Chicago area designer, writer, maker and journalist.
Chicago, IL
Joined May 2008
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Well @twitter, it’s been real. I tried coming back, grooming my feed, and focusing on the positive, but because of how your platform works, all the acrimony and bullshit still finds its way into my feed. I hope that someday you re-prioritize on the human experience.
I wholesale reject the idea that you should subject yourself to nonsense under the pretense that it’s egalitarian, or worse, that it’s good for you. Read a book you disagree with and then purge your social internet experience like you’d expel a wasp’s nest from your bedroom.
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I just want to shout out @donttrythis, who is taking time out of his surely busy schedule of making stuff and being awesome to sincerely and kindly respond to so many people on twitter whose ignorance and small mindedness are not worth anyone’s time, let alone his. #vote
The line for early voting in downtown Chicago is literally around the block. That’s so encouraging. I just dropped my mail-in ballot off at the election commission personally. My civic duty is done, how about you? #vote
Sometimes it feels like Apple really enjoys making technology but doesn’t want any actual customers.
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“There have been so many times I have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was unconscious.” — Nayyirah Waheed
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THIS TOOL IS SO FREAKING HELPFUL! GO USE IT RIGHT NOW! ballotready.org/
Yup. They’re the only ones who work to actively safeguard my privacy and don’t sell my data. For me, this covers a multitude of other sins (dongles anyone?).
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I’ve had friends who are sure that voting doesn’t matter, that the system is rigged and the outcome fixed. I’ve never believed this, but the flagrant, systematic Republican efforts at voter suppression is evidence I never considered before. Gerrymandering is another.
There’s an ugly undercurrent of willful ignorance in our society right now — a refusal to contend with reality. We hide inside our echo chambers and cling tightly to only that with which we agree. Curiosity and intellectual honesty are our only hope.
Preach.
Dear nearly every hotel in the world -- If need be, please make your rooms $1-10 more expensive and stop charging people for fucking wifi. In this day and age, it's like having a surcharge for toilet paper or water.
It’s truly amazing how just 10 min of Headspace-style meditation is like releasing an army of nanobots to repair my brain. It’s calming, restorative, and sharpening. It has given me back my mind in ways that are hard to articulate.
I believe what he meant to say was “Holy fucking shit.”
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If you are trying to assess who is lying and who is telling the truth, one thing to pay attention to is who is seeking a full airing of all relevant facts and who is encouraging people to quickly reach summary conclusions
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Yes. This.
