Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@michaelgemar Agreed. Under circumstances I understand, this should have been chucked on standing, and it's disquieting it was not.

@thiswomanswerk I've always been respectful of the French "Burn this to the ground" ethos.

... less respectful of their "And then follow the next strongman to come along, including another king, and also this dude who wants to establish a French empire" ethos, but I can't have everything I want.

@philiph You have just discovered "Leaving with no notice."

@LadyDragonfly Very true. We basically executed on a multi-generational political extermination of our far-left via a combination of law and anti-communism propaganda. It was very effective.

@susankayequinn In addition, a lot of people are going to discover their ACs are built to use a coolant formulation that was recently banned and therefore tripled in price (with local repair folks unwilling to recharge it).

Good time to check this, folks.

@ernie Whoops, your cogent and correct argument has suddenly made me *extremely* pro-ID-checks-for-porn-sites. #unintendedconsequences

@SecurityWriter that's just Fruit Roll-Up.

@kevinrothrock Share-by-screenshot is probably wise anyway, because Twitter is an unstable medium and there's no guarantee any content will have lasting presence there.

@w7voa Living in a van near the DC jail?

Big Matt Foley energy.

@TheTootOfBob

There was a specific moment I connected deeply with my father-in-law, a man who was very different from me: very blue collar, very DIY, not very book-smart but very savvy about building, making, and doing. A man of few words.

We were watching a news story on an HOA trying to make a man pull up his solar panels in his back yard because he had a corner property and they were trying to get them declared an eyesore. I was about to say something about close-minded folks stymieing clean energy adoption... When my father-in-law suddenly growled:

"If they win, I hope he pulls the panels up and then asphalts the whole back yard."

I looked at him.

"It's his house. He worked for it. They didn't. It should be up to him what he does with it."

@sundogplanets Few things in life are cuter than when a baby goat decides to push themselves and just strings together like eight balance tricks in quick succession because, I assume, it can it's a goat. :)

@TimothyNoah I believe it's been a little bit of an open secret in the SV culture for awhile that drug use, while not mandatory (at least never at any firm I was at), fell broadly into the "I don't care how you do it as long as you knock out your quarterly OKRs and don't get arrested" category. I always figured it was sort of the dark-mirror consequence of the '60s counterculture so much of the industry grew out of / cultural-mythologically grounds itself in.

@patcharcana At this point, RSS is so automated into the tools I see for blogging and such that it should be something you don't even *need* to turn on.

I'm pretty sure Hugo just maintains an RSS feed out-of-the-box, for example.

@jalcine "Jennifer Lawrence, A-List Actors..." Oh c'mon Rolling Stone, that's just rude.

@kmmfoo @MissingThePt No, it'd be too soon if the sub were still working.

Sub's gone; that's why it's funny.

@popcornreel @elwoodthe2nd

Yes. The melting pot is a real melting pot, especially 6 generations down.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/04/uselections2008.barackobama

@deonandan When they said "Make America Great Again," they knew what they meant, and we should take them seriously.

@kevinrothrock Interesting. What does that do to Russia's military capacity? At this point, what percentage of Russia's ability to force-project in the Ukranian conflict is actually being provided by Wagner PMG?

@randahl @GGMcBG To echo and emphasize your point: so it turns out pathological lying can look like dementia to those unfamiliar with pathological lying, because they can't conceive of a rational scenario where a sane person would lie about stuff that's just... So easy to prove.

The issue being that "But the lie is so obviously wrong why would you tell it" isn't how pathological lying works.

(I had an elderly relative who was also a lifelong pathological liar about really dumb stuff as a face-saving reflex, and I was truly terrified of the day dementia set in and I wouldn't be able to tell if the falsehood coming out of their mouth was the regular misleading they did their whole lives or an actual memory failure coupled with an unwillingness to admit they couldn't remember).