Tweets for the Week of 2020-06-28 to 2020-07-04

"And every time you ask me how I'm feeling. I just smile and tell you this is fine." https://t.co/Gn3BVuVOmk in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:58:56, 2020-07-04
"And every time you ask me how I'm feeling. I just smile and tell you that I'm fine." in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:56:32, 2020-07-04
"I, I don't know why I'm terrified of everything. Just to call the doctor seems daunting."
"I can't deny I'm paral… https://t.co/BsZuUa2Ct7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:52:50, 2020-07-04
@KendraWrites Ugh, that sucks. It's like the perfect example of several overlapping systemic failures combining in… https://t.co/U6t5x40gg1 in reply to KendraWrites 23:47:34, 2020-07-04
RT @oatesmeal: feels like everyone I know is depressed rn and trying their best to prop each other up with spare emotional support, like ex… 23:14:05, 2020-07-04
Sale que era más facil apenas mudarme a México. ???? https://t.co/oOBl7khFEY 23:06:22, 2020-07-04
"For most of my life I've felt a sharp uncertainty. Now it's just become a part of me."
https://t.co/csOK3l7c9s 23:02:11, 2020-07-04
California depends on prison labor paid $2-$3.90/hr to fight wildfires. Prisons are in lockdown because they're ove… https://t.co/CKyGyvbzXb 21:58:05, 2020-07-04
Good to see a former US senator willing to talk openly about Trump stealing the election, and how he might pull it… https://t.co/GIhCCaXZUK 21:17:52, 2020-07-04
RT @ericmbudd: hello yes I am anti-fascist have a nice day 18:18:56, 2020-07-04
And for problems where there's a substantial delay between our actions and their consequences, and/or there are amp… https://t.co/J74e8FrBD7 in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:16:05, 2020-07-04
Unlike the traditional Drunkard's Walk problem though, I think the probability of walking toward vs. away from the… https://t.co/PSDF4aN0SF in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:13:16, 2020-07-04
@nils_gilman Ignoring Isaac Asimov… is there *any* human/social/technical system where 50 year predictions have e… https://t.co/TpED5yrTTJ in reply to nils_gilman 18:05:17, 2020-07-04
A Drunkard's Walk, with an increasingly large collection of cliffs: https://t.co/4Z9QnLRPHS https://t.co/AQYMgSxwpR 17:56:59, 2020-07-04
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms I mean, I sure *hope* so! in reply to ericmbudd 17:44:48, 2020-07-04
Ay, que chida esta chica de las olas: https://t.co/tY5lEDuCzn 17:43:28, 2020-07-04
@cbouzy @JayKayNor @BotSentinel Yay it's fixed! in reply to cbouzy 13:36:52, 2020-07-04
RT @noUpside: The Tuskeegee experiment was a true travesty; antivax activists have worked for years to link it to basic, safe vaccines -inc… 13:29:20, 2020-07-04
RT @LFoolride: "Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates and Melinda, you want to depopulate the earth."
"Do not take their medications."

