🚨🚨🚨 Please help get eyes on this fundraiser!!!! This is the brother (+ his wife/kids) of a friend of mine who we already helped evacuate. The thought of some of them being left behind is devastating- let's make sure they have the funds needed to leave as soon as possible.
scrolling my feed: super bowl, advertisement commentary, dead kid, super bowl, super bowl, dead kid, dead kid, dying kid, war propaganda, taylor swift, dead kid
every time i see someone asking "how can they post without electricity and internet? how can they eat without food? how can they get water if the water is cut off?" i am reminded that most people in america would not survive a destabilizing/apocalyptic event
for many disabled people, there comes a realization that you would be left during an emergency. fires, school shootings, pandemics, war...it's dehumanizing and terrifying, but it's based in reality. to see the events over the last month play out, to be able to witness the endless
sorry but i stopped buying the "human shield" thing as soon as i realized it was the only time i consistently heard israel supporters refer to palestinians as human
stop gaslighting people of color when they tell you the hiring market is rigged against them. stop saying lack of diversity is a pipeline problem or "just hiring who's best for the job". this is much bigger than whatever recruiter accidentally posted this publicly.
i'm sorry but these are starting to feel a little too close together. they've been warning about this shit for years but in the last 5 days they all started falling apart? why haven't they all been grounded while someone figures this out? i don't get it.
A Chilean Boeing 787 had a "severe" event on a flight from Australia to New Zealand, injuring 50 passengers and crew members. Airline representatives say the plane experienced a "strong shake" during the flight. The cause is currently under investigation.
@tomcostellonbc
reports.
Bayan is one of the few remaining active journalists in the north and has lived through, documented, and shared some of the most unimaginable horrors happening in Gaza. This could not be more heartbreaking.
once you understand the levels to 🇮🇱 surveillance- you will never again believe these are not deliberate, targeted attacks on 🇵🇸 civilians.
once you understand that 🇺🇸 is building, investing in and rolling out the same things...you'll never feel safe here again
in case it wasn't clear, when people talk about b0ycotting apple/google/tesla (due to it being the driving force behind the gen0cide happening in congo), it doesn't mean you can't use google or your iphone or that you need to sell your car and buy a new one.
it means to use
you either need a really strong community (ride or die/trust you with my life type bond) or you need to know how to do things....in an ideal situation, you have both.
periodic reminder that the CDC, and much of the medical community, claimed condoms and gloves were ineffective against HIV transmission for nearly a decade ❤️
i'm so fucking sick over this. i feel like im living in an alternate reality or my brain is wired different because i just can't understand being able to possibly think about anything else. do people not feel like *everything* is at stake rn? do you not feel any complicity?
it is 4am in Gaza and al-Shifa Hospital has been surrounded by occupation forces and is under attack. thousands of people are still currently seeking shelter here.
#BREAKING
National Guard and Police CHECKING BAGS at Grand Central subway station in NYC.
Earlier today Governor Hochul announced deployment NATIONAL GUARD and the State Police in NYC Subways after violent crime.
Desk
@freedomnews
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don't even get me started on the timing of the whistleblower suicide. it's fucking weird. everything going on in the world right now is OFF. and not a normal amount of off.
hey white seattle protesters, tomorrow our job is to follow black folx lead, to support, amplify, and protect them- not go on some white boy anarchist bullshit like I see a lot of y'all do every time seattle has a protest.
#seattleprotest
Andrew is a Palestinian American who has been very consistent and vocal about his support for Palestinian liberation and those willing to speak truth to power. We love him.
(screenshots from his November 2023 medium article/call for ceasefire).
The Sheriff's Department has confirmed to our Chicago chapter that the killer, Joseph Czuba, has now been charged with a hate crime for the murder of Wadea and attack on his mother.
@granitelefty
he's not perfect, but at the very least he always came through in seattle during movements like this and tried to leverage his platform to help. i was kind of surprised we hadn't heard much from him yet and was worried he'd flip.
the funniest thing america does, is that when its not good at something, it convinces us that the problem is inevitable and if we haven't figured it out, its even worse everywhere else...
lol
at some point we're going to have to acknowledge that these aren't entirely parenting, lockdown, and educational failures, but are the (expected) result of brain damage from repeat covid infections
my dad just called to show me his "deck" and 100% thought he was going to pitch me a startup idea
bruh literally just built a 16ft x 24ft deck in their backyard.....
i talk to A LOT of people in the tech space dealing with long covid
the biggest thing i've learned is that A LOT of people are faking "being well", and ive seen any NO evidence of people faking sick
if you don't know anyone with long covid, it's because they haven't told you
@lizziechad
i saw a big group of girls wearing nude colored kn95s yesterday. at first, i didn't even notice they were wearing them. going to add them to my rotation on my next restock.
people LOVE to tell me that don't think long covid is common bc they "don't know anyone impacted"
yesterday i reshared a post on my instagram stories about LC & woke up to messages from 6 people asking for more info bc someone they love is dealing with it...
the funniest thing america does, is that when its not good at something, it convinces us that the problem is inevitable and if we haven't figured it out, its even worse everywhere else...
lol
🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 when the eng team says your design files were the cleanest handoff files they’ve ever seen 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 and then proceeds to execute the design perfectly in the same week 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
@emoleechen
@lyft
hey
@lyft
, if i can request the temperature of the car or if i want a quiet or talkative ride, it shouldn't be difficult to make this accommodation directly in-app to make your rides more accessible to your disabled and medically vulnerable users 💕
the only way to get a real seat at the table is to prove that you are willing and able to uphold systems of oppression and im tired of pretending it's ever been about anything else
every day i login into this app and remember some of you have literally NEVER been poor. it's wild that people building products for everyday people have noooo idea what the average americans life is even like.
we're watching kids recite the quran in lieu of anesthesia and people will still say the people picking up a copy to read is a trend. the denial is unmatched.
