mike.whybark.com

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

@earinc @fantagraphics at my folks. Grew up with these. pic.twitter.com/​tJj9ylwmI8 – 02:50 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt sommer is icumen in – 04:29 PM GMT
@arthurwyatt sing hey nonny nonny hey nonny ho /Morris dancing jingle bell stick thing – 04:35 PM GMT

RT: @PhilosophyMttrs: XMAS DIALECTIC pic.twitter.com/​Pyjwl01ZHM – 02:00 AM GMT
RT: @levarburton: Face painting at the @readingrainbow holiday soirée…#bydhttmwfi pic.twitter.com/​K0HPcimrF1 – 02:05 AM GMT
When I was 12 I joined a freeform cable radio station, WQAX. Over the years I got kicked out and rejoined at least twice, I think. – 02:57 AM GMT
The earliest advocate for punk at the station was a college kid with an orange ’78 new wave mullet and a DIY stenciled Buzzcocks shirt. – 02:59 AM GMT
His name was Gary Indiana. Makes sense, since the station was in Bloomington, Indiana. He passionately defended punk at staff meetings. – 03:01 AM GMT
He had to do this because the majority of the staff, well meaning and free souls that they were, found the leather and rage waaay scary. – 03:01 AM GMT
Bellbottoms and flip-flops were more their speed. Anyway, I moved away for a while and when I came back he was gone, graduated or who knows. – 03:03 AM GMT
Then in the mid-80s I started seeing great art criticism written from the perspective of a downtown scene New Yorker named Gary Indiana. – 03:04 AM GMT
This guy: en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Gary_Indi… – 03:04 AM GMT
For years, decades, really, I thought my Gary and that Gary were the same guy. But, as telegraphed here, they are not. – 03:05 AM GMT
Except that in my head, sort of, they actually really are. Anyway. Pareidolia: sometimes weirdly useful. – 03:06 AM GMT
.@esinclai for a while I wondered if orange mullet Gary was an embodied mondegreen. But then he Facebook friended me, as Gary Indiana. – 03:09 AM GMT
RT: @TheBlackVoice: Hackers mess up a movieObama: We will respondPolice kill unarmed Black peopleObama: Please be calm – 03:09 AM GMT
@mubay mike.whybark.com/​archives/​00658… – 05:39 AM GMT
@LeavittAlone at 6:55a stick your head out the window and wave in the direction of Newark or at the descending planes generally – 07:47 AM GMT
awesome! drunk guy in the rear of the plane falling down in yhe aisle and TWO loud passenger ralphers. MMMhmm – 08:24 AM GMT
@DanEngler the missing vintage items likely belong to an old client of @manwhoyells – 09:39 PM GMT