Tweet Digest for Sunday, January 25, 2015 (GMT)

@arthurwyatt oooo! is it the suitcase? be careful when you open it! – 05:24 AM GMT
Piles of broken human skulls bumping the side of a dock in the tidal wash. – 05:05 PM GMT
Thank you, dreamhead. – 05:05 PM GMT
@sculpin seems like he would be a rotund and cheery fellow. I left out the bloated corpses. – 09:41 PM GMT
@BitterOldPunk yaaaay – 09:43 PM GMT
@pjern good for you! – 09:44 PM GMT
CASSOULET ROLLIN oh yeah mmmm smelling good – 10:00 PM GMT
“workers …[opening]… bloated coffins …occasionally suffocated by the release of ‘cadaverous vapours’.” theguardian.com/​cities/​2015/​ja… – 10:12 PM GMT
@DanEngler antenna failure? – 10:23 PM GMT
@DanEngler i got nothin’. sounds vaguely data related but you are describing dropped cell cnx, therefore not data. – 11:16 PM GMT
@DanEngler although: deactivate PIN, see what happens – 11:16 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Saturday, January 24, 2015 (GMT)

@billbarol so win-win! – 12:48 AM GMT
@hell0jed you know a lot about cars, it’s an area in which you feel confident to exert control and express opinions. – 12:53 AM GMT
@hell0jed i know that I have developed areas of expertise in direct response to feelings of helplessness in other areas. perhaps this maps. – 12:53 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone superhero origin story – 12:56 AM GMT
@phirephoenix about 15 years ago I moved on after being told I should get “preventive fillings” for my “pre-cavities”. Still no cavities. – 01:04 AM GMT
@naxuu … something something IN BED – 01:05 AM GMT
@gjcharlet 🙁 – 04:36 PM GMT
@sabrinabonus empathic, self reflective robots – 04:41 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Friday, January 23, 2015 (GMT)

@keithpille @arthurwyatt yeah, there is an in-universe timeline but the books are generally set thousands of years from one another. – 01:07 AM GMT
@johnpstrohm @annkpowers taught to my 3rd grade choir class. “goodbye papa it’s hard to die.” GOOD GOD WHAT WERE THEY THINKING – 05:35 AM GMT
@wasta Captain Pike! red for yes, green for no! – 05:36 AM GMT
@jonwurster i suggest a t-shirt from The Pig. – 05:41 AM GMT
@deathmtn bitcoin convertible? – 02:25 PM GMT
@deathmtn P2P DND – 02:28 PM GMT
@deathmtn (pays bartender for valuable info) – 02:29 PM GMT
@jonronson do you run your fingers lovingly over the ink in your books? – 02:49 PM GMT
Important marketing opportunity: Tom Brady signature model Nerf football – 07:17 PM GMT
@billbarol nearly had my very first claustrophobic panic attack on a crosscountry flight in one of these torture machines. – 08:46 PM GMT
@billbarol i wonder, can full-body involuntary shrieking freakouts ground enough flights that they rip ‘em out? whatever, i’m off United. – 08:47 PM GMT
RT: @elonmusk: West Coast droneship under construction will be named “Of Course I Still Love You” – 08:54 PM GMT
RT: @elonmusk: Repairs almost done on the spaceport drone ship and have given it the name “Just Read the Instructions” – 08:54 PM GMT
RT: @elonmusk: @elonmusk … In honor of IMB, RIP. – 08:55 PM GMT
@mwhybark ecx.images-amazon.com/​images/​I/​41F4D… – 10:02 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Thursday, January 22, 2015 (GMT)

@manwhoyells yeah! i thought we had talked about this this weekend, maybe not, huh – 03:50 PM GMT
@keithpille just finished a reread. It is his first Culture book. I think the prose shows that, somewhat. I was struck by use of set-pieces. – 10:19 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @keithpille that’s interesting. I just read ‘Games’, ‘Background’, and ‘Phlebas’ in that order. – 10:34 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt @keithpille I actually felt ‘Background’ was the strongest, with the best-realized worldbuilding. – 10:35 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Wednesday, January 21, 2015 (GMT)

