katamari "ellen" j kaplan ๐Ÿ’• kat or kata for short ๐Ÿ’• bi, polyam, trans, writer, devrel nerd, coaster enthusiast ๐Ÿ’• 30~
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four of my direct reports and countless wonderful, brilliant, massively talented people are all gone from discord today. i'm going to share as many of them as i can across as many places that i can to help them find the new spots that they deserve. they do good shit, and they work really hard to do that good shit.

i'm utterly heartbroken. i'm safe, but so many of the people i care about aren't, and i can't help but struggle to understand why i was spared.



graham
@graham

I generally don't publicly talk about my employment while I'm working there, but I was affected by this. If y'all know any full stack engineering openings that are generally aligned with any/all of cohost's principles, feel free to reach out.

I had been trying to work to make things better from the inside, but I simply ran out of time, I guess

Edit: Some good to go with the bad -- my greatest achievement at Discord was that I was the person who hand-picked all the default sounds for soundboard. I was the one who added a dedicated quack button.

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shel
@shel

The CDC always issues guidances saying that nobody has to worry about COVID-19 anymore. No need to mask. No need to vaccinate. Do whatever. But these guidances always come with this huge asterisk that says "Except for people with certain underlying health conditions." Most people don't know that they are considered by the CDC to have "certain underlying health conditions" that make COVID-19 a serious concern for them. There's more to fear than death. POTS, chronic nerve pain, and cardiovascular issues are common with infection. They're better than dying, but I don't think you want to get them if you don't already have them.

I got Bingo on this. In fact, I'm on here nine fucking times. Getting even one square makes the CDC consider you among the "highest risk groups." COVID-19 in the Northeastern United States is surging and already 33% high than last winter's peak, and rising. It's the second highest transmission has ever been nationwide. If you're not American, check your own local wastewater data. It's probably surging too.

Feel free to circulate this image without attribution to me. I'd love to see it show up in discord server meme channels.

(source from CDC)


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