This Is Fine - 2018-08-14

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12:07 AM

US man flies plane into home after a fight with his wife, police say http://bit.ly/2Mbu0tL

Tweeted by SBSNews on August 13, 2018 at 11:34 PM

he does this after getting out on bail for assaulting his wife, who was in the home with their kid for fuck sake

bright side of the story, the wife and child weren't injured

5 hours ago, by Tim Stone

UPDATE: Police: pilot killed in Utah County crashed aircraft into his own home after arrest for domestic violence. His wife and a juvenile male were in the home at the time but escaped unharmed http://via.fox13now.com/NMJyX

Tweeted by fox13 on August 13, 2018 at 4:06 PM

is this the same or a different one?

@GodEmperorDune yeh looks to be the same one

#BREAKING: Ex-Archbishop Philip Wilson to serve sentence in home detention http://bit.ly/2MJHTvi

Tweeted by SBSNews on August 13, 2018 at 11:48 PM

not sure what to make of this. on the one hard he isn't a threat to the community in the sense he'll actually harm someone unless put behind bars. on the other hand it feels as if he's getting off lightly for covering up for a pedophile

President Trump didn’t respond to shouted questions about Omarosa upon arriving back at the White House for the first time in 10 days.

Tweeted by kaitlancollins on August 14, 2018 at 12:19 AM

Oh yeah, I forgot that Trump had been avoiding the White House this whole time pretending they were doing renovations they weren't doing

@TimStone why answer questions when you can tweet

12:36 AM

Many of you have asked me why I’ve been so quiet these past few days. Trust me, it’s about to get loud as a MF...✌🏽 #TheTape #TheTimeline #TheTexts #StayTuned

Tweeted by LynnePatton on August 13, 2018 at 11:26 PM

Uhhh

She's a HUD official, the one Trump hired because she was the wedding planner for Eric's wedding and helped cast two seasons of the Celebrity Apprentice

1:01 AM

@TimStone thank you for this context, i wasn't sure why people were so upset

also WTF is a hud official doing working on their own stuff instead of HUD stuff?

unrelated, does the azealiabanks/grimes/elon feud count as news?

actually there are some slurs in there so i won't be bringing it to the room, nvm

A source close to Aretha Franklin tells @donlemon the 76-year-old singer is in hospice care at her home.

Tweeted by KristenhCNN on August 14, 2018 at 1:04 AM

:/

1:20 AM

@GodEmperorDune I'm honestly not 100% sure what she's on about except that it has to do with Omarosa's whole deal

@TimStone Texts is all caps so it has to mean something

Yeah I honestly can't tell which side she's on here

‘They don’t have legal authority’: Quebec NAFTA negotiator says US can’t sign deal without Canada

https://globalnews.ca/news/4385146/they-dont-have-legal-authority-quebec-nafta-negotiator-says-us-cant-sign-deal-without-canada/

Shared from my Google feed

2:01 AM

.@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa. I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying....

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on August 14, 2018 at 1:50 AM

🤔

So we're supposed to both believe Trump has never said that word and that Mark Burnett (lol screw you dude) felt compelled to call Trump up to assert there were in fact no tapes of this thing he has never said?

@TimStone well considering he's probably just talking about the tapes the production team made this is true

just like how the White House can confirm they don't have any tapes of Kelly's conversation in the Situation Room

unless ofcause Mark Burnett just broke into Omarosa's home and trashed it looking for tapes

Strzok's GoFundMe has topped $100k god damnit

NY landlord goes on hunger strike over proposed homeless shelter

2:21 AM

> Shade from a tree and a fan made the heat, which peaked at 93 degrees Friday, more bearable. Esposito’s also set up a tent where he sleeps at night, and rents a portable toilet

🤔

Followed by the part where he has four cars, this is quite a contrast

3:01 AM

@TimStone I thought he previously said there were tapes but under NDA

This is specifically about a tape of him using the n-word that Omarosa claims exists

@Unionhawk can’t eat the rich if they’re nothing but skin and bones taps head

@TimStone yeah I read about that tape during he campaign from multiple outlets and contestants

Apparently they ran tape all the damn time for reasons so...

