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3 years

Mental health thread: Started on lexapro last night. Slept some last night, still had some very low lows, but not as dangerous as before. Spent the morning in the sun FaceTiming with friends and spending time with family out of the house.

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@elchefe

4 years

Hi! I’m 44, a Marine Corps vet and BJJ champion and I cry in my bed after therapy. Dudes (and dude-identifying folks), don’t forget that it’s okay to talk about struggling and taking care of your mental health.

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@ParissAthena he like

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@NobleNegroe So, to be clear, you’re in favor of using deadly force against peaceful protestors as long as you’re being somehow inconvenienced by their presence?

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This may seem like an odd thing to celebrate to neurotypical folks, but for folks who deal with ADHD and/or depression like me, this will seem like sorcery: For the past few weeks, I’ve been folding and putting away my laundry as soon as it comes out of the dryer.

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1 year

@cat_elg I always liked “wanton”

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1 year

@iowaycity @BornAKang “Yes, officer, I was screaming out the window and insulting him, and then I told him to pull over so I could assault him AND THEN HE POINTED A GUN AT ME CRY FOR ME I’M SUCH A VICTIM!!”

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@elchefe

1 year

@dilljac @sarahschauer The employee is already budgeted for, so there’s no actual reason they can’t keep paying her other than because of a line on a spreadsheet. Expecting other employees to donate their time off for it is adding insult to injury.

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1 year

@NYPDnews So, then the cops will be unarmed at the protests?

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@triedtruebIue @loveinextremes

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1 year

@Bornakang Nobody gonna mention the fact that this lady said she just recently discovered pepper?

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@elchefe

4 years

@TheMcFaddenShow I don’t know what I’m more shocked at: this party happening during a pandemic or sistas out here getting their hair wet and soapy when they know the city done closed all the hair salons.

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@elchefe

2 years

@QuinnyPig Never accept the counter. It's not even a reputation thing - it's the confirmation that they *could* have given you the raise, but didn't think you were worth it until someone else recognized it. I'm not here for that energy.

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2 years

The cognitive dissonance it must take to look at everything going on at Twitter and still feel confident that your Tesla is a quality product that isn’t made in a similar environment is astounding.

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@elchefe

8 months

@sneako They say punching power comes from the legs, which explains why that bag ain’t moving

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@elchefe

1 year

@KevinMKruse So, you’re on board with a light speed drive in a ship and ships woth non-vectored thrust that can turn in space, but you come off the rails on a small object being gravitationally pulled toward a larger object in space?

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1 year

@KaeliiKo Even if he was looking at her, you can look at your baby mama with some appreciation because y’all did that together as parents, even if you’re not together as a couple. Not everything has to be a sign of attraction, and by hat woman is wearing her insecurity like a badge.

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@elchefe

4 years

Hey, you. You there with the PTO you haven't taken: take it.

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@elchefe

8 months

@EffieGib Conservatives have always been pro-slavery, it seems.

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1 year

@Carnage4Life

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@elchefe

2 years

The Venn diagram of Elon Musk stans and talented, capable engineers does not overlap.

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@elchefe

4 years

@theashleyray Could it be, perhaps, that this sort of behavior from Sanders supporters is exactly why she’s not rushing to endorse him?

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@elchefe

2 years

Announcing brocoin, my new cryptocurrency! How’s it work? Well let me tell you. - you send me $30k USD - I send you a Chuck E. Cheese, porn theater or NYC subway token. - I fly to Brazil (1st class) and clear cut 5 acres of rain forest

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@elchefe

1 year

"We made $80 billion in profit over the past year, but we can't afford to pay for raises" is an admission of such a monumental failure in leadership that I don't know how a CEO that said that wouldn't be immediately dismissed by the board.

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@elchefe

2 years

I am once again asking privileged tech bros to stop giving life advice

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@etarczynski

2 years

If you’re in your 20s and ambitious but aren’t working 12+ hour days, you’re doing it wrong.

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@elchefe

2 years

@VexMania @VirginiaJeff3 @benedict_rs This implies that culture is monolithic. I’m Black and Mexican. I claim both. I’m not enmeshed/have a full understanding of the entirety of either culture, and frankly, no one has a complete and full understanding of a culture that encompasses billions of people over centuries.

