Tweets for the Week of 2021-03-14 to 2021-03-20

Sometimes I feel like I'm addicted to reality, and this particular reality seems to be a depressant. 22:00:40, 2021-03-20
So then. Are local governments willing to prioritize climate action? https://t.co/UdfsYHl3Xy 18:46:53, 2021-03-20
It's wild how in Turkey, there were no limes. Not even the idea of limes. Whereas in Mexico, lemons are some kind o… https://t.co/vp543G3JfX 18:42:29, 2021-03-20
@ElephantEating "dark matter" in reply to ElephantEating 18:13:49, 2021-03-20
@ZorzalErrante @AldoEscobarLVP ¡Conicimiento es tan peligroso! 🙃 in reply to ZorzalErrante 18:09:07, 2021-03-20
Whoops. Apparently making 1kg of tahini and then immediately trying to make half a gallon of hummus with a Vitamix… https://t.co/BE0bVaDHd1 17:56:26, 2021-03-20
I guess there are probably US soldiers in Afghanistan that weren't even born when we invaded.… https://t.co/iSJhGt2lJ3 17:52:18, 2021-03-20
@ericmbudd @JCRiecke @mattsellars Seems like it would have made the news and/or resulted in bloody revolution. in reply to ericmbudd 17:45:59, 2021-03-20
@JCRiecke @mattsellars @ericmbudd Is it still illegal to convert an untolled lane to a tolled lane in Colorado? If… https://t.co/2JyFEhZcaG in reply to JCRiecke 17:44:22, 2021-03-20
@amywestervelt Hey there seems to be a broken link from the Critical Frequency site to the @WeAreDrilled website on… https://t.co/qpF8ZLtBV0 17:40:56, 2021-03-20
@lorakolodny @doctorow @WeAreDrilled @amywestervelt I second this recommendation! Lots of other well-documented awf… https://t.co/3msbC0Eu2N in reply to lorakolodny 17:37:09, 2021-03-20
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms How are you doing it? Like on peoples' phones directly? Or do you have an iPad or something? in reply to ericmbudd 14:25:58, 2021-03-20
@ericmbudd @BoulderBedrooms Whoa, big Bane energy there Budd. in reply to ericmbudd 14:24:48, 2021-03-20
RT @emilygrubert: Me: ::does some math::
Some people: oh wow nice math

Me, later: ::says the word “social”::
Same people: I KNOW THIS MIGH… 11:02:48, 2021-03-20
Earth is a weird place. https://t.co/WZ15EG9egx 10:45:07, 2021-03-20
@divyastweets is it a dense, cold airmass descending (katabatic winds) into warmer, moister air, and causing vapor… https://t.co/f7DzLpSPnl in reply to divyastweets 10:41:56, 2021-03-20
@divyastweets And what about library eBooks? Like my home library does eBook checkout but… it's not compatible wi… https://t.co/JcsqYSxCjv in reply to ZaneSelvans 10:34:52, 2021-03-20
@divyastweets I've wondered how authors get compensated for library books. Is it really just like 1 book was bought… https://t.co/s3WTeKvmql in reply to divyastweets 10:33:30, 2021-03-20
RT @TribalSpaceCat: Scientists: if we don’t act fast, the ice caps will only keep getting hotter
The ice caps: https://t.co/cM4dpJJ7vA 10:30:15, 2021-03-20
De verdad. https://t.co/tm3LYovcbU 23:46:52, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod But it was originally associated with the city because it was a symbol of the goddess Artemis. in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:33:44, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod Another totally whacked tidbit: the crescent moon and star was the symbol of Byzantium from as fa… https://t.co/MCcui1T17p in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:29:31, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod Reading histories of the early conquistadors, it's also wild how much the Reconquista of Moorish I… https://t.co/AbozsfLLuR in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:27:42, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod But in any case, this newly imported knowledge along with the loss of access to overland trade rou… https://t.co/XpnlSjGVZf in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:23:45, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod Okay not actually that accurate. I was confusing it with Eratosthenes freakishly accurate actual m… https://t.co/AiPzRRyxGu in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:22:02, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod At the same time, the flood of learned refugees from Byzantium into western Europe brought with it… https://t.co/lfAqQg4o98 in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:17:33, 2021-03-19