@mubay Huitzilopotchli is the lord of war & in associated circs, death. That which controls time is death. Therefore death is beauty. – 04:51 AM GMT
RT: @mubay: Context pic.twitter.com/​eN9ipwGeSE – 04:51 AM GMT
@DearSplenda next level tard hatner – 04:56 AM GMT
seriously, where are the scrotal-inflater-shaming tweets? so disappointed – 04:58 AM GMT
Can we just stop using “trigger warning” now? Neil’s colonized it; it’s his. – 05:01 AM GMT
@harryburgan sorry Harry. i moved my foot. no ill intent. – 05:02 AM GMT
RT: @Wonkette: As a young girl, Joni Ernst plowed the field and worked the biscuit line. She had bread bags on her feet. po.st/​sDlZxc – 05:02 AM GMT
you know, i made biscuits tonight and oh never mind – 05:03 AM GMT
RT: @Richard_Kadrey: “If David Bowie can make being David Bowie cool, you can make being you cool.” pic.twitter.com/​0JG8CdJlTD – 05:04 AM GMT
RT: @History_Pics: Cesar Romero prior to filming his surfing scene with Adam West on “Batman,” 1967. pic.twitter.com/​7MGEwC6tEf – 05:05 AM GMT
RT: @DaveHolmes: I just watched the House Majority Leader sit on his hands, grim-faced, at the concept that I should be free of persecution in my home. Neat. – 05:09 AM GMT
RT: @harryburgan: This is a great President who’s speaking now. He’s the best of my lifetime. #proud #SOTU – 05:10 AM GMT
@Iron_Spike yes, family – 05:16 AM GMT
RT: @LeoMcGarry: Would it be insensitive of me to point out that the man who delivered the #GOPresponse in 2010 reports to prison on February 9? – 05:17 AM GMT
@surlygourmand treasure’s been gone for years. ayup. – 05:36 AM GMT
wait so maybe it’s Seattle vs. Indy after all? geez, how much cash do the colts and the pats have on hand? – 05:43 AM GMT
@harryburgan it is dude! I smile when i see you here, I hear your voice in my head as if you were speaking. – 05:45 AM GMT
@harryburgan for next like few days i can say go Colts! due to ball-sack inflation or something – 06:01 AM GMT
@harryburgan gaoddamn right, this is the place. wish Andy were here using that way. i much prefer it to FB. – 06:02 AM GMT
@hell0jed end times.@where is the chandler, the tinsmith? the candlemaker? perhaps a maritime ropewalk – 06:04 AM GMT
@harryburgan Dave and i txt all the time. ES and I are here and everywhere. I mostly ping JPS here but have been known to go to other modes. – 06:09 AM GMT
@harryburgan Colts are out, but it looks like Pats jimmed the balls and who knows. – 06:10 AM GMT
@harryburgan that would be great! it has been a while, but i do hit Chicago more than Bton. – 06:16 AM GMT
@harryburgan thanks dude! – 06:33 AM GMT
@hell0jed indeed! was that like, this phone wont wifi now or this phone won’t share wifi now? either way, sucks. – 07:02 AM GMT
@hell0jed or could, i guess. but sweet! i had a tether hack on my, uh Treo. Six years ago. I should git haxxin – 07:19 AM GMT
RT: @Lahlahlindsey: OFFICIAL NAMING POLL: fave for ballghazi rt for inflategate – 07:20 AM GMT
@Lahlahlindsey deflategate innit or as i prefer deflatergate. that’s our problem in a nutshell. no messaging discipline. – 07:21 AM GMT
you don’t make friends there, you make faces. that’s why they call it facebook. – 07:52 AM GMT
tiny cat fast asleep on my chest and arm. – 02:35 PM GMT
@clarissawam too late! but here’s an older one. pic.twitter.com/​Nlu1QljVj7 – 03:06 PM GMT
@clarissawam thbppt pt thbbpt – 03:08 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt it’s some good stuff! – 03:10 PM GMT
@phoebenorth for some stuff, but i always end up fighting it because i outline like crazy and gdoc formatting is bad for that – 03:20 PM GMT
@MadHatterReview @LeavittAlone useful link: freesfonline.de/​authors/​Ted_Ch… – 03:22 PM GMT
@phoebenorth i like the device independence, for sure – 03:22 PM GMT
@LeVostreGC what’s the combo for self-deception? – 04:20 PM GMT
@jonronson isn’t that actually a definition of bad? people die because they can’t afford preventive care. – 04:22 PM GMT
@keithpille @maxsparber for me it’s my last final exam, got moved. or suddenly realizing you forgot to attend a class for a whole semester. – 04:26 PM GMT
whoooo oboy yessir yeeouch man whoo yeeeowtch man dang that ole degenerative bone disease hurts sometimes whoo doggies ow – 05:54 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Tuesday, January 20, 2015 (GMT)

