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12:02 AM
insert Knuckles "oh no" sound from SA1
 
@Unionhawk Play stupid games win stupid prizes
 
12:33 AM
Weinstein company releases everyone from NDAs so far as those NDAs apply to sexual crimes Weinstein committed
 
@puzzlepiece87 but he's in the UK now so unless the extradite him or have something on him in the UK nothing is really going to happen
 
Indeed plus I'm not really that impressed.
 
Cambridge Analytica officials caught on camera bragging about winning election for Trump http://hill.cm/hyuoSE8
 
"We would take a huge hit pursuing anyone for violating their NDAs to speak out about this so we're officially going to take it easy."
 
i'm going to laugh if the next headline is that it was backed by Russians
 
12:42 AM
BREAKING: Austin-Travis County EMS: New explosion reported in Austin, Texas
 
reportedly a goodwill
 
Concerns over a second device
 
@TimStone so this is number 6?
if i recall number 4 was the one with the tripwire and number 5 was the one that exploded in the FedEx Building
 
Something like that, yeah. I'm not sure about the spacing of prior sprees like this but it feels like these are happening really close together
 
12:59 AM
In other news, DO NOT CONGRATULATE
4
 
@TimStone according to the hill the first 3 started at the start of the month
> We have seen similarities in the device that exploded here last night and the other three devices that have exploded in Austin starting on March 2
 
Yeah, the Unabomber was like 16 packages over 17 years. Seems like at a certain point the amount of material needed to construct this many bombs at once becomes noticeable, but maybe not :/
Unarmed in his own backyard. #StephonClark http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/unarmed-black-man-shot-death-backyard-article-1.3886562
jfc
 
1:27 AM
My new gig...
:|
 
20_10... or 14_16...
 
1:49 AM
#Deletefacebook calls grow after Cambridge Analytica data scandal http://bit.ly/2G56Gdt
despite the has tag, it's apparently just a boycott
oh man the chaos if it was a movement to delete Facebook though
 
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2:00 AM
Today in completely crackpot theories: areyoucrooked.com
 
Among many crazy things about DO NOT CONGRATULATE, some senior WH/NatSec official leaked it within hours to @CarolLeonnig @DavidNakamura @jdawsey1 Not many people physically see notes given to any POTUS before a Russia call. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-national-security-advisers-warned-him-not-to-congratulate-putin-he-did-it-anyway/2018/03/20/22738ebc-2c68-11e8-8ad6-fbc50284fce8_story.html
I mean probably because they were legitimately shocked he failed to follow such simple instructions 🤔
#UPDATE: There was no package explosion in the 9800 block of Brodie Ln. Items inside package was not a bomb, rather an incendiary device. At this time, we have no reason to believe this incident is related to previous package bombs. #Breaking #packagebombmurders
I mean…yes, that is a different thing, but…?
@Ash wat
 
user15026
Even better, here is the tweet that helped me find that
 
user15026
Knowing that immobilization and restraint can activate the dorsal vagal complex, it makes you wonder if car seats may have played a part in the rise of #autism. If your kid's been recently injected w/aluminum, you may want to skip the car seat on the way home – just to be safe.
 
user15026
SKIP THE CAR SEAT. FOR SAFETY.
 
Neo-Nazi wins GOP congressional primary http://hill.cm/boSNoKV
 
2:12 AM
@Ash jfc
 
@Ash poes law in full effect
 
@Ash i assume this is a joke on the whole vaccine causes autism?
 
user15026
@Memor-X no no no no this dude is, as far as I can tell, absolutely serious
 
user15026
(he's the author of the webpage I linked above)
 
@Ash oh.....then i repeat @tim's statement
 
3:00 AM
WATCH: Austin police say recent explosion caused by "artillery simulators" dropped off at Goodwill store. Authorities have no reason to believe incident is attempt by copycat and say it is unrelated to other package bombings in the city. http://nbcnews.to/2ppwIh9 https://t.co/vRN8rYxEHC
Ah, okay, that makes more sense, but why would you do that? 🤔
 
3:45 AM
@TimStone i guess in texas, artillery simulators are a thing you have laying around the house so you give it to the secondhand store?
do people like donate guns to goodwill?
 
Probably
Ugh, Lipinski looks likely to keep his seat
Barely, granted, but still
 
 
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8:19 AM
@Ash FLING YOUR KID THROUGH THE WINDOW. FOR SAFETY.
 
