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Nov 19 6 tweets 2 min read
@bluesky Hi, Bluesky and @jack. I TRIED to create an account on your site, just now, and was stopped dead in my tracks by your broken CAPTCHA. I tried two different widely used browsers and on step 3 of the challenge, ran into the endlessly buffering circle of doom.

Step 3 would not load @bluesky @jack I sent you two problem reports, one after each time I found myself thwarted, as I tried yet another browser.

I am now giving up. Please send me an email when you've decided that you'd like to code your own site in a competent manner.
Jun 15, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
@rgX4jIAzoHVF860 Is that a haiku? I thought that haikus had to be 5-7-5, and that is 3-6-8.

I see that you're posting from Japan. Was that a translation of something that is 5-7-5 in Japanese?

This is my own inadequate attempt to say much the same in English ... @rgX4jIAzoHVF860 The rain falls softly.
Angry winds brush it aside.
An umbrella breaks.
Jun 10, 2023 5 tweets 7 min read
@mminin2010 @sighing_sadly @iamthemaulik @elonmusk @micsolana More strange censorship from Twitter.



Why would they block this from view? @mminin2010 @sighing_sadly @iamthemaulik @elonmusk @micsolana This



is just a fact check on a claim. Aren't those something that we're supposed to do?
Jun 10, 2023 12 tweets 4 min read
@not_goodname "Murray subjected Kaczynski to a set of unethical and psychologically-damaging experiments for three years."

I just did a search. There seems to be a lot of disagreement about the facts of his case, but the statement above seems to be widely supported. @not_goodname If Society sits back, smirks and shrugs as an adult researcher plays with the mind of a teenage boy until he breaks it, then just how blameless is it when the natural consequences of a mind being broken make themselves felt?
Jun 5, 2023 13 tweets 8 min read
@jtboston69 @MattWalshBlog While I am personally skeptical about the idea that alien spacecraft are visiting us, that map does not offer the solid argument that some of you seem to think it does. @jtboston69 @MattWalshBlog Perhaps our hypothetical aliens like to make first contact when a society becomes multiplanetary.
Sep 8, 2019 23 tweets 14 min read
@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Not sure how that was intended.

If it's a statement about how things are, one need only look around to see that it is certainly true.

If, however, you're saying that there's nothing wrong with that reality, then that might be popular, but it's philosophically indefensible. @morganauthor1 @craytusjones A position I keep hearing is that "one is entitled to have one's freedom of speech, as long as one accepts all of the consequences that come with exercising it."

How could one not have such a freedom? It's meaningless.
Sep 8, 2019 24 tweets 9 min read
@YahooCare Hi, Yahoo customer care. I have a funny story to tell you. It's a story that I just told to Yahoo and Verizon



because what you guys did to somebody I know was just so amazing. @YahooCare The guy (along with his family) had to move out of the old family home in a hurry, because rich people (and real investors) had moved into their neighborhood and property taxes skyrocketed.

The family was poor and they were forced to sell in a hurry.
Sep 8, 2019 19 tweets 9 min read
@Yahoo Hi. I know somebody who has been locked out of his Yahoo and Flickr account since 2015, because somebody at your company thought he had a bright idea, and it was one of the dumbest ideas anybody has ever come up with. @Yahoo The guy knows his Yahoo password by heart. What he doesn't know, because a box carrying his records failed to arrive at his new home, is the password for the Google account he used as a contact address for his Yahoo account.
Sep 7, 2019 12 tweets 122 min read
@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 "8 years of prosperity under Obama and we didn’t have to suck Putin’s ass, laud white supremacy or destroy our environment for the privilege."

Do we really "have to" do any of these things, now? @InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 Personallty, I do none of these things, and I have yet to get a knock on the door in the middle of the night from Homeland Security. 🤣

This seems to me to be an American tradition: make the president into the scapegoat-in-chief.
Aug 6, 2019 22 tweets 13 min read
@objectivepotato @AGramuglia "this rando basically said she needed to get laid more"

Not what I said. Not even close, and you know this, because you were there at the time.

twitter.com/i/moments/1110…

^ I actually had to drop everything and take the time to assemble that moment, just to deal with the lies. @objectivepotato @AGramuglia The moment I closed out on

twitter.com/i/moments/1109…

says it all. You idiots are so out of control that a bland observation about life from a 1970s network TV show was too edgy for you to handle. You saw it, read your own meanings into it, and went for blood.