#Farrakhan

https… 13:24:27, 2020-07-04
"Half of all Americans who name Fox News as their primary TV news source believe the conspiracy theory (that Bill G… https://t.co/5Dy9cjYgjT 13:23:51, 2020-07-04
Interesting thread on the perils of a particular variety of "objectivity" in our current moment, and the need for j… https://t.co/oseONw3MOD 13:08:55, 2020-07-04
The protest was organized by some kind of bar and restaurant association. I wonder how the feelings of business own… https://t.co/lDEwKMxhqX in reply to ZaneSelvans 11:53:11, 2020-07-04
Cars filling Oaxaca's main pedestrian street, protesting the ongoing closure of bars and restaurants in the city.… https://t.co/6vzLo3oI5B 11:49:32, 2020-07-04
RT @markmobility: Mississippi election commissioner: "I'm concerned about voter registration in Mississippi," the commissioner wrote. "The… 11:36:21, 2020-07-04
@amywestervelt I just wish it was because things were going better down here. in reply to amywestervelt 23:12:58, 2020-07-03
An idiot trustfunder you mean? https://t.co/gwcdy5RwTO 23:07:43, 2020-07-03
Doubleplusunprecedented. Seems kinda feedbacky. https://t.co/2xEBSJEy5x 19:47:07, 2020-07-03
Given the US government's recent pronouncement I think this may need re-upping. https://t.co/MVAZm2SSmJ 19:34:49, 2020-07-03
@erinoverturf It wasn't that we didn't *know* they'd cause these problems, the auto industry just had a better lobb… https://t.co/pw2eSe1kTx in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:56:59, 2020-07-03
@erinoverturf I really liked it! But it was also kind of a bummer, because the city planners and civil engineers th… https://t.co/EjRi765vj6 in reply to erinoverturf 15:55:56, 2020-07-03
@amywestervelt @Fall_of_Civ_Pod @PaulMMCooper There's 10 episodes that are audio only, and then he's done video bac… https://t.co/TpLPNKQhCQ in reply to amywestervelt 15:52:57, 2020-07-03
@amywestervelt I love @Fall_of_Civ_Pod from @PaulMMCooper. It's been weirdly soothing to hear stories about other s… https://t.co/VbRo7GswrP in reply to ZaneSelvans 14:58:42, 2020-07-03
@amywestervelt I feel like Peter Norton's book Fighting Traffic about how cars took over US cities between 1915-193… https://t.co/X6MLprcd6x in reply to amywestervelt 14:56:46, 2020-07-03
@ericmbudd It's like a tax-advantaged retirement account that makes people homeless or forces them to commute, whil… https://t.co/XT7lPXRJ5c in reply to ericmbudd 14:16:31, 2020-07-03
Fact check: True. https://t.co/L8snJsg2xg 12:25:08, 2020-07-03
@JayKayNor @BotSentinel @cbouzy Thanks for letting me know! I was worried it was some bad interaction between my va… https://t.co/e2Vi52yXDE in reply to JayKayNor 11:54:17, 2020-07-03
RT @leahstokes: Fossil fuel companies—this time, my own dreadful utility @socalgas—are launching racist astroturfing campaigns that claim c… 11:29:09, 2020-07-03
RT @ClimateAdam: climate scientists be like "I know a place" and then describe how it'll be uninhabitable in decades. 08:52:13, 2020-07-03
@ericmbudd I mean come on. Like you're a paladin in D&D or something? https://t.co/DYis347o41 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:49:12, 2020-07-02
@ericmbudd This can't be real. It has to be a simulation. in reply to ericmbudd 23:46:58, 2020-07-02
Yesterday in the state of Oaxaca 100% of reported tests were positive. https://t.co/ac6IcwJ2eC https://t.co/zhPLfL7pD5 22:53:05, 2020-07-02
@BotSentinel Is the new version of the FireFox addon supposed to make the text of *every* account that has a rating… https://t.co/8YgyjSxzft 22:48:55, 2020-07-02
Is there a reason why passing a few ~100k row pandas dataframes into a function that I'm trying to run several time… https://t.co/eFHTqatJHk 22:46:50, 2020-07-02
