💖🦇 willow moline

Curious, fandom-loving, greyhound pal. Managing Support Engineers @pagerduty. Trans rights are human rights. Black Live Matter. She/her. Views are my own

[Carla Cevasco, PhD @Cevasco_Carla]

You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.

[Bob Wachter @Bob_Wachter]

I’ve been gratified hearing from many people who have said that they’ve followed my lead in deciding what they'll do, and not do, in various stages of the pandemic.
It’s a particularly confusing time now, so today’s 🧵 is a summary of the choices I'm making these days. (1/25)

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

It sucks when folks don’t understand the fight against fascism is one fight, because the fascists do. They’re attacking trans, gay, and all queer folks. They’re attacking the teaching of race and Black voters. And they’re attacking women’s right to abortion. It’s one fight.

[Rhian Beutler @rhiankatie]

Why we can't stop saying gay, a story

On the first day of my senior year of high school, a new boy showed up in my AP English class.

He had transferred from a prestigious private school to my public school, and I was confused.

I asked him why he moved and he shrugged

1/x

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@EldritchSyrup Other people wrote like this? How did they ever pass their previous courses? 😱

[Robyn Pennacchia @RobynElyse]

There is a *massive* amount of social power in being able to get away with being an asshole or doing or saying things that make people feel shitty without those people feeling like they can say something back to you about it.

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

We should be ramping up a primary care-based, universal medical care response to Covid-19. Instead we’re pulling out the rug from under our medical measures — even as we discard public health interventions.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

Idaho is close to passing a law that would make providing trans teens with gender affirming care punishable by LIFE in prison!

This is life-saving care that is standard across the world. It is care that every national and pediatric organization supports.

This needs to stop!

[Cher Scarlett 🌌 @cherthedev]

WE DID IT!

I've spent countless hours working on HB 1795 with @LizBerryWA, @KarenKeiser1, @wela_law, @IfeomaOzoma, @nsapiro, writing to senators (like @KenFockele!), house representatives, journalists, and public outreach.

I'm so grateful for everyone.

https://t.co/vZlpOwNOSE

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@nothe @chris_page Uhhhhhh it’s always an adventure to see what kind of nonsense y’all get up to in sessions where I’m out. 😅
I was thinking more seagulls stop it now backpack.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

103 years ago this week, 60,000 workers brought Seattle to a standstill in a five-day general strike. Right now, 300 striking @teamsters have halted the city's construction industry, and are still holding the line as they fight for what they deserve. https://t.co/exQgEMKg39

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

Navid is a treasure and a sheer delight to work with.

[Navid نوید @Rahsfan]

Any smaller tech companies looking to get their financial operations in order? I’m open to new possibilities…

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@nothe Don’t worry, your glowing halfling buddy has got you 😭🤣

[#EndTheSiegeOnGaza @AdalahJustice]

White supremacy always protects white supremacists.

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@KentBeck Keeping folks in dev away from customer interactions helps to prop up development work as inherently more valuable than customer facing work. Both are vital, but one gets dismissed and undervalued.

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@neil_killick The support team probably wishes that distance was smaller too! If they haven’t been outsourced or otherwise siloed away from development there can be fantastic outcomes when devs build strong relationships with folks on support.

[💖🦇 willow moline @wcmoline]

@sigje Some dog rescues will gladly take blankets for their kennels. That’s one that has felt good to me to feel like that special human/canine love continues to make the world a little better.