@sumit i mean, talk about your psychedelic space technology experiences. not even science fiction. – 07:31 PM GMT
@sumit one assumes! all nitrile-glove contact, of course. – 11:37 PM GMT
@sumit apparently metal-to-metal parts are subject to corrosion, e.g., cuff rings (blue / red for L/R) are Al + colored laminate metal – 11:39 PM GMT
@sumit which, on reflection, must affect thousands of aviation & space artifacts stashed in warehouses worldwide – 11:40 PM GMT
RT: @joshuamcnichols: The Surprising Place Where Some Seahawks Fans Gather tinyurl.com/​l3f3zes – 11:43 PM GMT
RT: @waxylinks: Slackbot Bot: every office needs one   bit.ly/​1Gr1hrr – 11:51 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Monday, January 19, 2015 (GMT)

Viv dons rally helmet; Seahawks win. pic.twitter.com/​yoG9gCiB3S – 01:43 AM GMT
RT: @johnmoe: Pats, Colts, no one can stop Russell Wilson’s magic 4 interceptions. – 01:44 AM GMT
RT: @BryanTKR: Look at this guy. Love him! #GoHawks pic.twitter.com/​Ks8GZQjHpn – 01:44 AM GMT
@marikamalaea incoherent male blubbering signifying approval – 01:46 AM GMT
@BitterOldPunk .Hug, beer, shot, punk record, whatever. So sorry to hear this. Love to both of you. He was the best cat ever. – 01:50 AM GMT
RT: @BrettHamil: .@TheFrizzelle Seattle has also gone to the #SuperBowl every year we’ve had a socialist on city council #hm – 01:53 AM GMT
Oscar played a pivotal role today. (thanks @TKateness) pic.twitter.com/​oz1BumoRoi – 02:57 AM GMT
@saladinahmed @LeslieK_nope @middleclasstool FB acquaintance felt moved to condemn President Obama as “piece of shit” after viewing film. – 03:02 AM GMT
RT: @McLengthyName: Kind of have to wonder how similar AMERICAN SNIPER is to “Nation’s Pride,” the war movie playing during the climax of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. – 06:14 PM GMT
@sumit as if a bit of moebius background costume self-realized – 10:23 PM GMT
@sumit i did get a spacesuit hoodie from Viv for Xmas that has Alien-style moebius suit ring quilting on the shoulders. baby steps. – 10:35 PM GMT
@sumit it’s not really directly inspired by his work, alas. but i’ll take what i can get. – 10:36 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Sunday, January 18, 2015 (GMT)

