Mike Sarasti

-------- | Previously CIO @cityofmiami | Musician | @rakermusic |

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

1/ Today, @cityofmiami was certified by @WhatWorksCities for its use of data & evidence to drive decision-making. I treasure this achievement. Data-informed work has been a priority goal since I started as Chief Innovation Officer 5+ years ago. Here's (long) 🧵 about our journey:

[⭐️Amanda Daflos⭐️ @AmandaDaflos]

Check out this starter pack of innovation and data leaders in local government who are moving to @bluesky ! Check it out and follow along with me, @publicinno and other great people doing real work in local government. Thanks @Sarasti ! https://t.co/Wg5L0EVxCI

[Jack Jenkins @jackmjenkins]

All politics aside: Again, as a former A/V guy, hard to imagine a situation that would make me *less* likely to try to fix a mic situation (assuming it's even their fault) than this.

I know folks who've cranked the mids and walked out over way less than this.

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

A few more tags since I no longer have reach here. Please see closed captioning observation above… @digiphile @hasanthehun @Esqueer_ @ProjectLincoln @YourAnonNews @cmclymer

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

Hey @x @elonmusk, please help me understand how a “Kamala” chant, gets transcribed as “Trump will love” by the closed captioning on here. I work with transcription services frequently and can’t wrap my head around a technical reason. Cc: @KamalaHQ

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Vice President Harris: We are all here because we are fighting for democracy. We're not about ‘the enemy within.’ We are all in this together

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

Since my posts don’t make the feed any more, tagging a few people with broader reach… @BrianBrackeen @MaxwellFrostFL @ArlanWasHere @levie @Acyn @TheRickWilson @atrupar @BillyCorben @ananavarro @Phil_Lewis_

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@JakeBlockchain @benedictevans Lots of thoughts on all of this… but maybe we hash it out offline… and hopefully we’ll have one of those feel-good “we didn’t agree on everything but our faith in discourse and humanity is restored” posts… and we can post a summary for the twitterverse. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@JakeBlockchain @benedictevans And happy to find time this week to properly hash this dialogue out.

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@JakeBlockchain @benedictevans Not at all. Plenty to make fun of in politics/gov. This routine was just racist. The comments weren’t even commentary on state of politics. Even as someone who’s been part of “the establishment” I also wholeheartedly support anti-establishment art/commentary. This wasn’t that.

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@JakeBlockchain @benedictevans Sorry Jake. No. I just reluctantly watched the full routine from your post. It was worse than I thought. This is not some 4th dimensional joke chess. This is just lazy, racist “comedy”. My past impressions have suggested that you’re better than this, dude.

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@MichelleObama: "I am praying that those of us contemplating voting for Trump or not voting at all will snap out of whatever fog we are in...I am worried that we will blow this opportunity to finally turn the page on the ugliness once and for all."

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@ArlanWasHere Don’t fuck with Pete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@michaelsayman I kinda want to get to know my followers a bit more… will they be the same ones over time? Kinda want to see a convo evolve over time with certain characters.

[RAKER @RakerMusic]

Whoa! Thanks for including us in this Top 30 along with all these amazing artists. From @ChappellRoan to @fontainesdublin 🤘🪩

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@ArielONeal 🔥🔥🔥

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

“It’s a bullhorn, not a dog whistle.”

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump just announced a “crime and safety” rally for next Tuesday in Howell, Michigan, a town that has been heavily associated with the KKK for decades. Indeed, just late last month White Supremacists marched in the town chanting “We love Hitler. We love Trump.” Some but not all of the reputation comes from the fact that a long time Grand Drago of the Michigan Klan lived there and his farm was a sort of home base for the Klan.

This is the kind of move that will be lost on many reporters and especially most out-of-state reporters. But it won’t be lost for a moment on Blacks and Jews from Michigan. It’s a bullhorn not a dog whistle.

We will work hard to defeat him. We are better than this.

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

A note from my friend Kaia 👇

[Mike Sarasti @Sarasti]

@SaifFl Hang time soon, brother.

[Joshua Eustis @telefontelaviv]

lol no we don’t, most of us just wanna chill

You hang out with assholes who are, in fact, weird