LoriHC @lorihc@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering manager, ice hockey winger, bike commuter. watchOS System Experience. She/her. Unlikely to respond to DMs; might reply to public @s. Please file Feedback, and post the number!
Joined Nov 2022
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I for one am shocked – shocked! – that cramming another lane onto the 101 while getting rid of the inner shoulders didn’t work https://sf.streetsblog.org/2023/04/12/not-a-surprise-101-freeway-widening-shows-negative-results/
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White man commits mass murder
•Media: He was a star athlete!
White teen commits mass murder
•Media: He was an average kid!
White man commits rape
•Media: He was a 3X all American!
Black teen murdered
•Media: He was on drugs
White supremacy in media is alive & well. Smh.
@starbreaker I haven't seen it!
I would love to see *all* guns banned. I would. But we can certainly start by banning the ones that can kill so very many people so very, very quickly, so a mental health crisis doesn't become a massacre.
It's probably always been the case that a few folks who set out to commit suicide by cop try to take as many others with them as possible before dying themselves... but it's only in the last few years or so that we've made it *so. fucking. easy.*
I've been thinking about her lately because [a] it probably should have been social workers/a mental health crisis team that responded, and [b] suicide by cop happens so regularly now that I bet everyone knows the term.
I've been thinking a lot about a former hockey teammate lately. She died in... 2005? It was a "suicide by cop," as someone explained to me—a term I'd never heard before. Apparently she'd locked herself in a closet with a gun, police responded, she shot through the door at them, and they fired back, killing her.
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Republicans will force a 10-year-old to carry her rapist’s baby to term, let a 6-year-old carry a gun, permit a 12-year-old to work an 8-hour shift in a meat packing plant and allow a grown man to marry a 14-year-old with a Judge’s consent, all while telling us that the reason they’re banning drag queens, gender-affirming care and books about Rosa Parks is that they want to "protect our kids."
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Instagram is so infested with crap spammy accounts. And reporting each one is a four-tap process. It’s like Meta is begging people to abandon it
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Can you imagine having the hubris to reverse a two-decade-old FDA approval of a life-saving abortion medication without any medical knowledge?
That’s some Olympic-level mansplaining.
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Always file the bug.
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Forced birth in a country with:
—No universal healthcare
—No universal childcare
—No paid family & medical leave
—One of the highest rates of maternal mortality among rich nations
This isn't about "life." It's about control.
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Outrageous! There is no precedent for what has happened to Black voters in Memphis TN, Jackson MS, or Charlotte NC!
🤔Well, unless you know anything at all about reconstruction. Then there's like, lots of precedent. Reconstruction 2.0.
But other than that, no precedent at all!
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North Dakota politicians just raised their meal reimbursement to $45 while rejecting a bill for free school lunch, which costs only $3 per meal. That means, for the price of one politician's lunch, you could feed 15 low-income kids — socialism for me, but not for thee.
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My daughter, who has had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this observation about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen:
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) has introduced a bill that would end corporate personhood with the goal of reversing #citizensunited
Thank you,
thank you, thank you @RepJayapal
We should keep pushing this until it is impossible to ignore.
Software engineering manager, ice hockey winger, bike commuter. watchOS System Experience. She/her. Unlikely to respond to DMs; might reply to public @s. Please file Feedback, and post the number!
Joined Nov 2022