@arthurwyatt @ardaniel and in how the voice-primary UI is conveyed. beautiful film, self-acknowledging the stage it has defined – 01:15 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @ardaniel still avoiding Black Mirror due to dinnertime. – 01:15 AM GMT
RT: @deathmtn: The goals are the same, too. It will convenient for us if we can stop supporting the legacy litter box! We just need this one user to move. – 01:17 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo noted. – 07:30 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i mean, he’s sort of weak because he’s insufficiently hopeless. i definitely like him despite his human sympathy. – 07:34 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo like early Clowes is great because he is merciless. Ware’s best stuff lacks any hint of redemptive vision. – 07:36 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo granted, Bukowski is a poet, and Clowes and Ware work in an elevated, more demanding and important medium. – 07:37 AM GMT
@leavittalone wait is todayish your bday? this is viv’s bday weekend! – 07:41 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo meaning, then, me. – 07:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo granted, I AM the worst. – 07:42 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo have every first ish from the late eighties era. I find he weakened with Ghost World. Lloyd Llewellyn is tops. – 07:44 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone aw. glad yr better. – 07:45 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt boose! we missed yez. I figure someone should figure how to make a kamikaze with Aviation gin and serve with a car bomb. – 07:51 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo lol well most late eighties threads focus on Watchmen or DK. But I was hardcore Fantagraphics even then. – 07:53 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt viv’s, but yeh. NBD. A crew Gainsbourged. – 07:54 AM GMT
@gjcharlet uh, wet spot GJ cough – 07:55 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo lol – 08:00 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i think it has to do with his weird Moorcock doubling. MM is explicitly pro this and anti that and not a wizard. – 08:02 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo those would be by and large be American moviegoers, i think. sigh. – 08:03 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo well, among the wizards you’ve met, who claimed the title, and who disputed it? Seems like some sort of razor – 08:04 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo i think we have found a point of media consumption concurrence. – 08:05 AM GMT
@praguepainter lo-rents 2-sink wells. deux-sinques. wells can mean sinks, like in a bar. lawrence dowells. you got this bigtime – 08:54 AM GMT
@praguepainter deux-cinques. deux-cinches. il ya important d’enpense des auxidees. je crois. peut etre. – 08:57 AM GMT
@praguepainter des eaux idees – 09:28 PM GMT
@hell0jed so far maybe it’s best not to – 09:31 PM GMT
@hell0jed tut tut although i applaud you from a socialist persepective – 09:33 PM GMT
RT: @telemetrist: Football commercial uses Chuck Mangione’s Feels So Good for loser guy’s soundtrack, that’s my soundtrack – 09:42 PM GMT
god dammit – 09:48 PM GMT
Oh my god – 11:12 PM GMT
totally crying like a baby. – 11:39 PM GMT
@hell0jed YOU MAY NEVER LEAVE – 11:40 PM GMT
revearse teh kearse – 11:40 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Saturday, January 17, 2015 (GMT)

Coyote again. She howled earlier. I was able to sight her as she did so, otherwise she just looks like a log. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/​2jmfJuNCpX – 12:27 AM GMT
Being reminded of how I dropped the cake mid-toast at Viv’s 40th. All true. – 03:03 AM GMT
RT: @ccastellanossf: #XFiles2015 – 05:03 AM GMT
heard the coyote howling tonight too – 05:32 AM GMT
@JoeTheDough i have an autographed 1st ed hb copy of Dark Alliance! – 04:29 PM GMT
@deathmtn that’s what I use, when I need that. There’s a companion app named Air(unknown) I use too. – 04:44 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough he was here on book tour. goddamn criminal what was done to him, the fuckers. 1st obvious hint how far gone the US was getting. – 05:52 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough indeed. some of it’s in the book. he was hounded out of journalism, basically. there’s a book & a movie about it, even. – 08:01 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough book: amazon.com/​Kill-Messenger… – 08:02 PM GMT
@JoeTheDough and then of course he apparently killed himself, although with two shots to the head. – 08:04 PM GMT

Tweet Digest for Friday, January 16, 2015 (GMT)

