Tweets for the Week of 2020-06-14 to 2020-06-20

RT @nils_gilman: What a bummer: now ? can’t suppress it and the ‘stache can’t monetize it https://t.co/MIXeK9GGa2 22:48:19, 2020-06-20
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? https://t.co/EHMjL4nd2z 22:12:54, 2020-06-20
@JeremyKonyndyk I think I can see 3, and one of them looks like it's being worn correctly. in reply to JeremyKonyndyk 14:02:31, 2020-06-20
Meanwhile. https://t.co/IFeiU1n2jG 13:56:59, 2020-06-20
it seems like ?'s plan is to make sure the virus is out of control in November, restrict Black voter access to poll… https://t.co/Hp92Twj05A 13:55:31, 2020-06-20
@drvox The dream of the 90s is alive man! Somewhere out there. Probably in a virtual reality simulation. in reply to drvox 13:12:05, 2020-06-20
Are they purposefully organizing a super-spreading event? How many people have flown into Tulsa for this, and where… https://t.co/hqadYzPpwN 13:07:01, 2020-06-20
RT @HeidiNBC: “If Trump felt comfortable having it here, then I’m comfortable," said one supporter of the president.
Another said, of the… 12:59:53, 2020-06-20
RT @pwnallthethings: Protesting against wearing a mask by wearing an adult diaper is some pretty heavy-handed writing by whoever is writing… 12:59:44, 2020-06-20
RT @jaketapper: Six campaign staffers working on Tulsa rally test positive for coronavirus – CNNPolitics https://t.co/CI3CEKX2cS 12:59:30, 2020-06-20
But what if you're looking for some way to not have an election at all? https://t.co/UrTb4QrAgo 12:47:09, 2020-06-20
@bduckles Wauw that purple is amazing. in reply to bduckles 12:38:04, 2020-06-20
This could have been Boulder in 2050, but they ripped out the first protected bike lanes and then RTD imploded. https://t.co/YSJ00tWhPL 11:26:52, 2020-06-20
@BraveBosom "Zoom, enhance!" in reply to BraveBosom 11:19:49, 2020-06-20
@interfluidity In retrospect it all seems disingenuous to the point of cringe. in reply to interfluidity 11:18:38, 2020-06-20
On the wildfire issue, if I recall correctly, Hickenlooper's administration buried the wildfire task force's 2013 r… https://t.co/NSEZjgxjZa 23:13:59, 2020-06-19
RT @AriBerman: Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200
There will be one polling place for 616,00… 19:53:29, 2020-06-19
@justinsimoni @BoulderBedrooms @ericmbudd @maryannerodis Sadly the same rule applies in Boulder County. See the def… https://t.co/RxEKr5qN7Q in reply to justinsimoni 19:49:14, 2020-06-19
Tesla really needs a union. https://t.co/euDJABKj5s 17:21:51, 2020-06-19
@CHThiem Unfortunately always a good baseline prediction. in reply to CHThiem 17:15:44, 2020-06-19
@Yimbyindenver Have you been following the group living process in Denver? Sounds like they are getting whittled do… https://t.co/gBI9SKaQtc in reply to Yimbyindenver 17:13:45, 2020-06-19
@plutokiller Mostly I like to use "xenoforming." It's not as specific, but I think it gets the important core point… https://t.co/lgLBFRQy9a in reply to plutokiller 08:27:08, 2020-06-19
@ericmbudd @mcsweeneys has really had a great run these last few months. in reply to ericmbudd 07:44:28, 2020-06-19
"Veneraforming" https://t.co/W61zaXeQGc 07:42:22, 2020-06-19
@ericmbudd Just Because They’ve Turned Against Humanity Doesn’t Mean We Should Defund the Terminator Program
https://t.co/YY5r5SpYBV in reply to ericmbudd 07:31:45, 2020-06-19
@jbouie Omg it's a Fawaffle! in reply to jbouie 23:59:41, 2020-06-18
RT @TransForm_Alert: Un-Urbanist Assembly starts tomorrow, a 23-hr teach-in confronting anti-Blackness in planning and built environment fr… 23:40:42, 2020-06-18
@KendraWrites She's gotta work 2.63x as hard to make up for the 0.38g! in reply to KendraWrites 21:28:47, 2020-06-18
RT @Olivia_R_Will: Excited to have my chapter of #OnCommonGround come out at the end of the month. On Common Ground: International Perspect… 21:24:56, 2020-06-18
@CHThiem Because they have less power, so we can force them to? in reply to CHThiem 20:13:46, 2020-06-18
@JadeResurrected The trash pandas can tell. They know what's happening. They can smell the fear. Also probably the teargas. in reply to JadeResurrected 20:13:04, 2020-06-18
