Share this page!

Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Twitter logo
Jan 19 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What if I propose to my gym friend to come to #whenwewereyoungfestival with me like it's prom

Do we think that would be fun
FWIW I know this person well and I'm reasonably confident she'd say yes

Also FWIW, this would not be a romantic proposal—she's hetero afask and also extremely spoken for
So, one issue with "When we were young festival" is that it's going to take WAY more candy to spell out than "Prom"

crap
OH WAIT HELLO

OUR GYM HAS A MEZZANINE

I CAN HANG A BANNER OFF THAT

YES
Right now I'm thinking the following banners in order

"TAYLOR"
"When we were young w me?"
"(as friends ofc)"
"(Mike plz don't kill me)"
"(In fact, Mike: When we were young w us??)"

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈

Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @HeyChelseaTroy

Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Jan 20
I realize this take is white hot (I anonymized the OP to minimize my blast zone), but if this is you, the vast majority of the time, you probably shouldn't have gone CEO.

Lemme explain why (and it's possible the OP is NOT one of the people I'm talking about). Image
When you're an eng-gone-CEO who feels this way, a lot of things have happened to you.

1. You probably got rewarded for being good at coding by being promoted out of it. Then you were in a job you were LESS good at. This doesn't feel great.
2. Turns out CEO isn't the same as monarch or president-for-a-day at most companies. It's a lot of delegating decisions you'd like to make yourself, and when you fail to do the delegating step it tends to blow up in your face.

Both these things suck and as a result...
Read 10 tweets
Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 31, 2021
Guess what, nobody asked me, so now we're going to talk about this DoorDash Dogfooding outrage.

You're gonna get all my hottest takes because I've got a sidecar in my hand and no deadlines tonight. Strap in.
So my FIRST hot take is that, in the 6 days I spent on blind, I saw some of the most insufferable, elitist drivel I have ever seen techies say behind closed doors, and that bar is not low

LOLOL at this Blind rant where the person signs off "TC: 400" like it's fucken "Esq"
Lotta devs are convinced that their total comp means something about their intelligence, skill, value, or impact

When really it's mostly execs' success convincing VCs that they'll make money someday

Leading w your TC is the "peeling out in a muscle car" of engineering

ANYWAY
Read 24 tweets
Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 28, 2021
This take responds to a tweet re: the CDC's reduction of the time guideline from positive test to return to work, with more cuts foreshadowed "[to address] staff shortages."

I've heard this clarion call before. There's something that I think the people who make it are missing.
So, I'm not saying that the take is wrong or bad.

I WILL say this: I have answered this clarion call before. I have showed up to DS meetings for 3 different orgs. I have showed up to trainings and movement-building meetings in this vein of various kinds.

In them...
...my experience at socialist organization meetings has been that they are universally, consistently, and by a wide margin some of the most uppity, sneering, un-empathetic, yell-over-each-other-y spaces I have ever visited.

For me and my low caucus score, it's an immediate nah.
Read 18 tweets
Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 27, 2021
Tech books exhibit a strange cost bell curve relative to quality.

Expense-it-to-prodev priced books are consistently fair-to-middlin'. Accessibly priced books, a standard deviation above or below that. Free books, either TRULY shite, or the best tech writing I've ever read.
My hypotheses on why come from my experiences:

- planning books with big publishers
- hearing from published author colleagues
- getting pitched on self-publishing
- self-publishing for reasons totally unlike the pitches

Here they are, in all their half-baked glory:
1. Books from big publishers

I won't name names, but if you've been around tech, you know who this is. These are the places with the highest price point. It's that high because they expect people to expense it to their employers. These places have a lot of name recognition, and
Read 23 tweets
Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 26, 2021
I am 9 minutes into S6E3 of Lucifer. Why is there a new angel? Shouldn't we have met all the angels by/in the S5 finale?

Anyway, I guarantee you this one's a lesbian. I am 110% certain.

And BY THE WAY, I was already 75% certain based on that two-second shot of her feet in S6E1.
I'm also just gonna repeat what I said eons ago about how obvious it is that all the heaven-dwelling celestials in this show are het and all the queer celestials are hell-dwellers. Like, I get that it's cable TV but that's still f'd up, it's 2021 people
HI, HELLO, WHAT DID I SAY

WHAT did I SAY
Read 6 tweets
Chelsea Troy 🏳️‍🌈 Profile picture
Dec 20, 2021
So a Worldcon guest tweeted that U.S. defense companies can be ethically "grey" despite, uh, getting paid to orchestrate killing people.

The evidence: the OP's partner works at one; the OP used to work at one that helped w the moon landing.

I'm not here to drag. Let's talk.

/1
FIRST THING FIRST: I'm not sharing the screenshot because I believe it is unfair to share people's de-anonymized hot takes without notifying them or linking to where they might amend. That's closer to lashon hara than accountability and that bothers me.

On to the take.

/2
I've watched something like this play out pretty often in tech: a person thinks of themselves as a good person, or they are dating an ostensibly good person, and that person works for a company that does bad things.

So now they have to back-justify what's happening.

/3
Read 24 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @HeyChelseaTroy has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @HeyChelseaTroy!

Read all threads by @HeyChelseaTroy

:(