 
2 hours later…
10:12 AM
A man reportedly killed himself with an explosive device early Wednesday as police tried to arrest him in connection with a string of deadly bombings in the Austin, Texas, area this month. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/21/595457452/authorities-in-austin-say-latest-package-bombs-sent-by-same-person?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20180321
 
10:59 AM
I love this so much because: 1) Turtlenecks are a lab safety violation. 2) So is not tying back long hair. 3) So is pouring into a container that you're directly holding. 4) Nobody uses volumetric flasks like that. It's not even a good attempt at looking smart.
 
11:09 AM
@GodEmperorDune I can't make out what the target container is she is pouring into. Looks like a cuvette, but I'm not sure.
 
Is she not just pouring it on her hand?
 
it looks like she's holding something. A cuvette would make some sense, though you really wouldn't pour something into it from a flask, it's so much easier to use a pipette.
 
11:25 AM
> Yet because the GOP decided against running any candidate in the heavily Democratic district, and Jones successfully met the criteria to make the ballot, he will be the party's nominee.
Okay that's not quite as bad as I thought
I thought the GOP chose him as their candidate in a vote
 
@Wipqozn no but now they have that association and it would be even worse if by a freak chance event he actually won
 
@Memor-X I mean they already did. He was part of the party before, so they accepted him into it.
If a person is part of your party you've already endorsed them
I mean maybe you can join the parties willy nilly, I'm not sure, but surely there must be some vetting process?
Either way, if he did win, then yeah it looks bad on the GOP but looks even worse on the American voters
but I can't imagine he'd ever win. It's a left leaning seat according to the article, which is why the GOP never bothered running, but who knooooows
Maybe there's secretly a bunch of nazis hiding in bushes there
 
12:17 PM
Alert! Neo-Nazis in Patriot Front held a flash rally in #Austin today.
bah
love too run safe against a literal nazi
 
1:02 PM
police handcuffed the doors of the FDA shut after ADAPT left, apparently. They've been forced to move from their camp outside scenic The Director of the FDA's House
ADAPT does not fuck around and their praxis is enviable
 
 
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2:13 PM
@GodEmperorDune Also, bringing the containers up to your face to pour.
In good news, the Austin bomber has apparently been caught.
In ambivalent news, they're dead.
In morbidly hilarious news, they detonated an explosive in their car while being apprehended by the police, after which a police officer shot at them.
In bad news, the FBI apparently found him by getting a timestamped picture of him and then pulling all Google and Apple information in the area.
So if you were within X miles of the bomber when they were caught on camera, the FBI has your information.
 
Okay, what is this "love too" thing?
Is that a meme, or does @Unionhawk just not know which "to/too" to use?
 
it is a meme, technically the specific reference is dril I think
 
But also @Uni doesn't grammar very well.
 
They just need to implement green highlight grammar check on chrome so it can not show up on this machine like spell check doesn't
 
he's a pro-life blue dog running against a nazi
paaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssss
 
@Unionhawk read the article tl;dr he's aligned with the preferences of his district
 
also I'm not in chicago so pass anyway
 
Sadly, DSA candidates can't win everywhere
It's not running safe if it's what the people in the district actually want
 
They want a moderate republican
Like let's be honest about this guy
 
2:43 PM
@Unionhawk Yes and they're getting exactly what they want.
Words are things that have meanings.
Running safe would be disqualifying Roy Moore after he won the primary.
Which, lol hooray Doug Jones.
 
3% turnout for 18-24 in the area, afaik not much better under 30, but sure
 
Yes, if you don't vote (within reason) then you don't get to complain.
 
I will complain as much as I want
 
Clearly :P
(You also vote)
 
Congrats to one of like, three anti-abortion democrats that still exist winning your primary seat
just change your party registration my man
and be honest with everyone as to who you are
 
2:48 PM
He did only barely win, so I'm sure that'll give him zero pause on changing his positions unlike Doug "I gotta vote with the Republicans" Jones
 
Your grudges are wide-ranging, strong, and persistent :P
 
It's literally not my fault he's a wolf in sheep's clothing
That's on him
 
Democrats aren't sheep, sometimes they're just Democrats :P
 
@Unionhawk Someone really needs to get Wolf Blitzer a merino sweater
 
We live in a one party state, but in true american exceptionalism fashion, we have two of them instead
@TimStone My man is batting 1000 I'm pretty sure
 
2:52 PM
WATCH: Lawmakers in Kosovo release tear gas in Parliament to prevent vote http://hill.cm/rEbsZX9
 
1000 on things that are in any way bipartisan at least
so he might have a slightly better average
 
But will he release tear gas on the House floor? I suspect not
 
Doug Jones thank you for abstaining from the "Arm Teachers With Tear Gas Act Of 2018"
 
ian saw the photo of ivanka in a lab coat and concluded she's actually a scientist now
Oh my god
lol
 