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@elchefe

3 years

I think some people underestimate how bad imposter syndrome can be, especially when accompanied by negative self-talk. I am so blessed to have @hospitalitdani as a truly amazing and supportive partner who keeps me accountable and doesn’t let me be unkind to myself.

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@elchefe

4 years

Declined all my meetings and taking the day off. I can’t do it today.

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@elchefe

4 years

My therapist thought I was odd for wanting a session on my birthday, but I got this gem from her that feels like a present: “You are not broken. You’ve just been made to feel like you are broken.” This hit me like a ton of bricks.

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@elchefe

1 year

@CBHeresy @kelly_cadigan Yeah, the right is oh so well known for their forgive and forget demeanor.

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@elchefe

10 months

@libertas2025 @KUT I literally just watched Brigitte perform in front of a club of people over 21. There were no young children there.

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@elchefe

4 years

Just a friendly reminder that people who want to “engage in a debate” over whether or not people should have human rights only do so because they’re too privileged to be affected by it, so it’s just a fucking game to them.

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@elchefe

2 years

“Thanks for your application, but we are looking for someone with more leadership experience” their company executive leadership:

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@elchefe

6 months

So I understand correctly, @Spotify : - shafts artists on royalty rates for streaming - raised prices - recorded $70 million in PROFIT - still laid off employees before the holidays Please, can someone in spotify leadership explain how they don't suck as a company and a culture?

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@elchefe

1 year

@MichaelRStrain 10000% chance this dude's kids hate him

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@elchefe

4 years

It’s 2020 & I’ve been working on being my genuine self without fear. But I’ve kept a part of me hidden and past it’s time I stopped. I know I may lose friends/supporters/followers but I’ve received so much love & support lately, so I feel like I’m ready to say that I’m pansexual.

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@elchefe

2 years

@ashleymcnamara @zarchasmpgmr something something Elon Mollusk

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@elchefe

8 months

@DuncanHenry78 @formulaflesh transphobic white dude telling someone else to get out of their bubble? Be less fragile, queer.

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@elchefe

1 year

@XxitsameMarioXX @KeneAkers So, just so we are clear, every time a person has a gun when interacting with the police, they shoot them dead for their own safety? I just want to make sure that’s your position before I start posting times when white sides with guns didn’t get shot by the police.

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@elchefe

3 years

“It’s not always DNS, sometimes it’s a symlink” Okay, but what is a symlink but filesystem DNS?

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@elchefe

2 years

@VexMania @VirginiaJeff3 @benedict_rs There is, and I agree with you. But when you say “full understanding”, that’s a gatekeeping technique that uses an impossible standard.

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@elchefe

4 years

This. After 22 years in this industry, on Monday I’m starting my first job with “Principal” in the job title. That title represents a *LOT* of shit I’ve had to eat. I’ve earned it. Don’t tell me they’re not important.

Bryan Liles

@bryanl

4 years

Corollary: don’t listen to people with “good” job titles tell you they are not important.

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@elchefe

3 years

My almost 90 minute 1:1 with my boss today was the best I've ever had in my entire career.

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@elchefe

1 year

@SirChrisburt I mean, most people call you "mediocre". The "cis white man" is implied.

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@elchefe

3 years

Too many engineering leaders out there treating your tech debt like pets and your people like cattle

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@elchefe

3 years

So, as some of you may have guessed, I have accepted a position with @DuckbillGroup as Principal Cloud Economist, and I'm super stoked about it I'll talk more about it on a later episode of @LastWeekinAWS , but I do want to mention a couple of important things for folks out there:

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@elchefe

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@soniagupta504 I ate a *lot* of shit in my career so I could get to a point where I was secure enough that I could call it out. I saw so many of my fellow black folks that chose different paths instead & I don’t blame them. But folks think the lack of diversity in senior roles is “meritocracy”.

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@elchefe

1 year

@dox_gay I've got ADHD and I routinely use psychedelics and I feel like maybe you want to test your water supply.

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@elchefe

3 years

New belt. New age division. Same results. Now 3-time Pan American champion.

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@elchefe

2 years

@dankim @EricFrohnhoefer Did...did they just really have a meeting over twitter?

