Kim Stiens
@ranavain
Not on Twitter anymore, find me elsewhere: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberleestiens/ or https://bsky.app/profile/kimstiens.bsky.social or http://opstalentbank.org
If you farm oysters, then you could conceivably have a company that trades both in seafood with restaurants, and in pearls with jewelers. I just think that's neat
The USPS is the most impressive postal logistics company in the world and it’s not close.
The bold optimistic vision of socialism today is to have grocery stores that run as well as the post office.
Honestly the thing that kills me about this is that not one, but TWO companies decided it would be a good idea to call their new wearable tech "IO" - as in, two letters that are appended to everything tech-adjacent Feels like starting a mobile phone company and naming it Com
🚨BREAKING Google X spin out IYO, which makes smart ear buds from 2018, alleges Sam Altman / OpenAI heard their pitch, passed, got Jony Ive to try it before copying it, buying his co for $6.5B and calling it IO. Most dramatic must-read tech lawsuit this year. Link below:
Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an…
The Elon/Trump saga is just the latest example of how "fired" and "quit" are not well-defined categories, and should not be the basis for determining UI eligibility.
How do I make any of this about my pet policy issues
Wow, there is so much spam on Twitter nowadays! Some posts I look at have more spam replies than real ones. And I've already blocked thousands of spam accounts! Elon sure lived up to his promises about the bots huh
As someone who threw a big DC birthday party on the very first Saturday after Trump's election in 2016, with a mix of attendees who ranged from extremely woke progressives to argumentative libertarians to conservative Catholics, this post resonates just a tiiiiiiny bit
On U Street: “As someone who works in politics having a November birthday is actually traumatizing.”
I was in 5th grade when I got the first of this kind of education (including - gasp! - illustrations of human anatomy!) in deeply conservative, Mormon Idaho. I'd gotten my period more than a year before, and was freaked out and ashamed, no idea what was going on, for MONTHS
Excuse me why did my daughter get handed this at school? This is 5th grade, and I didn’t sign any paperwork allowing her to attend sex ed. Boys were also handed this.
It's kinda wild that there's not more hat theft. They're just sitting there, usually nothing attaching them to your body in any way. Super easy to just grab and run Yet hat theft seems practically unheard of. i don't think I've ever seen someone steal a hat off a head
posting this as I’d like to raise awareness of this bill and encourage journalists to cover it: it was drafted in large part in response to my experience with being stalked, and has a real chance of passing. if you’d like to help, below link has ways to do that. thank you!
We stood w/ survivors to call for the #CREEPAct (A3226/S3394)—my bill w @Sen_Gounardes to let stalking victims get a Civil Order of Protection before violence happens. 43 states already allow this. NY should too. Thank you @cagoldberglaw + all the survivor justice advocates!