Alex Fernie

I perform at UCB, write/direct things like Childrens Hospital, Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Hotwives of Orlando and I drink milkshakes. Now you know me.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

I saw some of the absolute worst tweets I’ve ever seen today.

[StudiocanalUK @StudiocanalUK]

Remembering the brilliant Marjane Satrapi, the extraordinary artist and filmmaker behind Persepolis.

Through this deeply personal and powerful film, she gave audiences a story of identity, freedom, exile and resistance that continues to resonate across the world.

[Film The Police LA @FilmThePoliceLA]

It’s amazing how many people don’t know the difference between Polymarket
and vote counts.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

Ted Chiang, hitting this one absolutely out of the park.

"Faking the moon landing is a good step toward faking a Mars colony, but it’s not a good step toward actually putting astronauts on Mars."

https://t.co/hH1Bx3QwjY

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@Srirachachau Extremely excited to see what he does over the next several decades.

[Audrey Kaufman @KaufmanAudrey]

This what companies adopting AI sound like

[Ryan McComb @ryanjmccomb]

CAGOV primary splits mainly by density, not income: Hilton wins the low-density precincts at every income level, and the dense urban cores break Democratic; Becerra the urban tier; Steyer the very densest, regardless of income.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@dnlklr @frostysno3 But that's a different issue. You were talking about why it takes so long... and there's an answer!

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

People are going to freak out, like they do every 2 years, because they refuse to learn that the initial votes counted in CA are always far to the right of whatever the actual results end up being.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Party politics isn’t a good way to look at places with long term democratic majorities, like California. The same interests that fund republicans are still giving money in California, they’re just giving it to a set of democrats.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@dnlklr @frostysno3 Realistically, it COULD be done faster. But people implying there's some sort of sinister partisan conspiracy at work at best, or a way to crack down on making it easy for ppl to vote. Or both.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@dnlklr @frostysno3 It doesn't. But ballots dropped in mail boxes yesterday or the day before take a number of days to get to the election centers, then get processed, then get counted/signature checked, and then un-matched sigs get notified and cured.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

It’s kinda sweet if you imagine that Zach Sokoloff’s mom knew her was gonna lose embarrassingly, but just wanted to support him in his little hobby.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@aw_wally @dnlklr Ohhh, I see. You don't WANT to understand simple concepts. Got it.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@aw_wally @dnlklr (But also, this year's weird because of the fears of the jungle primary locking out Dems and people waiting to strategically vote, so who knows what that shift will look like.)

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@aw_wally @dnlklr Some of it is rural vs urban (rural votes counted faster because there are fewer of them.) Some of it is age (older people tend to vote earlier, younger people procrastinate. Don't know why.) Urban + young tend to be bluer.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@aw_wally @dnlklr I mean... yes. That's exactly what happens, especially since ballots do not need to be received today. Has your ballot already been counted?

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@dnlklr (which is doubly true this time since there was the whole "Dems don't vote until the very end to vote strategically" thing)

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

@dnlklr I mean... the explanation is obvious and laid out every single election. So either that's CA's typical voting pattern or every single election Republicans win and a massive, decades long conspiracy to change those results (except in the places where reps win) happens perfectly.

[Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex]

That even happens in years where there ISN'T a push to have Dems vote at the last minute so they can vote strategically. There's likely gonna be a big Republican attempt to pretend the initial results being different from the final results is suspicious.