At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.
A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....
Today we say goodbye to this great blue bird
This logo was designed in 2012 by a team of three. @toddwaterbury, @angyche and myself,
The logo was designed to be simple, balanced, and legible at very small sizes, almost like a lowercase "e", a 🧵
This is proving to be a pretty popular move. Those bought into Musk’s vision are excited, as expected, those who aren’t seem relieved that the company they knew is officially gone.
Massive kudos to Snag Tights for setting an example of how to run a business. 👏
More companies should take a leaf out of their book and strive to be diverse and inclusive from the onset.
“What is the future of AI?”
Are we assuming AI development is unaffected by coastal cities disappearing into the seas in the next couple decades?
What infrastructure will be in place for all this tech development to continue uninhibited by worldwide climate catastrophe?
I think there’s a clear answer to this: this particular child sex trafficking narrative where the enemy is strangers (rather than family members, church leaders, etc) justifies a lot of racist and queer phobic viewpoints. It justifies a constant police state. /1
Toronto General Hospital just contacted me to let me know some of the medically necessary testing that I’m scheduled to have is no longer covered by OHIP and I must pay out of pocket on the day of testing to have it completed😭
THANK YOU @fordnation for healthcare privatizing
it should be illegal to spread bullshit like this, my mum has people her age trying to question ME because they read stuff like this and believe it…
no, kids aren’t requesting cat littler boxes in classrooms because they identify as cats. no, doctors aren’t doing this.
It would be amazing if Canada actually had an adversarial press who could say ‘the Premier is throwing your children on the fire so he can privatize healthcare’ instead of ‘the wait list is long’ which implies that the system is failing instead of being deliberately starved
Pride was always political. Pride never existed to make the public comfortable. Sorry you straights don't think it's cute and trendy to pretend to care about us anymore but pride is a protest and exists for us to loudly assert ourselves no matter how much you wish we'd go away.