Cameron Messinides

front-end developer, designer, and journalist • previously: co-editor-in-chief at the @KenyonCollegian • he/him

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

my 11yo brother sent me his Christmas list and I'd like to call attention to the part where he asks for James Joyce's Ulysses and one bullet point later suggests "a fancy spinning top"

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@thomas_j11 @jmartinwrites @evey_weisblat @dmj961 @bubbeboy I figured out the typo eventually, but for a minute I was really confused how I became synonymous with "ambitious"

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@sciencenerdbill are those...baked beans...?

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@jmartinwrites let me know if I can do anything. thinking of you, and sending love 💙

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

At City Hall in Philly and folks have set up a literal Donald Trump punching bag for people to wail on. This kid MEANT it.

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@jmartinwrites @golfdaddii oof, we may have crossed the bit horizon. i'm not sure what i have left in the tank

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@thomas_j11 @golfdaddii 🙏

[Tariq @bealestreetpoet]

but actually my nana is working the polls & she’s 68 with heart problems. if you’re feelin guilty or generous, buy my nana’s dinner tonight. I worked the polls with her in 2016 and we were exhausted after. I want to make this evening as comfortable as possible for her

[Mayor Cherelle L. Parker @PhillyMayor]

We increased our #PHLRentAssist funding. Qualified residents can now receive up to $1,500/month to pay rent.

This increase automatically applies to tenants that already applied for Phase 2 funding, as well as new applicants.

Apply by Sept. 30: https://t.co/3Kdejb1uzv

[Philadelphia Housing Action @PhlHousing]

BREAKING: WE FUCKING WON https://t.co/uam47dMQdK

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@SomeoneBeauvoir @gbird2018 @golfdaddii make the Benches our mascot 2k20

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

k*nyon students literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

[Terra Oliveira @terraoliveira_]

PHILLY! Join us tomorrow (8/31) at 2pm at 1339 Chestnut to demand no evictions, no rent / mortgage debt for the duration of the pandemic, & to house all unhoused Philadelphians!

Organized by Philly @pslweb, endorsed by @PHLTenantsUnion @westphillynhcd @215studentunion & more.

[Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks]

new consumer rights laws that require companies to say what the fuck kind of flavor "arctic rush" is supposed to be

[Hanif Abdurraqib @NifMuhammad]

for columbus folks: there are small groups of armed militia folks around the statehouse. If you are planning on being out today, be safe, keep your folks close to you, etc.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

The fact that so many of you think disabled people calling Chadwick Boseman “disabled” is an insult to him is entirely the problem.

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@apricotpoet Of course! always happy to put more pictures of my son on the tl :)

[Cameron Messinides @cmessinides]

@apricotpoet lol and this is him on good behavior -- usually he just sits on the keyboard. He's a troublemaker but we love him