I feel like I now need to make it clear that I have never licked any part of the Titanic.
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‘A fraternity that is ultimately committed to nurturing A I for a posthuman future may care little for the social injustices committed by their errant infant today.’
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For my latest @ftopinion column, I look into #TESCREAL, a term coined by @xriskology & @timnitGebru. It’s a mix of futuristic beliefs driving some big names in tech & #AI - and it usefully sheds light on where we’re at.
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Exciting news! has kindly made her winning wig tutorial free for the rest of the month of May! Check it out & learn some fantastic wig styling tips patreon.com/posts/roxanne-
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Sometimes it's hard to be a serious and professional science agency when amphibians like the northern red salamander exist. Our first caption was, "LOOK AT THIS PERFECT SMOL NUGGET! HAVE YOU EVER SEEN ANYTHING MORE PERFECT IN YOUR WHOLE LIFE?! LOOK AT THEM DO THEIR PUSHY UPPIES!
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Nearing the point where a gallery could have an exhibit entirely of photos of journalists being arrested by Atlanta and Georgia state police.
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I'm not leaving. I just figured a thread about the Titanic was a perfect time to post where else you can find me aside from this sinking ship
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The Muscogee Creek people inhabited the South River Forest in Dekalb County.
It was called Weelaunee Forest.
Now, the future of Weelaunee is at stake.
Read about the religious leaders working to save the Weelaunee Forest from becoming Cop City.
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It's so funny that the Spanish Empire created one of the most absurdly convoluted racial hierarchy systems only for modern right-wing USians to decide that you can't be a white supremacist if your last name is Garcia.
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Snoop Dogg blasting the streaming model and supporting the writers’ strike is my FAVORITE thing ever. 🐐
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Hey Apple: no more eps of your hit show about workers using collective action to fight back against an exploitative tech company until you give your real-life workers a fair deal.
THANK YOU to the Teamsters and IATSE crew who honored our picket line!
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Yes, we have a serious challenge along the border with a broken immigration and asylum system that Congress refuses to fix.
But don’t ever forget that most people seeking asylum or coming to our borders are human beings who are suffering. Do not dehumanize them.
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I was home sick watching soaps the day Columbine happened, so I saw it unfold live on television. I thought for sure they’d make sure it was an isolated incident.
I’m 40 too, and the folks in power have done fuck all to honor the kids killed that day.
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Columbine happened when I was in high school. I’m now 40. No one wants a quick solution. We’ve been asking for one for over 25 years. twitter.com/HuffPost/statu…
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I love fabric so much. I'm playing around with fabrics for my Signet from Twilight Mirage and found this accidental moire! The video shows Desert Rose taffeta then Sargasso Sea chiffon, both from Silk Baron. Then it shows two pieces temporarily spray-basted together.
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Testing before spending time with people is a simple kindness that can prevent a lot of pain. 💙
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Narrowly missed getting exposed this week at a family dinner. My elderly parents had the good sense to test when they had symptoms, and sent this to me a couple of hours before we were to meet.
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"I was afraid" or "I feared for my life" have for centuries justified all sorts of brutality against, and death of, black men.
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Twitter has a feature that reminds you to do alt text! I leave it on because even if I just wrote a short description, it's important
I'm bad at it on build threads though because I'm usually using 4739583 images and describing them in the text 😅 I need to do better
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"You can kill anyone making a scene in a public space if you're personally uncomfortable" is a hell of a stance from the same people who've been throwing tantrums in Target over its masking policies for the last three years.
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And please, please, please remind me when I forget! I will absolutely write a second tweet describing the photo, or delete and repost with proper alt text! I really want to get better at it.
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I know it's a hard habit to get into, and it can be challenging to do it to start with. I still forget sometimes! We're all human! What I like to do is pretend I'm doing a radio interview and trying to describe a photo in a fun and engaging way to the radio audience
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Cosplayers. You spend serious hours and money making your gorgeous costumes and getting fantastic photos of them. Pleeeeeaaaase try to spend 30 seconds and write an alt text so that I don't feel icky RTing them!
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How do transgender people like me even exist in a state like Florida?
What options do I have if I am traveling and my connecting flight is at a major Florida airport? What recourse is available to me if a significant convention takes place in Orlando?
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For many transgender people, it feels like the world is getting smaller with every new anti-trans law.
The Florida bathroom ban eliminates an entire area where people like me can travel freely and exist.
Subscribe to support my work.
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Every friend group has that one friend who pays for all the vacations, and the oil paintings of the vacations, and your kids’ tuition, and buys your mom’s house and lets her live there rent free for life, and plans to turn the house into a museum of you. You know that friend?
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Such an insightful thread from on why opt-out doesn’t work. In short, it is completely aligned with Silicon Valley’s modus operandi of creating harms at the systems level, & outsourcing a “remedy” at an individual level which has 0̷ chance of scaling to the problem.
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I haven't put this thought into a cohesive thread yet:
Opt-out cannot work.
Opt-in is the only way.
Anything less is unethical.
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every time someone makes a comment along the lines of "X striking workers make more than ME, why should i support THEM" rather than "maybe a union could benefit me, too" congratulations 👏 corporate is sooo proud of you
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It's impossible to explain to people who don't sew (and even most who do) exactly how hard it is to execute something like this cleanly. I could *never*
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Fur suit makers are wizards. Absolute wizards [photo description: one side of a fur tail that's primarily stripes of purple, with blocks of pixelated neon that are so clean that they would make a haute couture house envious
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For the people just joining us, our fight is with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Discovery-Warner, NBC Universal, Paramount and Sony. They’re the ones who don’t pay writers. Stop attacking individual writers. They don’t control the minimum.
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Relatedly and as a small addendum, I think a gala focusing on the atelier workers who do stuff like this would be cool. Fashion has the “genius” problem where the people doing much of the labor are deliberately made invisible, and surfacing them would be wonderful, in my opinion.
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I think when you remember that every piece of clothing ever made was made by people - including the clothing we wear today - the takeaway should be that all garment workers deserve to have their skills fairly valued and compensated. Not that certain skills are valueless.
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They were able to pay their rent because of this coat. They were able to buy groceries because of this coat. And they were paid for highly-specialized talents that have taken years to refine because of this coat. Real human beings were involved in every element of construction.
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I think about this Thom Browne coat on Lizzo a lot. 22,000 hours of skilled, physically taxing, hand-embroidered labor. Actual human beings were paid to create a work of art.
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We proposed that AI not be used to undermine our work; they rejected our proposal, and offered an "annual meeting to discuss advances in technology." Wow, a MEETING?!? Thank you ever so much!!
An insulting counter, just dripping with contempt.
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We proposed that comedy/variety and daytime writers on streaming have the same pay and protections as they do on TV. Instead, they offered us a minimum that would apply to virtually no shows on the air, oh and also, they're want to start paying you by the day.
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We have proposals that would prevent the studios from eliminating the writers' room; they refused to discuss them. We have proposals to protect screenwriters from free work, that would have *COST THEM NOTHING TO IMPLEMENT*: They rejected them and offered an "educational meeting."
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I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the 's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.
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it’s been talked about to death at this point but elon prioritizing bluechecks in replies really has destroyed the average reply section. used to be the best, most relevant, or funniest replies got visibility. now reply sections are indistinguishable from Qanon facebook pages
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