Musk has owned Twitter for less than a week but he's already sent a clear message: The platform is about to get worse for queer people. techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/elo… lol thank you goons in my mentions illustrating this point for me 🥰

if you're wondering what the Facebook Oversight Board's priorities are, their comms guy just called me to gaslight me into changing my headline today in which i noted the board was "controversial" One of the most frustrating calls with PR I've ever had. When I laughed in disbelief at some of the ways he was twisting the argument, he pivoted to making it an attack on my professionalism and said "I've never had a journalist laugh in my face"

apparently a lot of people are back at my jiu jitsu gym and dudes i just don't know if sweating into each others' mouths right now is a great idea??? having one of those "am i crazy" covid moments. we still don't eat out anywhere, hang out in groups of any kind, or really socialize more than is totally necessary to not lose our minds...

this story on millennial burnout is the only thing i’ve read that made me feel better not worse in as long as i can remember buzzfeednews.com/article/annehe… (by @annehelen) of the things i think about often that this excellent piece ties together, i'd add how social media companies have habituated us to the feeling of not owning anything we create. we don't remember what it feels like to create just for creation's sake

I've had more contact from Facebook in the last few hours trying to get me to change this headline about Sheryl Sandberg than I've had in the last 2 weeks of me contacting them over + over again for comment on the story itself. kind of speaks for itself. techcrunch.com/2018/11/30/def… Having been misled or lied to numerous times over the years by FB comms gives journalists very little reason to believe them or reprint their statements at face value. I trust my sources more than Facebook and I think most reporters do.

if you're a white person who still frames racism as some secret truth that people hide in their hearts waiting to be discovered instead of as a system of power expressed by actions and choices made every day, small and large, well, i have some bad news for you this framing enables white people to feel victimized, to do nothing beyond asking themselves: am i a bad person? could i possibly be racist? (lol no one answers "yes")

Of videos reviewed by @Oregonian of Patriot Prayer counter-protest in Portland, "None appears to show projectiles thrown by counter-protesters prior to the use of riot control weapons by police"

https://twitter.com/Oregonian/status/1027680908118245376

I've said this a million times but as someone who used to attend and document protests in Portland on a regular basis, the police force here historically responds to peaceful protests with disproportionate force. Disappointing that hasn't changed under new leadership