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Rory Tanner
@roringtonj
Ex-professor (#earlymodern rhetoric, manuscripts, and poetry), now writing user interfaces (@Stripe, @Coursera, @Shopify) 🤷♂️
Eastern Ontario Katılım Şubat 2013
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I love getting breakfast with people early in the morning. They don’t have the energy to be anyone other than who they are. The moment isn’t a spectacle for consumption. The narrative for the day hasn’t been written yet, there’s still time to save the world
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✨Comics People✨
I'm keen to hear what your favourite 'weird' thing that comics can do is!
I'll get the ball rolling with some examples. Note, not all of these are unique to comics, and I don't know the name for some of these things either...
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One of my good friends always wants me to go with him to 2-for-one sales on those breaded hotdogs with sticks in them, but then he flakes out at the last minute.
He’s just my pogo bogo no show bro ☺️
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I swam competitively for 14 years, and was just reflecting on how sensitive I became to subtle perceptual differences during that time. Water =/= water: some is fast, some sticky, etc etc. I can recreate the feeling of the water in my favorite competition pools in my memory
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we wanted technologies that expand human potential and improve quality of life, instead we got Candy Crush ads in the night sky
Lulu Cheng Meservey@lulumeservey
The sky over New York tonight! A feat by our team - it’s one thing to get some drones, but another to coordinate with the FAA and the many other local and national regulators and get all the permits and follow all the protocols and look out for wildlife and the environment and
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only the laptop class has been tricked into believing the world isn’t enchanted
mystic belief is alive and well within the skilled. I’ve never met a surgeon who doesn’t believe in the soul, a pilot who hasn’t seen ufos, or a home builder that hasn’t dowsed for a well
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killing Wordle is peak New York, the city where only difficult things are worthy of enjoyment I guess
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“Aging well” shouldn’t be about looking young, it should be about more fully embracing yourself and the things you find joy in, getting better at solving murders, and/or becoming a wizard
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for remote jobs, cleaning out your desk on your last day = saving your favourite custom emoji from the company's slack instance
you bet I'm taking :touch-the-bread: with me
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@D_r_H_a going back to our roots! 😄 I'll be moving to Coursera to work on their course authoring platform
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It's strange but after about 7 years, it looks like tomorrow's my last day at Shopify. A real privilege and blessing to have been here. Gonna miss you weirdos!
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@meesterchristie @meesterchristie @Jake_Touchette ok now I'm feeling stressed again, as it should be 🖤
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Feeling notably *less* stressed out in 2021. Is it because I'm gaining wisdom and perspective while aging gracefully?
Or because the parts of my brain that process stress are atrophying as collateral damage from early onset dementia and I just don't realize it yet?
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i was just like to set the record straight and say that although i am often mocked for most commonly responding with "interesting!!" but it is because i do in fact think a lot of things are very interesting
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