Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 10:07

We grew up with the rule to never call cops. Cops will fuck your shit up. Neo-Nazi cops: solidly in the “oh you think?!” category.

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 10:11

I knew good cops & sometimes tried to defend policing on that basis. Truth is a police force is only as good as its worst member.

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 10:43

Dorothy Parker would have the hottest takes

@KenJennings

“What fresh hell is this?” –Dorothy Parker opening Twitter every morning

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 11:01

i briefly mourned that we had no Dorothy Parker for delicious hot takes but everything is going to be just fine

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 11:23

Oh. I like this.

https://twitter.com/0xabad1dea/status/826495186826059776

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 13:31

oooooh new shiny thing for drawing

https://twitter.com/flyosity/status/826488241213829120

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 13:56

My 2nd amendment I-collect-guns-to-rise-up-against-tyranny friends were so quiet I checked if they died. Nope. “Trying to ignore politics”

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 15:51

aw man here comes the RT flood

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 16:04

dental hygiene pantheon

https://twitter.com/godtributes/status/826566716968820736

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 17:33

gosh this homegrown library dependency management system is having issues. How predictable.

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 19:15

Getting the urge to watch Yes Minister again

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 19:17

Oh wait I know where there’s a taco truck in my neighborhood new dinner plan

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 22:57

and now we switch to water.

Twitter: 2017-01-31 Tue 23:15

I’m gonna set my alarm 15 minutes later

@mattdpearce

now that there are no rules anymore, what norm are you most looking forward to destroying

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 00:13

I remember the SILENCE = DEATH project from when I was in high school. That memory and message have driven me quite a bit in 2017.

https://twitter.com/mouseferatu/status/825962109691428864

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 00:52

I mean it’s no ACLU but they do good work. Important work.

https://twitter.com/internetofdongs/status/825969835532222464

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 01:00

The gods are testing me

WAIT NO

TEST-DRIVEN DIVINITY

NO WAIT

BEHAVIOR-DRIVEN DIVINITY

YES

TWEET THAT INSTEAD

https://twitter.com/godtributes/status/825976307485913088

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 01:20

Oh hey it’s the after-midnight life and world anxiety attack. Cool.

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 11:21

No Jenkins, it’s fine. Take your time.

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 12:19

I should take up meditation. Or boxing. Meditative boxing.

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 18:11

Hey this is about a missing person in western Washington state. Last heard from Friday morning. Please read & RT or otherwise amplify.

https://twitter.com/Candyqtpie75/status/826235282768826368

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 18:55

I ate nothing but apples and mixed nuts today.

This may have been a bad idea

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 19:11

These are some really important things to think about if you’re tempted to punch a nazi

https://twitter.com/gaileyfrey/status/826147507176497152

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 21:03

So I’ve been away from the computer for 20 minutes. Has the nation disintegrated any further in that time that we know of?

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 21:06

I love my pocket friends

No I haven’t been drinking

Thinking about it though

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 21:27

It’d be a lie to say I hadn’t thought about it

“Forget protest. Trump’s actions warrant a general national strike”:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/travel-ban-airport-protests-disruption?CMP=share_btn_tw

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 21:41

I think what I need right now

is

maybe to be a tiny bit less sober

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 22:02

Discworld is more coherent than what we’ve got going on.

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 22:38

Whoa almost started a tweet storm. Looks like I’m done drinking already.

Twitter: 2017-01-30 Mon 23:02

via FB:

❝And this is why you NEVER say, ‘well, at least it can’t get any worse’.❞

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 00:01

this is why i haven’t been getting enough sleep i think

https://twitter.com/makoshark/status/825599285664165890

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 00:28

the seatac airport protest

https://twitter.com/seattlish/status/825605414632894464

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 00:39

current live feed at SEATAC

https://twitter.com/seattlish/status/825607925511057408

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 10:14

I think we need to take 2017’s keys. It should not be allowed to drive.

https://twitter.com/JenAshleyWright/status/825751147503820802

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 10:41

ok twitter i love you but i need to draw and write code this weekend or my brain will melt

https://youtu.be/19TBzy81Mac

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 13:54

Just checking in.

How’s everything?

People still trying to put out the trumpster fire?

Good, good.

Ok back to not-twitter for a bit

♥🗽

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 17:19

I am downtown where people are

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 17:31

It’s a fair question

https://twitter.com/Rainyday8169/status/825862296178012160

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 17:51

See? People.

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:01

People are chanting stuff but my brain auditory processing is not up to the task.

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:02

Yeah I agree

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:10

Oh of course the smoking corner is the antifa corner

Scoots discreetly away

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:14

This is about as close as I can comfortably get because people.

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:18

🔽❤️☪️

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:28

Moving right along

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:34

Shouting: “PEACE! AND! LOVE!”

