Sean Smith

We are not fighting over policy or political party.

We are fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness—or cruelty and rage.

Choose your side.

Dear Justice Kavanaugh: it doesn't matter if it's going to be "messy". Your job is to interpret law, not policy. Do your damn job.

🤔

I have no problem with virtue signaling. Hate has been given a megaphone and they have no problem amplifying those voices. There should be no shame in amplifying ours.

Some Louisville coffee shops insist that ICE be served with a smile. Others, like Safai at Logan Street Market have whistles behind the bar. Also at the alcohol bar at the market too. Caffeinate accordingly.

Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Blumenthal: "I'm a no vote on that spending bill unless there are conditions that require ICE to go to a judge, to get a warrant, as well as other kinds of constraints -- the use of masks, the non-identification, the unmarked cars. These secret police, totalitarian tactics need to be stopped."

Dear politicians, if you're not running on a platform of "we will undo all of this chaos" this election season, I will do everything I can to ensure you are primaried.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell, 1984

I don't want to hear a damn thing about what anyone said about Charlie Kirk. This is vile coming from anyone, let alone the supposed leader of a country.

Every accusation is an admission?

I've never seen anyone shoplifting food and neither have you.

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Folks, this isn't to any of you specifically because I've seen more than one person doing it.

SUGGESTING THAT A BROWN WOMAN WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO REBUKE/TROLL A WHITE MAN

is super duper fucking racist on a pogo stick.

Please do not do that.

Enjoy that it will make Trump mad, sure.

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

It's weird how complicated and simple migrating my account to a personal PDS server was.

Trump announces 'TrumpRx' website for pharmaceutical drugs after Pfizer deal Trump said the move will help improve healthcare access for low-income Americans.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

Trump in 2011: "If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the only who has to get people together!"

So exhausting..

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

It's there now.

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

The punch line. Seriously. 🤣

As a Xennial, this is a sobering thought. Folks in the thread point out Heroin having a similar effect. Certainly something for later when I have time to think about this more.

Not sure who needs to hear this other than some coworkers, but...

Not every announcement in Slack needs "@here" and "@channel" should never be used, ever.

starting to think we should give "strange women lying in ponds distributing swords" a chance as a basis for our system of government

Boss move: Coworker just said that he was going to miss the upcoming meeting, but that we should admit his AI notetaker so he can review the transcript/notes.

Ain't gonna lie. I think I've finally found my favorite use case for AI 🤣. Just can't wait for the first meeting with only AI notetakers.