Sam Greenfield

@Greenfield
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Software engineer at Google and former Michelin-starred restaurateur. β€’ Toots are my own personal opinions
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The Democrats are, as a party, so weak that they choose not to persuade Feinstein -- a non-working, soon-to-be 90-year-old senator who's already announced she won't run for reelection next year -- to retire now.

The cost to progressive causes is incalculable.

The Republicans are laughing.

It's all a reminder that Democrats always bring handshakes to knife fights.

I wish the Mastodon user interface collapsed replies from me to me. i.e. I want better threading.
Maybe I'll drop in on Twitter here and there. This is not a hard- and fast-rule. But if you see me here instead of Twitter, their support of Nazis is the primary reason.
I don't need to support a site that decides to platform Nazis. These are people who would like to see me, my friends, and my family dead. This is not hyperbole.

I switched my Twitter account back to protected, and I've decided to try to decrease and possibly stop my overall usage of Twitter.

There are too many Nazis on Twitter. I don't mean this metaphorically; I mean there are self-identified Nazis and white supremacists. Some of them are individuals. Some of the are companies, selling things like coffee. They feature Nazi slogans and logos on their profile, and they are proud of their beliefs.

Myles Cogrove, the ex-Louisville officer who shot Breonna Taylor in her home, was hired to be a police officer again in Carroll County in Kentucky. That makes me ill. https://www.wlky.com/article/hired-carroll-county-sheriff-kentucky-louisville-breonna-taylor-myles-cosgrove/43675237

@ianbetteridge

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he takes β€œfull responsibility for the decisions that led us here”

Well, this turned out to be an interesting day.
Miss El Salvador Anti-femicide National Costume for Miss Universe

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell struck a particularly somber note at his press conference earlier this week when he mentioned that one reason the labor market is so tight right now is that many workers died from COVID-19.

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are-never-coming-back

The missing workers who are never coming back

Close to half a million working-age people lost their lives to COVID.

Axios