@clarissawam a total loss, just a genius cut short. – 12:23 AM GMT
@LASTEXITshirts @arthurwyatt natch, I have this book. I’ll rummage it up next pub night – 12:25 AM GMT
@matthewbaldwin the old seattle freeze once again – 12:34 AM GMT
“The company now devotes much of its attention to promoting Dose, which in November received thirty-three million page views.” – 08:40 AM GMT
hm, apparently I would rather reread an Iain M. Banks book than the New Yorker tonight. But I should sleep. Magazine it is. – 08:57 AM GMT
“When you see the momentum, you’ll be laughing at how obvious it all was.” – 09:02 AM GMT

weird to hear about a mountain climbing death on a trail you have walked yourself – 05:07 PM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo i have actually heard good things about this book. but where? – 05:09 PM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo well, we’d really hafta ax 2am Tussin Mike. i can’t recall where i saw a good review, undoubtedly a postrockist snob pal on FB – 05:13 PM GMT
@mcgee_gorgo you will must needs provide a tweet review pls k thx – 05:14 PM GMT
speaking of twitter book reviews, I read The Martian and Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls on the plane last night, a fairly spent $36 – 05:55 PM GMT
The Martian was total mind candy, utterly unchallenging, neo-Heinlein Engineer Superprotagonist “hard” SF. I loved it. – 05:58 PM GMT
Author’s love for NASA as it is – as it has been – drives the story’s, uh, atmosphere. As such the cascading improbabilities are forgiven. – 06:00 PM GMT
“Owls” is Sedaris’ most recent. His perspective has shifted some. It includes his taxidermy piece but not the one on his sister’s suicide. – 06:06 PM GMT
Don’t know if the suicide piece was excluded based on pub date or editorial considerations. Majority of pieces are reflective and familial. – 06:09 PM GMT
He’s not apologizing for using his family as the target of his satiric rage, but the essays clearly document a desired and deep connection. – 06:10 PM GMT
Thus the absence of the suicide essay, which is honest, earnest, heartfelt, self-serving, and self-deluding, is felt. – 06:13 PM GMT
So I’m going with “editorial choice.” The absence reflects the death. Unless the calendar says it can’t. – 06:14 PM GMT
In other news, it felt hell-yes good to rip through 500+ pages on paper in one sitting. Who’s yer reader? Who? That’s right, uh-huh, oh yeah – 06:16 PM GMT
Here are some worse years: 1968. 1972. 2000. 2001. 2004. 1928. 1914. 1936. 1941. – 06:21 PM GMT
I should totally make a clickbait list! what was that, ten? seven? – 06:25 PM GMT
nine! – 06:28 PM GMT
@esinclai oh, i’m a fawning fanboy, no mistake. I loved the suicide piece but it was clearly problematic, which may actually signify growth. – 06:39 PM GMT
@esinclai going to press with an essay which self-implicates, even by omission, was a first. leaving it out here works literarily. – 06:40 PM GMT
@esinclai I don’t see how anyone, even Michael Bay, could fuck it up. It’s “Gravity” on Mars, without character development or psychology. – 06:41 PM GMT
@esinclai it actually reminded me of that Buzz profile. “Fighter pilots don’t have emotions.” Nor do stranded Martianauts. At the time. – 06:43 PM GMT
@esinclai to be clear, I have no problem with this! I genuinely loved the book. It’s literally just problem, solution. Problem, solution. – 06:44 PM GMT
RT: @LungoDog: Hey @KIRORadio really enjoying listening to @TonyaMosley. More please. – 06:46 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu forgive my kibitizing, but from watching destination-based sales tax reqs roll out in US i have some observations – 07:15 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu how many sales have you had in tax jurisdiction X? Illinois (iirc?), for example, asserts nexus at destination – 07:16 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu meaning that online sales to cust in IL, (or wherever) according to IL authorities, have sales tax due to IL – 07:17 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu no matter where seller or goods are located. exact parallel to new VAT rules. – 07:18 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu for most sellers, Amazon and eBay actually make it impossible to calculate and collect accurate dest sales tax – 07:18 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu so in a way, the determination of collect and remit must be driven by the seller’s revenue. Sell a shitload in IL? collect. – 07:19 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu it is objectively IMPOSSIBLE for a small-biz owner. Dest based sales tax is the end result of several jurisdictions. – 07:20 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu state, county, township, city, special-boundary levy, etc. – 07:21 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu localities have a legit beef re lost taxes. now that bigs have monopoly, (amazon, whoever) … – 07:22 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu … the objective is to put in place rules that force small-biz to pay service provider(s) to manage tax collect/remit – 07:22 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu … but for most microbiz, even if the laws are not written to exempt, the practice will be to do so. How to remit $.002? – 07:24 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu so anyway. my $.002, not based on VAT experience but assuming similar structural objectives. funnel commerce thru bigs. – 07:25 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu so if I were an etsy or bandcamp seller based in US, I would just ignore this unless I had more than $X in EU sales. IANAL – 07:28 PM GMT
@misskeli @naxuu or an accountant. – 07:29 PM GMT
@naxuu @misskeli yep, literal buck passing – 08:09 PM GMT

