Christina Holland
Firebase JS at Google, wrote for Cracked. Blog posts, stories, and art at mortalwombat.info
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- According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”
- Woke 2 is firing on all cylinders and ahead of schedule, I didn't have "the president has to retract his nakedly racist social media posts" on the calendar until july
- minor point of order since it keeps coming up, it's "Woke 2" and not "Woke 2.0". we're leaving tech industry bullshit behind too
- the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
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- SCORPION: take me across the river FROG: if I do that, you'll sting me S: if I sting you, we'll both drown F: ok, that makes sense *halfway across the river* F: so? S: so what? F: sting me S: what? F: sting me, like you promised S: no F: sting me so we'll both drown S: *crying* what is happening?
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- “I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But “
- This happens with*everything* now. No matter how grave the crime or one-dimensional the injustice, after four days the hivemind of American punditry decides that the Real Story is how the people upset about it are the real villains.
- 'if there is anything so wrong about it, we ourselves would be upset, and since we ourselves are not that upset, therefore, there must not be anything so wrong about it'
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- I said "ooh I like your gold necklace" one time in front of my friends and they called me "Covetous Smaug" for months
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- i'm curious: what's your "favorite" AI slop, as in: not necessarily the thing which has the most merit, but the thing which has stuck in your head the most. i figure most people won't want to answer out loud, but DM it to me if you have one.
- yoshi is a horse
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- A+ ad placement on ESPN’s trade tracker
- if you are half-squished underneath a steam roller please do not yell at the steam roller operator. you might hurt his feelings
- Nancy Mace has an auto responder for comments containing the word “drugs”.
- This alludes to something I am annoyed by which is that the higher ups in the company are the ones who created the situation at WaPo where all the subscribers left, and now the same higher ups are going “someone needs to pay a price for this” but they’re firing the sports guy instead of themselves
- Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
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View full threadWe are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
- People often disparage the press — and we often get it wrong — but almost everything you know about this administration is not because pundits go on tv or social media and pontificate but because of relentless reporting from real journalists at institutions that give them resources to do so.
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- I haven’t had alcohol in 308 days even though I really would have liked some on many of those days, please clap
- Shout out to my autocorrect for inventing the phrase "if horse comes to worst", that's a keeper
- I know it’s not the same for everybody, but personally I nailed groundhog’s day on the first try
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- It's wrong that they won't let me live in a 55+ community simply due to my age. They should let you in if you match the "general vibe"
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- growing up means coming to appreciate the subtle, mature pleasures of spicy mustard on a breakfast sandwich. hot sauce still has its place, of course, but the raging fires of youth must give way to broader scaffolds of sensation
- Bad Bunny at the Grammys: “ICE Out”
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- the sales lady did not find my buffoonery amusing
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- He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.
- BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.
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- I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
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