Your service will truly help bring this country to a better place where we're not even going to talk about how we're in Yemen, just, tabling it instead, and whatnot
The bar should be higher than "not registered as a republican", "wasn't the leader of the american nazi party at any point"
 
2:59 PM
@TimStone He'd have to walk less far to do it in the Senate :P
 
BREAKING: #AustinBombings suspect was Pflugerville resident Mark A. Conditt, authorities say https://atxne.ws/2prhSXk
 
@TimStone don't worry, the "his neighbors said he was a nice guy" takes have already begun
 
I mean that's pretty much the article yeah
Not only that but his entire family is, in fact, great
 
tfw you're a nice guy but also literally a domestic terrorist
 
Which isn't to say people aren't nice or whatever but we all have demons
JUST IN: Jeff Sessions has told federal prosecutors that "I strongly encourage…when appropriate” applying charges that bring the death penalty in certain drug cases — including “dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs.” Memo to US Attorneys:
Cool, cool
 
3:03 PM
too bad the AZ death penalty suit was just flatly not taken up by the supreme court
 
whispers into the void Drug sales are just illegal capitalism trying to cure the woes of legal capitalism
That was a very @Unionhawk level take, whew
 
I, listen
Pharma needs to make money too
 
I mean it's not strictly wrong. Jeff Sessions wants to kill people for being too good at capitalism
NASA receives response from Voyager 1 spacecraft 13 billion miles away after 37 years of inactivity | Tech Startups http://ift.tt/2IFvB5u
lol @ Tech Startups
 
noted tech startup checks notes NASA, the public space administration founded in 1958 by president Dwight D. Eisenhower
@TimStone I, mean, there's a more simple layer to Jeff's desires here
 
Dragging people into addiction is actually Quite Bad but it's some galaxy brain shit to think the people profiteering deserve to die while literally no one is responsible for the preconditions for those people turning to drugs
Top GOP senator: I'd vote to impeach Trump if he fires Mueller http://hill.cm/ydvNjT4
 
3:10 PM
@TimStone pharma \subset the people profiteering on addiction
 
lol, I was like "Wow, that's like marginally strong given how weak they've been on this issue"
Then I clicked thru and it's frickin' Jeff Flake
 
pharma \notin the people Jeff has in mind
 
Oh, of course
 
Kermit WV, a town of 400 residents, a town of 12 million hydrocodone tablets between 2007 and 2012
doctor willing to prescribe, pharmacy willing to dispense, manufacturer willing to continue to make money
 
@TimStone Bullshit. You could literally vote now to prevent that from happening. You'll get right in line.
 
3:15 PM
I was about to mention whether Sessions would go after the opioid crisis with such fervor.
 
@puzzlepiece87 The working theory is that the GOP is tired of Trump but doesn't want to actually take any blame for his downfall so they're just kinda hoping the whole affair settles itself without their intervention
Typical have cake & eat it too situation
 
For those of you doing the math at home, that's 6,000 tablets per person per year pushed into a desparate and dying town
 
@TimStone My money feels very safe being placed on them getting in line like good ducks. them continuing to be too "tired" to do anything as **** continues to hit the fan.
 
The problem is that impeaching Trump would put Pence in charge
And he might actually be able to get things done
 
@TimStone I thought they learned to use crayon drawings and his name to grab his attention?
Boring black text even in all-caps is not going to catch his attention.
 
3:24 PM
@SaintWacko People keep saying this, and they might be totally right, but to me the risk of nuclear war outweighs pretty much everything else.
@SaintWacko Also, we're talking about a Congress that has been repeatedly unable to get its act together.
 
@Yuuki Look mistakes were made
Another Theranos dirty trick: to pull the fire alarm in a Walgreens store when a reporter for NPR got too nosy. You can’t make this up. https://californiahealthline.org/news/reporters-notebook-the-tale-of-theranos-and-the-mysterious-fire-alarm/
lmao
Wait, what? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/austin-bombings-suspect-believed-neutralized-sources-n858576
 
3:41 PM
1 hour ago, by Yuuki
In bad news, the FBI apparently found him by getting a timestamped picture of him and then pulling all Google and Apple information in the area.
1 hour ago, by Yuuki
So if you were within X miles of the bomber when they were caught on camera, the FBI has your information.
 
NEWS SNIPED D:
 
@TimStone ASHAMED OF URSELF
 
@TimStone *checks image* so I guess we're going for "not terrorism, troubled individual, people need to reach out, etc."
 
