Aaron Parecki

Seattle police drenched an entire neighborhood in tear gas and explosives because an umbrella touched a fence.

I figured it out: Chinese New Year isn't until Feb 12th, so it's still 2020 until then.

🛑 STOP 🛑

you've reached the doomscrolling checkpoint. this is your reminder to take a break from doomscrolling

Well that escalated steadily for four years.

i know some mainstream news media people follow me on here, for whatever reason (cc @soledadobrien and @AliVelshi for example), so please, i'm begging you all to apply network resources to observe the lineage between gamergate and today. it's a straight goddamned line.

How it started: How it's going:

So yeah how's that human colonization of Mars going? Asking for a friend

I just got a DM from a follower,

"Aren't you afraid no one will hire you, now that you're being so political?"

NOTE:
I haven't worked for someone who could fire me in nearly a decade. You should try it.

Never thought I’d send a professional email with this subject.

You can’t describe what’s happening in the Capitol as a “small group of extremists” when they’re being supported by the president, 16% of the Senate, 1/4 of the House, the local police forces & officials at the Pentagon.

remembering this github comment

How it started: How it's going:

if I had a job at Twitter today, I'd walk out indefinitely until they freeze his account

In case anyone is wondering, online these far right movements are claiming victory. Even if they were quickly evacuated by police, the photographs of them freely roaming the halls of Congress are powerful optics they will use to recruit thousands to their cause.

A friend just said to me "Are we supposed to be working during the coup?" and honestly it was the most American thing I've ever heard.

Man, remember when people told us we were overreacting when we panicked in 2016?

There’s not gonna be any plot devices left for apocalypse movies...