Alison Platypus

she/her. Probably busy screaming about the @MapleLeafs, politics, or cute animals. Sometimes I bake things and Instagram them as @AlisonPlatypus

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

@Doc_RPS This is why I wanted to fight Rutger Bregman for all of HumanKind. Sure, people can be nice, but also have you lived under a rock for your whole life? Are you blind to the world and human history??? My Jewish family, living and dead, would like a loud word or two

[David Zipper @DavidZipper]

I’ve spent much of this year learning about car bloat, the process through which smaller vehicles are being replaced by increasingly massive SUVs and trucks.

What I’ve learned: Huge cars are terrible for society, often in ways that are hidden.

A summary 🧵

[The Onion @TheOnion]

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens https://t.co/yZJFd1RxbO

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

@krassenstein This is partly untrue. Ulysses S Grant was arrested for speeding on a two-horse carriage in 1872.

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

@SpotifyCares I've just been kicked off my family plan? You spammed me with emails so that my email started marking them as spam, so of course I wasn't going to see an email telling me to verify. Please help me rectify this situation, because this is absurd.

[Julian Gough @juliangough]

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public.
🧵

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

Hey @Ritzcrackers have you ever made double stuff cheese crackers be maybe the best snack

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

@Ridz_Mystique HELLO THIS GAME MIGHT KILL ME

[The Mountain Goats @mountain_goats]

so I was washing potatoes last night when I got excited

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

Really sad to lose my favorite journalist at @theobserver . Huge thank you to @AlisonKuznitz for keeping us all updated! You're a rockstar and @masslivenews is incredibly lucky to have you!

[Alison Kuznitz @AlisonKuznitz]

Today was my last day at The Charlotte Observer. Every single moment of this job has been a personal and professional rollercoaster — and I'm feeling so lucky to have covered local government and the pandemic here.

I'll be joining MassLive as a State House reporter next week.

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

An updated but incomplete list of things I despise, in no particular order:
Bigotry
Fleas
Open-mouthed chewing
Dealing with DMVs

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Here's video I found of Marjorie Taylor Greene ranting at David Hogg again, this time in the hallways of a House Office Building. Greene's rant is then drowned out by loud chants of "enough is enough" from March for Our Lives supporters. What Greene says is beyond disturbing.

[Alison Platypus @AlisonPlatypus]

Well, the GameStop affair just got a lot less funny

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

So I guess Operation Warp Speed was supposed to be an ironic name? https://t.co/5enRQsJkTY

[Governor Kate Brown @OregonGovBrown]

I am demanding answers from the Trump Administration. I am shocked and appalled that they have set an expectation on which they could not deliver, with such grave consequences.

[Governor Kate Brown @OregonGovBrown]

Last night, I received disturbing news, confirmed to me directly by General Perna of Operation Warp Speed: States will not be receiving increased shipments of vaccines from the national stockpile next week, because there is no federal reserve of doses.

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

This is insanity

[Taniel @Taniel]

Rick Scott, who is personally and directly responsible for disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of Floridians while he was Governor, just voted to overturn Pennsylvania’s election and the will of millions of voters there.

Disenfranchisement as an agenda holds together.