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[Hatim @hidossaji]

@united for the entire duration of my flight (UA22) from DUB to EWR, my screen was stuck like this. And before it got stuck the audio and video were out of sync. Will not recommend this airline to anyone. #TravelNightmare #FlightFromHell #AirlineFail #WorstFlightEver

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Since Don Jr decided he wanted to ridicule public affection between Walz and his wife, here is a montage of clips from the love affair that is Donald and Melania.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Republican Mayor of Mesa, John Giles, just announced his support for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. This is catastrophic for Trump as Mesa is the 3rd largest city in Arizona. Retweet so all Americans hear Giles’ critical message.

[Hatim @hidossaji]

@YouTube at least populate the screen with new videos from the channels I have subscribed to. #uxfail #YouTube

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.

It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.

But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.

There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.

[Hatim @hidossaji]

#Config2023 #figmaconfig Adding two more books to this years reading list! Great presentation by Ethan Eismann.

[Hatim @hidossaji]

#Config2023 Figma just introduced variables. #gamechanger

[Hatim @hidossaji]

Please sign: https://t.co/mglPicpCtM

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This is horrifying. The Iranian parliament votes overwhelmingly (227-63) to execute the 15,000 protesters they already arrested.

These were peaceful protestors simply seeking the right to basic justice and autonomy. Unacceptable and barbaric.
https://t.co/7mMd2hIwTb

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Marjorie Taylor Greene got $180,000 in business loans forgiven from the PPP program but said it's "completely unfair" for us to forgive student loans for working- and middle-class Americans.

You can’t make this stuff up.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

The Veep reboot looks amazing

[How Things Are Manufactured @fastworkers6]

This bad tomato rejecting machine. https://t.co/zlZmwPVrQs

[Hatim @hidossaji]

https://t.co/h9yxxGS7AN

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

At its core, Roe v. Wade recognizes the fundamental right to privacy.

When the right to privacy is attacked, anyone in our country may face a future where the government can interfere in their personal decisions.

Not just women. Anyone.

[Hatim @hidossaji]

#Alito #SCOTUS #AllMen #RoeVsWade #JusticeAlito

[Hatim @hidossaji]

https://t.co/2ejcvNQsiX

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

This is seriously f'd up: at-will workers quit their jobs for higher pay, old employer asks court to block them from starting said new jobs until they can re-hire, judge grants injunction preventing them from starting their new jobs. AT-WILL WORKERS.
https://t.co/LQx3mjY5ey

[Hatim @hidossaji]

@offerup @OfferUpSupport Why are you running scam ads? #scam #offerup #fail

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Tax breaks Republicans want to provide by repealing the estate tax:

–$88 billion to the Walton family

–$71 billion to the Jeff Bezos family

–$65 billion to the Elon Musk family

–$50 billion to the Bill Gates family

–$40 billion to the Mark Zuckerberg family

–$0 to the 99.9%