Amanda Unvarnished

Life is short, buy the good coffee.

—@Wilbur72

Walk up to a friend, and ask them “Can you name this tune in one note” and then fart.

Never gets old.

—@Mrfunkedude

“He was genocidal. Now he’s contemplative. Are they two sides of the same coin? Does he like cats? Don’t miss the NYT’s profile of Thanos.”

—@Popehat

Literally, the first national media coverage I’ve seen that even attempts to properly characterize and provide the critical context necessary to understand the current state of #SanFrancisco.

Most reporting on the subject has been highly irresponsible. This isn’t. Here’s why.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/politics/san-francisco-crime-rate-what-matters/index.html

—@drewg

8/ The great disservice #Apple did the world was showing how it was profitable to treat the customer as an idiot.

“We know you don’t REALLY want a floppy drive.”

“We know better than you what to run on your device.”

And ultimately, “You can’t be trusted to program your own device.”

That is the same message the schools are giving kids with the locked-down laptops: “You can’t be trusted.”

In the 80s and 90s, teachers pulled me out of class to help them with computer problems.

—@jgoerzen

If thoughts and prayers did any good, all of mine would have seen Ted Cruz lose his job long ago.

—@georgetakei

Stopping gun violence is such a complex issue that only every other advanced nation in the entire world has figured it out.

—@Sundae_Gurl

Accessibility can be done, and frequently is done, from a place of saviourism.

This mindset is one where disabled people are tragic and helpless and must be saved by accessibility.

Saviours are not able to see disability as a social issue they see it as a disabled person issue.

We need accessibility practice to be led by people who see disability as the result of oppression of people with various impairments: you are disabled by society not your impairments.

When you use more progressive framings like the social model you can more clearly see that we all are responsible for inaccessibility, it’s not charity work, it’s deconstructing systems of oppression.

—@nickcolley

Sunday: “Sorry I can’t make your party. I don’t feel like getting shot today.”

Monday: “Sorry I was late to work. I didn’t feel like getting shot today.”

#gunviolence

—@ocsweetest

It’s weird that #Texas, a state stuffed to the gills with good guys with guns and Christian prayers, keeps having children get murdered there.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

—@Beeks

I have an idea that might result in some common sense gun laws. All governors, senators and state reps must do the cleanup and body removal when people are slaughtered in a mass shooting. Especially when it’s children. Knee pads and gloves, the whole thing.

—@scottjohnson

i wanna be in a book club but not like a book club where we read the same book. i wanna read my own book in silence in a room of other people reading silently, drinking wine or other beverages of your choice and ofc baked goods or some kind of cheese board.

—@missy_lynn

Don't forget: Giving a musician $10 is worth as much as streaming their song 1,000 times on Apple Music and 2,500 times on Spotify.

—@stevestreza