Merissa Silk

It feels too unhinged for AI 😝

My favorite STEP alerts are the ones where our own government created the threat 🙄

Dear Spotify, I’d love to speak to the #ProductManager responsible for this

(Btw I hate every song in this playlist, which I think I find comforting based on this heinous title)

Photo of a cherry blossom tree, a church, and a wall with graffiti. Scenery on a main road in Berlin, on a sunny spring day.

It’s starting to get pretty here 🌸🌿☀️ #Berlin

The American dream starts with a good education.

Every student in the country will be worse off as a result of this reckless decision, and so will the future of our country.

A Memorandum from the Newly Established Department of Grammar Efficiency TO: Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies FROM: Department of Grammar Efficiency (DOGE) RE: Guidance on grammar The federal Government is eli...

INTERROBANG!? IT has the word BANG in it, and that sounds VERY POWERFUL. SO they are ALLOWED!?

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-m...

Apparently I’m not the only one using ChatGPT to therapize myself 👀

Germany, InterPride Issue LGBTQ Travel Advisories About United States At least one foreign LGBTQ rights group has already pulled out of WorldPride to “safeguard our trans and nonbinary staff” from persecution by the U.S. government.

1. Germany has issued a travel advisory for trans and GNC people who wish to travel to the United States.

International Pride organization InterPride has done likewise.

Travel may be dangerous with visa restrictions.

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I buy the DM crunchy because it’s the only one I’ve spotted without added sugar

Why yes, it’s perfect 🤣

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What’s the German word for the stress stage where you wake up and immediately start eating peanut butter directly from the jar

FOMO 😁

🤣🤣🤣

Monday ☕️🦊🥱

‘For those in the tech industry who supported this administration thinking it would mean less regulation or more “business friendly” policies: you’ve catastrophically misread the situation (which many people tried to warn you about).‘

Protect your peace.

Unsurprisingly such a trash answer to such an insightful observation and question.

I'm so embarrassed for our country. To our allies, I'm so sorry we have this orange shitstain of a president. I can't even imagine how betrayed Ukrainians must feel right now. Just deeply shameful all around.

Same girl

Yes! And even more now that they’re less frequent!

Don't be afraid.

Don't be afraid to speak or to act or to witness. Don't wonder who will fix this or come to save us.

We all have the power to affect change. To reshape our world into a better version of itself. Speak up, take action, bear witness, just...

Don't be afraid.

3 Ways That Gender Bias Fuels Employee Burnout In Women Women have higher rates of job burnout, partly due to juggling greater caregiving duties. But new research shows that gender bias in the workplace also plays a key role.

Gender biases that lead to burnout:
- women's overtime rewarded less than men's (overwork in women in presumed to be due to lower competence)
- women's efficiency undervalued
- women's fatigued is underestimated / men's is overestimated
www.forbes.com/sites/michel...

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On a relative scale of coping mechanisms, I think stress eating gluten free corn tortillas is acceptable, right?

👑 Jane Fonda with a mic drop

"Empathy is not weak or "woke." And, by the way, "woke" just means you give a damn about other people."

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

Makes my little #ProductManagement (& activist) heart pleased to hear 🔥

Earlier today I thought, someone should track this… and of course someone already is

(Yes, it’s just as depressing as you’d expect it to be)

Ohhhh thank you!

Wait what’s WAPO in Germany