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[trevor @trev6k]

My Twitter feed: public fight videos, people dying, bad cops, the occasional political update

My Instagram feed: Cute cats, Raccoons, and a gorilla made it can’t pull a stick through a cage.

[trevor @trev6k]

Just found out the house of lords is decided by birth rite and members are appointed by royalty and bishops??? I don’t ever wanna hear the opinion of a britbonger ever again.

[trevor @trev6k]

If the acting VP is who certifies the election, I can’t wait to see “democratic insurrection” brainrot that follows after Kamala certifies herself the winner of the election lmao

[trevor @trev6k]

Y’all think the CIA is out here covering up Biden’s death and creating literal flesh masks so that’s they can pull strings and maintain control of the of the entire United States Government but they…they, uh…forgot how tall he was? Forgot to tell the actor to move slower??

[James Jinnette @james_jinnette1]

@amuse This could explain his height gain..

[trevor @trev6k]

He just has to live for another 8 months that’s all we need

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

2008 feels like a different universe

[trevor @trev6k]

Where is the advocacy group for the prevention of planting Bradford Pears

[trevor @trev6k]

He’s so back

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Great to see the sun again.

[Brianna Wu @BriannaWu]

Democratic operative here. If you insist on not voting, you leave people like me no choice but to focus on voters in the middle.

That means we won't be talking about universal health care, we'll be talking about compromising with Republicans on the border, budgets and prison reform. The choice is yours.

[trevor @trev6k]

Red rising isn’t the best series I’ve ever read but I cannot put it down. The pacing is incredible

[Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal]

Oklahoma Labor Commissioner Leslie Osborn (R) calls out State Sen. Tom Woods (R-Westville) for calling the LGBTQ community “filth”:

“We are not a top ten state, I don’t believe in gaslighting. We are a bottom five state. Acknowledge the problem.”

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

But they're BOTH so OLD! Gandalf can barely remember his passwords and even forgot that people called him Gandalf (yikes), while Saruman betrayed the Free Peoples of middle-earth and led an insurrection that stormed Helm's Deep. You can see how they're equally bad choices.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument.

I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses.

These words are fantastic for activating people, but they are also lies.

The US government currently spends around 50B per year keeping people housed. States, of course, have their own budgets. If Bill Gates spent the same amount of money the US does just to keep people housed, he would be out of money in 3 years. I think that would be a great use of his money, but it would not be a permanent solution.

The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake. They rely on looking at extremely low estimates of homelessness (which are never used in any other context) and include normal vacancy rates (an apartment is counted as vacant even if it's only vacant for a month while the landlord is finding a new tenant.) In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population. But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.)

Housing should not be an option in this country. It should be something we spend tons of money on. It should be a priority for every leader and every citizen. it should also be interfaced with in real, complex ways. And it should be remembered that the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO.

Sometimes they are opposed to it because they've heard stats that the problem is simple and could be solved very easily if only we would just decide to solve it, which is DOING REAL DAMAGE.

By telling the simplest version of the story, you can get people riled up, but what do you do with that once they're riled up if they were riled up by lies?

There are only two paths:

1. Tell them the truth...that everything they've been told is actually a lie and that the problem is actually hard. And, because the problem is both big and hard, tons of people are working very hard on it, and they should be grateful for (or even become) one of those people.

2. Keep lying until they are convinced that the problem does not exist because it is hard, it exists because people are evil.

Or, I guess, #3, people could just be angry and sad all the time, which is also not great for affecting real change.

I dunno...I'm aware that people aren't doing this because they want to create a problem, and often they believe the fake stats they are quoting, but I do not think it is doing more good than harm, and I would like to see folks doing less of it.

One thing that definitely does more good than harm is actually connecting to the complexity of an issue that is important to you. Do that...and see that there are many people working hard.

We do not have any big, easy problems. If we did, they'd be solved. I'm sorry, it's a bummer, but here we are.

[trevor @trev6k]

Going to see All American Rejects tonight. Hopefully they are handing out Bionicle at the door

[trevor @trev6k]

Nobody tell my bank account that I’m buying the Stormlight Archives in hardback since they’re on sale.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Way to talk in generalities Joe. Not saying there aren't a lot of fucked up things about pharma. That's why we created https://t.co/39PNLwZeYs. But to ignore that the same industry has saved who knows how many lives is bullshit and you know it.
It's also disrespectful to all the doctors, researchers and medical professionals that dedicate their lives to saving lives, like Dr Hotez and the 800k plus doctors in the country that believe vaccines save lives

You arent trying to find the ground truth on vaccines. If you were you would bring on someone who focused on debating the issue. Like @thereal_truther .

Trying to bully Dr Hotez is ridiculous. You have producers that will prepare you and you get to control the conversation.
@RobertKennedyJr also has a staff ready to prepare him, and these topics are what he talks about in every speech.

You both do this on a daily basis Dr Hotez works every day to try to find ways to help people.

Joe , you and @elonmusk's @twitter are the mainstream online media and your platforms have become everything supposedly wrong with MSM. You are driven by self interest. Just like the MSM always has been accused of.
And you both have earned that right. You busted your asses to be great at what you do and earned all you have accomplished.
But don't lie to yourselves and all of us and tell us you are different. You aren't.

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

conservatives are having a multi day meltdown over lululemon having a no chasing policy with shoplifters bc they have never worked a retail job and don't know that every store has had that policy for decades

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

THREAD: How to verify images online?

Social media is awash with false or misleading images, some of which get millions of engagements.

So, here's a simple guide on ways you can quickly check the veracity of an image you see on your social media feeds.

[𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓮𝓼 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽’𝓵𝓵 𝓑𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓨𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓐𝓼𝓼 @ass_beaters]

remind me never to take this exit in Seattle