:
The Black Eagles ❤

Together, we stand for the Empire!

#FE3H #inktober2021

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

So the most important thing managers do in a knowledge work environment are these.
1. Try to understand their part of the plan
2. Help the people under them understand their part of the plan
3. Help people understand how their decisions are impacting the group so they can adjust

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@outcontextyuri ("out of context Girl's Love") wrote:

A Tropical Fish Yearns For Snow

@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:

So knowledge workers have to make important decisions. Without the details being handed to them. Those decisions have to fit into an even more complex whole. People can only make good decisions in that environment if they have lots of context about what's happening around them.