E M 🚀

International UX Man of Mystery

Mostly on Threads now.

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

Hmm... why is there suddenly a bunch of random crap with stars in my notifications?

[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

A shark can swim faster than me, but I can run faster than a shark…

So in a triathlon, it would all come down to who is the better cyclist.

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

v. cool.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

This is John Lyke, who has a very cool niche.

He went to film school and was a pro rollerblader & snowboarder.

This venn diagram of skills makes him an expert “blade camera operator”, a job that involves filming with a $100k camera while on roller blades.

You may have caught his footage in HBO’s fictional re-telling of the 1980s LA Lakers (“Winning Time”).

The basketball scenes are lightly co-ordinated and — to keep the action as real as possible — the players just go hard for 10-15 plays in a row and they take the best footage to edit.

End result is 💯.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

This picture is definitely not taken from a space alien virus horror movie.

[Boston.com @BostonDotCom]

NASA’s first asteroid samples land on Earth after release from spacecraft https://t.co/Uv1SFxOOry

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Rupert Murdoch is the most poisonous individual of my lifetime.

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

Solid thread.

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

I’m a mother of six, and a Mormon. I have a good understanding of arguments surrounding abortion, religious and otherwise. I've been listening to men grandstand about women's reproductive rights, and I'm convinced men actually have zero interest in stopping abortion. Here's why…

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Would you rather live in 2023 or a hundred years ago in 1923? 🕰️ Let's take a journey back to the Roaring Twenties and see if it's as glamorous as we imagine.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Our planet has just endured the hottest summer on record.

Climate breakdown has begun.

We can still avoid the worst of climate chaos. We don’t have a moment to lose.

https://t.co/PCETCQFsqW

[Peter Sinclair @PeterWSinclair]

70,000 people trapped in a desert by extreme rain, running out of food, with rumors of disease spreading, and porta-johns overflowing - but determined to keep the party going, is such a great metaphor for our civilization right now.
https://t.co/iTQj6JashK

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

We are the only country in the world that has this problem. Every other one has solved it, as could we.

This is a choice.

[Karl Jacoby @karl_jacoby]

New school year, new school shootings. When will we ever take steps to stop this madness?

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

Yet another way in which Brexit sucks.

[Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward]

THREAD: In 2018, a new EU law on "cross-border portability of online content" meant UK users of subscription streaming services such as Now TV or Amazon Prime Video could watch the content they paid for anywhere in the EU. (Including live sport.)

Brexit put an end to that.

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[Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis]

This is fascinating...
Exclusive: Rare Portrait of Enslaved Child Arrives at the Met https://t.co/yPRrARoFWB via @nytvideo

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

End private jets. Just fucking end them. And declare climate emergency already. Stop fucking around with irreversible Earth breakdown. Let's end this heat nightmare and dismantle the fossil fuel industry that is causing it.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

The vast majority of America's debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely flout the law.

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[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

Important reminder.

[cats with jobs 🛠 @CatWorkers]

@EW @petsematarymov See also:

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Gun violence isn’t an act of nature. It’s preventable. Living like this is a choice Republicans are making for America. https://t.co/0XUSN2fe7o

[E M 🚀 @emaehl]

Morally ambitious thread!

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This is the story of one of the most inspiring schools on the planet. It's sometimes described as the 'Hogwarts for do-gooders', and when I visited the school in March of this year, I was absolutely blown away. 🧵👇