The short-form week of 18–24 Jul 2016
25 Jul 2016; last modified 26 Aug 2016
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
Monday at 01:42am
IF YOU REINVENT THE WHEEL YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE WHEEL AND YOU DO NOT WANT THAT
JOB.—@RachelShadoan
Monday at 03:49am
'Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.' – Night
Watch—@Discworld_com
Monday at 04:22pm
Monday at 07:10pm
Monday at 07:36pm
RT @stealthygeek: Jupiter.
From the bottom.
How mind-blowing is this shit? https://t.co/gSo31hjK7n—@ndw
Monday at 07:40pm
In a conversation that started on Monday at 07:52pm
@shelleypowers I was gonna make a joke about hell on earth and the RNC but then I just got too depressed.—@ndw
@ndw Yeah, you have to focus on something else for a while, or you'll feel we're doomed.—@shelleypowers
Monday at 08:07pm
Kids adapt to believing they like charred marshmallows but not whiskey. WTF.—@pgor
Monday at 09:08pm
Speaker after speaker, positioning the #GOP as the party of easily terrified shadow-jumpers and pants-shitters #gopconvention—@doctorow
Monday at 09:08pm
RT @maureenjohnson: I'm a YA author, and I tweet a lot about politics. Some people ask me why, as many
of my readers cannot vote. They cann…—@ndw
Monday at 09:13pm
RT @elizabethforma: .@realDonaldTrump & @mike_pence are a perfect match: Two small, insecure, weak men who use hate & fear to divide
our co…—@ndw
Monday at 09:16pm
PBS cuts away from Giulliani, possibly under the false impression that rabies can
be transmitted via sound waves.—@dweinberger
Monday at 09:18pm
RT @doctorow: Speaker after speaker, positioning the #GOP as the party of easily terrified shadow-jumpers and pants-shitters #gopconvention—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Monday at 09:29pm
Monday at 09:31pm
All I'm getting are the tweets and the RNC has driven me to drink. Hello Manhattan,
let's finish you quickly then go to Brooklyn.—@ndw
Monday at 11:16pm
Picard sociology tip: Those who rise to power by embracing ignorance and fear will
only make their people more ignorant and afraid.—@PicardTips
Tuesday at 06:41am
RT @ItsTonyNow: not only do facts not matter anymore, even the very concept of causality will be
called elitist liberal bullshit—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:58am
There was literal white supremacy at the RNC shit show. Plagiarism is wrong, but it
is not the story. It is the misdirection.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 08:53am
"I have been given an ultimatum to find an heir within sixty days or the bank will
fortify the funds." #spam #notwhatyouthinkitmeans—@ndw
Tuesday at 04:23pm
DFW tram: "Exit here for gates A1 to A15 and duck gravy." I have no idea.—@ndw
Wednesday at 03:51am
RT @NabilHassein: Plagiarism being more "newsworthy" than open Republican white nationalism is like
how cops are fired for racist texts but…—@ndw
Wednesday at 08:42am
"analog" language? Nope. Nope. Nope. https://t.co/mbkiElBJAf—@mathling
Wednesday at 11:36am
Untitled https://t.co/jLtWXjt0ek—@PinPopular
Wednesday at 03:25pm
Wednesday at 03:40pm
RT @doctortovey: Newsflash @_Xtin_: I did a thing with my hair OMGOMGOMG https://t.co/Mck8sddauN—@ndw
Thursday at 03:30am
RT @codinghorror: I really miss being bored by politicians now that they are terrifying—@ndw
Thursday at 03:31am
RT @EricKleefeld: Cruz on America putting a man on the moon: "That was the power of freedom."
Pretty sure that was a large, expensive govt…—@ndw
Thursday at 03:43am
RT @Crommunist: This election is going to be the subject of History 101 term papers in about forty
years or so.—@ndw
Thursday at 03:43am
RT @Crommunist: Unless Trump wins. Then it will be the subject of an archaeology PhD by the irradiated
starfish that will evolve into the d…—@ndw
Thursday at 03:50am
RT @NYMag: Andrew Sullivan on the talk of making Americans feel safe again: https://t.co/zk3bR1Bhichttps://t.co/BKh54QxPmi—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 03:53am
@Crommunist @ndw You're assuming Clinton will win. With Trump surviving humans would be learning how
to avoid being eaten by wolves.—@lyda
Thursday at 05:42am
To Trump, Cruz is a self-centered prick. To Cruz, Trump is utterly unworthy. How many
chances in life to say this: They're both right.—@AoDespair
Friday at 01:38am
RT @colindickey: If you've ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany well then my friend
here is your fucking chance to find…—@ndw
Friday at 03:34am
Friday at 03:41am
RT @ArarMaher: Westerners should read this tweet and internalize it 100 times a day if they want
to understand the Middle-East. https://t.c…—@ndw
Friday at 06:37am
RT @NicholasPegg: 'Unpopular with fact-checkers' is a peculiar way of saying 'full of lies'. Facts
are not a matter of opinion. https://t.c…—@ndw
Friday at 10:43am
Hello Dublin!—@ndw
Saturday at 05:50am
Saturday at 08:42am
RT @hackerfantastic: If the police are using 3D printed fingerprints, can we now say that they are not
a unique identifer and could be plan…—@ndw
Saturday at 10:18am
RT @iyad_elbaghdadi: Insist to coexist, guys. Insist to coexist. We will coexist. We will not hate. We
will not burn our own societies.—@ndw
Sunday at 02:33pm
Just for the record #RogerAiles caused the rise of #TeaParty, the rise of #DonaldTrump and the end of civil discourse and maybe even #USA.—@BetteMidler
Saturday at 04:24pm
Saturday at 04:35pm
RT @bryngreenwood: And no matter what Trump would have you believe, human kindness is free. America
can afford it. https://t.co/GOfrUvBYlu—@ndw