@drvox Did you feel like it had a message around abortion, and if so what message did you feel like it had? in reply to drvox 22:42:13, 2020-07-02
RT @Olivia_R_Will: plz follow my cool org baby so we can have a bigger Twitter following: @MadisonAreaCLT https://t.co/Ko2jXvEx1B 21:25:22, 2020-07-02
RT @SarahTaber_bww: OK SO
if a farm's harvesting sweet potatoes at night in North Carolina, there's decent odds it's for fraud purposes

R… 20:50:35, 2020-07-02
Pero, ¿queremos dar poder de veto sobre nuestros movimientos al Google? https://t.co/qRhZke164T 13:33:30, 2020-07-02
I'm frequently amazed by how much more sense git makes to me now than it did 3 years ago, while at the same time st… https://t.co/KWSRYkrC5Z 13:30:03, 2020-07-02
What global role will the US play in the After Times? With a decade long economic depression that other wealthy nat… https://t.co/SJAWtycLAz 11:42:41, 2020-07-02
Education is a positional good. https://t.co/zG8WwI8cbF 09:32:44, 2020-07-02
@joshdr83 I mean if the internet is just a series of tubes, why not? in reply to joshdr83 08:06:03, 2020-07-02
@mooreds @ericmbudd And this seems like a recently ignored facet of capitalism — that whenever possible, firms wou… https://t.co/edXDmFEOm3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:03:45, 2020-07-02
@mooreds @ericmbudd Oh for sure, it's obviously a much better way to move stuff around! But kind of for all the sam… https://t.co/HPfXyWGvkX in reply to mooreds 08:01:15, 2020-07-02
@ericmbudd It's a funny book, like for the first half I thought "This guy is some kind of Ayn Rand fanboy." droning… https://t.co/D5hc2I7ERD in reply to ericmbudd 23:27:24, 2020-07-01
@ericmbudd Have you read "The Box?" — it's about how standardized shipping containers took over. Basically everybo… https://t.co/CiBflCzl0Y in reply to ericmbudd 23:13:29, 2020-07-01
RT @kengreller: This image is so chilling to me. How can you go out for a meal, sit there with no mask on, see that this is the person serv… 19:56:27, 2020-07-01
Huge excess mortality in Mexican prisons, 3x normal in May.
Also, Mexico only has about one *fifth* as many people… https://t.co/ZvFf1UsgTa 19:54:43, 2020-07-01
A half hour of mesmerizing thermonuclear art from @NASASun https://t.co/V2bAeCiCD5 17:33:46, 2020-07-01
A thread full of great advice even if you are not a sex worker. https://t.co/gajE9fMP9b 17:09:48, 2020-07-01
ОМГ https://t.co/Vfh44uyOHE 17:04:31, 2020-07-01
@ericmbudd Based on the historical discussion around EcoPasses, I'm gonna guess that's a big Nope. in reply to ericmbudd 16:56:26, 2020-07-01
@ericmbudd I'd love to know. My suspicion is that this is yet another way that rail investments often end up servin… https://t.co/2rebanXDN1 in reply to ericmbudd 16:47:40, 2020-07-01
@ericmbudd Conversely, what's happening with all their shiny new light rail? in reply to ericmbudd 14:46:33, 2020-07-01
RT @dfirgs: HVDC transmission siting sits at the middle of a Venn Diagram consisting of NEPA reform, NIMBYism and Net Zero deep decarboniza… 14:12:16, 2020-07-01
Seems like a region where solar + battery storage might flourish too. https://t.co/lbj2beWO4V 14:10:13, 2020-07-01
We're trapped on Earth together. https://t.co/rSfO7QbJQ1 10:44:02, 2020-07-01
RT @soila_kenya: *buzzing with excitement*
The way y'all simped for Game of Thrones, you better turn up for this ? https://t.co/wVTB6Z9N6a 23:14:04, 2020-06-30
I for one welcome our data driven, science wielding, public health prioritizing overlords. Or I would. If they'd on… https://t.co/gh5G4Ykt7h 23:06:22, 2020-06-30
@ericmbudd And then there's TABOR. in reply to ericmbudd 23:01:39, 2020-06-30
? https://t.co/AnI7cfgLFG 19:32:25, 2020-06-30
"It's really just the Sun."
