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26 Feb 2021
I truly believe that if you are a billionaire you are also, by definition, a bad person.
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4 May 2023
stop selling me things!! I don’t need anymore things !! jc help a lady out and quit it
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25 Apr 2023
I’m depressed, but to the tune of “im a flirt”
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6 Mar 2023
a new social benchmark for me - if you have a visceral, shitty take on the way Lizzo lives her life, gtfo.
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Emily Kowal retweeted
Programming is chaotic magic. There are no rules. You ask a game dev “Can the player summon a giant demon that bursts from the ground in an explosion of lava?” and they’ll say “sure, that’s easy” and then you’ll ask “can the player wear a scarf?” and they’ll go “oof”
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Emily Kowal retweeted
idk how to explain it but twitter feels like season 4 of community rn
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7 Nov 2022
evergreen
26 Feb 2021
I truly believe that if you are a billionaire you are also, by definition, a bad person.
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5 Nov 2022
this is one of my least favorite quiet sexisms to the point where I’ll just live w broken things until I cant anymore
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Emily Kowal retweeted
imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST
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9 Sep 2022
just said “scuse me” while passing someone in the store and he said “no” and honestly? I weirdly respect it.
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28 Jul 2022
please make me stop biting my nails please
Emily Kowal retweeted
27 Jul 2022
the biggest downgrade the world has ever know. what the hell was this
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28 Jul 2022
the more I want to rot away the more I want to rot away the more I want to rot away the more I want to rot away the more I want to
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28 Jul 2022
this has been stuck in my head on loop for no good reason for the past hour so I’m giving it to Twitter to deal with
Emily Kowal retweeted
30 Jun 2022
Supreme Court votes 6-3 to deploy the dev branch directly to prod
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1 Jul 2022
is an audience necessary for art to exist?
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1 Jul 2022
if a tree falls in the woods yadayada
Emily Kowal retweeted
Supreme Court my ass
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25 Jun 2022
I’ve never been more gaslit by a sunny day.
31 May 2022
bo burnham consistently makes me want to quit my job