My name is Nabeela Syed. I’m a 23-year old Muslim, Indian-American woman. We just flipped a Republican-held suburban district.
And in January, I’ll be the youngest member of the Illinois General Assembly.
the first checkmark, blue, indicates you’ve paid for it while the second, official, is verification. the third checkmark, kibeth, is a difficult and contrary one that can make others go where you wish while the fourth, dyrim, is a musical checkmark that allows or prevents speech
@esthercrawford @TwitterBlue So you’re taking the blue checkmark, which used to mean one thing, and now you’re making it mean a completely different thing, and you’re adding a new tag that means what the blue checkmark used to mean?
Do I have that right?
The conditioning around productivity begins at a vulnerable, young age.
WE ASK: “what do you want to be when you grow up?” And the answer is always a job. Notice we don’t ask: what do you believe in, what are you passionate about, what brings you joy?
Apps should not trap your files, YOU should have a data pool and then choose which front end (OS, app, website) you want to use to display, edit or share it! https://t.co/5nSPxoQgzr
Everything happening on Twitter now is a lot easier to understand if you‘ve ever had a younger sibling that invented a game and added a new rule every time they started losing.
Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him. https://t.co/aNZmqYwrJu
realized I was too online during christmas last year when my starbucks had a sign that said “it’s giving season” and before I realized what it meant I was like “yesss it is giving that”
The contradictory Oxford comma use, the missing punctuation, the random insertions of Elon-speak… It’s always immediately noticeable when copy editors get fired https://t.co/EewKnNgEN1
Jeff Bezos' housekeepers got UTIs from lack of bathroom access.
“For about 18 months, in order to use a bathroom...housekeepers were forced to climb out the laundry room window to the outside,” Mercedes Wedaa's lawsuit claims. story by @kylietcheung:
https://t.co/hEREOaoLFF
There is nothing better than waking up and enjoying a fresh, steaming cup of my own urine. Such a tangy way to start the day, and it’s scientifically proven to help brain cells grow. If you want to be like me, drink your pee.
It appears Elon Musk has fired the director of software engineering at Twitter who, with a team of researchers, found "Tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left."
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https://t.co/ySW6YSx0s8 https://t.co/SNcmzC6Zty https://t.co/Suxw2ZaF6f