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Cory Watilo

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Cory Watilo

@watilo

All things design @posthog, habitual entrepreneur, and Silicon Valley dissenter. Design tweets: @ninepixelgrid. Also building @rv_envy, @posthaven, @foliohd.

🍊OC, CA 👉🏼 Tampa, FL ☀️

Joined December 2007

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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Jan 31, 2025
a quick introduction since i see a lot of new faces here after helping with @DataRepublican's site! - california refugee, now happily in tampa, florida 🌴 - silicon valley designer for 15+ years. always been an outsider ideologically, until now... - former full-time RVer - my
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 5, 2025
if there's anything that gives me an immense amount of hope for America, it's seeing support for @DataRepublican from some of *the biggest* names in tech (and i'm not being dramatic). i've worked at Silicon Valley startups basically my entire career and i've always been the odd
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Oct 12, 2024
We're just trying to survive over here - three days without power, trees and debris still strewn across the street, barely any cell service, just trying to get some work done and a laptop charge - but @CityofTampa meter maids already handing out tickets. Not a great look,
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 18, 2025
just pushed out some improvements to the @DataRepublican EIN graph search: • click a line (or grant amount) to zoom into the connection between the source and its destination • open the search menu to see a list of all entities that appear in the graph (and easily spot high
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 23, 2025
your terms are acceptable
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@vanillaopinions
Feb 22, 2025
i honestly am not sure the damage elon is doing to the federal government will be reversible
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Sep 26, 2024
More storm surge clips from Bayshore Blvd in Tampa, FL! All clips available on Storyful ([email protected]) #Helene #helene2024 #HurricaneHelene #Tampa #bayshore 1. Brave kids boating down Bayshore Blvd with a Trump flag 🤣
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 20, 2025
the fact that Grammarly exists as a company (and is valued at $13 billion !!!!) should show the utter failure in the American education system.
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 4, 2025
i wonder how long it will take for these USAID protestors to understand no one is against helping save lives. (though i'd also suspect many of these people are getting paid to stand there and hold signs.) what we *are* against is exactly what the White House pointed out in a
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 4, 2025
how is *not* wanting the government to give away billions of dollars a controversial idea? isn't this what charity is for? pro tip: you even get a tax break for doing it! when did it become the norm for the government to be the parent that we always think will fix everything?
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 4, 2025
this is a blog post i wrote 13 years ago (in my early 20s) – when i started becoming aware about government waste and wanted more people to be as outraged as i was. every fee here is a thinly veiled way to funnel more money into the pockets of people who were able to lobby the
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 5, 2025
👉🏼 datarepublican.com your support really does help! 🙏🏼 it's really cool to see Americans mobilize to help expose the corruption. by the people, for the people. 💪🏼 🇺🇲
DataRepublican (small r)
@DataRepublican
Feb 4, 2025
The DataRepublican site just got a sleek new makeover thanks to @watilo! 🎨🔥 If you like what we’re doing, any tips made through the site will help support us both. 🙌 Project Update: I’ve built out reverse indexes (aka: easy search by name, like with the awards search), and
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 7, 2025
anyone who says Elon is a nazi has never visited an internment camp. acid baths. dislocated bones. cold water immersion. starvation. medical experimentation. that's what nazis did. it does injustice to Holocaust victims to try to equate the two.
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Mar 2, 2025
i can count on zero hands the number of government websites i've had a stellar experience on. what have they been doing?
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Cory Watilo
@watilo
Feb 6, 2025
our odds of saving America are better than that of my parents ever understanding the internet🫠
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