Right, right, but no one's been able to actually produce the tape so far

ugh

what a mess

So, not that it matters much, given everything else, but either it doesn't exist or whatever, but the framing of his claim there is very lol

"I've never used the word but I had to double-check we didn't have it on tape"

3:04 AM

guess who's still cleaning this up it's us

this is, this is fucked

Wait what

I'm not at liberty to say for the safety of people we're working with other than someone did a bad and now everything is fucked

working with people: do not recommend it

@Unionhawk such starbait

like it's objectively public info now I guess but like

ugh

who okayed this

Tweeted by jimwaterson on August 12, 2018 at 3:07 PM

UK wtf

3:10 AM

somebody sat down and decided "you know what we need, to have a local paper come in and do a story about our work with extremely vulnerable people and not lay out ground rules like 'ZERO names, ZERO locations'"

@KateEMcCann There’s a sincere attempt to solve a problem here and I think it’s done by good people. But yeah. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/stories-45102437/would-you-scan-a-homeless-person-s-barcode-to-give-them-money

Tweeted by jimwaterson on August 12, 2018 at 3:34 PM in reply to KateEMcCann

@Unionhawk DSA work?

yeah, it's just, frustrating that we have to explain this to people

user15026

@Unionhawk oh no :/

@Ash they left out last names, and The State already knows about them, they've got check-in meetings already, but like

guys

user15026

but that doesn't like...completely erase the risk :/

3:21 AM

And it makes it harder for us to do things because it creates an environment of distrust

yeah

It's just, bad, and all of us would rather be like, helping families get school supplies together, and setting up a shared car seat for rides and such, but

@uni sounds like this is a relevant thread

What obligations activists have to journalists is a serious question, but what obligations journalists have to activists is a serious question too.

Tweeted by studentactivism on August 13, 2018 at 2:40 PM

I don't blame the writer too much, at the end of the day there was some very explicit permission at hand here

It's not like a "the fox affiliate zoomed in on someone's jail support number" situation

(pro tip writing your jail support number on your body is a good idea! but your arm is not a great spot)

We'll get it figured out, I just hope it doesn't impact our organizing too much

ugh

4:11 AM

twitter.com/thehill/status/1029192903095140352?s=5

no it oneboxed that. might be a bit NSFW

> During the beheading part of the drill, Cohen holds up a sword and instructs Roberts to "identify the target" and "attack" as he wears a strap-on to represent the attacker's penis.

Roberts bites the sex toy during the drill before yelling "drop your weapons" and “my mouth is big enough for two of these.”

Cohen has to be finding extremely gullible people who's logic centers have been killed off somehow

or maybe they didn't get what "beheading" means

:/

4:52 AM

If you just take the codes I posted earlier, stripping out all words, this is what the keyboard heatmap looks like.

Tweeted by m8urnett on August 14, 2018 at 1:11 AM in reply to m8urnett

lol just incredible (a thread that basically amounts to "Q" bashing on a keyboard to generate "the codes" and people just finding random shit that happens to match sometimes)

@TimStone i find it incredible that no one knows who Q is

Q is a fictional character as well as the name of a race in Star Trek appearing in the Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager series, as well as in related media. The most familiar Q is portrayed by John de Lancie. He is an extra-dimensional being of unknown origin who possesses immeasurable power over normal human notions of time, space, the laws of physics, and reality itself, being capable of violating or altering them in unpredictable ways with a casual thought or hand gesture. Despite his vast knowledge and experience spanning untold eons (and much to the exasperation of the object...

@TimStone This is why I love Q. Greatest troll of all time. Doesn't matter what he does or how he screws up, they'll justify it somehow

he is in Picard's room right now

after all, he can travel through time

wouldn't be hard for him to send messages from Picard's terminal to the past

5:27 AM

@Ash What in the world was that RT? O_o Was that "press conference" fake too? Because the attorney general looked like "Uhhh what are we doing here?"

user15026

@TimStone Ontario News Now is basically Doug Ford trying to control the media by making it all his way and selling it basically as a way to be sure you aren't getting fake news, by just getting his news his way

user15026

(and yes I expect it was done just for this, it's all gloriously performative)

It's so unsettling!