@surlygourmand so thanks! no dirty joke? she’ll be heartbroken. so will my mom. – 12:14 AM GMT
@surlygourmand hey, that place used to was Gerard’s! Be interesting to try it after the transubstantiation. – 12:18 AM GMT
checking the transfer of a friend’s 30+ year old demo. damn do I love these songs. – 12:38 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn @juniusworth “H” esta Habana Leones. ¡Que bueno! – 01:17 AM GMT
@mighty_flynn oop, the grey one – 01:17 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo on our way to Warsaw at xmas we stopped at a shopping center in Pburg on a Sunday and I was flummoxed by noon opening – 01:19 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo i misapprehended the closed store to augur no booze on sunday, per my childhood home state Indiana – 01:20 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo moments later, dropping some cards in a mailbox, the store was open. about 20 people were in line inside already. – 01:21 AM GMT
@brownpau yikes – 01:21 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo merkrismus – 01:22 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo in fairness I went in and bought my xmas gifts for family yet unmet and barely known – 01:24 AM GMT
.@mcgee_gorgo Sun2hine. Sunshin3. Suns4ine. 5unshine. Sun6hine. Su7shine.borrowed this from someone here recently. sing out for credit. – 01:45 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo ooh we might try that over dinner. or stick with Space:1999 for a tried and true dystopia. – 01:46 AM GMT
@wasta have you heard of the outdoors? i understand that was a popular option among primates for many years. – 01:52 AM GMT
@wasta but that is indeed fucked up. you should take a cab to your hotel and make sure they pay for it. to pee. – 01:54 AM GMT
@wasta doesn’t get any more sensitive than that part, no sir – 01:55 AM GMT
I mistrust Amazon so hard, but this PKD High Castle pilot is so promising and disorienting – 03:46 AM GMT
ok. PKD MHC AMZN 107 char review: Decent, want more, wife uncomfortable, Asian racial identity cringe factor INTACT or even MORESO from book – 04:37 AM GMT
Further, wildly unquantifiable reaction to use of identifiable Seattle location shots as elements of SF occupied San Francisco 1962 – 04:38 AM GMT
Finally, Amazon *itself in specific* is the unknown invading and occupying force in the American landscape of 2014. Strange choice of show. – 04:40 AM GMT
@poupou /eyes dilate – 04:43 AM GMT
@jabonmusic wait is this now? i m dum – 04:44 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt for the love of god. The kid’s name. Just. I just uh – 04:45 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo That guy’s last name was Kyle, see, not Malarkey. That fucking poor kid, see – 04:47 AM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo /pounds bar, causing PBR to fountain – 04:47 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt the what now? they have herds and ranking runs?@mcgee_gorgo – 04:48 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt @mcgee_gorgo at least that other kid isn’t patronymed “Bigscam” or “Gullibilbait” or such. Do you think they have Amazon Prime? – 04:52 AM GMT
@DearSplenda typo, I think. “They Drive by Night,” iirc. but could be totes rong – 04:58 AM GMT
Viv just asked what the M in MILF stood 4 & I said “you, baby. Except for the M part. Matron? No, that’s just wrong. Um” Then I was struck. – 06:24 AM GMT
@TKateness all superior options. i thank you. – 06:37 AM GMT
Green Bay and Catan. wsj.com/​articles/​the-p… /// LA LA LA I CAN’T HEAR YOU WSJ LA LA LA – 01:49 PM GMT
RT: @jndevereux: The Google street view car seems to have caught R. Crumb and family in Sauve, France: goo.gl/​maps/​qYCUc – 09:47 PM GMT
yo @earinc twitter.com/​jndevereux/​sta… – 09:48 PM GMT
.@sumit @kittypurrzog geez pic.twitter.com/​HK5lIfoqqD – 09:50 PM GMT
@cstross possible explanation for the chopper noise overhead at this very moment here in northern Seattle – 09:57 PM GMT