Emily Nakashima

Amy Sherald Cancels Her Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

I have literally never seen a graph like this once in all my years of being an election sicko

18-24 always lags, always, it’s just a natural law of politics

and this is the guy they want to throw out of the party?!

A list of bad-news headlines wrapped up with an Atlantic article headlined “Why are young people everywhere so unhappy?”

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

I don't know who needs to see this, as the saying goes, but platform engineering is not just "devops" or "infra" by another name.

Platform engineering is about bringing a product sensibility and design ethos to the infra-shaped technical problem space.

This is heartbreaking and horrible. AmeriCorps jobs are such a low-cost win-win, providing helpful support for the communities, nonprofits, schools, public agencies, etc. and helping young people pay bills and explore possible career paths.
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And as a competitive athlete, I want to play against the best in the game, whether they're cis or trans. Please let my trans teammates play!

My heart breaks at the idea that we would deprive a generation of young trans athletes these formative experiences with their peers because of hateful, hysterical fear-mongering that has no basis in fact.

Not every team I played on had out transgender athletes, but when I have had trans teammates, they played the game with the exact same heart, determination, team spirit, and love of the game that my cisgender teammates brought.

Through sports, I also learned how to work together with people who might have come from different backgrounds or life experiences than me — and I learned to see the many things we all had in common.

From soccer to softball to rugby to rowing, the many sports teams I've been on throughout my life have been a safe haven, a second family, and a place where I developed lifelong teamwork and leadership skills.

Feel free to borrow:

Senator <name>,

As a lifelong competitive athlete in girl's and women's sports, I am writing to ask you to support the rights and dignity of my transgender teammates and to please VOTE NO on any bans or restrictions on transgender athletes in sports.

I'm contacting my senators *right now* to ask them to shoot this hateful garbage down; I'll add my script below if anyone else wants to borrow.
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Survey: Bidirectional EV Charging We are a group of UC Berkeley students working on a marketing pitch for a new startup focused on bidirectional EV charging. Information gathered in this survey will help us identify the best way to re...

Do you own a fully electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid? If so, help me out and take this survey (5-7 min)?

I'm doing a project for a marketing class on a new EV charging technology and you'll help us better understand market segments. Grateful for reskeets 🙌🏼
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My point: if you support trans rights but this issue feels largely theoretical to you, fight like someone you know and love is trans. Almost certainly that's already the case. (3/3)

Those reasons still matter to me, but now I fight much more because so many people I care for deeply—family members, friends, coworkers—are trans, and so many are rightly afraid of what's already happening and what's coming. Their safety is at risk because a small minority spread hate. (2/3)

I used to believe in trans rights just because trans rights are human rights. Later, I came to see that the struggle for trans rights is intertwined with all women's rights and all LGBTQ+ rights. As James Baldwin said, "If they take you in the morning, they will be coming for us that night" (1/3)

I regret to inform you that people have officially started circling back around after the holidays

The "use tail sampling for your traces" advice should probably also come with a strong "you must be this tall to ride this ride" caveat

Simple if you have a monolith, challenging if you have a cluster of microservices, jesus take the wheel if you have geo-distributed traces crossing regions

Friends, chaps are leg covers. The default chap form has no butt cover. You do not need to call them “assless chaps.”

I feel like Americans love to analogize sports to business because for many of us, sports was the only time we:

1. worked as a team
2. received constructive criticism and
3. shared a larger mission

before being in the labor force. I wish there were more ways for young people to experience these.

If you follow me partly because you are a fan of my employer, @honeycomb.io, you'll be happy to know you can now follow them on BlueSky bsky.app/profile/hone...

Me: oh god I’m so busy, I can’t remember ever being this busy in my life

Also me: <casually googling “how to start a superpac”>

TURN THIS UP

Oh for fuck's sake
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I just want justice for them.

Viola Fletcher is 110. A human treasure.

Imagine spending your whole life in litigation bc your countrymen bombed your entire community when you were 7 for simply succeeding against all odds at the American promise & being told you are less than nothing for 107 years.

Angry down to my bones about this decision. Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Ford Fletcher have spent their whole lives fighting for long overdue repair. Justice for Greenwood.
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Oof, Tressie left. If you run a social network in the year of our lord 2024 and it doesn't have Tressie McMillan Cottom on it, what's the point? <finally logs on to TikTok>