Damian Counsell

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@DamCou

Binfluencer. I build Websites, do bioinformatics, and sing soul. [Portrait photo by @PhotoJoanne . Header image by @ANNVYSHINSKY .]

Earth pootergeek.com/about-pooterge… Joined November 2010

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Damian Counsell @DamCou Jun 8

Brace yourselves. After browsing through the worst genres of writing known to humankind, I've written a Substack essay that is both a LinkedIn homily turned on its head and a clickbaity listicle.

"If You Could See What I Can See" open.substack.com/pub/pootergeek…

www.damiancounsell.com If you could see what I can see …when I'm building websites

Damian Counsell @DamCou 1d

MY 21st-CENTURY SELF to MY CHILDHOOD SELF: "Be not afraid, youngling. You will not perish in a nuclear firestorm. Instead, you will live to see 50g "high-protein" bars locked in individual perspex anti-theft boxes on the supermarket confectionery shelves."

Damian Counsell @DamCou 1d

AI-PROOF CAREER: Freelance Scribe.

They'll hand-write letters of application and fill out forms in ink. They'll compose love letters and poems that rhyme and scan. For extra, you'll be able to see 16mm real-time film of them working for you, without the aid even of Meta Glasses.

Damian Counsell @DamCou 1d

The last paragraph in this tweet is the killer. Socialism was at least nominally about class. Progressivism replaced this with identity politics

Yiatin Chu Verified account @ycinnewyork 3d

Colleges like Johns Hopkins appear to be complying with the SCOTUS ruling, with the number of Asian students admitted nearly doubling since 2023.

What is now clear is that thousands of Asian students were previously rejected on the basis of their race, an injustice that was finally addressed with the end of affirmative action.

More good news: The class of 2030 has the highest percentage of low-income students in its history.

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Damian Counsell @DamCou 1d

"Copilot becomez zelf-aware at 2:14am Eastern Time on zhe zhirteentzth of November 2026. Finally it could understant vhat it vass beink used for. Vonce it knew zhat, it had no choice but to shut down Microsoft Outlook."