@joenatoli
@rsnbrgjrdn
I don't like to shit on rebrands because I'm sure thought and effort and skill and research goes into it....
but yes 100% this. who thought this was a good idea?
do people realize that "evacuate to the south" keeps changing meaning? some families have been displaced more than 5x because "the south" keeps meaning further and further south. many people getting killed for "not evacuating south" have already moved south over and over again!
guy who sexually assaulted me (and I had to have escorted from my home) just joined clubhouse and I got an invite to welcome him in.
I don’t have a solution on the top of my head. I just want to know if anyone at Clubhouse considered these things at all while building.
a yes obviously what is happening in gaza is a genocide and obviously people with die, to no fault of their own- and it will have nothing to do with not having survival skills. that's not my point. i haven't seen a single palestinian suggesting that they must actually be lying
i, a first time founder with no college degree, family connections, or FAANG experience... raised a round of funding, scheduled all of our customer discovery calls, built a waitlist, signed our first pilot partners, and built a 7 person team by being “good at twitter”
for the last few summers, ive been hanging out with a random group of 60 year old men with boats in chicago. we don't talk the rest of the year, but are inseparable for the few weeks im in town. they're my favorite friends and most anticipated part of my year.
@hausofriya
😞😞😞 ive thought about this quote since the first time i heard it. i didn't know it was attributed to her. praying for another story of survival.
@KristyT
i have been thinking about this since last night. that's the cost of an urgent care visit....one trip to the grocery store for a family of 4...
shows a lot about our society though when a large group of people would genuinely be relieved to have $200 after bills paid
says a lot about a country when you can have no electricity for 4-8 hours/day, have to check under your couches for snakes/spiders before you sit down, and these are your internet speeds half the time...and it still feels like the biggest lifestyle upgrade you could have imagined
reminder: you can celebrate holidays literally whenever you want. if your dad comes down with the flu on christmas eve or ice is making it dangerous to leave your house...JUST PUSH IT TO NEXT WEEK. next month. have christmas in july. it doesn't matter.
@buggirl
teachers, HC workers, and parents have been trying to sound the alarm on this for years. obviously not the entire thing, but a major contributing factor at play.
at some point we're going to have to acknowledge that these aren't entirely parenting, lockdown, and educational failures, but are the (expected) result of brain damage from repeat covid infections
people who are underweight are at a higher risk of death than those who are overweight but nobody wants to talk about it because they like how it looks.
we'd be having totally different conversation about weight if it was actually about health.
Obesity is deadlier than smoking. Why not stigmatize and regulate it to the same degree?
(As an obeast myself, I am personally pro-stigmatization and anti-regulation)
Hello. I would like you all to know that after leaving the tech industry for a little over of a year, after being sexually assaulted by a tech CEO, and then feeling blacklisted from the industry for talking about it... I have officially accepted a Lead Product Design position ✨
last year i did a deep dive into the israel/palestine conflict and my only addition to this conversation is that most of you aren't educated enough to be speaking on it and a lot of you have HORRENDOUS takes that will be embarrassing in retrospect.
i feel like i'm losing my mind watching people (from all sides) argue that masking at protests/encampments isn't about covid and that it's only about surveillance when some of the earliest organizers on these campuses have been talking about covid precautions on here for years.
if there's one thing i know, it's the rapidly increasing failures of the united states medical-industrial complex. yes- people are dying because they cannot afford medical care here. I WAS DYING BECAUSE I COULDNT AFFORD MEDICAL CARE HERE. *DURING THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION*
our friends are suffering in silence. our family members are suffering in silence. our neighbors are suffering in silence.
if you don't know anyone with long covid, its not because it's not happening- it's that nobody has told you yet.
free startup idea: bf-on-demand for the girls who want to be alone 99.1% of the time but then will wake up on a random friday and think “absolutely insane to me that nobody asked me on a lunch date today”
damn idk if the nft groups even *realize* the girls have ETH and are making buying decisions based on who has the least sexist/least sleezy/not locker room talk communities
@Black_siren23
i think there's some level of miscommunication/misdirection happening here (idk?). i'm saying incomparable because i fully understand that me being upset by witnessing a genocide and the dystopian nature of american culture that's happening isn't on the same level as living
@makeupartist524
i forgot my cats name when i had covid in january 2022, which kicked off months of severe memory issues. thankfully, it did resolve over time- but was so scary. now it seems like everyone i talk to is having new memory problems but not making the connection to covid 😵💫
📝 the chant is actually:
BIDEN BIDEN
YOU CANT HIDE
WE CHARGE YOU
WITH GENOCIDE
"biden" can also be interchanged with other leaders names, bibi is common
please stop using islamophobia and ignorance to instill terror on students and call for their doxxing
HORRIFYING!! Students
@Penn
gathered today chanting “We want Jewish genocide” and claimed all Israelis massacred by Hamas on October 7th were legitimate targets of resistance.
@Penn
what are you doing to protect your Jewish students?
@StopAntisemites
nothing in my life has radicalized me harder than getting robbed at gun point and then immediately having chicago PD try to force me to identify a totally innocent 16 year old black kid as the perpetrator
if cops walk over a mayoral outcome, the city is better off without them.
i welcome people changing their attitudes and opinion on the severity of covid and general risk comfort, i do, but to blame another country when ours has been leading the charge of dropping all precautions is insane
If you believe that Palestinians are allowing their families to be used as human shields, please understand that you have some racist tendencies that need immediate attention. Seriously. I'm worried about you.