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@elchefe

1 year

@K1NGxKO @hasanthehun Elon’s not gonna fuck you, bro

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@elchefe

3 years

@EmmaMoretto @metaltxt You are assuming, rather wildly, that this woman doesn’t share a significant portion of her genealogy with her husband.

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@elchefe

3 years

Flew to Virginia to surprise my parents for Mother’s Day. I have cried about a gallon of tears today.

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@elchefe

2 years

Right now would be a great time for dudes to do the bare fucking minimum and get that 15-minute vasectomy.

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@elchefe

9 months

@triedtruebIue @loveinextremes nah

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@elchefe

2 years

I’m talented af and I’m here for the sky-high salaries and crazy perks. I can solve hard fucking problems for free.

Amrit Singh

@amritxyz

2 years

I don't think talented people want sky-high salaries and crazy perks. They want to work on a great mission and solve hard f*cking problems.

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@SovietCali Like those billionaires in the sub?

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@elchefe

4 years

I firmly believe that your engineers should know enough about your product to be able to sell it to someone. They should understand what it does, how it's used, & why people choose it. I think that context is necessary to be able to build something that's focused on the end user.

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@elchefe

2 years

When you think that you aren't qualified for a job, just remember that there are entire teams of people employed to keep Azure secure, so, don't let anything stand in the way of your dreams.

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@elchefe

3 years

Some folks out there still don’t understand that “leadership” and “control” aren’t synonyms.

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@elchefe

1 year

@MissGinaDarling you rang?

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@elchefe

3 years

I mean, is this _too_ subtle a flex?

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@elchefe

3 years

Me, when I see tired-ass tech bros with their shitty takes.

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@elchefe

10 months

Literally every woman that’s been rejected from twilio should be contacting a lawyer.

Luke Metro

@luke_metro

10 months

why would you post this while listing your employer on your blind account lmao

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@elchefe

3 years

In the year of our Lordt two thousand twenty-one: PLEASE STOP SCHEDULING PEOPLE FOR SAME-DAY MEETINGS WITHOUT CHECKING WITH THEM FIRST Or, don’t bat an eye if they don’t show up. For me, a person with ADHD, I need the structure of a schedule.

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@elchefe

2 years

I’m 46 and sitting in the executive lounge at an airport, waiting for my first class flight and crying over an REM song. A little old lady gave me a handkerchief and said “whoever it is, I can tell you really love them” and I ugly sobbed.

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@elchefe

1 year

@laceynwilliams As soon as I read (36M) and “web developer” I knew how it was gonna turn out.

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4 years

@exfatalist M O I S T U R I Z E R

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@elchefe

1 year

@CheyenneBostock READ: “I could never be in a relationship with a successful and beautiful woman myself, so let me throw rocks at people who can.”

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@elchefe

11 months

@IanColdwater Look, if Elon musk showed us anything, it’s that rich people will absolutely pay six figures to be part of a beta test.

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@elchefe

5 years

Kirsten just baked a NY Strip well done. Baked. A New York Strip. Well done. b a k e d Please respect our privacy while my family goes through this difficult time.

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@elchefe

2 years

Nothing says "fuck non-traditional entries into tech" like internships for college students/grads only.

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@elchefe

3 years

@mekkaokereke @HBOMaxHelp (Note to future interns: Google Play may or may not still exist by the time you apply for your internship. Please be aware of the quantum nature of Google products before applying)

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@elchefe

2 years

It's my last week of my first ever funemployment period, and on Monday, I'm starting a new role as a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell, helping them participate more in the open source and cloud-native communities and helping product teams understand the needs of those communities.

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@elchefe

3 years

Silver medal. Not too shabby. 🙂🥈

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@elchefe

2 years

Technical debt is almost always a business decision, not an engineering one. As such, the notion that “leadership” wouldn’t understand what technical debt is at a tech company seems like a really big fucking reach.

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@copyconstruct

2 years

Tech Debt is one of those things that make sense to engineering, but to leadership it sounds like “we’ve created a mess over the years that slowed the product, we did nothing to fix it, and now we need to spend *even more* time and people on fixing it”. Not a winning argument.

