Building awesome things at github. Previously at Netlify. Raising awesome kids and connecting with amazing people. @futuregerald@hachyderm.io
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A new feature dropped for @saucedopen, ushering in a new phase of Social Coding.
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Buttigieg: I don’t understand how such a majority of House Republicans voted no after I was in a room with a lot of them… having perfectly normal conversations with many of them only for them to go around the corner and say that my marriage doesn’t deserve to continue
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Twitter, I need your help! This pendant was found in the sand on Rehoboth Beach DE the morning of July 17. This is someone's sister, mother, warrior, ancestor, or friend. I can tell by the framing, this beautiful Black woman was loved. Help me find the caretaker of this gem.
ALT silver frame pendant. Beautiful older black woman in the image. Twitter, I need your help! This pendant was found in the sand on Rehoboth Beach DE the morning of July 17. This is someone's sister, mother, warrior, ancestor, or friend. I can tell by the framing, this person was loved. Help me find her please.
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A 100-year-old tree absorbs 4.2 tonnes of CO2. Over the course of its life, a great whale on average captures 33 tonnes of CO2.
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Twitter friends, can you help me out?
I'm hiring a Senior Engineering Manager for our new OSPO team (Open Source Program Office) at GitHub. They will report to me and, with the team, we'll set out to be the OSPO for OSPOs - I explain in 🧵😅
👇🏾 apply 👇🏾
boards.greenhouse.io/github/…
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There is no reasonable definition of freedom that includes the fact that, “over the last two decades, more school-aged children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active-duty military combined."
You are not free.
THREAD
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I'm excited to announce... probably the most ridiculous nonsense I've ever open sourced:
A Fortnite VS Code Theme!
It has special effects! It has chickens! If you want to remember not to take things too seriously, this is the theme for you!
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
ALT screenshot of the theme in the vs code marketplace
ALT screenshot of the colors of the theme
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40% of Uvalde’s city budget goes to police. The school district had its own police force. This is what happened ⬇️
After decades of mass shootings, there is still 0 evidence that police have the ability to stop them from happening. Gun safety and other policies can.
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Cops stood outside the school while the killer rampaged inside.
Onlookers yelled at them to go in. They didn’t. One parent urged bystanders:
“Let’s just rush in because the cops aren’t doing anything like they are supposed to.” @AP story:
apnews.com/article/uvalde-te…
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There are atleast over a million africans at the bottom of the atlantic oceans.
These were not Americans or Brazilians, etc they were yoruba, fulani, Igbos, Mandika men and women who were thrown overboard by european slave traders.
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Black people invented many stuff, Just because their names aren’t listed as the FIRST or on patents doesn't mean that they weren't involved in the creation.
Enslaved africans did the WORK; they’re the people that knew what was needed to make things run efficiently.
A THREAD!
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I travel with my own coffee cup because I learned 50 billion paper coffee cups get thrown away every year in America. They aren’t recyclable. Unfortunately shops will no longer fill it, they can’t touch it for “health issues”. But they can still touch my credit card? 🙄
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It is actually delusional to believe Dems can get re-elected without acting on filibuster or student debt, Biden breaking his BBB promise, letting CTC lapse, 0 path to citizenship, etc
Esp when they run from convos abt race+culture (which is what 1/6 was abt)
We need to act now
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Filibuster
•Not in the Constitution
•Not in the Bill of Rights
•Not in any additional Amendment
•Suspended hundreds of times whenever politicians wanted—including just now for the debt ceiling
The Jim Crow filibuster is anti-American & anti-Democracy. Abolish it permanently.
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While Dems failed to pass Freedom to Vote Act yesterday that would ban partisan gerrymandering, Wisconsin Republicans introduced heavily gerrymandered maps that would give GOP 75% of US House seats & 60% of legislative seats in state Biden won jsonline.com/story/news/poli…
