I wrote a song today. It’s called wear your damn mask you selfish sonofabitch.
It’s a country song.
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I, uh...um. Well. You see. I'm gay.
Congratulations to our Co-Founder and CEO, @irms, on her selection to @FastCompany's Queer 50 list!
Produced alongside @lesbiantech, #FCQueer50 honors queer women & nonbinary people transforming the world of business, tech, and beyond.
Full article ➡️ bit.ly/BWQueer50
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I'm the (co-)CEO of a company with ~300 employees and I have to tell you, my people are TIRED. I have to say that as I reflect on us and the world these days I'm seeing things that startle me. 1/
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you guys. today is a really big day for me. please join me in celebration as i announce the completion of both my shampoo and conditioner bottles, at the exact same time.
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Just got off the phone with @myspacetom and we’re working on an appropriate solution 😉
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg is desperately trying to reach @BitwiseInd CEO @irms for help to get Facebook and Instagram back online.
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i don’t mind telling you that I had to sit down on the curb and have a cry. #riprbg
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One of the great disappointments of my life has been the realization that our elected officials are not smarter, better or more special than I am.
I wanted them to be superheroes. That’s the lie my country my sold me.
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so tired of white men in power letting other white men in power off the hook for every type of crime imaginable
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the other day I saw a woman jogging with a full-size burrito in her hand and I have not stopped thinking about her
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shoutout to all the people who said “i never cared about politics before this” or “this is the first time i have voted”
not gonna shame you. we’re glad you’re here.
let’s get after it.
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#Fresno fam: @corinhoggard is a gentleman and a scholar. Follow him for ‘Rona data and wear a mask. This has been a public service announcement.
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Ok, #Fresno. I have a serious question: Why don’t we have more trees?
Explain.
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one of the saddest things about the trump era is that i now associate the american flag with racist and angry people. didn’t used to feel that way.
oh, did i say the quiet part out loud?
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Thank you for coming to my TED talk
That one time @irms gave a TED TALK 🔥 @TEDTalks is releasing the video THIS Thursday Oct. 28th and we're throwing a Virtual Watch Party so we can tune in together! Save your seat at bit.ly/bwtedtalk 🎉 #TEDMonterey
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LA and SD are the two largest school districts in California. @fresnounified is the third.
Please, please, please get this right, #Fresno.
NEW: The Los Angeles and San Diego unified school districts, the two largest in California, will be online only this fall.
axios.com/los-angeles-san-di…
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I’m lying to you if I don’t confess that @KamalaHarris accepting the nomination doesn’t make me—a brown girl— think, “I could give that speech.”
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the reason it feels like we can breathe again is because this is the first time in four years we haven’t been screaming hoping someone will hear us
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Last night, while she was swirling a COVID test swab so far up my nose that tears were steaming down my face, a woman said to me, “you have the most beautiful eyelashes,” and all I could do was make a honking noise to say thank you.
Best date I’ve had in months.
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All this is to say that our people are are tired and it's not over. As a socially-minded company, which cares about people, we have everything we need to provide help-- we just don't know how to provide peace. /END
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If @BitwiseInd only ever does this, I will still feel like we spent our time well.
Happy New Year, everyone. 🥂
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the "i can't believe this thing that is specially made to kill and maim is being used to kill and maim!" crowd with their fake pearl clutching is a level of batshit i never imagined.
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I just need to tell you all that I don’t know what I’m doing most days, but I do believe we — together— are the only way forward from here.
Oh I’m sorry… did you see that @irms made the list of top TED talks of 2021?! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 cc: @BitwiseInd
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got my dates for my poll worker training today and had a brief moment thinking that was too much time away in the middle of some really big stuff happening at work.
hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
im gonna use my fuckin’ body to make sure you can vote
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notice these protests are not about sending kids back to school for all-important education, but about whether they can get a waffle on demand. y’all telling on yourselves.
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world, science, experts: be mildly considerate of other people and you could put a full stop to this global pandemic. you could bring it to its knees. we could go back to lives we once knew.
Americans: you’re not the boss of me.
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in this year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-two, why do smoke alarm batteries only die at 3am?
