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We're getting low on spaghetti and we're already out of walls. Radio, but with pictures @UCLA_TFT. Novocollegian. They/them 🏳️‍🌈
Oct 6, 2020 14 tweets 5 min read
Despite my dabblings in futurism & forecasting, I hesitate to make hard predictions about what's coming next.

That said, here's my #Election2020 outlook:

All speculation about his chances in the polls is meaningless bc his only play is to win thru chaos 1/ I love numerical conjecture from @538politics @nytimes et al as much as anyone. Right now they tell us that Trump has 0% chance of winning popular vote & slim chances of winning electoral college. 2/
Oct 5, 2020 8 tweets 2 min read
Just finished S1 of Tumanbay podcast. I really liked it but something about it kept bugging me. Just realized—even though it's fiction in a (fictional?) world, I think it's got some representation issues around race. 1/ It takes place in a vaguely Middle-Eastern world (e.g. there's a sultan), & yet almost all the main characters speak with a British accent. That seems normal for a production based out of the UK—except for the fact that the minor and expendable characters have an Arabic lilt 2/