@JadeResurrected The end is truly nigh. in reply to JadeResurrected 20:08:55, 2020-06-18
RT @gemorris: @vgr Their financing is based on their rents, if they lower rent then their loans implode. They have to incentivize outside o… 20:06:47, 2020-06-18
And then there's a bunch of countries that don't have the resources required to mitigate, and while the rest of the… https://t.co/QUGSgnnE52 in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:01:59, 2020-06-18
Like… some countries did a decent job. Others are totally half-assing it and trying to move on, but physics & bio… https://t.co/PeA2DX4vxd in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:59:00, 2020-06-18
Sounds kinda like capitalists paying mercenaries. https://t.co/8s2imozdfp 19:55:44, 2020-06-18
It has seemed for a while like the pandemic exhibits a bunch of the same social & political dynamics that are at pl… https://t.co/9y4ZY5quAu 19:54:30, 2020-06-18
@CHThiem Capital O O Open space. in reply to CHThiem 19:49:23, 2020-06-18
@CHThiem Concern! TRIPLE USE OMG! in reply to CHThiem 19:47:16, 2020-06-18
I've started A People's History of the United States and Collective Courage (about the African American cooperative… https://t.co/sDat2kKYhM 16:37:57, 2020-06-18
@ericmbudd Japanese really isn't as hard a language as folks make it out to be. in reply to ericmbudd 16:23:18, 2020-06-18
@Violetsouffle As noted by his former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, he is a "fucking moron". So who knows? in reply to Violetsouffle 15:53:34, 2020-06-18
@Violetsouffle Oh that's right, he's going to be there too! in reply to Violetsouffle 15:45:50, 2020-06-18
They know the rally will kill a bunch Trump supporters, but they don't care.
"The Trump campaign has required thos… https://t.co/3gX9MpNExG 15:40:30, 2020-06-18
This is, sadly, from a dissenting opinion. https://t.co/gQzcotpDu8 15:26:56, 2020-06-18
@ericmbudd Writing the dissent, unfortunately. in reply to ericmbudd 13:55:22, 2020-06-18
@drvox Especially in those Zoom calls with 8 other participants. in reply to drvox 13:19:12, 2020-06-18
@elemdoubleu Yeah that's where I came across him too. But I've been waiting for *someone* to write this book for ages! in reply to elemdoubleu 13:15:18, 2020-06-18
If there's no such thing as a "good enough" education, and those in the bottom portion of the distribution get cut… https://t.co/pHcdIj1G8p in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:13:42, 2020-06-18
Even if the wasteful housing expenditure cascade were addressed (which would be great!) wouldn't folks still be com… https://t.co/RcrXnSV2Z1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:08:07, 2020-06-18
But it seems like this is almost the same as saying that education *itself* is a positional good. You want your kid… https://t.co/EY4JFXJx2O in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:04:16, 2020-06-18
@ewarren Frank points out that it's not *just* a matter of conspicuous consumption ("keeping up with the Joneses"),… https://t.co/JQBuZhCAgb in reply to ZaneSelvans 13:01:29, 2020-06-18
@ewarren Housing in the US is largely a positional good — nobody needs a 4000sf house, except insofar as it puts y… https://t.co/ykTr8aEiYg in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:59:49, 2020-06-18
One of the themes he explores is individually rational over-expenditure on housing in the US (which @ewarren expose… https://t.co/XLT10h4Qqg in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:58:42, 2020-06-18
I'm reading Under the Influence by Robert Frank, a book about how peer pressure and social norms determine huge swa… https://t.co/0Cui4XFEPA in reply to ZaneSelvans 12:56:59, 2020-06-18
Is an education necessarily a positional good? Meaning, is its value primarily determined by its quality relative t… https://t.co/243jTSs6mp 12:54:55, 2020-06-18
RT @nkjemisin: Oh, McSweeneys, thank you, I needed a laugh today. https://t.co/N82X8fBEew 10:18:35, 2020-06-18
Seems bad.