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who you are is how you behave when you get mustard water on your hot dog from an unshaken bottle
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we need a Disney princess that eats a brick of cream cheese and a handful of lucky charms for lunch so that I can see myself represented
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please understand that offering to sleep with my ringer on for you is a huge sacrifice at my tender age
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We're no longer at the stage where we have to "make" a tech industry. Now we should feel responsible for doing good things with it. #Fresno
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a thing that i struggle with as an adult is the privilege of not being cold if i don't want to be cold. yes, irma, you can turn up the heater if you just want to. wild.
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forget whether the president lives or dies for a second. they’re normalizing having covid and knowingly spreading it to others.
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.@jakeasoberal and i have been in business for a bit and we consistently find that the richest folks are the ones that feel like changing the world shouldn't cost any money.
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kids these days will never know the thrill of choosing your first 12 cds from bmg music for a penny
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new world domination plan: sign up for a dating app and take all my matches to go get vaccinated on our first date
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we’re watching “the system” decide who deserves money and who doesn’t in real time. this is dangerous and very necessary.
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we have no leadership. stopping this stupid virus is up to us.
stay home or wear a mask to buy scientists some time to work, ffs.
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It's not enough, because there is no "enough," but it's a place to start. Start with solidarity, outrage, and then forward motion. #BlackLivesMatter
Like many of you, we have been battling the deep desire to get back to “normal.” But as injustice after injustice makes the news, we are painfully aware that “normal” for many is an unjust and unequal existence.
Deep, systemic racism is alive and well in American society. (1/4)
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the biggest obstacle i face at my job is that it's too hard to eat chips and salsa and do email at the same time
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im having a sensible salad for lunch which means I will need to have an entire 7-Eleven for dinner.
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all i did was send the 😭😭😭 emojis for a full hour today. #InaugurationDay
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im not saying im ✌🏽depressed✌🏽, but i did just tear up when my taco bell was delivered with not enough sauce packets. you be the judge.
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don’t be the person eye-rolling at new gym members at the start of the year. no one wants to date that jerk. make yourself useful and bring me a donut.
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it needs to be said that Darnella Frazier is a hero because the other OFFICERS on scene refused to be
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how far away you’re willing to park from the entrance is directly proportionate to how much chill you have as a person. this is science.
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knew it was time to meditate when i noticed I was annoyed at the sun for going behind a cloud. i am doing GREAT.
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as a queer person, i am honored to cede the stage to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. here with you this #PrideMonth ✊🏽
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careful, everyone. we’ve reached the time of year where the Ave Maria will make you cry for no reason at all if you’re not paying attention.
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weird that voting is now like, “are you FOR your local post office or are you AGAINST it???” 🤦🏽♀️
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what is the virtue of a two-party system if you can run as whatever will win and then vote as whatever will pay you the most?
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if youve ever eaten a candy necklace after wearing it around your own grubby neck for half the day, you do not need to worry ‘bout what’s in the vaccine
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every dystopian novel describes how a group of misguided people didn’t do some obvious thing that would prevent the tragic deaths of hundreds of thousands and lead to the eventual downfall of society. in other words, masks.
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daylight savings began the Sunday before lockdown and ended last night. that means 2020 is off its bullshit now, right? things get better from here on out.
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it’s 100° degrees outside so the cheese on my frozen pizza melted while I was waiting for the oven to preheat.
skipped the oven and ate it anyway.
this level of single has no regrets.
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today feels like when you take your hair out of the braids and it hurts so good you get teary eyed, but in your whole body
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the 40-year-old’s urge to down a bunch of coffee in the morning so you appear more awake for your first coffee meeting
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ill be at Barnes & Nobel today signing books from noon-4pm!
(side note: i have not written any books)
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“Another study […] found that the chances that a child who grows up in poverty in the Fresno area could reach the top 20% income bracket in the metropolitan area are less than 8%.”
@Michelle_Skoor of @BitwiseInd would like a word. #wecanfixthis
Fresno’s economic mobility is severely limited as lingering effects of racist history make the ladder difficult for many to climb. trib.al/UeQZ0gd
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Our highest elected officials in the land are cowering under chairs holding gas masks fearing for their safety. How can this be us?
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in your thirties you’ll start saying things to people like, “when you have free time” and won’t be able to stop yourself from adding a sarcastic “ha ha ha” at the end. those are the rules.
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