Polly Math Wannabe @PollyMathWannabe@qoto.org
Ted Johns.
Engineer, scientist, pilot.
Accreting knowledge drip by drip.
Dogs & Cats, sleeping together.
Loved the OG Star Trek as a child.
He/Him
I’m starting to think that many of the people who chanted “lock her up” at Trump rallies in 2016 did not do so out of an authentic commitment to the principle of equality before the law.
Depressing sign of the times when SCOTUS makes a good decision instead of an ugly political one, and the media calls it shocking.
ICYMI: A call for pedantry in free speech debates and for separating Free Speech Rights, Free Speech Culture, And Speech Decency.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-free-speech-pedantry
If Musk "steps down" as Twitter CEO, per his latest bogus "poll", some things to remember:
1) He'll still be the owner, and the owner makes the rules the CEO carries out.
2) He lies incessantly. Nothing he says can be trusted, ever.
3) Big Journalism will breathlessly cover the charade as if it meant something, and will continue to support a man who loathes honest reporting and has contempt for genuine freedom of expression.
I really despise this idea some people have about the need to stay on Twitter "to fight". To fight what? This isn't a war where ground is won or lost. The platform is wholly and unquestionably owned by the person you're trying to fight against. He has shown he doesn't care about loss of advertisers, loss of respect, loss of users. Twitter is now nothing but his personal alt-right cult. The only valid reason to stay is to assist others in leaving. If you're generating any other forms of content, you're simply enabling him to radicalize *your* userbase.
Not a gambling man, but if Twitter was public I'd short it. 😂
And so it begins, the messy work of re-following all the journos and wits that amused / educated me on that bird site. 🤔
RT @POTUS@twitter.com
Moments ago I spoke to Brittney Griner.
She is safe.
She is on a plane.
She is on her way home.
A theory as to why we've seen so little angry election denying so far from Republicans who lost on Tuesday: because the MAGA movement has become boring & reduced to fan service for 1 guy w/ little substance beyond that. It's reactionary bluster, not sustained revolutionary fervor
Ted Johns.
Engineer, scientist, pilot.
Accreting knowledge drip by drip.
Dogs & Cats, sleeping together.
Loved the OG Star Trek as a child.
He/Him