Like the distinct lack of any background noise at all is just wat

user15026

It is! It's so weirdly blatant propaganda? And it's just like you know they're faking it but they're so earnest and it's just...so uncanny valley

Yeah, my word

user15026

5:30 AM

@TimStone oh, yes, that feels so awkward

But yeah absolutely no one tell Trump about this

user15026

Oh indeed

5:51 AM

@TimStone ONN sounds like a literal fake news created for a movie

@TimStone he's still pissed about the gorilla channel

4 hours later…

9:28 AM

@Memor-X I mean, most people have never watched TNG so...

@GodEmperorDune It's a terrible idea, but I think it's probably backed by good motivations. Just a shame it got this far without anyone telling them it's a terrible idea...

Kevin van der Velden

9:45 AM

@fredley or voyager, or DS9 or presumably other shows that have Q

googles Huh, apparently just TNG, DS9 and voyager

I have seen those shows, albeit a while ago and I had no idea who Q was

10:43 AM

@fredley I judge your harshly for your lack of knowledge in the area of 90s TV characters

@Wipqozn Harsh criticism accepted

Good

Kevin van der Velden

Now go watch those shows. They're on netflix

At least voyager and DS9 are, don't know about TNG

@KevinvanderVelden TNG is here

11:32 AM

When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on August 14, 2018 at 11:31 AM

might be a reaction to Omarosa reveals audio of Trump campaign aides allegedly discussing potential fallout of N-word

2 hours later…

1:11 PM

A raised highway has partially collapsed in Genoa, #Italy. Rescuers are digging through rubble to try and find people in at least 10 cars that plummeted. https://twitter.com/agenzia_ansa/status/1029318415222222849

Tweeted by W7VOA on August 14, 2018 at 11:17 AM

22 deaths, 8 injuries per the thread :/

1:30 PM

Penn Jillette on the Trump tapes: Q: Does Mark Burnett have tapes of President Trump saying damaging things during Celebrity Apprentice? A: Yeah, I was in the room. Q: You’ve heard him say … A: Oh, yeah. http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/penn-jillette-in-conversation.html?utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=nym&utm_medium=s1 via @vulture

Tweeted by JohnGHendy on August 14, 2018 at 1:07 PM

(there's a lot more to the interview than just that)

America's trees are mysteriously moving west, reports Robinson Meyer http://bit.ly/2OwZgjy

Tweeted by TheAtlantic on August 14, 2018 at 4:30 AM

Oh my god they're throwing themselves into the fire

2:30 PM

#BREAKING Forty children were among 51 people killed in a Saudi-led coalition air strike last week on a bus in rebel-held northern Yemen, the Red Cross says, raising the child toll from at least 29

Tweeted by AFP on August 14, 2018 at 6:57 AM

jfc :/

absolutely humiliating for whoever is named here https://www.thedailybeast.com/resistance-twitter-star-seth-abramson-wants-to-turn-his-threads-into-a-book

Tweeted by ashleyfeinberg on August 14, 2018 at 2:34 PM

rubs temples

@MadScientist Every tweet he makes lowers my estimation of his class

And I didn't think it could get any lower

3:08 PM

@TimStone Thanks for this, made me laugh :D

3:21 PM

Yay More companies making swim caps for black hair, making swimming more inclusive

And % of black people who don't know how to swim has fallen by 5% in 7 years, helping close the gap with whites

1 hour later…

4:33 PM

Breaking: Paul Manafort's team will not present a case nor call any witnesses in his defense. The defense rested at 11:53 am

Tweeted by jimsciutto on August 14, 2018 at 3:58 PM

(and the requisite lawsplainer)

@TimStone Twitter blocked at work, what's the Manafort strategy?

Get a mistrial by not trying or something like that?

🤷 Anyone's guess, basically

It's just not uncommon for this to happen for a whole variety of reasons which may be applicable here

So you can't infer anything, really, is the point

Thanks for summarizing!

