Ex NetTech, ex stage hand, no I won’t fix your computer tee shirt wearer. I understood at a young age the early 21st century would be different. I was still wrong.
Hillary Clinton Gave Nate Silver A 71.4% Chance He'd Keep His Job. Ouch! https://www.wonkette.com/hillary-clinton-gave-nate-silver-a-71-4-chance-he-d-keep-his-job-ouch
#2016_presidential_race #Fivethirtyeight #Hillary_clinton_versus_donald_trump #Nate_silver_predictions #Nate_silver_predicts #Predictions #Silver #Nate_silver_fired
Judge issues warrant for Ammon Bundy, who has ignored St. Luke’s lawsuit for nearly 1 year
“This is not who we are”
“This is ‘un-American’”
Are 2 of the most dishonest phases used to describe the terror that is the “American” systems, institutions, and policies DESIGNED to privilege whiteness at the expense of Black bodies and lives…it’s literally the justification AND foundation on which this nation was built
I love you guys at #Mastodon and all but this shaming of people who still use #Twitter have to stop.
1) it's obnoxious
2) do you realise how immensely privileged you sound to people of the global south when you say, "you have to quit, cos facism"?
I will say this until I'm blue but other parts of the world do not see #Twitter the way north Americans do. A lot of times, many of us rely on it to survive.
Also, Internet access is not the same down here. Ugh this deserves an essay or something.
Some days you report the news, others you become it. Our top story is our continued survival: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-observer-no-layoffs-remains-open-board-vote/ What a week!
We also took a deep dive into #RealityWinner's life & leak: https://www.texasobserver.org/reality-winner-vr-systems-whistleblower/
& shared more #SXSW reviews: https://www.texasobserver.org/tag/sxsw/
#TexasNeedsAnObserver #news #journalism #Newstodon #elections #movies #Texas
@ProPublica @damemagazine @themarkup @STAT @TucsonSentinel @Chron @blogoklahoma @thexylom @gbhnews @TheConversationUS @heiseonline @e_urq @Toastie