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@elchefe

3 years

My prediction: @\dhh issues a halfhearted apology in a few weeks, lays low for several months, and then ends up as a EVP at Google.

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@elchefe

4 years

Twenty-five years ago, you made me a father. Twenty-four years ago, we celebrated your only birthday together. I miss you every day, mijo, but I am grateful for the little time we had together.

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@elchefe

2 years

Can someone explain the phenomenon where a company will lay off folks in positions, but still advertise those positions on their careers page and take interviews for those same exact roles? (not for me, but I'm seeing it around now as folks are being laid off)

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@elchefe

3 years

In lieu of/in addition to a traditional signing bonus, it would be awesome if a company gave you a paid month off before your first day so that you could detox/recover from your last gig.

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@elchefe

3 years

I’m sorry some of y’all had shitty fathers, truly. But goddamn if there aren’t 364 other days a year to shit all over them and I’ll join right in. But can we please take a day to recognize all the dads out there trying their best and doing the damned thing even if yours didn’t?

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@elchefe

4 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you shame sex workers or tell their friends, family, or jobs in order to try to shame them, you’re a piece of shit and I will fucking fight you.

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@elchefe

2 years

@amritxyz Do crazy talented founders give their employees the same share of company equity as them or are they just trying to get rich and exploit people by telling them that talented people don’t work for a lot of money?

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@elchefe

4 years

Had a great talk w/ my oldest child where they came out to me as being non binary. I’m so stoked for them. We agreed that it’s still ok if I call them “mijo” because we couldn’t come up with a substitute. I’m happy they could share this. I love them & will always have their back.

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@elchefe

3 years

"If you give money to that homeless person, they're just going to buy drugs" Well, motherfucker, so am I, so now what?

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@elchefe

3 years

So my youngest son has COVID and was sent home from school today after he started displaying symptoms yesterday and my ex didn't say shit about it to me. Cool. Cool.

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@elchefe

2 years

I, a person who is ADHD and unmedicated, have done all my expense reports on the first day back from a conference AMA.

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@trekkiebill Imagine my surprise when the dude said that he didn't mind the politics, as long as it wasn't "identity politics".

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@elchefe

4 years

Does anyone else do housework when they get upset? Asking for someone who was ugly crying and raking leaves earlier. (I'm fine now, just needed a release)

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@elchefe

4 years

You ever have news so good that you can’t even process it and you’re like kind of in shock? I just got news like that.

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@elchefe

3 years

"Tell me you have no women in your product leadership without telling me you have no women in your product leadership"

Kelly Ellis

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3 years

Ohhhh boy. And you still cannot block people on Slack. There are NO tools within the platform for handling harassment. Because it's "not necessary at work." This is going to be a shitshow.

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3 years

Good times with one of my favorite people in the world whom I hadn’t met until today ❤️

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@__a1va @FadedNick @GAFollowers Waffle House martial arts system is undefeated

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@elchefe

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@DaniMYGonzalez @pearlythingz Healthy christian family is an oxymoron

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@elchefe

3 years

Every now and then, I feel that it’s necessary to remind folks that my dad couldn’t use the same bathroom as a white person until he was almost 20. Keep that in mind if folks ever wonder why some of us are so militant: because we ain’t gonna go back without a fucking *FIGHT*

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@elchefe

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@VexMania @VirginiaJeff3 @benedict_rs Like, do I have the full knowledge of every possible way and their origins to make mole? No. Is mole part of my culture? Yes. And that’s why, when I make mole, even without a full understanding of all the aspects of it, it’s not appropriation. Why would art be different?

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@elchefe

3 months

@theelliottqueen Being palatable to the moderates ain’t a flex.

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@elchefe

1 year

@Blitzburgh9943 @iowaycity @BornAKang You can use one to end a threat, though.

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@elchefe

10 months

@JoePompliano Bro the entirety of Vegas’ economy is built on being gaudy and having more money than taste. This is par for the course.

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@elchefe

3 years

Happy Juneteenth to my people, the descendants of the Black slaves that *actually* built this nation

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@elchefe

3 years

It’s still so odd to me how many folks don’t trust medical science to vaccinate them against covid but will trust medical science to treat them for covid when they go to the hospital for it.

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