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)?

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I've been wanting to write this piece for a while. After listening to @[email protected] speak about sexual harassment in STEM at last week's #DiversitySTEMposium, I finally found a way to put it into words.

https://medium.com/@ReadMoreScience/sorry-but-male-geniuses-are-replaceable-8cbd53a8c2df #MeTooSTEM

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When you’re a rich, straight, white guy who thinks

1) the only other people in tech are rich, straight, white guys

2) labor protections are only for your bank account

Apparently. https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1172279395035308032

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The bullshit asimmetry: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

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Talking “more” about slavery?’ What the fuck else would they talk about on a plantation tour?!?!? The decorations?!? https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1170673641970970626

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9/11 is officially old enough to fight in the wars we began bc of 9/11

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@[email protected] ‘The West Wing’ may have put it best : “Islamic extremism is to Islam as what the KKK is to Christianity”

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Don’t Blame Economics, Blame Public Policy by Ricardo Hausmann @[email protected] https://prosyn.org/IHK9dtu

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The right way to write the headline. https://twitter.com/jezebel/status/1170435756298518529

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The United States is already turning away climate refugees who are attempting to enter the country under longstanding international agreements, in case you were wondering how far along we were. https://twitter.com/BrianEntin/status/1170845476482158592

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Just got reported for tweeting while trans so that’s cool and normal

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Have you heard of the "explanatory comma"?

one of many tiring things minority writers have to think about 😊🙃 https://twitter.com/ask_an_author/status/1168615381046575105

"Why are Remainers so convinced that staying in the European Union is what is best for the UK?" - great answer with a deep analysis!
https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Remainers-so-convinced-that-staying-in-the-European-Union-is-what-is-best-for-the-UK/answer/Barry-McGuinness-1

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Rape culture is the media reporting on the literal traumatic rape of a woman as “sex”, and rape culture is also these two police rapists not facing punishment for their crimes https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1167461596135854081

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"I can't go back," my client told me as soon as he sat down at the table in ICE detention.

"They will kill me."

I believed him.

The judge agreed that they probably would kill him, just before he denied his asylum claim.

He was deported.

They did.

I just found out today.

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So on today's educational thread, I want to talk about weird and interesting sex laws in the Philippines. Spoiler alert, it's all very sexist and places men at an advantage.

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Just a gentle reminder that the fires in the amazon are intentional. It’s not a forest fire type situation. It’s an intentional setting ablaze of the forest by the fascist brazilian govt + agrobusiness & ranching oligarchs. Wording matters. Don’t hide who is doing this & why.

3 of 5 stars to The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2411898193

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This is a picture the Chinese government is putting out to dehumanize its own citizens. Let that sink in.

(I don't use the word dehumanize lightly; but this is literally the textbook illustration here.)

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Why is the Amazon on fire? People are setting fires to clear the rainforest for farming and resource extraction - Bolsonaro is encouraging that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49415973