I lived in Chile in 1969 as a small child. – 04:04 AM GMT
a few years later, the Pinochet coup was intensely disturbing to me, deeply undermining my trust in American motives and democracy. – 04:07 AM GMT
Like at age eight, I guess. No sense of societal security or trust in the school-imparted image of America. – 04:08 AM GMT
I have come to suspect that my sensitivity to the Dirty Wars was a reflection of my hidden insecurity as an adoptee. – 04:09 AM GMT
So you can imagine the fucking blistering rage I feel when I read about shit like this.theguardian.com/​lifeandstyle/​2… – 04:10 AM GMT
@arthurwyatt I can only hope he died in poopy-pants pain and fear. – 04:11 AM GMT
@poupou indeed. can’t recall when i first started hearing about it, high school, prolly. i do try to follow it over time. – 05:54 AM GMT
@hell0jed aw, sorry to hear it. – 03:41 PM GMT
@BitterOldPunk Shit! Sorry to hear this. – 07:30 PM GMT

@poupou how long for that feature? four weeks – 03:01 AM GMT
@poupou what did the brogrammer say to the lady developer? no, really, you don’t want to know – 03:04 AM GMT
@poupou you’re totally on to something here – 03:05 AM GMT
@keithpille amen! i literally threw it across the room at several points. just hate the fucking thing. cryptofascicon, more like it. – 08:43 PM GMT
@keithpille he did write it after writing that epic Wired feature that debuted many of the concepts – 08:50 PM GMT
@keithpille and i guess reading the book crystallized my anti-technolibertarian perspective, so, uh, thanks Neil – 08:51 PM GMT
@keithpille i had read his earlier stuff at some point, chasing down a compleat cyberpunk campaign, really liked the earlier material – 08:53 PM GMT
dog sitter reports logan is a good dog pic.twitter.com/​l2iTD2MUCy – 09:41 PM GMT
Local Fox affiliate not showing Seahawks game 🙁 – 11:47 PM GMT

@agent_cooper is that VR? – 12:02 AM GMT
@zipties @agent_cooper the question is: does he know that? – 02:41 AM GMT
@zipties @agent_cooper still, credit is due. – 02:48 AM GMT
Dad’s snoozing in front of the Bitcoin Bowl, and my mom keeps trying to get me to explain what Bitcoin is. – 03:49 AM GMT
Viv keeps looking at this pic of me and chuckling, like, “heh heh heh” pic.twitter.com/​cRBqEyD2SX – 04:30 AM GMT

@mubay don’t forget about my twitter digests! – 05:20 PM GMT
RT: @carvellwallace: it’s almost like there’s no need to write dystopian fiction anymore. it’s just…reality. ow.ly/​GshBF pic.twitter.com/​K1yXRA2GLQ – 08:25 PM GMT
attn @gjcharlet fancy.com/​things/​7448634… – 08:35 PM GMT
@pronoiac @gjcharlet yes! but merchant comments imply shipping is $85, total over $200. saw real NASA p-suit on ebay go for just over $300. – 10:33 PM GMT

RT: @ClosureFilm: We hope this holiday season finds you in the presence of family–whether by birth, foster, or adoption. #BlackSanta pic.twitter.com/​8DWhOvH5Z9 – 12:03 AM GMT
@elizarde those are our colors/colours, ent they? neato. – 12:07 AM GMT
@elizarde @kelliebob that’s why they put the juniper in. to hide the flavor of rot. – 12:29 AM GMT
RT: @Medievalists: The coming of the Christmas Visitors…Folk legends concerning the attacks on Icelanders made by spirits at Christmas ow.ly/​GoWOm – 03:14 AM GMT
@mathowie you there what day is this yes you ragamuffin moppet you – 05:11 AM GMT
sixty five degrees at 1 am. – 05:43 AM GMT
@gjcharlet are you *still* up, or roused by childs? – 11:53 AM GMT
@gjcharlet ah, with the leaping from bed and wondering eyes and all – 12:06 PM GMT
RT: @PRISM_NSA: Just quietly putting this out there on a day we hope you’re too busy stuffing your faces with turkey to notice bloomberg.com/​news/​2014-12-2… – 04:01 PM GMT
@gjcharlet you know, the obvious next step here is to set up Aunt Gladys’ twitter account where she’s looking for her cake. – 04:03 PM GMT
@gjcharlet poor Aunt Gladys – 04:05 PM GMT
@phirephoenix yaaaay congrats! – 07:25 PM GMT
HELL YES. Think Geek spacesuit hoodie! – 08:12 PM GMT
@earinc @fantagraphics #3 arrives at destination pic.twitter.com/​4I9FsIn018 – 09:07 PM GMT
5:05p: still opening presents, one at a time – 10:06 PM GMT
@esinclai concentrating on showing appropriate presbyterian reverence for the act of giving – 10:08 PM GMT

@gjcharlet you’re an astronaut, out there exploring planet grief for all of us. keep your hands on the controls and use your checklist. – 02:19 AM GMT
@elizarde @cstross yaaaaay – 02:45 PM GMT
RT: @dakami: The New Yorker wins. pic.twitter.com/​23XKNhWPUa – 02:47 PM GMT
@whybark appears to be thezorklibrary.com/​installguides/​… – 08:57 PM GMT
@gjcharlet dang, gj, you got me. – 09:02 PM GMT
jacobinmag.com/​2014/​12/​the-cl… – 10:33 PM GMT

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RT: @sumit: Breakaway druidical factions. Sad to see the faith in schism after all this time (cough) #Stonehenge #WinterSolstice pic.twitter.com/​3V2oz6oJ63 – 02:20 PM GMT
@sumit sing hey nonny nonny hey nonny ho /Morris dancing jingle bell stick thing (cc @arthurwyatt) – 02:21 PM GMT
This gas price stuff is getting to dotcom era ridiculous pic.twitter.com/​W7Bz5lZ5SS – 06:15 PM GMT
@BitterOldPunk my word! /monocle pops outen eye – 10:01 PM GMT