Balmy Balmer

@BalmyBalmer
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Downtown Baltimore Resident for 30+ years, Penn State and Hopkins Grad.
What's Trump's Indictment is Missing

The Manhattan DA released the indictment today after Trump’s arraignment, but we still don’t know enough to evaluate the prosecution

Rolling Stone
My phone right now..

One piece of advice for people new to #mastodon: follow capriciously. People are interesting! You lose nothing by following anyone who posts something you like. And then: unfollow just as quickly. Seriously. Nobody cares. You are creating a stream of things you're giving your attention to. You don't owe anyone your attention.

Follow fast, unfollow faster. Make this place a place you wanna be.

Mark Meadows exchanged texts with 34 members of Congress about his plans to overturn the 2020 election

Messages include battle cries and invoking martial law

“AFK. Gonna yeet govt 🍆💦🇺🇸”

it’s a good thing for him. There are no consequences for higher-ups.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-meadows-exchanged-texts-with-34-members-of-congress-about-plans-to-overturn-the-2020-election

Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.

TPM – Talking Points Memo
You might think you’ve had a bad day, but hey at least you didn’t get booed off a stage by thousands of people who loathe you.
Katie Hobbs is officially Arizona's governor-elect and Kari Lake is officially a very sore loser.

This Twitter fiasco is a reminder of who is *actually* critical to the survival of our economy & society.

Twitter worked before the billionaire got here. Now that workers are gone, Twitter is collapsing. Workers made Twitter work—a billionaire broke it.

Workers > Billionaires

UPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!

My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,

"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."

https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241

Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/

#Twitter #JobFairy #Automattic #Tumblr

Matt Mullenweg on Twitter

“@levelsio @automattic In particular I'd say people leaving @twitter we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge @tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together.”

Twitter
Getting a jump on the timely demise of the bird app.