I may as well go home now. Nothing’s gonna top that.

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 18:56

Right here my brain went “too many people time to go home.”

Folks still streaming in steadily at ~6pm 👍

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 19:20

… and breathe

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 20:18

#ImpeachPresidentBannon

https://twitter.com/metasynthie/status/825904827049897984

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 21:10

Old man 1933 more likely

https://twitter.com/shauninman/status/825853487703552000

Twitter: 2017-01-29 Sun 21:12

oh good god I am not following back a twitter thread when the RT’d one to pass my eyes is “/47”

Don’t even get a blog. Get an editor.

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 00:07

Stimulus overload. Closing the twitter tab for a bit

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 12:36

“Tight” doesn’t begin to describe my budget right now, so I was happy to see this offering to match contributions.

https://twitter.com/sacca/status/825412270796718082

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 12:49

All the way down to comment threads, where I see people telling lifetime friends with crippling illness to get a job if they want healthcare

https://twitter.com/raganwald/status/825428883881259010

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 12:56

Random coffee shop chat important enough to share with you.

OH: “Fuck fascists!” Me: “NO. DO NOT FUCK FASCISTS. PUNCH THEM.”

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 13:00

I clarified that I got their point, but words matter. They enthusiastically agreed with my correction.

https://twitter.com/brianwisti/status/825432454194307073

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 13:55

Gaming is a great way to meet and learn about new people “In Berlin, refugees become friends—through board games”

https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1029757

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 17:05

Planning to be there

“Stand with Immigrants! - Emergency Protest”

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/825487082525175808

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 19:13

Not exactly boycotting, since I haven’t used Uber in months. I’m fine with uninstalling the app and revoking their FB permissions though.

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 20:53

Hard times don’t make better art. Great art happens all the time. Maybe we appreciate art more during hard times. Maybe.

Not the same thing

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 22:26

Protests may not fix things but goddamn it is nice to read about them and cry happy tears once in a while.

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 22:50

best place for it really

https://twitter.com/wholemilk/status/825581735987408897

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 23:00

btw do not fuck with @Asher_Wolf

https://twitter.com/Asher_Wolf/status/825584214254817280

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 23:07

Information thread.

https://twitter.com/alexandraerin/status/825582230416265220

Twitter: 2017-01-28 Sat 23:44

Given my twitter output over the last few months, should probably warn you ahead of time that this is a programming link.

https://twitter.com/prasun_anand/status/825592598035304448

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 00:29

You can’t stop progress!

https://twitter.com/futureofsex/status/824879867522998272

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 00:50

Nice to see something awesome tonight.

https://twitter.com/planetquest/status/824805606049472512

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 00:59

I hope the Obamas are enjoying a well-deserved rejuvenating vacation and that THEY COME HOME SOON PLEASE DON’S SNIFFING GLUE OR SOMETHING

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 03:05

Not sleeping yet. May as well stretch my legs.

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 03:15

But hey insomnia and current events reminded me about the name of the movie that stuck in my dreams for years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 09:08

Something about Trump and Putin talking on the phone and I couldn’t help thinking of Dead Kennedys

https://youtu.be/33pA31c2cfs

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 14:11

FB friend asks re: political punk today

🤔 dunno but hip-hop’s as political as punk ever was

Ex: @BambuDePistola

https://bambubeatrock.bandcamp.com/album/prey-for-the-devil

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 14:42

SEATTLE WEATHER UPDATE

I HAVE BEEN LURED OUTSIDE

THERE ARE BIRDS SINGING

ITS A TRAP

SEND HELP

AND REFRESHMENTS

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 14:44

I am my own parody account

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 18:22

Wonder what to do this weekend.

Reads Friday news

ok then I guess I’ll be going to this march on Sunday

https://www.facebook.com/events/581941758669291/

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 20:45

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 21:44

Pretty sure I hit the point of diminishing returns

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 21:48

I accidentally super-duper liked somebody on tinder and I don’t know what that means so I burned my account to ashes then stabbed the ashes

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 22:10

Honestly the most heartwarming moment of my day was sitting in the neighborhood dive bar listening to drunk people shout slurs about Trump.

Twitter: 2017-01-27 Fri 22:17

dammit now i wanna be simon ferocious

i couldn’t even be stan peevish

https://twitter.com/historyben/status/825128480153034753

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 08:05

Meanwhile in today’s chapter of “coffee keeps me civil”

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 08:48

So spot-on that I had to check it was a real book.

Yes I know I need to read more.

https://twitter.com/newsbrooke/status/824567991211810816

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 09:04

I always enjoy @kexp but somehow there’s an extra level of appreciation when the world seems crazy. Happy to be an amplifier for that.

