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I’m a software engineer focused on early stage startups, interested in social justice and building cool, free, accessible tools for everyone.
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Nothing is better than buying an uncomfortably expensive tool, and then realizing it was a bargain after using it.

“DEI” wth a hard R

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Really hoping the allergens are ok today.

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

These headlines are not great

I'm listening to the Atomic Blonde soundtrack for the hundredth time, and, this movie came out 8 years ago?! Where is the sequel?!

Gaza officials says killing children has ‘become a pastime’ for Israeli soldiers.

Congratulations @katiehonan.bsky.social on writing the best piece of predictive science fiction of all time

Is it just me, or has the line for satire has never been thinner or moved as quickly

I saw the fox in Miller Woods this morning! Haven’t seen it in a few years, was so happy to be lucky enough to spot it, for one second, moving perpendicular to my path, as always. You can’t sneak up on a fox! #a2council

The best way to understand what it’s like to raise young kids is this puzzle, except each of your kids is simultaneously the wolf, the goat, and the cabbage: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf,_g...

remove a letter, ruin a movie. Pus in Boots

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

A grandma who works at Target. An advocate for farmworkers. A cancer researcher. A grad student who wrote an op-ed. A hairdresser. A sheet metal worker and loving father to an autistic child. At least two people who took a wrong turn on the same bridge in Detroit. A toddler.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

Michigan State University. The only University in Michigan that has balls. 🥳

TORNADO SPOTTED near Monette, Arkansas. (📸: Randy Smith)

racked myself in the nuts last night with a tripod and was immediately proustian madeleined to various points in my life. summer camp, dodgeball, errant knees and elbows cascading onto my balls through time

Is it just me or is Lenny’s Podcast becoming way more conservative and friendly to alt-right guests?

No criminal record, no gang ties, no tattoos, applied for asylum, father of a 9-year-old, government's case full of errors, sent to mega-prison anyway amp.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.

my mum engaging in her favourite garden hobby of Newt Bothering

Report: You Will Never Find Love Like 2 Teens Sharing Electric Scooter theonion.com/report-you-w...

Protect your peace.

Republicans: Democrats are controlling the weather in order to destroy red states Democrats: I'm not sure if it makes sense to publicly blame trump for all these plane crashes because he wasn't flying the plane himself

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

This is why i donate every month

pretty incredible to publish this official executive order days before the largest deadly air crash in nearly 20 years occurs