penartur @[email protected]

Many thanks to @[email protected] for allowing me to use their drawing https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/994615716518158336 as my new userpic!

Ugh I have no idea how to write #introductions / #intros. Why is everything so difficult? It feels the same way when I have to write a cover letter... 😕 😒 😅

OK, I am a software engineer? Interested in interpersonal relationships and future and AI and speculative fiction? Unable to create art or to have a physical exercise but able to chat on the internets from the comfort of my couch (which is especially comfortable when my spouse is there)?

RT @[email protected]
*asteroid approaches*

SCIENTISTS: If we don't stop this, it will destroy Earth.

PEOPLE: Oh no. How many people has it killed so far?

SCIENTISTS: None yet.

PEOPLE, SUDDENLY ARMED WITH STATISTICS: Why, that's fewer than traffic accidents! Fewer than vending machines! Fewer than

RT @[email protected]
The choice is not

a) everyone stays home, economy hurt
or
b) everyone goes out again, economy fine

it's

a) everyone stays home, economy hurt
or
b) everyone goes out again, millions die, hospitals collapse, social chaos, economy hurt just as bad if not worse

RT @pidriarel
надеюсь следующая эпидемия начнётся с какого нибудь заплесневевшего сыра или тухлой акулы чтобы весь мир ржал каким ебанутым говном питаются белые

RT @jduffyrice
Today has made it very clear how many people would have absolutely justified slavery because “the economy”

RT @[email protected]
Everyone arguing that 1-2% of the population dying isn’t a big deal needs to identify 1 or 2 close family members or friends that they are willing to offer up to death in this moment for capitalism. Name them.

RT @[email protected]
The whole "Do we choose between a recession or a die-off" thing is so stupid

You CANNOT prevent the recession, it's TOO LATE

It's like your car is driving into a lake and you're going "Do I hit the brakes to avoid water or hit the gas so I can still get to work on time"

RT @[email protected]

RT @[email protected]
Was anyone else like closer than they ever have been to having their life together right before this all happened bc lol

RT @ewarren
Airline executives spent billions on stock buybacks and are now asking taxpayers for billions. We need to help airline workers, but that money should come with serious long-term change to the companies—no more buybacks, a $15 minimum wage, and more. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-airline-aid-must-include-worker-protections-unions-say.html

RT @bluezombiesyl
it was very clear to me, in jan/feb when Chinese folks were quarantined & many were dying, who in the West actually considered them real ppl. actually cared.

for many, many ppl, this wasn't real until it hit Italy.

i won't forget that, & many others won't either. https://twitter.com/e_alexjung/status/1239724363890515973

RT @[email protected]
I think a lot of people will die from COVID-19. Many of you are saying that "only" old people will die. In the AIDS crisis there were also many people saying that "only" people who didn't matter would die. It was ugly then and it's ugly now. Don't be like this.

RT @thenib
The danger of letting Facebook decide what's "decent": https://thenib.com/flagged

RT @[email protected]
Accounts run by men receive roughly double the retweets of those run by women. Even online, we are talked for and talked over. Even online, men’s voices carry twice as much worth. It matters. When you see women writing about things that interest you, retweet us. It’s that simple.

RT @scsmith4
You can be the most qualified person in the world, but if you're female you also have to be "likable", authoritative without overstepping it, watch your sense of humour (you need one, but don't actively use it or you won't be taken seriously), look *right* for the role... https://twitter.com/Astropartigirl/status/1235655119191945216

RT @Astropartigirl
In every debate, the candidate who stood out and came on top was Warren. She was the best. Sanders was second to her. Even Buttigieg did good at times. The rest added nothing. But Warren was almost always ON POINT. Yet, here we are. ... that's all I'm gonna say.

RT @jonbernhardt
there's a theory of turnout politics in America I haven't wanted to give credence to that seems to be borne out by some of this turnout, and it's that when you promise young people bold action to make their lives better, their parents and grandparents will turn out to kill them https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1235030785989591040

RT @[email protected]
Nothing Bernie Sanders is offering is better than what @[email protected] is offering. It’s all emotion with Bernie supporters. Warren takes everything he’s offering and makes it add up and can explain it to voters on both sides of the aisle. He has a bullhorn. She has a calculator.

RT @[email protected]
Max Boot is giving a great example of something that I’ve been saying, that knowing more about US history than the sanitized public school version makes you sound like a conspiracy theorist to the average person, and the more you know the more unhinged you sound.

RT @[email protected]
Thinking that Warren is “too much,” “nasty,” and “mean” because she is assertive, aggressive, dominant, and defending women is how we
ended up with Trump.

RT @[email protected]
Hey NBC, you can't just ignore Elizabeth Warren. She's not Matt Lauer's history of sexual harassment https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1229991561481654272