Brian McConnell

Ratatouille is a warm fruit salad.

@Vividwings @mulegirl This is why our body temperature is 98.6°F. That’s warm enough to kill most dangerous fungal spores. On our next episode we’ll talk about what really killed the dinosaurs. (Hunt: fungus)

@mulegirl If mushroom spores are introduced to your blood, mushroom mycelium can grow in your bloodstream! :D

@mulegirl That gif is a humpback but let’s go with it 🐋 Humpbacks will work together to fight Orcas and protect other marine mammals like seals and other species of whale. The barnacles on their fins can slice ya.

@mulegirl A blue whale’s tongue weighs more than an elephant.

If you want to be a "user experience" professional creating good experiences for users, then you need to assault the gross inequality in the tech industry. That's where the cause of the problem is. 31

Halloween in north Brooklyn is like, costume or hipster?

@designer_kim You mean Taco Twosday.

You can not buy authenticity.

“Everyone has a boss, unless you’re Beyoncé.” Me explaining stakeholder management to a mentee.

Many people confuse "Hybrid office" with "Colocated", but they're very different. For global teams distributed across timezones and offices, Hybrid is basically, "zoom at the office". You need to reorg by geography to get the same velocity, innovation, and efficiency gains.

@jenyee_ Next time you should aim to arrive 5 min before the doors close, not before they open. 😎

5:05am woke up and got out of bed 5:32am called a Lyft 5:48am arrived at the airport 5:58am walked up to the gate 7 whole minutes to spare before boarding 😘🤌 who’s with me? 🥹

Engineering lead: why do we need a bespoke design system? Why can’t we just use something pre-built like Material? Me: why are you rebuilding an off-the-shelf CMS? Engineering lead: Because it doesn’t… oh.

Fun work moment: presenting remotely to 100 people when my wife gets locked out of the house.

@hpdailyrant Of all the tools for managing projects, Jira is one of them.

I finally met one of my teams at work IRL after two years of pandemic. Nobody was the same height as they were on zoom. 🧐

Me: I just finished a massive bike ride. I should eat healthy to speed my recovery and maximize performance gains. Also me: half a pie is one serving, right?

I think the GQP platform is… We can’t allow women to abort fetuses. We need them to grow into children so we can shoot them. Absolutely shameful.

Guns are designed to do one thing. That's OK. We need weapons in this world, but they must be regulated. The idea that instruments of death should be accessible and normalized is a pathology.

Maniacs are shooting children. They're. Shooting. Children. Children! JFC what is it going to take?! No more large magazines, strict background checks in all states, require mental health checks, and reinstate the automatic weapons ban.