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Joan Westenberg
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“Foul-mouthed leftist” 🍕 I write about tech + politics + humans.

Influencers truly killed the word “collab”

Deleting toxic comments isn’t censorship—it’s cleaning up after stray dogs take a shit on your lawn

Babe, is everything ok? You’ve barely posted about your World Leading Company Culture since you laid off 50% of the workforce

turns out the Republican plan for extreme weather is just ‘evacuate yourself by your bootstraps’

Nothing fills me with dread more than this emoji 🧵

Can we please encourage every Trump supporter to own the libs by chugging raw milk the day before the election

My preferred genre of music is “sad indie rock song playing in the background of a mid 2010s medical drama when a patient codes”

🇮🇱 Fighting intensifies as Israel marks the one-year anniversary of Oct 7 massacre.

www.theindex.media/october-7…

https://www.theindex.media/october-7-anniversary/

Staying Sane in the 24/7 News Cycle: A Tech Journalist's Guide to Information Balance https://www.joanwestenberg.com/staying-sane/

(VANCE) ohio is ROUND

(WALZ) minnesota is SQUIGGLY

(ME, AN INTELLECTUAL) states are a LIE

JD Vance: “im a hillbilly”. Tim Walz: “im a nice boy”. the audience, howling and frothing: “let them fight”. secret service struggling to hold back the mob

☭ ☭ ☭ ATTENTION COMRADES ☭ ☭ ☭

wokeness will be EQUALLY DISTRIBUTED

please form an orderly queueb to receive your government-mandated CRITICAL RACE THEORY

violators will be sent to PRONOUN GULAG

me mate dazza just rocked up to smoko 45 mins late with a mad shiner & two iced coffees. said he slept in cos his mrs chucked a wobbly and yeeted his phone out the window. fucken legend

“I have been BASELESSLY accused of being a serial abuser and harasser of women. To prove my innocence I have hired the same lawyer as several other serial abusers and harassers. Did I mention I have found Jesus.”

In Australia, if you say ‘third wave feminism’ into a mirror three times at midnight, Mia Freedman appears starts a podcast and is immediately forced to apologise

The UN is basically the world’s most expensive group chat where no one ever replies with anything useful

zuckerberg, high on bbq sauce fumes: “ship the app now”

devs: “it’s 2am and the app is just your face plastered over the entire screen”

zuck: “yes…yes. it’s perfect”

devs: weeping