watching Twitter spiral into irrelevance, like everything else does eventually

Seattle, Washington
Joined June 2009
Made a gif from @washingtonpost simulation on social distancing:
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Getting on Twitter to monitor the downfall of Twitter is fucking wild
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Oh My God. @jolingkent just got hit by a flash bang/firework live on @MSNBC while reporting from the protest in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.
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Breaking News: Police and protesters clash in Capitol Hill. @KIRO7Seattle
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Here's the sad reality: what happened to George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery & Christian Cooper has gone on for generations to Black Americans. Cell phones just made it more visible. Dismantling systemic racism in our nation starts with demanding justice & holding offenders accountable.
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Clint Posey retweeted
friendly reminder in times of uncertainty and misinformation: anecdotes are not data. (good) data is carefully measured and collected information based on a range of subject-dependent factors, including, but not limited to, controlled variables, meta-analysis, and randomization
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Terrence McNally died today from COV19. All I can think of is Andre’s mother: cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.…
Clint Posey retweeted
THINGS YOU CAN DO WHILE SOCIALLY DISTANCING: — Stare at the blank page before you — Open up the dirty window — Reach for something in the distance (it's so close you can almost taste it) — Feel the rain on your skin
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Clint Posey retweeted
Replying to @AOC
RT @nowthisnews ‘It feels like I’m at a firefighters conference and no one’s allowed to speak about water.’ — Historian Rutger Bregman wasn’t afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed
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A demagogue without his followers there to reflect back to him the reality he wants to see:
Look how Trump’s face changes when he realizes an entire stadium is booing him
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A dating app that mines your messages and makes fake profiles that interact with you using your own patterns of communication.
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When a Cancer comes for you they will drag you down to the ocean floor.
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A drinking game where we take shots and read excerpts from our undergrad essays on gender (we all have one, don't lie)
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Today I was asked why we should bother paying interns if they’re “getting experience for their résumé.” Here’s what we have say about that:
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Instead of trying to #raidArea51 to free hypothetical aliens, can we plan a raid on the border facilities where actual humans are imprisoned? #BorderCrisis
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I just read the news that @HarrisPoll 's research for @glaad shows acceptance for LGBT has declined. I'm curious how the researchers controlled for bias in their sampling—anyone know where I can read up on their methods?
I have never spoken publicly about my abortion. I'm speaking now because of intensified efforts to strip Constitutional rights from pregnant people and to criminalize abortion. I shared my story in an Op-Ed with @nytimes. nytimes.com/2019/06/13/opini…
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I wish every university professor would read this piece by @dr_eprice link.medium.com/ErHKGfswHT