@Fall_of_Civ_Pod After the Ottomans took Constantinople, land-based trade routes were cut off, isolating newly rich… https://t.co/S05TkiMt4T in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:15:17, 2021-03-19
Omg, I just got to the end of this 3+ hour long retelling of the history of Byzantium from @Fall_of_Civ_Pod and it… https://t.co/sFdyhSrv2x 23:13:05, 2021-03-19
Qué bárbaros, los zoonoses. https://t.co/JkCViY47Ps 19:12:06, 2021-03-19
@tayloramurphy Vampire Capitalist. in reply to tayloramurphy 17:34:32, 2021-03-19
@Thatmushroom @CHThiem +1 Have often thought of this as a mechanism of revenge. in reply to Thatmushroom 11:00:33, 2021-03-19
@CHThiem It's a great tool for blocking what might otherwise be acceptable missing middle housing, against which th… https://t.co/UmpYAZsiHV in reply to CHThiem 10:59:42, 2021-03-19
@emilygrubert Legislating zombie plants. Yikes. in reply to emilygrubert 10:13:27, 2021-03-19
@JadeResurrected Sex work seems like a great candidate for early retirement, since unlike many careers, I suspect e… https://t.co/k7BF8V1s1E in reply to JadeResurrected 09:56:23, 2021-03-19
@CHThiem Seriously though, this feels more analogous than I realized when making the joke. Having on-site, personif… https://t.co/r9aLZFemg8 in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:52:37, 2021-03-19
@markgelband @CHThiem Nah, imma keep chilling down here with the ghosts of Trotsky and Frida. in reply to markgelband 09:08:13, 2021-03-19
@CHThiem Every apartment building must have a live-in NIMBY Commissar, comrade. in reply to CHThiem 08:57:48, 2021-03-19
@ericmbudd The quantity of solar energy received by the Earth, and heat radiated from it into space are the over lo… https://t.co/9n5lTJBGZ1 in reply to ZaneSelvans 16:22:58, 2021-03-18
@ericmbudd Left to its own devices, everything wants to be destroyed. You have to siphon negative entropy out of the sun to create. in reply to ericmbudd 16:17:35, 2021-03-18
Decriminalizing poverty FTW. https://t.co/0VTIHc97l5 10:38:33, 2021-03-18
@JadeResurrected It's soul crushing that people are like this. I hope you're doing okay. I imagine you're not, real… https://t.co/81ydaLZA8y in reply to JadeResurrected 08:42:38, 2021-03-18
@ericmbudd That's not how the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics works Eric. in reply to ericmbudd 08:31:46, 2021-03-18
@JadeResurrected Fuck yeah: "From what I could see, she wanted more of the guy on the stretcher and the police were… https://t.co/DPdupTwlVI in reply to JadeResurrected 23:04:08, 2021-03-17
Um @ElevationsCU I love you but we need better #2FA options. Like TOTP authenticator apps and @Yubico hardware toke… https://t.co/mJzXsY52pn 21:10:20, 2021-03-17
@ericmbudd Ah yes. Ugly, unhappy, crowded Switzerland.
tbh I think this is part of a conscious strategy to peel of… https://t.co/44cHCmLg9P in reply to ericmbudd 20:02:31, 2021-03-17
@acapellascience I imagine all the hard-core theologians were probably already on board with "selling souls online is bad" in reply to acapellascience 12:50:30, 2021-03-17
@acapellascience I remember when eBay cracked down on this many years ago and their non-denominational reasoning wa… https://t.co/FrfJpbM4A1 in reply to acapellascience 12:40:16, 2021-03-17
What *is* this newfangled contraption? They say it is base of data describing relations. But to what end we know no… https://t.co/1NRWH40bUc in reply to ZaneSelvans 08:05:46, 2021-03-17
At first I got all excited because the title is totally generic — as if they were going to try and understand the… https://t.co/dSUesQN7E3 08:02:02, 2021-03-17
It's sad this kind of lazy jingoism works at all. I remember a Chinese-American friend in (small-town California) h… https://t.co/9Zv2vqXY0O 21:41:39, 2021-03-16
@CHThiem And The Winner Is™ in reply to CHThiem 21:33:41, 2021-03-16
SMS based 2-factor authentication isn't secure, and also wow it makes changing your phone number a stressful ordeal… https://t.co/sZmwCrkhwn 21:28:00, 2021-03-16
@gschivley @erinoverturf It does seem the reductio ad absurdum of small government mindset. in reply to gschivley 20:48:44, 2021-03-16
I hope you'll excuse me if I just start out by assuming you, a corporation, are a manipulative, selfish, pathological liar. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:42:31, 2021-03-16
