How is it I am 43 and I am just learning about Ida Wells???? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Weโ€ฆ ohh yeah, I went to elementary school in Texas. Racism that is why...not thhat junior high and high school in PA did much beter. Why? Racism (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/1plpug)
Iโ€™ve seen a lot of white people invoking MLK Jr. as they struggle with how to absorb current events. Take a read of this thread.
Here is a gift to white people who insist they know what Martin Luther King Jr. would have said. A thread
Hire Vicky! Youโ€™re not going to find a better open source strategist. She also happens to be a really great person.
VM (Vicky) Brasseur https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur
Last week Juniper Networks laid off its entire #OpenSource team, myself included. This means I'm now free to help other companies succeed with & through Free/Open Source...
White queers: if you think "rioting does nothing" then let me remind you about Stonewall Uprising - a riot after unprovoked police raid on gay bars. Stonewall is why we get #PrideMonth now. So eat your rainbow oreos and remember #pridewasariot.
Happy pride month ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Trans black and latinx women launched the gay rights movement at the Stonewall uprising. Corporations now cater to us white queers with rainbow cookies because BIPOC Were Tired of Police Crackdowns in their community. #PrideMonth2020 #stonewallwasariot
It's about goddamn fucking time.
Facebook employees revolt over Zuckerbergโ€™s stance on Trump arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20โ€ฆ
@farnhamstreet checking out your list of intellectual giants. Thx for putting this together, if you need help identifying intellectual giants who identify as female let me know.

In 2020 is just wrong to only have a list of men.

my favorite reggae artist of all time

Was it in your history text books? Wasn't in mine

By Emily Stewart

@farnhamstreet checking out your list of intellectual giants. Thx for putting this together, if you need help identifying intellectual giants who identify as female let me know. In 2020 is just wrong to only have a list of men. (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com/s/2jwmIV)
I'm anti-fascist. Pass it along.
I am an anti-fascist. Pass it along.

I FORGOT that Microsoft bought Wunderlist, lol. I was looking for a to-do tool. Going back to CalDav, lol.

Here is an article with thousands of retweets that's claiming a surge of new social media accounts with fewer than 200 followers in the last month and claims this is a "textbook sign" of coordinated disinformation.
Officials have seen a surge of social media accounts that have fewer than 200 followers created in the last month, a textbook sign of a disinformation effort. apne.ws/3by...
Lots of sirens in NE, hollywood area.

Resources for Learning to Teach Online

There is something very surreal about watching a live news event on TV while also hearing it outside your window.
One of the many marches going on right now just went past my apt in Hollywood. Based on my experience organizing large bike events, I would estimate the crowd to be more than 2K people - took 15 minutes to pass. 8 mins til curfew. #blmpdx
A good thread about charity and donations and impact thereof.
Good evening, everyone. Let's talk about money.
I keep getting ads to sign Trjmpโ€™s birthday card on YouTube and theyโ€™re getting progressively weirder. The most recent one used a slightly-out-of-tune โ€œDeck the Hallsโ€ as its jingle. What the hell?
If you need faces or specific locations blurred out from photos or video tonight, I'm stuck home due to health but I'm here all night, DMs are open. Can work fast and remove metadata.