JUST IN: Ryan invites Macron to address joint session of Congress http://hill.cm/hJLB2CZ
>__>
@Yuuki The story has been updated with his spicy takes though, including "Second, if we are going to give women free abortions, why not give men free condoms, or the like?" which like, my dude
WHY NOT INDEED
Also apparently he blew himself up? The manner of death wasn't described there but another story suggests that was the case
South Korea’s Leader Floats 3-Way Talks With Trump and Kim Jong-un https://nyti.ms/2u5wFfT
 
3:58 PM
@TimStone Do we... not do those things?
2 hours ago, by Yuuki
In morbidly hilarious news, they detonated an explosive in their car while being apprehended by the police, after which a police officer shot at them.
 
Damn :P
 
11 mins ago, by puzzlepiece87
@TimStone ASHAMED OF URSELF
 
@Yuuki Love to push the conservative agenda of abstinence only and then go "BUT WHY NO FREE CONDOMS?"
 
I'm like 80% sure most colleges offer free condoms.
 
Being home schooled he apparently missed that memo 🤷
 
4:01 PM
Not just the college, there are student orgs out there that pass out free condoms on the campus grounds.
@TimStone The lesson here is "don't home-school your kids because they'll have a drastically distorted view of reality and become terrorist bombers".
And then a police officer will shoot your kid's body after he already killed himself with an explosive.
 
@Yuuki incidentally/interestingly, Trojan has a program to ship huge boxes to organizations on campuses that don't
 
4:34 PM
@Yuuki it seems the police officers were close enough that one was slightly injured by the explosion
 
@MadScientist I'm sorry, I'm still trying to get over the fact that one officer's immediate reaction to a car exploding was to shoot at it.
 
I'm not sure how big the explosion was, it seems like an overreaction if you imagine a huge fireball, but more reasonable if it's a limited explosion and the suspect might still be dangerous
 
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@Arperum but at least they won't have AUTISM
 
4:49 PM
@Yuuki I won't play internet hero on this one, I have zero idea how I'd react going after a terrorist who just set a bomb off.
 
@puzzlepiece87 Neither do I, what was I trying to say was that it paints a morbidly funny picture.
Not casting any aspersions on the officer's decision to shoot outside of "that's actually kinda hilarious in a black comedy sense".
 
@Ash Nope, no working brain either, so no autism.
 
user15026
Precisely, problem solved
 
@Yuuki Ah, thanks for clarifying :)
 
@fredley that's needlessly specific
 
@KevinvanderVelden It's a Blues Brothers quote
 
5:20 PM
zkshfdlskajdhfkljsadhfsadlfkhs PAUL'S ENTRY IS AMAZING
> Neo-Thatcherism is the new punk rock.
I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS THAT SPECIFIC ABOUT THIS THING
 
@fredley the youtube clip for that quote has a lot of things to flag for hate speech... unsurprisingly
 
@KevinvanderVelden In the film they get held up by a Neo Nazi parade, proceed to drive through it, knocking nazis into the river.
 
Actually I think the nazis play quite a role in the film iirc
 
They kept them for quite a while
Despite being -9 when the movie came out I have watched it
@KevinvanderVelden They kept following them for quite a while
 
5:26 PM
That's because it's a great film
@KevinvanderVelden Oh yeah, they got pissed at the humiliation
 
Doug Jones calls on lawmakers to work together on gun violence: "At its core, the Second Amendment was an effort to protect Americans. Let us do the same." http://abcn.ws/2u7zsVV
 
hell yeah doug
why don't both sides reach across it doesn't make any sense
 
lmao the WH spin on DO NOT CONGRATULATE is literally that it's not that Trump refused to follow the directions, he just refuses to read the memos at all
IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT BETTER?
 
hellworld
 
5:46 PM
Oh hey, I didn't know that, Cuomo divested from BDS in 2016, lol ok dude
 
You thought it couldn't get any thicker, but here it is, the plot thickening still further:
 
mmm molasses
 
@fredley Still waiting for the (reference to United States Public Broadcasting Shows) "Funded in part by Russians like you" news
 
I mean we already sort of had that, what with the picture of Nix and the Russian Ambassador to the UK
And whatever dealings they had
 
#AlwaysGonnaBeRussians
Where's my 538 politics chattttt
 
5:57 PM
I want you to see the groundbreaking 5 page policy document that Larry Krasner sent out to his team. Here's Page 1. Read the first sentence. FULL STORY: https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/larry-krasner-philadelphia-da/
HELL
YEAH
DUDE
 
looks at Twitter
blinks
closes window
 
Larry Krasner is probably doing some of the most important work in the country
 
Can't wait for them to raise the soda tax though to try and account for lost revenue
whispers into the void again Tax Comcast into the ground
 