https://t.co/5gl8rrTlrZ 19:11:22, 2020-06-30
@ericmbudd @markgelband It's like the world has become a big, slow, semi-autonomous gas chamber, that preferentiall… https://t.co/Dq1RsT5BBb in reply to ZaneSelvans 19:01:25, 2020-06-30
@AaronBrockett12 It doesn't feel sustainable. But I also don't know what it would evolve into. in reply to AaronBrockett12 18:55:49, 2020-06-30
@judesantopietro Se puede decir "Me siento deshilachado." en español? I feel like I'm getting ragged around the edges. in reply to judesantopietro 18:54:21, 2020-06-30
@ericmbudd @markgelband I think you might could also go with "stupid" followed by "evil." Or maybe double-evil, or… https://t.co/lYiwr11Xi7 in reply to ericmbudd 18:50:20, 2020-06-30
@drvox Who the hell is that 12% in both charts that's literally like "This is fine." in reply to drvox 18:47:06, 2020-06-30
@drvox Or alternatively, we could arrive at an explicitly Christian apartheid government. in reply to drvox 15:13:24, 2020-06-30
Another future was possible. https://t.co/9RDa0VujN9 10:26:55, 2020-06-30
RT @SamLMontano: ~~Being rich doesn't mean anything if you don't actually spend the money on the things that will stop the pandemic~~ https… 07:37:12, 2020-06-30
RT @ColinPeters: Fukin Jackpot indeed. 19:26:17, 2020-06-29
Today marks 4 months of solitude for me, with no end in sight. 19:14:50, 2020-06-29
Maybe the US is just a poor country with a bunch of rich people in it. https://t.co/ucKdyguTfm 18:04:55, 2020-06-29
@drvox "Don't feed the trolls" has been the conventional online wisdom for 30-40 years now. It seems like this is g… https://t.co/ltqVpTrKi4 in reply to drvox 12:08:27, 2020-06-29
@ericmbudd Doing my best to avoid this problem by working at a cooperative, where we pay ourselves the same wage th… https://t.co/Ne9ENYWcH5 in reply to ericmbudd 11:43:45, 2020-06-29
@MaryHeglar That's what it's all about. in reply to MaryHeglar 08:18:55, 2020-06-29
I learned who Mae Jamieson was when someone named their character after her in our Pandemic Legacy campaign. https://t.co/6iUqeXcEtU 08:16:49, 2020-06-29
So is COVID gonna count as a pre-existing condition? https://t.co/InZiEm2GA1 08:13:24, 2020-06-29
Seems bad. https://t.co/S6qhX3PE0o 08:12:06, 2020-06-29
@ericmbudd So he's gonna take down the k-pop stans? in reply to ericmbudd 08:10:21, 2020-06-29
I am hella not flying any time soon: https://t.co/H6HCXK83TY 18:18:00, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites But is there anywhere in the US with a strong enough policy consensus on going 100% electric, and the… https://t.co/zxJmfh7PUY in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:51:10, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites Obsolete gas infrastructure would be bought out, if need be, with very low interest debt covered by r… https://t.co/LkjKLAUvkS in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:49:08, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites The same securitization tools that have been getting used in some cases to reduce utility resistance… https://t.co/NvNHVcvYur in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:45:15, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites I think there's an opportunity to turn gas distribution utilities into energy services utilities thou… https://t.co/8o7YRPq7Ny in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:44:01, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites On the policy side, I don't know of anywhere that's taking a holistic view of everything that has to… https://t.co/rTYPWPPCEh in reply to KendraWrites 15:41:05, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites None of this would maintain a normal level of service long-term during a disaster, but it could be da… https://t.co/tVU40FOJCj in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:38:21, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites It's also possible to make buildings that are so well insulated and air-sealed that they maintain liv… https://t.co/O98OBuZlYV in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:36:10, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites Vehicle batteries, home batteries, electrolyzed hydrogen for use with fuel cells, etc. Medium-scale g… https://t.co/jKQKSCYUu3 in reply to ZaneSelvans 15:34:40, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites Technically I think there's a bunch of strategies. One is a move toward more distributed generation a… https://t.co/0KvpGA4W6y in reply to KendraWrites 15:32:34, 2020-06-28
@KendraWrites Are you concerned about the technical side of this problem (what things can we do to make 100% electr… https://t.co/T0HP7vAHSm in reply to KendraWrites 10:56:13, 2020-06-28
@jelani9 https://t.co/1CFN8FzJLS in reply to jelani9 01:18:23, 2020-06-28
#TrippingBallsForScience https://t.co/IO5RH8aCHz 01:08:15, 2020-06-28
RT @magpiekilljoy: me: i am done being productive. i would like to read a book or play a game
work ethic: be productive more
me: i cannot.… 00:53:25, 2020-06-28

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