Allison Robins 🏳️‍🌈

I tweet about UX, current events, and spicy takes - in no particular order of preference (she/her). Opinions = my own.

[Janis Irwin @JanisIrwin]

I don’t ever want to hear you again claim to be an ally, Premier.

[ACLU @ACLU]

Cruelty is not a policy solution.

DHS must immediately end cooperation with Operation Lone Star.

It’s also past time for the federal government to step in to investigate these allegations and stop Texas’s human and civil rights disaster. https://t.co/pASeRnNEer

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

The man who got the “rights of unborn children" protected in Alabama's constitution has been arrested for sexual abuse of a child under 12 https://t.co/Ezij9z5RrX

[Meghan Ball @EldritchGirl]

As someone so succinctly put it on reddit:

[Marco Rogers @polotek]

Zuck innovated the fuck out of the internet. And he also harms millions if not billions of people with his tech. They're just not mutually exclusive. And treating innovation and success as synonymous is why innovators are allowed to harm people so often.
https://t.co/xPloqDf72y

[Drew Yewchuk @DrewYewchuk]

Wastewater above the approved water-quality limits being discharged into the environment seems like a public safety issue to me, but sure, whatever.
Which streams? Which mines?

[Amanda Hu @amandalhu]

Can’t wait to see what they say!

[Alberta MD War Room @AB_MD_WarRoom]

Good question from @staysaif about how reproductive rights can be protected under new minister of health anti abortionist Adriana Lagrange and then Danielle Smith did the "everybody knows [then says lies]" thing

[Dalia Hasan MD MSc CCFP @DaliaHasanMD]

OPSEU just put out a terrifying, black mirror style ad against healthcare privitization

[Alberta MD War Room @AB_MD_WarRoom]

She didn't care about conflict of interest laws and she didn't care about the prosecutor's independence, so why are we all astonished that she doesn't care about what Edmonton voters decided democratically?

[Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield]

Reminder that Tyler Shandro's law society hearing resumes in two weeks. https://t.co/Y4lBXMIBXl

[Alberta MD War Room @AB_MD_WarRoom]

Rural Alberta will soon have more MLA's than doctors. #abvotes #AbElection2023 #AlbertaElection

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

If in Lacombe-Ponoka you can compare a gay child to human feces and still win 72% of the vote, this is not a report card on the disposable politician, but rather on our society.

Alberta, we have some reflecting to do.

#AbElection #ableg

[Rachel Notley @RachelNotley]

Friends, we won Calgary-Glenmore by six votes in 2015. If you haven't voted yet, get to the polls. This election is so close, and every single vote matters. 🗳️

[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

Interesting analysis from @VoiceOfFranky and @EKOSResearch highlights the degree to which Alberta has embraced #misinformation.

Other studies find polarization & echo chambers can fuel spread of bunk.

Supports themes in @charlesrusnell piece (below) cc @UbakaOgbogu @Lorian_H

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

@NYTmag If US household wealth is the height of a chunk of Toblerone. Then Jeff Bezos' wealth is Mount Everest (if Mount Everest was five times taller).

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

Call me Karl Marx but I don’t think 8 Hollywood CEOs should make more money every year than ALL writers are asking for combined over 3 years

[Allison Robins 🏳️‍🌈 @allirobins]

My Twitter feed delivered today - a must-read article for anyone in product research or design that has found themselves questioning how we apply the concept of "empathy" in our discipline.