That's Doctor Foreigner to you @alsothings@mastodon.social

RT @FiveThirtyEight@twitter.com

Can you beat Nate? https://53eig.ht/33DQGrw

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FiveThirtyEight/status/1163480320160800769

Say what you will about the rest of it, "what iffery" is an excellent phrase

sigh, you're right, I did. I'm _sorry_ everyone.

RT @shrinkwrapped@twitter.com

@alsothings@twitter.com You forgot the Production Managers!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/shrinkwrapped/status/1163396471519174656

acronyms for job roles are irritating, but doubly so when there are name space overlaps. here there PMs, PMs, and PMs (that's project, product, and programme, managers, obviously). ugh.

Welp https://www.newsweek.com/maus-marvel-comics-donald-trump-orange-skull-fascism-art-spiegelman-1454832?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true

RT @Pinboard@twitter.com

Here's the question: a bunch of young people in Hong Kong are standing up to their government, at terrific personal risk, to fight for basic human rights. Will a bunch of Twitter employees, at far less risk, stand up to their CEO and refuse to be used as a weapon against them?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1162722907383951360

RT @Pinboard@twitter.com

Every day I go out and see stuff with my own eyes, and then I go to report it on Twitter and see promoted tweets saying the opposite of what I saw. Twitter is taking money from Chinese propaganda outfits and running these promoted tweets against the top Hong Kong protest hashtags

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1162711159000055808

RT @carltonreid@twitter.com

Embankment cycleway: 1,938 people per hour. Adjacent carriageway: 1,542 people per hour. No contest ... https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/08/16/transport-for-london-sets-out-economic-wins-from-more-walking-and-cycling-in-29-page-pdf/#5d2cc0e14b40

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/carltonreid/status/1162443647960461312

This is the feel good news we all need today

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/16/london-council-saves-gay-fetish-club-from-redevelopment?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

if this makes no sense to you, consider watching the show Twenty Twelve

my day is just a pile of
legacy or sustainability
questions

This is such a window into how parliament is not exerting its will. There's a pretty big gap between 'register... we want to stop' and say 'use every parliamentary tool we can to stop'. Bit too moderate for the times I reckon.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/15/sarah-wollaston-jeremy-corbyn-government-may-be-lesser-of-two-evils?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

RT @TheOnion@twitter.com

NYPD Tickets Dead Cyclist For Obstructing Bike Lane https://trib.al/z4rhAlM

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/1161729971641049088

a generative network that aims to successfully apply to startup accelerators

nice hustle if you can get it dot ai https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805676/engineer-ai-artificial-intelligence-startup-app-development-outsourcing-humans

the three
…
genders?

RT @JoeBerkowitz@twitter.com

Ah yes, the three comparably terrible tragedies we all know and fear.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JoeBerkowitz/status/1161756305318658050

RT @erocdrahs@twitter.com

I’ve written some words about my personal war against Rees-Mogg here:

http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress2019/2019/08/15/the-war-against-rees-mogg-part-i/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/erocdrahs/status/1162028788093526016

Well shit

RT @PatrickStrud@twitter.com

Exclusive: Two Transgender Employees Of The Guardian Have Quit Over Its "Transphobic" Reporting https://www.buzzfeed.com/patrickstrudwick/two-transgender-employees-quit-guardian-transphobia

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PatrickStrud/status/1161958690888527872

The libdems are letting their centre right show aybit today it seems

The difference between sensible ideas for coming together and intolerable red lines appears to be whether they are your party's or someone else's. Sigh. We're so screwed.