Extenuating Circumstances

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 8th from 23:31 to 07:49:

• [toread] amp.businessinsider.com –
• Twitter – @daeaves @mollieruskin @hondanhon All that being said, when Members and staff proactively take just a little bit of…
• Twitter – @daeaves Well done bill redlines do this to some extent, albeit with text and not visually. Practically speaking, t…
• Lab rats: honest tales of digital innovation – Made by Many – Medium – By @wdowen Lab rats: honest tales of digital innovation (how to organise for innovation to suit your company setup)
• Twitter – *Since Jeff always thinks ten years ahead, I wonder what the heck he is preparing the groundwork for, here. #Stacks
• Untitled (http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/11/the-washington-post-on-reddit-surprises-users-with-its-non-promotional-ultra-helpful-presence/?utm_content=buffer27600&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer) – Reddit user: “Lol is this the real WaPo account?” The Washington Post: “’tis we, irl"
• Twitter – Reddit user: “Lol is this the real WaPo account?” The Washington Post: “’tis we, irl"
• Twitter – I began writing that mass shootings are connected to violence against women in 1998. I *SO* appreciate @schemaly 's…
• Twitter – RT @RepSwalwell: EVERY @HouseGOP member of @HouseJudiciary committee just voted against my legislation requiring Congress be notifie…
• Twitter – RT @stephanieboland: Struggling to decide on the worst bit of this.

  After some thought, I think it may be "selling"

• [toread] www.astronomy.com –

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 8th from 08:36 to 22:57:

• I’m a Tech Writer Thanks to This Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip –
• The Most Political ‘Star Trek’ Episode: ‘Past Tense,’ From ‘Deep Space Nine’ – The Atlantic –
• New Jersey Politician Who Joked About Women’s March Defeated | New Jersey News | US News –
• Fuck Twitter –
• China’s Race to Find Aliens First – The Atlantic –
• Call for agencies, web designers or artists active in the 90s and early 2000s – ‘Collecting the Web’, Museum of London – oh god i'm not sure those jaz disks still work?
• [toread] www.hollywoodreporter.com –
• [toread] www.anandtech.com –
• Twitter – People are doing this wrong. It needs to be twice as long – but also written by Nazis and misogynists.

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 8th from 07:26 to 08:23:

• Twitter – learning how to make our stakeholders cry / proving the need for solid, consistent design systems #desops17 w/…
• Twitter – You have to move to a zone defense.
• Twitter – @MollyBligh @hondanhon I think this one is just in response to people changing the focus from 'black women' to 'wom…
• Our President Was Called Barack—A Book for Kids about Change by Laura Olin —
  Kickstarter – Join me in backing @lauraolin's Our President Was Called Barack—A Book for Kids about Change on @Kickstarter
• Twitter – Hmmm…she's "always working." What about that vacation?
• Twitter – prob one of the most fascinating phenomena to observe online is the *paradox of context*: you have more context onl…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 7th from 20:00 to 00:36:

• [toread] floatingworldcomics.com –
• [toread] feedproxy.google.com –
• Twitter – I never thought I'd see a day when four out #trans people would win in a single election. Congratulations to Lisa M…
• Twitter – Here's what we're doing in our Court action to force Government to hand over the secret DExEU studies and Treasury…
• Twitter – Thanks, America. At least for tonight, I can believe in us again.
• Twitter – Back in the game America ? ??
• Twitter – oh look hilariously bad pseudoscience. shocked.
• Twitter – That is one of the best political burns I have heard in years. Keep an eye on this one.
• Twitter – This is a sick joke.

  When will how we think about the ethical implications of our technology more closely align w…

• Twitter – I do the math
• Untitled (http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/27/Forking%20Encouraged_%20Folk%20Programming,%20Open%20Source,%20and%20Social%20Software%20Development%20Presentation.pdf) – @hondanhon Which reminds me of
• Twitter – Me after election day 2016
  Me after election day 2017
• Twitter – I tend to be cynical when it comes to rallies and other big-group activities designed to engender loyalty. That, co…
• Twitter – This is a very diverse set of folks, relative to the dev population at large – more similar (as you might imagine)…
• Twitter – This isn't just a narrative pushed by salesforce marketing; I'm meeting these people. They say things like "I love…
• Twitter – Here's where it gets interesting. Admin??wysisyg customizer??occasional coder??full time dev is a real pipeline int…
• Twitter – "Mom, one of the women who died was pregnant with a baby." "Okay, so that chart means that other countries don't ha…
• Twitter – There's also a huge population of "admins," who as you might guess, administer an organization's salesforce account…
• Twitter – Tonight's results bode ill for the GOP. I'll use the rest of this tweet to summarize the movie Anaconda. Jennifer L…
• Twitter – Don’t let anyone tell you gerrymandering doesn’t matter.