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 12:09

Right so in 2020 I’m voting SkyNet

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 12:12

already starting with the campaign outreach

https://twitter.com/_TheTerminator_/status/824696169213288448

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 17:34

Current Web search: is Zumba considered a form of self-harm

owie

Twitter: 2017-01-26 Thu 18:22

TIL

https://twitter.com/RuckCohlchez/status/824469443531173889

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 08:07

Need a Sr Dev with Java & Perl skills in Seattle area or remote? One of the better devs I’ve worked with is looking.

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 08:59

The electoral college is not our fault so people can STFU about any one particular person’s vote.

https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/824285101890543617

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 12:18

it me

https://twitter.com/NYTMinusContext/status/824075318931628032

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 13:20

I still think @nyt_diff is the most fascinating bot I follow.

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 21:25

Drawing experiment: combining two finished sketches and hammering repeatedly in @Procreate until they fit

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 21:39

The future can do it again later but probably something closer to my bank when I get to enjoy a natural fashion icons I can do it again

https://twitter.com/AmyDentata/status/824472296903446528

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 22:05

Okay I don’t think he meant Nazi punchers but I’m gonna go with Nazi punchers.

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 22:06

I was gonna tweet something sweet and then I saw a RT of that Nazi getting punched again and I veered left

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 23:05

And immediately “Know Your Rights” starts playing in my head.

https://twitter.com/BirdPerHour/status/824497449087696898

Twitter: 2017-01-25 Wed 23:52

Been back on irc a few weeks now.

May try chatting soon.

Watched people doing that.

Looked fun.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 02:11

Kept my hands busy with drawing during my happy birthday celebrations. Symmetric doodling on iPad and finger painting on phone.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 02:23

Switching to coffee partway into the evening was both a great and a foolhardy idea, he noted at 1:23am.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 02:26

ALL HAIL

https://twitter.com/godtributes/status/823823812361854977

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 13:20

Reminded of my bubble. Went one county over & had very different political chats. Some irritating. Some interesting. Different assumptions.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 14:39

Political twitter is getting weird.

Also, this RT is an endorsement.

https://twitter.com/tricialockwood/status/824002958731972609

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 16:23

“Where’d those informative tweets go? They were here a minute ago!”

https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/823966201328046080

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 17:01

Huh.

https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/796792283953774592

(

https://web.archive.org/web/20170124235904/https://twitter.com/BadlandsNPS/status/796792283953774592

in case I’m wrong now) is visible loaded directly but not in @BadlandsNPS summary

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 17:34

Multiple unofficial Badlands National Park accounts mentioned in my feed in 15 minutes. Yay, but - you know - healthy skepticism.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 20:12

Gonna have to pace myself at life I think or I won’t make it the end

Well everyone makes it to the end I’d just like to take longer

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 22:46

Maybe I could stop following some of the news. Big stuff gets RTd into my feed anyways. Following source is just an extra dose of anxiety.

Twitter: 2017-01-24 Tue 23:49

Look at the tweets. Those aren’t scare quotes. He uses quote marks for emphasis.

Compared to everything else this is a paper cut.

Even so.

Twitter: 2017-01-23 Mon 10:47

I might be getting cake and ice cream for my birthday. Day is looking up.

Twitter: 2017-01-23 Mon 12:53

“Our code has race conditions!”

Me: “Yay, I love races!”

okay maybe I should not code right now.

Twitter: 2017-01-23 Mon 12:57

Suddenly having flashback to HS chat with classmate in history who bragged about never reading the assignments. Or news. Or a book. Ever.

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/823619995271921667

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 10:43

Let’s see if I can manage any code and studying today.

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 11:40

New drawing: “Red” - tweeted the pic the other day. Just making sure it also has a home on my site.

http://randomgeekery.org/craft/2017/red/

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 15:25

Dangit brain

I just tried to use a Perl 6 String method in a Ruby script

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 18:28

This is all just giving more weight to my hypothesis that I would not have enjoyed Zaphod’s presidency.

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 18:59

A single simple stitch in an elaborate pattern

Not even a k2tog

https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/823337380262375424

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 19:47

Linux PC has own IP

monitor can switch PC or MBP

thunderbolt

swap keyboard

yay I am making my workflow unnecessarily complicated! 🎉

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 19:59

That was so smooth that I missed it the first time. I thought I was supposed to be watching Trump.

https://twitter.com/GMoney__305/status/823319524661493761

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 22:24

Tonight’s musical mood. Dorkweed - It’s Not Like I’m a Cat

https://youtu.be/qrkvNiwhhRE

Twitter: 2017-01-22 Sun 23:16

LRT reminds me it’s been a couple weeks since I watched Inglorious Basterds