Troy Gilbert

@troygilbert
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I make games. I also make lunch.
@marcoarment Listening to “It’s All Chicken Salad”: thank you so much for your words about ICEblock. Agree 100%. ❤️
@siracusa For Reconcilable Differences and finding the timestamps for the member content, couldn’t you have just looked at the length of the episodes from the non-members’ feed?

I love that a country founded by men in wigs, tights, high heels & powdered faces, is trying to ban drag shows.

The irony & hypocrisy is amusing & infuriating.

Give these Navajo women credit for making the Apollo Missions possible:

"The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights... But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon... the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer... who wove the computer’s core memory."

#Navajo #Indigenous #Native #WomensHistoryMonth

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa

Core memory weavers and Navajo women made the Apollo missions possible

The stories of the women who assembled integrated circuits and wove core memory for the Apollo missions remain largely unknown.

Science News

what's causing this flare

the correct answer is who cares

Stop asking how the poor are going to get to work without cars, and start asking why the rich won't let the poor live close to their jobs.
@killick @mekkaokereke I was just reading tweets from people who were complaining that free school meals were THEFT -- that is the word they used -- from middle class taxpayers because it's at least theoretically possible that a child of multimillionaires might also eat for free. This country can't even agree that there is no noble purpose to be served by forcing a child to go hungry at school.

The Luddites were a labor movement.

"The Luddites themselves 'were totally fine with machines,' says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called 'a fraudulent and deceitful manner' to get around standard labor practices.

'They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,' says Binfield, 'and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.'"

Also the men wore dresses and called themselves brides of Ludd.

#luddite

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

What the Luddites Really Fought Against

The label now has many meanings, but when the group protested 200 years ago, technology wasn't really the enemy

Smithsonian Magazine

Let me get this straight. Republicans spent Friday cosplaying machismo by encouraging their supporters to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, which was 11 miles up in the atmosphere, a balloon so large it could hold an entire football stadium inside of it. No consideration of the danger of their useless bullets falling back to earth.

Meanwhile, Biden had already given the order to the military to shoot it down when it was safe to do so back on *Wednesday.* They had already jammed their signals so it couldn’t send any info back to China, and instead was collecting info on the satellite.

So as usual, we have Republicans acting like idiots, encouraging actions that posed danger to the American people, all the while hoping to “stick it to Biden,” when in actuality, Biden had already handled the situation days before by involving the military who had neutralized the threat and then ultimately shot down the balloon over the waters past South Carolina.

Vote blue, people. #news

A reporter once asked me if I knew SBF personally. Apparently sensing I was confused by why that might be likely, they pointed out that we would've been in college in Boston/Cambridge at the same time. Especially since then, it's been very weird to read stories about how maybe he's just a poor smol bean who made a whoopsie when most of us have managed to somehow not toddle our way into financial fraud at the fragile age of 30 YEARS OLD.

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/sam-bankman-fried-is-not-a-child

Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child

But the media is treating him like one.

Molly White