  Democrats won the gov race by more votes than anyone in…

• Twitter – Oooooo #summit17 badges preparation :D
• Twitter – 120,000+ attendees converge on the Moscone center. This pretty much sums up SF's attitude towards it:
• Twitter – Literally just went and bought champagne y’all
• Twitter – and also sorry I'm not as optimistic as the rest of you (yah, sorry not sorry to be a buzzkiller here) — I was not…
• Twitter – for the record I could not give a flying fuck about Democrats or Republicans winning or losing — partisanship is f…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 7th from 18:45 to 19:52:

• Twitter – I want Trump to be devastated by the elections, but not enough to start a nuclear war over there. These are the dil…
• Twitter – ????
• Twitter – And the first Asian-American woman, the first two Latinas and a Democratic Socialist Marine in the House of Delegat…
• Twitter – This is not the path to a functional government.
• Twitter – Comfort objects

  The smartphone that I keep
  Looking down on-
  Even when I cross the road.
  As attached to it
  As my ch…

• Twitter – Let's assume Dems win a plurality of elections at all levels over the next few years. If they fail the empathy test…
• Trans Woman Andrea Jenkins Elected to Minneapolis City Council | Advocate.com – INCREDIBLE.
• Twitter – Elections are definitely not the only route to change, and sometimes the choices suck. But I'm now convinced local…
• Twitter – One year after Trump's victory, Virginia elected:

  First transgender delegate in the country
  First out-lesbian dele…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 7th from 09:35 to 15:24:

• [toread] www.publicconsultinggroup.com –
• Twitter – Time to finally get started on my long-delayed manuscript for ROUNDEYE, a hardboiled noir novel wholly written from…
• Untitled (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhun8OzAmfg&feature=youtu.be) – "This talk is about what happens after shit happens." @joshmillard on keeping MetaFilter healthy in a dark timeline.
• Twitter – And on the @atkinsglobal table 42 @buildingawards #buildingawards ???
• Twitter – The government is going to deny poor people healthcare unless they perform labor or community service.
• Twitter – now the white house press pool needs to start doing this when SHS won’t answer someone's question
• Twitter – The candidate with millions more votes didn’t win, though. So it’s not really true to say that every vote matters:
• Twitter – Tech community loves hard knock minority stories in TED talks; in funding rounds not so much
• [toread] www.gov.uk –
• Twitter – RT @anamariecox: Imagine saying this after terrorist attack perpetrated by, say, a person of color or a Muslim.
• Twitter – RT @desire_line: The service manual needs to be much more assertive on this. Also, there desperately needs to be shared examples of…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 6th from 20:48 to 08:59:

• [toread] www.bbc.com –
• (429) https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/927873786623549440 – Yeah, so maybe the software-startup-ization of transaction ledgers isn't really that great an idea.
• [toread] www.reddit.com –
• [toread] www.nytimes.com –
• Twitter – Abolish Animoji. The internet keeps getting worse.
• Twitter – @JessicaLexicus @hondanhon While I'm happy for Well-Adjusted Batman, I can't help but feel I wouldnt have followed…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 6th from 14:23 to 20:06:

• Well-Adjusted Batman – Be Yourself – “Well-Adjusted Batman” by @hondanhon
• Twitter – @slavin_fpo @jamesbridle @hondanhon wholeheartedly agree. we keep finding new iterations but the alarms were raised…
• Twitter – Yup. Laws aren't devised to stop crime, they exist to define crimes that can be stopped.
• Twitter – @absurdistwords let's be very real: histories of domestic violence are a much better indicator, but that makes men…
• Twitter – 'Salem's Lot, the entire Harry Potter series, Pet Sematary.

  Uh oh.

• Twitter – @jamesbridle @hondanhon What they are moved to do, or not do, will not be determined by govt or the market. So: wha…
• Twitter – RT @KHayhoe: This is no joke. All we have left to monitor Arctic sea ice, the most sensitive part of our climate system, are 3 o…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 6th from 05:49 to 13:22:

• Twitter – I know I've been going on about this, but Boris Johnson has to fix this then immediately resign.
• Twitter – My disagreement with this is that Congress's failure to exercise proper oversight and sanction on Trump has been so…
• Twitter – *just* caught @hondanhon’s project using torch-rnn to generate a bunch of extremely british sounding placenames ???…
• [toread] medium.com – It’s quite possible that none of these shirts ever physically existed, were ever purchased or worn, and thus that no harm was don
• Twitter – @hondanhon @naomialderman @CulturesCast Yesterday I got ‘you’re usually further along than this!’ and I was all ‘fu…

This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 6th from 01:48 to 05:22:

• [toread] www.theverge.com –
• [toread] www.theverge.com –
• Twitter – RT @slavin_fpo: Too soon, Magic Realism Bot, too soon.
• Twitter – Also great artefacts on display from @Superflux @futuryst and others. #FutureIsNow
• Twitter – Insuperable challenge of weaponization of human psychology by Facebook: “news is not information, but drama”…