I think there are a lot of meat packing plants in Nebraska too. https://t.co/f9eRJKnICb 10:15:18, 2020-06-18
@TheWeirdHistory "it's a pervasive myth and it's one that is hard to shake because, although empirically it's false… https://t.co/JKRKH28GF9 in reply to TheWeirdHistory 10:12:35, 2020-06-18
@thebmbennett When I can't bear the internet anymore, but also can't turn my brain off. in reply to thebmbennett 21:13:45, 2020-06-17
You can put some of the Lord Zuck's evil FB billions to good use, if you're working on open source software that su… https://t.co/NnSZbfoYkA 16:03:41, 2020-06-17
An interesting look at personal pandemic risk management, through analogy with consensually non-monogamous relation… https://t.co/1pF7wzqMUF 11:57:23, 2020-06-17
Weirdly this headline is almost kind of true, since new US case numbers haven't really declined much. It's all just… https://t.co/5mncjGopyo 10:34:43, 2020-06-17
RT @TheOnion: City Enters Phase 4 Of Pretending Coronavirus Over https://t.co/A5ZJbWnQP2 https://t.co/GUrredUKxL 10:26:50, 2020-06-17
RT @RealSexyCyborg: For fucks sake if you'd ever just done a real lockdown and had 80% mask compliance for just 8 weeks none of this drama… 23:44:01, 2020-06-16
No matter how bad you think parking is, it somehow seems to end up being worse. https://t.co/2ZhcDeABNj 23:25:10, 2020-06-16
@daguilarcanabal Yeah, pretty wild isn't it? in reply to daguilarcanabal 23:23:22, 2020-06-16
@SarahMackAttack If only there was some way to cross their longevity over into the cephalopods. What would a 500 ye… https://t.co/JfZdvI6Zjc in reply to SarahMackAttack 22:00:37, 2020-06-16
@CostaSamaras Not to mention *yawn* climate change. in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:47:31, 2020-06-16
@CostaSamaras I feel like the spectating portion of the US has managed to become simultaneously bored of the ongoin… https://t.co/5Ak4OUrSgG in reply to CostaSamaras 21:45:22, 2020-06-16
@BraveBosom @MythiliSk @KendraWrites @dennisjboyle And they are so. dang. stylish too! in reply to BraveBosom 21:43:06, 2020-06-16
City politics: one of the few sports still doing fine during the pandemic. https://t.co/sob050xZJ8 21:33:43, 2020-06-16
@CHThiem Oh yeah baby, who wants to see Ken Beitel's Capital O-face. in reply to CHThiem 21:14:00, 2020-06-16
@CHThiem Senior citizens "stacked like cordwood" if occupancy limits are relaxed for them and only them. in reply to CHThiem 21:11:14, 2020-06-16
@MythiliSk @KendraWrites Maybe you've already come across this, but it's also a weird twist of fate that the first… https://t.co/nE6n9XQFBt in reply to MythiliSk 21:09:43, 2020-06-16
And your ability to travel between different cities is dependent on your biological compatibility with, and immunit… https://t.co/p3UVgeZSbQ in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:20:04, 2020-06-16
I'm not criticizing the idea of green zones, but it does kind of remind me of the world depicted in the movie Code… https://t.co/dzOYBtFxcS 11:17:30, 2020-06-16
RT @michaelbd: Just 2 nuclear powers representing 40 percent of the planet’s population having words. https://t.co/OjszXArZBK 11:06:12, 2020-06-16
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms I've been considering getting a PS5 at the end of the year and just walking away from corporeal reality. in reply to ericmbudd 11:01:29, 2020-06-16
RT @nils_gilman: Because a border skirmish between two nuclear-armed powers is just what 2020 was missing… 10:39:43, 2020-06-16
Mood. https://t.co/ZubkCCcAWk 10:33:01, 2020-06-16
A dissociation from the act of enslavement. As if it were all somehow the mysterious act of hateful God. https://t.co/FxLIYqm9Gn 20:55:01, 2020-06-15
Well this is certainly meta. https://t.co/QqscDQo8dL 19:07:50, 2020-06-15
RT @evacide: Every year I get a little older, and I appreciate James Baldwin a little more. I was told (mostly by former hippies) that I wo… 07:30:43, 2020-06-15
Just, you know, *hypothetically* https://t.co/ftTn7Q4g8N 07:26:43, 2020-06-15
RT @GalvinAlmanza: So I was talking with my mom about #DefundThePolice. And she asked me a question: how could what happened to Rayshard Br… 07:26:16, 2020-06-15
@judesantopietro Conoces este sitio de @mariorz? https://t.co/OA2acNbIsu in reply to ZaneSelvans 22:22:07, 2020-06-14
@judesantopietro No te preocupes! Estoy listo para quedarme en casa hasta… el fin del año? Uy. in reply to judesantopietro 22:17:17, 2020-06-14
Welp, here we go. https://t.co/1fvbE8d61A 22:05:16, 2020-06-14
@JadeResurrected do you know any good English language resources on this character? Do you have any idea if she's well known in China? in reply to ZaneSelvans 21:37:46, 2020-06-14
Is there really no biography of Ching Shih 鄭氏 out there? How is this not an epic adventure film?… https://t.co/HuErnWxeEa 21:33:32, 2020-06-14
@rajivatbarnard @interfluidity Well, judges become more lenient after they have lunch so this seems like it could e… https://t.co/bioVjrG0C2 in reply to rajivatbarnard 21:20:07, 2020-06-14
@interfluidity This is some arcane Github command I've never had to use, right? in reply to interfluidity 10:58:28, 2020-06-14

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