Deborah Nichols
@debnichols.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, HDFS, Purdue | Study humans of all ages, the tools they use, and the contexts that shape them | Lover of books, music, and exploring the world ✈️ 🚂 ⛴ 🌍 🌎 | Cat person 🐈 | She/her/hers | “I am deliberate / and afraid / of nothing.” —Audre Lorde
Trump and Elon are turning this tragedy into their own tantrum-fueled man-baby circus 🤡 Blaming DEI is just a distraction to hide the fact that, like the Titanic, overconfident rich white men ignored warnings, gutted oversight, and made everything worse…
a man wearing a white hat is crying with the words i need to be heard above him
Alt: a man (presumably Trump) wearing a white baby bonnet is crying with the words i need to be heard above him
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Trump and Elon are turning this tragedy into their own tantrum-fueled man-baby circus 🤡 Blaming DEI is just a distraction to hide the fact that, like the Titanic, overconfident rich white men ignored warnings, gutted oversight, and made everything worse…
Ah yes, the classic aviation accident analysis method: skip the black box, ignore the experts, and go straight to blaming DEI….because clearly, the laws of physics take orders from ‘woke’ hiring practices now 🙄🙄
Insanity — Trump signs an order blaming Biden and DEI for flight dangers
January 31, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Ah yes, the classic aviation accident analysis method: skip the black box, ignore the experts, and go straight to blaming DEI….because clearly, the laws of physics take orders from ‘woke’ hiring practices now 🙄🙄
This is what happens when the Head of Doge runs his engineering department like his Twitter/X staff: minimal input, zero oversight, and somehow it still rolls out…unsafe, untested, and held together with memes 🤣
www.wired.com/story/cybert...
www.wired.com/story/cybert...
Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
Since launch, Tesla's polarizing electric pickup has been beset by quality issues, and is now heading to be one of the most unreliable EVs made yet. Strangely, Cybertruck owners may not care one bit.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
This is what happens when the Head of Doge runs his engineering department like his Twitter/X staff: minimal input, zero oversight, and somehow it still rolls out…unsafe, untested, and held together with memes 🤣
www.wired.com/story/cybert...
www.wired.com/story/cybert...
Roadtripping this weekend, I stumbled on a MAGA cult-ish video that instantly reminded me of Living Colour’s Cult of Personality. I felt compelled to remix the lyrics a bit. Feel free to add your own verse—this clown show has plenty of material to work with…
November 23, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Roadtripping this weekend, I stumbled on a MAGA cult-ish video that instantly reminded me of Living Colour’s Cult of Personality. I felt compelled to remix the lyrics a bit. Feel free to add your own verse—this clown show has plenty of material to work with…
Trump’s cabinet nominations feel like a drunk game of spin-the-bottle played at a country club mixer gone wrong. Only instead of kissing, they get to manage our country’s most critical systems. 🧵
November 23, 2024 at 2:43 AM
Trump’s cabinet nominations feel like a drunk game of spin-the-bottle played at a country club mixer gone wrong. Only instead of kissing, they get to manage our country’s most critical systems. 🧵
First-time poster, week-long lurker. I thought I’d wait until I had something clever to say, but subtlety feels pointless in this carnival of horrors, headlined by King Clown Trump 🤡…orange face, cotton candy hair barely hiding bald ambition, and his Big Top of Bad Decisions 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 11:06 PM
First-time poster, week-long lurker. I thought I’d wait until I had something clever to say, but subtlety feels pointless in this carnival of horrors, headlined by King Clown Trump 🤡…orange face, cotton candy hair barely hiding bald ambition, and his Big Top of Bad Decisions 🧵