MRThompson_Jr @MRThompson_Jr

From Baltimore streets & rap sheet to Johns Hopkins systems engineer securing critical infrastructure. Author of The Improbability of Me. Baltimore MD Joined October 2009

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MRThompson_Jr @MRThompson_Jr

3 days ago

I love these glowing examples of what “white privilege” is supposed to look like. Allow me to add mine. My white privilege forced me at fourteen to stab a man after him and his friend tried to beat me to death for walking down the street. A year later it happened again while I stood at a bus stop minding my own business. That’s the kind of privilege Baltimore gave kids like me. open.substack.com/pub/michaelrth…

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6 days ago

@BollFILMS @BollFILMS I think Baltimore would be a good place for part 2! I will be your technical consultant and I work for free. This is my resume. open.substack.com/pub/michaelrth…

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a week ago

Tweet 9/11If this one hit you, share the thread. Drop a comment with the line that stuck with you most. More raw chapters coming. This is the blueprint of how badly you can fuck up… and exactly how to crawl out of the wreckage.

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a week ago

Tweet 8/11 Full chapter is live on Substack: michaelrthompson.substack.com/p/mechanical-f…

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a week ago

Tweet 1/11 I was fourteen the first time I had to stab someone. With a fucking pen. This is Chapter 6 of my book The Improbability of Me. Thread.

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a week ago

Tweet 6/11 That moment taught me a core engineering principle before Johns Hopkins ever did: A hinge is a weakness. Every moving part is a potential single point of failure.

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a week ago

Tweet 5/11 That mechanical failure in the middle of a war changed me forever. From that day on, I only carried fixed blades. No moving parts. No promises that could break when everything was on the line.

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MRThompson_Jr @MRThompson_Jr

a week ago

I'm with you I was just posting on another thread about this exact thing. You sum it up best brother we don't need to live like this! It's been going on forever. I had so many of these incidents growing up in Baltimore City, people said I need to write a book. This is my story. open.substack.com/pub/michaelrth…

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MRThompson_Jr @MRThompson_Jr

a week ago

@osakajayms This was my life growing up in Baltimore. It's a damn shame. We don't need to live like this. We don't need to make our children live like this. This is one of many things I dealt with in Baltimore. open.substack.com/pub/michaelrth…