Emily Kowal

I truly believe that if you are a billionaire you are also, by definition, a bad person.

stop selling me things!! I don’t need anymore things !! jc help a lady out and quit it

I’m depressed, but to the tune of “im a flirt”

a new social benchmark for me - if you have a visceral, shitty take on the way Lizzo lives her life, gtfo.

incredibly proud of these students for standing up against the bigoted bully that is their college president. #occupyConn #removeBergeron #supportDeanKing wshu.org/connecticut-ne…

@NatTowsen the tv show Community hits these marks for me

What's an example of a genre parody that ends up being a good execution of the genre?

@engineering_bae oh it’s me!

Asking a backend engineer to do front end tasks:

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”

@gappa_michael @steph_mcca load bearing beam!

@steph_mcca It takes a lot, but it also takes the deletion of a few lines of code that is packaged and is reused in multiple websites to break the internet lol like that one time. qz.com/646467/how-one…

loving how clear it is none of us understand what it takes for a website to actually break

@coldhealing Medication!!

@hankgreen Sin(x) !

Is there anything that, if you turn it upside down, is no longer the same thing?

idk how to explain it but twitter feels like season 4 of community rn

@jeremybowers amen

Good luck and Godspeed to all the news nerds working on elections tonight. May your scrapers run true, your caches stay full, and your queues stay empty.

@jeremybowers Had a nightmare about this yesterday so

Let's go ahead and hotfix prod, it's the day before the election, what could go wrong?

evergreen

this is one of my least favorite quiet sexisms to the point where I’ll just live w broken things until I cant anymore

imagine deciding which engineers to keep around based on lines of code and choosing to keep the ones who wrote the MOST

just said “scuse me” while passing someone in the store and he said “no” and honestly? I weirdly respect it.

@marshallvore I usually go for the pinky promise

please make me stop biting my nails please

the biggest downgrade the world has ever know. what the hell was this