Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.
If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make ( Read more... )

We got a visit, finally, from a technician bringing a new modem.

He verified everything I'd reported, started pinging our modem from the corporate side, and when it powered off... he kept getting responses.

Another modem had our modem's fixed IP address.

They hadn't reset it before redeploying it last Thursday.


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This is the natural result of @GOP pro-plague politics, and why we have the worst COVID-19 numbers in the world.
InMinivanHell - @inminivanhell · 9:08 AM · Jan 8, 2022
Thomas Apollo went to a mobile clinic in Tustin, CA to protest covid vaccines. After calling employees “murderers” he assaulted them. Punching numerous staff members, leaving one ( Read more... )

Gonna talk about Harry Reid for about half a second, maybe as part of an essay that's bubbling in my head about bad faith and the Republican Party, but also in the Democratic Party, because holy hell was Harry Reid good at bad faith.

What got me thinking about it was electoral-college shenanigans and thinking about the 2000 election - or rather, ( Read more... )

Another small Twitter essay, of course.
Reuters Fact Check -
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So we had bad weather last night - the always-weak channel 46 was breaking up badly, and we had some glitching even on better UHF stations - and I went up to make some more antenna adjustments to try and cope with it.

I tried enlarging the reflector on the VHF antenna, but got absolutely nowhere with that. Surprised me quite a bit, since I know ( Read more... )

Kyle Griffin - @kylegriffin1 · 10:30 AM · Dec 21, 2021
Important note for the unvaccinated who believe in 'natural immunity':

The first Omicron-linked death in the U.S. was recorded in Texas' Harris County on Monday evening. The man was unvaccinated but had previously been infected.
Solarbird - @solarbirdy · 1:59 PM · Dec 21, 2021
The vaccine is MORE ( Read more... )

This was a fork from the previous Legal Twitter thread - all unattributed tweets are, of course, me.

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rahaeli - @rahaeli
Replying to @estockbridge @riScorpian and 2 others

Tip from an actual pro: never trust a plumber alone in your house with a sawzall

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[ where I came in, part 2]

oh hon

you say that like i don't know

shall we talk about mr. fixit ( Read more... )

I got pulled into a thread on Legal Twitter, but this time, just about home repair and previous DIYers. Enjoy?

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EBS - @estockbridge · 1h

A couple weeks in, and I’m convinced of what I suspected at purchase: the previous homeowner was a DIY-er who unlike me did not seem to know his limits.

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Kathryn Tewson - @KathrynTewson · 1h

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This shithead, right here:

Daniel Darling - 11:24 AM · Dec 1, 2021
Whether or not you are pro-life like me, you can't deny that the pro-life movement, since 1973, has introduced a moral vocabulary that can't easily be waved away: a human life, at the smallest and most vulnerable state, has dignity and worth. 2/2

Perhaps predictably, I got angry:

What ( Read more... )