I mean it costs money to throw people in jail so it's probably not anything major
 
Yeah, I'm just a little confused because Philly was already using fines for possession <= ounce
But I mean that's good either way
 
6:08 PM
@Unionhawk THIS IS AMAZING HOW AM I THE FIRST STAR
 
6:20 PM
Yes, Mark, super troubling that we get infrastructure instead of bullshit
 
that reminds me I should look to see if the roebling bridge is back open
(crash caused structural damage closing the bridge from what I heard)
nope up to a week
not a highway bridge at least
 
6:35 PM
GOP allows provision so CDC can research gun violence http://hill.cm/xa9DzL0
tl;dr "Look the Dickey Amendment definitely never officially said you couldn't research gun violence wink I guess we'll write that part in"
NEW: Vermont becomes only state to never have female lawmaker http://hill.cm/boKeM3f
Mississippi sliding in there like "Hahah not dead last this time suckers"
 
7:01 PM
@TimStone Are we entirely certain that Vermont isn't just cloning their lawmakers?
 
I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing.......
.....They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race. Bush tried to get along, but didn’t have the “smarts.” Obama and Clinton tried, but didn’t have the energy or chemistry (remember RESET). PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!
Russia is much more part of the problems than a solution
 
Can we not have a coming Arms Race? kthx
 
@MadScientist I probably have some bias goggles on, but "Peace Through Strength" sounds like an incredibly fascist line.
 
I think that's a historic saying
might want to check it wasn't us first
 
@puzzlepiece87 It's not like the US hasn't had fascist leanings at times.
 
7:14 PM
@Yuuki it's primarily associated with Reagan and Emperor Hadrian
 
@Yuuki well said
 
as the great FDR once said, never stop posting and threaten everyone
 
I didn't even notice that he mentioned Ukraine as one of the problems Russia could help to solve. That's an even dumber statement than I thought
 
there may be an OK teachers deal but we'll see
We'll see
WE'LL SEE
They have until 4/2 to get this done
not to be confused with 4/20
they don't have quite that long
 
> excoriate
love that
 
@Yuuki bias goggles, aka prescription glasses?
 
"how can I make myself look smart"
 
7 scabs, 1993 workers on strike. The #HeulgaAmazon has paralyzed Spain's largest Amazon distribution center with a 48 hour strike. This is just the beginning, we won't let them make working at the facility any more precarious than it already is. #NoHQ2 #AmazonHQ2 #fuckamazon https://twitter.com/Informatica_CGT/status/976402121426980866
oh heck
 
 
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9:58 PM
@puzzlepiece87 and buy loot boxes
 
10:32 PM
cc @GodEmperorDune @Ash
 
@Yuuki hue
 
@GodEmperorDune Gotta love how all the comments on this post are "but uh terrorism has to be political".
 
So I take it they're subscribing to the Allahu Akbar school of terrorism
 
user15026
@Yuuki I toooold you. I said he's not a brown person killing white people, he ain't going to be labelled a terrorist
 
@Yuuki nothing political here, just committing hate crimes don't mind me
 
user15026
10:34 PM
(Also the response is a very good pun type thing)
 
I mostly posted that because of the response.
 
not very subtle now is it
 
11:04 PM
Hmm the police released the video from the Uber and oh boy :/
Like it's hard to fault the backup driver because she's not easily visible to the plain eye until it's too late, from the perspective of the video anyway but uhh very unclear how the sensors didn't pick her up in the middle of the road
 
@TimStone thats the problem with "safety third"
 
Yeah :/
When they said she "stepped out of the shadows" originally it made it seem like she was behind something, but she was in the shadows between street lights in the middle of a wide road
 
@GodEmperorDune safety aleph-naught
@TimStone nice spin
yeah I can't say I'm surprised it was something like that
 
oh man that video is fuct
 
Yeah :/
 
11:18 PM
and the sensors are supposed to use lasers or w/e so that visible light isn't an issues so yeah...
seems like this was an ideal use case for the sensors
 
this seems like it should be something they would have tested and noticed on a closed course
 
@Yuuki somewhat relevant dril tweet:
thats right bitch. i single handedly rescued the constitution of the united states...AND I DID IT WITH OUT USING POLITICS !!
don't bring politics into politics
 
Gun website moves videos to porn site after YouTube crackdown on gun videos http://hill.cm/kZGMKAu
 
11:29 PM
@Memor-X wtf? Gun videos? I don't like guns but even I think that's dumb
 
@GnomeSlice when i read that the first thing that came to my mind was some scenes from Shadows of the Dammed
 
@quartata dril thank you for your service
 

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