Peter Flynn

Software, UX & miscellaneous griping. Sr. Engineer building collaboration technology at @Adobe.

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

It's unacceptable for policing to look like this in America. This should both frighten and outrage anyone who wants the US to remain a free society.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

Cutting US STEM funding in half is exactly what you’d do if you wanted the US to lose to China

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

Your reminder that Democrats have won 6 of the last 7 elections by popular vote.

And it's about to be 7 for the last 8.

In any other republic or democracy - none of which have the Electoral College - we would have been referring to the last 30 years as a Democratic Dynasty.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

Someone who has never once sacrificed their own interests for the greater good of the country – who actively *ducked* duty to the country, even – has no business asking to be its leader.

Aside from any of his other flaws, that is enough to be utterly and fully disqualifying.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

"Trump is humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first. He is capable of acting ONLY in his own interests."

I will never understand how a man gets to cloak himself in the label "America first" when his whole life and whole presidency were always, 110%, "ME first"

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

My Final Plea To EVERY Voter:

I come from the populist GOP base. I voted for Trump in 2016. When I publicly turned against Trump in 2018, I took a blowtorch to my career. I lost everything. But I did it bcuz I believe Trump is everything our Founders feared. He lies every time he opens his mouth, he believes he's above the law, he wants to be an authoritarian, and he's humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first.

I'm not asking you to take a blowtorch to your career. But I am asking you to put your country's interests ahead of your own partisan interests.

Every day for the past 6 yrs, Republicans have told me, "Yes Joe, Trump is a bad guy, but...but the economy, but my taxes, but the Dems are communists, but...whatever."

Trump is way worse than a "bad guy." He's someone you would never work with or work for, someone you would never trust your wife or daughters with, yet you'd put him in the White House?

Start with his lying. NO OTHER POLITICIAN lies as much as Trump. He lies every time he opens his mouth. How can you allow your country to be led by someone who lies like that?

He has never believed the law applies to him. It's why he took classified docs and obstructed the search for them, and why he committed crimes trying to overthrow the 2020 election. He believes he's above the law. How can you vote for someone who believes he's above the law?

He wants to be a dictator. He's pledged to use the military to go after his political opponents, to shut down media outlets he doesn't like, to jail people who burn the American flag...the list goes on & on. A dictator is anathema to America. How can you vote for someone who pledges to be a dictator?

Finally, Trump is humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first. He is capable of acting ONLY in his own interests. It's why he so fucked up our response to Covid. He couldn't do what was best for the country when Covid hit. So many Americans died bcuz Trump was only capable of thinking about Trump. It's why when he lost the 2020 election, he couldn't accept the loss & concede. Because HE WAS CAPABLE OF ONLY CARING ABOUT HIMSELF. He couldn't put the country first.

How can you vote for someone FOR PRESIDENT who is humanly incapable of putting the country's interests first?

And how can you vote for someone who will NEVER concede when he loses an election? He won’t concede again if he loses this year. How can you support someone who refuses to accept the decision of the American people?

Trump is the EXACT OPPOSITE of how you raised your children. How can you vote for someone who you told your children NOT to be like in every way?

I'm not asking you to do what I did & take a blowtorch to your career. I'm just asking you to put your country's interests ahead of your own. Voting against Trump won't kill YOUR career. Our economy is doing fine right now under Biden/Harris. Crime is down right now. You're doing better financially now than you were when Biden/Harris got elected 4yrs ago, and you know it.

All I'm asking u to do is put your country first. Don't put a horrible human being back in the White House. Don't put the chaotic Trump shit show back in the White House.

I'm asking you to rise above your own selfish interests. I'm asking you to think beyond yourself. Your personal finances will be just fine. I'm asking you to set an example for your children. Do u really want them to have to ask you one day why you voted for a guy who actually tried to overthrow an American election? Really?

Kamala Harris loves this country, she'll defend our democracy, she'll abide by the rule of law, she'll focus on the American people and not herself, and she'll govern from the common sense center. You'll be just fine with her in the White House.

6yrs ago, I took a blowtorch to my career for doing the right thing. But you know what? I'm still standing. I'm okay.

Do the right thing. Rise above your partisan interests and do the right thing. You'll be okay too.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@RadioFreeTom Level 10 - patronizingly explaining to the person who created the thing they're explaining.

Level 20 - mansplaining to a *woman* who created the thing.

Level 1000 - when the thing is one of the current era's most famous cultural touchstones for misogyny and patriarchy.

[Renee @PettyLupone]

“Kamala Harris will protect your right to disagree with her” is one of the most powerful statements made yet in support of this ticket.

Thank you, Harrison Ford. 🗳️💙

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

And not only that, Elon is using your money to talk out of both sides of his mouth - to stoke religious division between Americans! https://t.co/9L8oPTJe4q

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

If you click on a Twitter ad, or buy a Tesla, or Starlink service - you are now providing the primary source of funding for Trump's ground game in the crucial swing states.

Consider that before you ever give them another penny.

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

New -- Elon Musk donated $75m to America PAC, which is doing the bulk of the Trump campaign's ground game work across the battleground states. Musk donated $15m in July, $30m in August and $30m in September, per FEC filings. Notably, he's the PAC's only donor

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Since judicial punishments in the US tend to be tough in general, I'm seldom in the lock'em up camp. But there needs to be a massive (FBI/brings in the Feds level) effort to find these culprits and severely punish them. For all the ways confidence and the reliability of our voting system has been damaged. Destruction of ballots takes things to a dramatic and unsustainable new level which tears at the fabric which still mostly ensures civic peace.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@soren_iverson I always wished for an "I'm willing to make illegal U-turns" option, at least

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@BadLegalTakes Is it possible to file an anti-SLAPP lawsuit against an entire state government agency? 😬

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@brannoningram @ethansteininger @jdan "Guy I did business with once saw something but when I asked for details to publicize it he wouldn't give any"... It's even worse!

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@fakehistoryhunt This would be extremely easy to do with Photoshop even before generative AI. Just find a stock photo of an old excavation site and composite that foreground onto the cathedral and city as background, then throw on a sepia-tone filter.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@noway421 @raxetul @LucaColonnello @mattpocockuk Plus branded types

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@GergelyOrosz Adobe has done this a bunch of times too! Hopefully going on the offense like this dissuades future patent trolls from trying in the first place...
https://t.co/grso8pNugs

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

Awesome and something to feel very proud of, but: counting individual satellites instead of *pounds* of payload launched may be overstating this given the advent of microsatellites like Starlink

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

We’re very lucky we have SpaceX

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@KyleCla21074039 @JustinIvie6 @PhilMctimoney @NateSilver538 WY gets 1 popular vote per 192,000 people.
TX gets 1 popular vote per 763,000 people.
People in TX count for way less under the EC.

[Peter Flynn @knownissues]

@DOnyali26 @KyleCla21074039 @JustinIvie6 @PhilMctimoney @NateSilver538 Right! There were like 1.5 M Republican votes in NYC + LA last election and none of them counted at all. That's like an entire South Carolina worth of Republican votes that got zero voice whatsoever.

Under the EC voters in only about 5 states effectively matter at all, sadly.