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i’m kinda lonely

[yaml @blended_jpeg]

bad claude..

[Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg]

Note to my younger self, though it applies at any age:

Over your life, there are going to be thousands of times that you get triggered — something happens that makes you feel insecure, anxious, jealous, threatened, etc

How you respond is going to determine the quality of your relationships.

If you build your emotional capacity and resilience by learning how to move through the feelings without dumping them on others, your relationships will have much more safety and trust and connection.

The more offended you are and the more you respond from that insecure or entitled place, the more you are going to push people away even though your desire is the exact opposite.

When you do inevitably get into conflict, every conflict you have could be the seed of resentment and bitterness, or the seed for more connection and a better solution.

That’s what I would have tried to master much earlier in life — how to build more emotional capacity so that I don’t act in ways that bring me further away from people and how to have a conflict in ways that bring me closer to them instead. This is something that you can learn intellectually, but you also need to learn it emotionally to be able to use it when you really need it.

[gator @tfortren]

i’m like, completely fucked

[gator @tfortren]

@JadeAtomik Dated a black being an unironic reason to dislike someone in the age of the Internet is dystopian

[gator @tfortren]

@JadeAtomik Damn wtf I think we used to share a Discord server way back in the day

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

We are entering the era of Fintech 3.0.

Regulatory clarity, growing consumer adoption, and low-cost chains have paved the way for a golden age of building in crypto — and at YC, @base and @coinbase we want to fund builders to seize this moment.

@harjtaggar and @jessepollak sat down to discuss what kinds of companies they're most excited to see, why this is such an exciting time, and what the future could look like onchain.

00:00 – The Golden Age of Crypto
02:00 – Jesse’s Path to Coinbase & Base
04:00 – From Fintech 1.0 to Fintech 3.0
07:00 – Why Lowering Costs Changes Everything
10:00 – L1 vs. L2, Simply Explained
13:00 – How to Build Your First Crypto App
16:00 – Regulation: Bottleneck or Unlock?
19:00 – Stablecoins as the Killer Use Case
23:00 – Beyond the Dollar: Local Stablecoins
27:00 – Tokenization of Assets
31:00 – New Asset Classes & the Creator Economy
35:00 – What Coinbase Looks for in Founders
39:00 – The Future of Crypto in 10 Years

[gator @tfortren]

@jpsin1 @elonmusk @UN @DrSJaishankar @antonioguterres @RishiSunak @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @narendramodi These aren't Hindus, but police officials. Our minority groups (including Hindus) are not going to be made scapegoats for your anti-Muslim rhetoric. Stop pretending like you care about people here if all you'll do is spread rumours.

[gator @tfortren]

@Dubeyjiofficial @RealDubeyji If you’re a Bangladeshi on Twitter, community note this idiot. Here’s instructions:

https://t.co/VcNj5T0jUl

[gator @tfortren]

Not even the bras are safe

[gator @tfortren]

New Bangladeshi users on Twitter might just be the most interesting breed of weirdo I’ve ever seen. One for the books.

[Sami @ZulkarnainSaer]

𝐃𝐢𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐦𝐢 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐖’𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢 𝐆𝐮𝐡𝐚 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞!?

Despite spending very little time in Dhaka, she attempted to present herself as an authority on the events in Bangladesh. She attended the press conference held by Mohammad Ali Arafat, the state minister for information and broadcasting, at the BTV premises for foreign media to showcase the extent of state property damage, and she was convinced. How can you so confidently assert that a third party was involved? @debarati_guha , did it ever occur to you that this could be a mass uprising of Bangladeshis who have had enough of this authoritarian-kleptocratic regime for 15 years? Oh, wait, why would you think that way when our neighbouring country has kept her in power by brute force to extract every last bit out of these 148,460 square kilometers?

This is why you so confidently state that "no political parties have asked for Hasina's resignation." This statement shows a complete and utter lack of awareness on your part, as the main opposition @bdbnp78 has called for her resignation, and 26 parties have concurred with that call. The people of Bangladesh are calling for her resignation.

If we needed further proof that she’s a spin doctor for the @albd1971 , her emphasis on the farcical National Day of Mourning was it. No, the people of Bangladesh did not observe this. Did you not see that Bangladeshi social media had red profile photos in defiance of this cynical call for mourning?

What is more dangerous is her normalization of torture in the name of remand by using both-sideism. "We have seen there was torture also when the opposition was in power..." This is typical apologist behavior. She also says that police shouldn’t have shot at students. So, Ms. Guha, it’s okay to shoot at four-year-olds and anyone else other than students? It’s okay to shoot at “third parties”?

𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒎𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑺𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒌𝒉 𝑯𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒂’𝒔 “𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅.” 𝑵𝒐, 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝑩𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒂, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝑺𝒘𝒂𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒊, 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒓𝒔—𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆. 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒐𝒓.

When the interviewer asked if there would be accountability for the violence against the protesters, she mentioned the “national day of mourning” and the potential ban on @BJI_Official -Shibir. So she has concluded that it was Jamaat-Shibir who caused the carnage. If she had just a little charm and a better grasp of the English language, I’m sure she would have said, “That's it, guys—signing off…nothing to see here. Sayonara…”

Ms. Guha’s six-minute segment just undid the decent work that @DeutscheWelle has done on the state-sponsored violence in Bangladesh since the 15th of July. @dwnews couldn't find a more inarticulate and unintelligent person if they tried. She waffled and at times came across as if she didn’t even understand the questions.

Please, DW, consider not to involve her in your coverage of Bangladesh.

[gator @tfortren]

The only way we can politically restructure Bangladesh is by:

A) Radical cessation of economic participation

B) Two terms max presidency, which stops monopolisation of power.

Mass shutdown enthusiasts arent dumb, its intentional financial suicide because they dont wanna die.

[gator @tfortren]

@theneedledrop Why do you think Eminem consistently makes it in the Top 5 lists of the most prominent rappers in the scene? I don’t understand how his contemporaries see his newer stuff and think it’s even remotely interesting, especially when a lot of them have made far better albums since.

[Shroomie @shro0omie]

so pissed people think I'm a liberal when I'm clearly an anarchist.

[gator @tfortren]

@jacksfilms @YouTube @TeamYouTube you might wanna see what your favourite "creators" have been up to

[jacksfilms @jacksfilms]

Sssniperwolf just doxxed me on her IG.

Creepy, gross, violating.

What you do is disgusting. You steal content AND stalk youtubers.

@YouTube demonetize this dangerous "creator" or just get her off your platform. She posted an IG story right outside our home and deleted it.

[gator @tfortren]

@Cobratate no he isnt, and elon will be the first person to tell you

[gator @tfortren]

@sssniperwolf has never been told no for the last 7 years and it shows

[gator @tfortren]

Tweeting this as proof that I was here before Bengalis started thinking Twitter's cool

[gator @tfortren]

@KiraBuckland ok so me and a couple of my friends are REALLY big fans of Beatrice and the way you say “I suppose” so we made this: https://t.co/oYp4P03boW

Thanks to user @AnimePoster9513 on YT for making this possible.

Hope you enjoy this, I suppose.