Yeah, the various reasons are interesting enough but the main point is that people are already trying to read into this when there's just no sense in that

NEW: Exclusive: How 3 conspiracy theorists took "Q,” sparked Qanon — and gained followers and financial support along the way. https://nbcnews.to/2nBDn7b - @brandyzadrozny / @oneunderscore__

Tweeted by NBCNews on August 14, 2018 at 4:32 PM

4:37 PM

I choose to infer that he's being represented by Lionel Hutz attorney at law

Yeah one of the possible reasons is that anything they say would just make things worse

tl;dr: qanon started as a grift to boost people's follower counts

Uhhhhhh

GEORGIA: Former congressional candidate Kellie Collins (D), who briefly challenged Cong Jody Hice (R) on a platform of advocating tougher gun laws, has been arrested for murdering her former campaign treasurer. He was shot to death. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/former-congressional-candidate-accused-of-killing-campaign-treasurer/811132728

Tweeted by Politics1com on August 14, 2018 at 12:40 PM

@TimStone oh i misread that and thought it was a current candidate.... oh they ran LAST YEAR

jeez

I mean I guess they were right about the tougher gun laws tho 🤔

4:42 PM

yeah :/

Lime raised the electric scooter brobilizing stakes in Santa Monica by offering $5 credits to customers who rallied outside City Hall. Bird raised them by shutting off all the scooters so customers would know what it feels like if they "woke up one day and Bird was gone"

Tweeted by ceodonovan on August 14, 2018 at 4:37 PM

It's never going to get less stupid is it?

Municipalize bird and sieze their scooters

@TimStone own the libs by disrupting your business

Imo

"e-scooter"? wtf

4:43 PM

@TimStone "Brobilizing"?

@GodEmperorDune they're awful

this is a regular scooter

it is not a digital scooter

@Yuuki When you mobilize the bros

you cannot throw an e on it

you could throw an i on it and get haunted by steve jobs tho

(and most likely sued as well)

user image

4:44 PM

@GodEmperorDune You could definitely throw a small liberal on it though.

lol

@Yuuki hue

Then it'd be a Scooter Libby.

@Yuuki pardon me, that was a good hue

That uses an app to control access

4:45 PM

@TimStone the only trump boom is when the boom mike enters the shot because he hired all the best people

Report will detail sexual abuse by more than 300 priests in Pennsylvania's Catholic Church @CNN https://cnn.it/2nA87Wh

Tweeted by jaketapper on August 14, 2018 at 4:45 PM

Ah, the church in PA: Also bad!

goddamn the fuct news today

Nashville police investigating NYPD officer accused of breaking in to home, shouting n-word http://hill.cm/bZpc5KT

Tweeted by thehill on August 14, 2018 at 4:46 PM

spiderman.jpg

As one does

fash, klan

4:48 PM

I'm not thrilled that they brought back Katrina Pierson's role this season but

Over the course of three statements, @KatrinaPierson has gone from denying the account in Omarosa’s book and calling it a “script for a movie” to confirming it, but claiming that the things she said were to “placate” Omarosa. This is her latest statement:

Tweeted by abbydphillip on August 14, 2018 at 4:37 PM

@Yuuki Nice

Placating one as you do by saying the thing that didn't happen definitely did but the person who did it is super sorry

@GodEmperorDune I linked something positive earlier!

West Virginia impeaches all 4 of its state Supreme Court Justices The charges related to claims the justices abused public vehicles and credit cards, racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills related to renovating their chambers. https://trib.al/t71742V

Tweeted by aldotcom on August 14, 2018 at 4:41 PM

before it was just 3, now it is all 4

Oh, they impeached the Chief Justice finally too?

On to the Senate!

A Guernsey resident has activated the ancient Norman rite of Clameur de Haro to protest the narrowing of a road. After kneeling down, calling for aid and invoking the Lord’s Prayer in French, building work must stop until a court decides otherwise. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/localnews/3042287-st%20peter%20port/0#pinnedpost_5b727c1a5e48fd067ec59e4a

Tweeted by Ned_Donovan on August 14, 2018 at 10:01 AM

4:56 PM

i dunno why they set air bud in the US, england has much zanier laws still on the books

It's fantastic

> The law dates back to the 10th Century as a form of self-policing, as there was no law enforcement.

