Aaron Parecki

Beauty youtubers were the mean girls in high school and the tech youtubers were the dorks who kept to their hobbies and friends 😂
However being problematic sure is good for views 🤔

That awkward moment between when everyone has said “goodbye” but hasn’t found the “leave meeting" button yet

sad that IndieWeb summit isn't happening this year, but enjoying catching up on all the recordings from the online event over the weekend! Thanks to everyone for the great discussions and the organisers for making the content available.

That period in lockdown when there was no food in the supermarkets & people were fighting for tissue doesn’t even seem real

Excellent depiction of how hacking your online accounts isn’t just about stealing old emails. Here hackers made off with $3MM from someone who probably didn’t think of themselves as “high risk” (via @jstarmy and @anna_haifisch https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-perfect-art-heist/

People out there being all "but if we defund the police how will we solve murders" like podcasters don't exist.

Why AnyList Won’t Be Supporting Sign In with Apple - AnyList Blog - per my predictions https://medium.com/@dickhardt/sign-in-with-apple-the-unintended-consequences-598d993780b4 https://blog.anylist.com/2020/06/sign-in-with-apple

A reminder that after he returned from destroying the ring, Frodo temporarily served as Deputy Mayor of the Shire, and his sole act was to defund the police

I woke up this morning to learn that the Today Show aired my Maskalike face masks (without a heads up). Then NBC news. Then it spread through the internet for the 4th time. I got several emails per minute. Now I have >25,100 people on the waitlist and 1,225 unanswered emails.🤯 https://twitter.com/djbaskin/status/1271590209151352833

GREGOR SAMSA: So… Notice anything different about me?
ME [NOT LOOKING UP FROM MY PHONE]: oh yeah I think I saw your post about having bedbugs or something?

Remember in grade school when the teacher stopped class & would keep adding time on until the asshole kids stopped talking?

Except the teacher is coronavirus & the kids who won’t shut up are now the adults not taking proper precautions, forcing everyone else to lock down longer.

The mask debate, like virtually every other major conflict in American politics, can be boiled down to "I don't know how to convince you to care about other people."

I’m beginning to think “hindsight is 2020” was some kind of message from a future time traveler that we all misunderstood.

👁👄👁 masterfully harnessed:
-Boredom
-FOMO
-TestFlight exclusivity
-Memes
-Social cults

...to parody the startup hype cycle, distract us from *everything*, and raise money for charity.

That is what the Internet is...for.

This kind of vile slander might poison minds and further divide our country, but it also makes facebook a ton of money, so it's impossible to say if it's good or not

I spend a bunch of time scheduling games & social time with international (mostly western) friends and the discussion of timezone conversion is often a lot so I made this tool so I can say things like "I'm free in orange & green times tomorrow". Hopefully it's useful to others?

It is a great art piece 🔥https://twitter.com/itiseyemoutheye/status/1276729816469975040?s=20

👁👄👁 WHAT IT REALLY IS 👁👄👁

if we stop checking people’s immigration status we would see a lot less undocumented immigration