Meggy Pepelanova

Tweets about game design, experience design, escape rooms, media innovation, activism, art

[emma ★ @rinasnights]

i hate how the current conversation around heatwaves is planting trees for shade and getting aircon rather than how are we gonna stop the temperatures from increasing even further

[Primzy @lovyPrimzy1]

To this day, whenever I like someone, I hear my grandma's voice in the back of my head asking, "Does he like your future?"

[alexa @alexadoingstuff]

Someone at work wore meta glasses once and next day there was a policy banning them. We don’t have to stand for this :-)

[Jim Babcock @jimrandomh]

This xkcd, written Aug 2018, accurately represented the professional consensus about the state of computer security, as a field. The state of the field has not changed much since then.
Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6 pose a problem mainly because this is the world they showed up to.

[Nick Mark MD @nickmmark]

The moral calculus here is simple.

For decades there was bipartisan congressional agreement to fund lifesaving programs. 80% of Americans agree with providing food and medical supplies to the worlds poorest people.

Elon was neither elected nor confirmed. He illegally and gleefully destroyed USAID, which did not save any money - in many cases he just disrupted distribution of supplies already purchased - but he did kill many children.

The closest analogy would be burning down a food bank causing people to die of starvation. It was an illegal act that was wasteful and caused harm. You can’t defend it by saying “what obligation do we have to fund food banks?”

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

remember when young people on TikTok discovered the Osama Bin Laden letter to America published on the Guardian site wherein he talks about the Zionist Israeli occupation and destruction of Palestine fully backed by the US creating resentment in the entire region, it went viral, and then the Guardian responded by deleting the article and TikTok banned any mention of it?

[Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos]

HEARTWARMING:

the coercive tools of an oppressive state are being used for an incongruously cutesy crowd-pleasing purpose (today only)

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If recording with glasses were the same as recording with a phone, the glasses wouldn’t exist. The concealment is the point. Bypassing consent is the point.

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

i’m not even joking when i say this instagram post changed my life and i have it all committed to memory.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Elon dared anyone to name someone USAID cuts killed and Nicholas Kristof, who did research on this, told Elon a lot of names and now Elon’s crashing the fuck out

[the brotherhood of evil lesbians @obiwormkenobi]

nobody wants to talk about labor trafficking because then they'd have to admit their comfortable world is held up by indentured servants

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Germany: "Air conditioning might cool you down for a moment, but..

nothing beats white phosphorus dropped on brown people”

[Rayyvana @RayyvanaTTV]

One of my friends bought a pair of Meta glasses so the whole friend group started referring to him as “the pervert” until he got rid of them

[techniacus @Techniacus]

You don't have to accept statements like this.
An example: My wife loves fireflies but we noticed there weren't as many around anymore. So I did a little research, found out how to attract more to our yard, and now a few years later our yard is packed full of them.
You can affect the world for more than you realize

[Mia ⚢ @depressolesbo]

not even a fringe opinion, this is genuinely like 85% of men I've had to be around the past 6 years

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[VARIEN @varien]

Millennials, it's time to choose your midlife renaissance

1. Be a steady adult in a young person's lif
2. Moderate your drinking and be quiet about it
3. Train for a marathon because you value health
4. Have a wanted baby (with a partner you genuinely like)
5. "We're deepening the relationship"
6. Learn an instrument badly and keep playing it anyway
7. Forgive one of your parents
8. Plant something that won't mature for 20 years
9. Take up a hobby with zero monetization potential
10. Decide what you believe instead of inheriting it

[freetofic (on 💙🌌 ) @freetofic]

It’s crazy to think I’m gonna live through the greatest extinction event our planet has witnessed in millions of years* & it will be the fault of 30 billionaires who brain damaged themselves into believing they don’t need the other 7 billion of us

*or die in it, who knows