#squadgoals

@TimStone i may have spoken too soon

A quirk in Vermont elections law is letting this 14-year-old boy run for the Democratic nomination for governor in Tuesday's state primary. http://apne.ws/kOqdGJc

Tweeted by APEastRegion on August 13, 2018 at 4:10 PM

apparently he has decent politics (not great but decent)

idk comparatively

> At a recent news conference, Republican Gov. Phil Scott said he thought lawmakers should take a look at who should be able to run for the state’s highest office.

Ah, yes, because this, a thing that has happened once, is worth putting that kind of effort into

Like if you got beat by a teen with no money buddy do I have news for you

lol

5:12 PM

Not surprising but important to point out it being actively harmful, also my school so:

A study, led by incoming USciences PhD student @RDashford, shows that using terms like "addict" and "alcoholic" to describe individuals with substance use disorder is associated with a strong, negative bias. Read more from @WHYYNews http://bit.ly/2OCrBFo

Tweeted by USciences on August 14, 2018 at 3:50 PM

> Roger Stone shares image of himself and Trump as "Space Force" wearing swastikas

rubs temples

5:28 PM

lol the FL candidate who lied about her degree now admits she lied about her degree but won't drop out of the race

At least she's probably not lying about her service as the wife and daughter of a veteran in her bio

as dsaveterans pointed out lol

Look her family has a proud tradition of serving in the meme wars

oh right hahaha I forgot that one too, one of the biker guys at the white house had a "proud family member of a vietnam vet" patch

stylized with the service ribbon so at a distance it almost looks the same

tbf that's much funnier than the SS tattoo the other guy had, at least

This is true

5:32 PM

Manafort Trial pattern recognition, not inside knowledge: I believe that Paul Manafort's attorneys elected not to put him on the witness stand or present any other evidence because they had received one or more negative rulings during the sealed hearing yesterday. /1

Tweeted by MitchellEpner on August 14, 2018 at 5:25 PM

That guy's jacket was just a goldmine of "what the fuck is that patch"

tl;dr putting him on the stand would likely have caused a scenario in which the government could say "Oh yeah btw you did some other crimes"

@TimStone Damn, death toll increased to 35 now and expected to climb :(

6:01 PM

Apple, the most valuable public company in the world, says its county-assessed $1 billion offices are worth $200 as it fights for lower tax bill https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Want-a-lower-tax-bill-So-do-Apple-and-Genentech-13148121.php Meanwhile, biotech giant Genentech has been fighting taxes for 18 years. Great research + reporting @Cat_Ho

Tweeted by rolandlisf on August 13, 2018 at 5:07 PM

@GodEmperorDune If it's worth $200, could I buy it?

Heck, I can put up $400. Nobody would refuse an offer for double what they think it's worth, right?

6:19 PM

WOW -- Omarosa claims Trump had foreknowledge of WikiLeaks' activities during 2016 campaign, including when stolen emails would be published. Trump's own intelligence chiefs have accused WikiLeaks of serving as a Kremlin cutout. https://t.co/Nba8Goay3O

Tweeted by atrupar on August 14, 2018 at 6:09 PM in reply to atrupar

Her hedging doesn't do a lot to nullify her self-interest in telling the story here but 🤷

@GodEmperorDune lol, amazing. Not even like remotely ballpark reasonable

I wouldn't believe the $1 billion was only worth $1 million but at least it's not immediately apparent without the comparison that you're bullshitting

"actually by our calculation you owe us three trillion dollars, but we'll accept a contract to build an app to eliminate homeless people instead I guess"

"tim don't you mean eliminate homelessness" "uhhhhhhhh"

Tinder employees claim that their parent company didn't act when the CEO groped someone at the holiday party because he was part of a scheme to defraud the founders' stock options https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/tinder-founders-are-suing-their-parent-company-for-billions

Tweeted by katienotopoulos on August 14, 2018 at 6:26 PM

the balloons add a lot to that tweet

@GodEmperorDune I like that they don't even have some formula. Everything is just worth $200

@SaintWacko How dare you sir. Calling Monopoly references "not even some formula".

