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Shaughnessy Conley Speirs
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Product management | ADHD | GAD | MS | ACAB
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.
February 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Of all of the things I least anticipated being politicized and made hazardous from its governance being cut off at the knees, safe air travel is probably the farthest down the list. Mostly because of the vast value it has for capitalism.
February 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives." —Carl Sagan

Voyager 1 captured the "Pale Blue Dot" image #OTD in 1990. 🧪 🔭 🌍

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
February 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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We read smut because it’s nice to live in a world at least for a little while where the men actually like us.
February 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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35+ Dems plan to hold the Senate floor all night to oppose the confirmation of Musk-Trump funding freeze architect Russ Vought. THIS is how we fight back while in the minority.
(via @schatz.bsky.social)
February 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Strongly rec following Colorado Rapid Response Network and volunteering. They are currently live streaming on FB and multiple volunteers are standing witness and yelling in Spanish and English what rights the people targeted have. This is both ICE & FBI (based on visual ID in livestream) #copolitics
NEW: ICE operations are underway in Denver and Aurora this morning, following similar operations in Chicago and New York
www.9news.com/article/news...
www.9news.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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If you're protesting tomorrow:

"I invoke my rights to silence and counsel and will not answer questions without my attorney present."

MEMORIZE THAT, because aside from asking if you're free to leave (or providing ID if you're in a stop and ID state), that's the ONLY thing you ever say to cops.
February 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Update: I am keeping a very rough list of daily events for my Substack series, Fridays in Trumpland.

If today feels intense, well, that's because it is. And it's not over yet.
February 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
When I need a little pick me up I go watch the video of Elon Musk crying about Buzz Aldrin not saying he's a good boy
February 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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TOMORROW: We’re rallying at the Treasury building with @moveon.org to stop Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and tell this unelected billionaire to get his hands off our money. We hope you can join us if you’re in the D.C. area.
We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn
**Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...
www.mobilize.us
February 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I had such a weird moment of dissonance last week. Zoom call where we found ourselves litigating periods vs. underscores in SaaS versioning convention while in another tab watching a coup unfold in the US government. I love building products, but man, sometimes this pretense is unbearable.
February 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
February 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Just got this tip from an airline pilot
January 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.

Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I do wonder if part of the long game w/ freezing federal payments is to look like a hero when "he" fixes the problem he created, and make people happy to swallow what little they get.
January 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The new “Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism—Yes, You! Yes, Now!” zine makes a great gift for your liberal fam, friends, neighbors & coworkers!

Read, print & distro freely!

Full text & PDFs on @igd.bsky.social:

itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...
January 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Is someone already keeping a list of companies that are standing by their DEI commitments?
January 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You know what’s funny? Engineers and product both think they are always the scapegoats of the other.
January 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Are we really inaugurating on MLK day instead of doing what we would do if it was a Sunday (shift to the next day)? Nothing surprises me anymore of course but what an insult
January 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I think it’s so cute seeing British folks get upset about how Americans make tea. Like darling our favorite brewing method is in the Boston harbor
December 13, 2024 at 6:36 PM