@erinoverturf It's probably even easier for everyone this way? in reply to erinoverturf 20:40:50, 2021-03-16
I guess regulatory capture is much easier for everyone when there's only one to capture. https://t.co/BtutuJyum7 20:37:04, 2021-03-16
@ericmbudd This week I am forcing myself to do one errand — and only one errand — every day. Since I've had like… https://t.co/kcpGfZuXgZ in reply to ericmbudd 20:21:15, 2021-03-16
@erinoverturf Yiiiiikes. I'm sure Caesar said something similar. in reply to erinoverturf 20:19:13, 2021-03-16
@ericmbudd I often need a "real" reason — I have trouble getting out just for fun. But even a contrived goal is very motivating. in reply to ericmbudd 20:15:25, 2021-03-16
@ericmbudd I miss having very clear reasons to bike around to different physical locations tho. in reply to ericmbudd 17:11:59, 2021-03-16
@ericmbudd "These plunderers of the world, after exhausting the land by their devastations, stimulated by avarice,… https://t.co/jdPmcV8SgF in reply to ericmbudd 17:01:17, 2021-03-16
@kevpluck And yet weirdly like 2/3 of the atmosphere by mass is below the top of Everest isn't it? 1/e scale height is like 8000m? in reply to kevpluck 00:20:48, 2021-03-16
@JadeResurrected Oh yes, that will certainly make everything much faster and easier and more secure. in reply to JadeResurrected 20:27:17, 2021-03-15
Hmm. I may have already forgotten my Mexican phone number, and my phone seems to having an identity crisis. in reply to ZaneSelvans 20:20:06, 2021-03-15
@Olivia_R_Will Ugh. How to have a program without having a program. in reply to Olivia_R_Will 15:15:47, 2021-03-15
@thebmbennett Maybe @JadeResurrected has suggestions. in reply to thebmbennett 11:42:26, 2021-03-15
@ericmbudd Welcome to the petty, white, small-minded jungle. in reply to ericmbudd 11:16:44, 2021-03-15
@DynamicWebPaige @code We've started packaging up the open US energy data we distribute for use in an image built w… https://t.co/qhZskcEJKe in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:21:24, 2021-03-14
@DynamicWebPaige @code I'm just starting to poke at this, but was very stoked to see that Docker container developm… https://t.co/WmkrxxKCQ8 in reply to DynamicWebPaige 23:14:46, 2021-03-14
@NASCOcoop @Olivia_R_Will @CHThiem @ericmbudd @welcomehomebldr Seems like it would be worth @bhccoops figuring out… https://t.co/j1D8VCAQ3U in reply to ZaneSelvans 23:09:12, 2021-03-14
It looks like there's $21B in rental assistance in the US COVID relief package. Anyone know what the process is for… https://t.co/xWgpsQONvG 23:07:09, 2021-03-14
@ericmbudd Site note: looks like Mexico is legalizing recreational cannabis use: https://t.co/3xUPoTSYDK in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:58:06, 2021-03-14
Now that I can finally move money from my US account to Mexico cost effectively and almost instantly, now I need a… https://t.co/oKufNXmWgL in reply to ZaneSelvans 18:53:26, 2021-03-14
I opened a credit union account when I first got to Mexico, only to discover that credit unions were excluded from… https://t.co/pZBUQYrMeg 18:51:26, 2021-03-14
@ericmbudd It's like when you eat a weed cookie and nothing happens. So you eat another weed cookie. And then somet… https://t.co/ecBq5yERlH in reply to ericmbudd 18:17:32, 2021-03-14
@ericmbudd "WHat iF Gfs is wrONg thO?! in reply to ericmbudd 18:16:26, 2021-03-14
@AlleriaMystic @aspenxeden Wow, are there laws that really make them liable for this? Do these lawsuits actually ha… https://t.co/geu8Cbh3eF in reply to AlleriaMystic 16:35:28, 2021-03-14
@GMelannia Of course, but I guess I just don't understand what it is that pushes (seemingly) all of the successful… https://t.co/RNxmTJIinO in reply to GMelannia 16:32:30, 2021-03-14
BLM in particular allows local / state law to take precedence, and there are many states which do not prohibit nudi… https://t.co/THeMLwf6br in reply to ZaneSelvans 09:48:50, 2021-03-14
How did we get to where internet platforms apply some of the most puritanical local norms to all content? It's lega… https://t.co/okq0zIiruC 09:41:32, 2021-03-14
@MelodyKush @aspenxeden Oh my god. Where do they get these rules from?! There are tons of places where it's straigh… https://t.co/ufChe3kY3N in reply to MelodyKush 09:32:15, 2021-03-14
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