@SaintWacko I will most certainly not be finding bank errors in your favor.

6:34 PM

we can't afford healthcare btw

@TimStone dafuq

@SaintWacko except the phones, lol

@GodEmperorDune Ha!

6:58 PM

So question. Assuming Manafort is found guilty, and they attempt to reach an agreement where he receives reduced time in exchange for testimony against Trump, is there anything anyone can do to prevent Trump from just pardoning Manafort?

no

I don't think

So in other words that's probably exactly what's going to happen

@Wipqozn ehhhh

manafort isn't the right wing hero that sheriff arpaio and dinesh d souza are

and trump isn't that smart

plus he can only pardon federal crimes, not state ones

@GodEmperorDune That's good to know

More importantly, accepting a pardon would remove Manafort's ability to claim fifth amendment protection, so Trump would be theoretically worse off in that case than claiming Manafort is bad and is a liar

7:13 PM

8 mins ago, by GodEmperorDune

and trump isn't that smart

Right, but his lawyers would probably tell him it's better to let Manafort sit because he shouldn't have gotten caught or whatever

And Trump will go "That's right he's not smart like me, but also I'm totally innocent"

and then rudy will go on TV and talk about how manafort should pardon trump

7:46 PM

And inevitably say something incredibly stupid that will incriminate Manafort and Trump

Because he's really good at that

ugh I really want to rewrite this

get a nice PositionCheckboxes that bases itself on what's visible, to semi-dynamically build the screen

@Unionhawk wrong room, comrade

2 messages have been moved to Android Enthusiasts

8:08 PM

@GodEmperorDune god, dammit

8:46 PM

Reporters in the room yelling "not true, Sarah" as she starts to say that NDA's were the norm in previous administrations

Tweeted by tparti on August 14, 2018 at 7:22 PM

Yay, pushback

Calgary named fourth 'most livable' city in the world

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/calgary-named-fourth-most-livable-city-in-the-world-1.4051997

Shared from my Google feed

> With perfect scores in four categories, Calgary ranked fourth with an average score of 97.5, falling behind only Vienna, Austria (99.1), Melbourne, Australia (98.4) and Osaka, Japan (97.7).

Damascus, Syria ranked last place incidentally

> The Economist’s 2018 “Global Livability Index” surveyed 140 cities around the world and ranked them based on 30 factors in five broad categories: stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.

@Unionhawk not a big surprise

@Wipqozn I was totally expecting Cleveland, tbh.

@Yuuki dat early 90s font

Sarah Sanders says she "can't guarantee" Trump hasn't used the N-word https://cnn.it/2nCl1D9 https://t.co/n8t3xbdbtk

Tweeted by CNN on August 14, 2018 at 7:41 PM

this is a weird thing to ask and a weird thing to respond

they lie about everything, why not lie about this too?

> Briefing reporters for the first time in weeks, Sarah Sanders insisted Trump was not using racially coded language when he disparaged a disgruntled former aide, who is African-American, as a "dog."

yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh sure

2 hours later…

10:35 PM

The better Bruenig is going on Ingraham for some reason?

@GodEmperorDune lol they've filed an arbitration case

@TimStone :/

Apparently shots fired in a PA Walmart, other sources claiming one person shot but still early

@TimStone seems like she is defending socialism

maybe AOC was booked?

i hope it goes well. it probably won't

Yeah, people are just arguing if it's a good thing. Bonus points if she closes by asking Laura why she's a Nazi tho

10:50 PM

hell yeah, that would be great

"so laura i hear you are familiar with socialism already by way of the National Socialism"

(yes i know that these are entirely different things)

11:22 PM

lol

if you're unironically 14 wordsing, and you buy into the dinesh d'souza school of history, then by your logic you should be a democrat? 🤔

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