John Emerson

@backspace

Design, code, human rights. He/him.

Brooklyn, NY
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Joined January 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    20 Nov 2016

    I built a thing: text your US postal address to (520) 200-2223 and get a text back with your state & federal legislative rep phone numbers.

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  2. Retweeted
    3 hours ago

    Lovely infograph of who's paying money to support/protest certain props on CA's ballot.

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  3. Retweeted
    Oct 3

    Self-care is not an antidote for institutional violence.

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  4. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    This. Is. Stunning. Every data journalism teacher in the world now has a banner example of the dangers of Excel limits.

    Banner day.
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  5. Retweeted
    Oct 4

    Elsewhere in DC today...

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  6. Retweeted
    Oct 3

    Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

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    Oct 3

    This text-based conference is incredible. We are trading "rares" by the swag table. I only want conferences to be MUDs from now on. 🤣 SO GOOD

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    Oct 4

    Illustration vinylique de l'effet zootrope

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  9. Retweeted
    Oct 4

    This is the only data I trust right now.

    Trump’s tweeting frequency is literally the canary in the coal mine of his current health status.
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    Oct 4

    ‘Future Warning’ Stop performance for

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  11. Retweeted
    Sep 30

    I realize these guys are in it to hack on methods, but they've built the best visualization I've yet seen of the spread of in the United States. Only thing missing is an ominous month ticker.

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    daily cases per 100k people by county from Feb 27 to Sep 27 built with on our Coding with Fire livestream
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  12. Retweeted
    Oct 3

    Yes, Ronald Reagan Would never do something as callous as denying the existence of a virus

    When Reagan was shot, country rallied around, but he hadn't spent months downplaying assassins
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  13. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    "we shouldn't wish death upon anyone"

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    Oct 3

    COVID NYC Update: NYPD warns officers to wear face coverings or face possible disciplinary action - WABC-TV

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  15. Retweeted
    Oct 3

    The worst clusters of COVID-19 aren’t in the White House. They’re in the nation’s jails and prisons. Let’s not lose sight of that.

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  16. Retweeted
    Oct 3

    The s in IoT stands for security

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  17. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    So... you mean to tell us you could‘ve done this the whole time?

    tweets that wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease against *anyone* are not allowed and will need to be removed. this does not automatically mean suspension.
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  18. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    As a designer, I feel beholden to say that some problems cannot be solved by design, and shouldn't be asked to.

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  19. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    More riders on the MTA than on all of the US airlines on a daily basis.

    WHOA … PELOSI announces she will move stand-alone airline relief. BIG change here. PELOSI: “As relief for airline workers is being advanced, the airline industry must delay these devastating job cuts.”
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  20. Retweeted
    Oct 2

    This is news hyperinflation. Journalists are wandering around with wheelbarrows full of news but it's all worthless because it now costs one million news to buy a loaf of bread.

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