If $15/hr min wage bothers you because it's more/ the same or "too close to" what you're making, direct that anger to your bosses who are underpaying you, not to other people who are also underpaid.
— B (@Breliloquy) January 15, 2021
Don’t fall for the capitalist trap of dividing workers against other slightly-better-treated workers.
My beautiful mum passed away today from #COVID, after only 5 days. She was 51. I was lucky to be allowed onto critical care and hold her hand to the end. Please retweet this to ensure others stay safe and take this virus bloody seriously.
Sleep well mama #CovidUK #COVID19 pic.twitter.com/XixaAZRg9o
— (@lilyisabellaaa) January 14, 2021
Damn, that fake pandemic sure is killing a lot of people. Amazing. Not sure how it feels, dying of a hoax, but some anti-maskers are trying hard to find out and making sure the rest of us will too.
‘I’m facing a prison sentence’: US Capitol rioters plead with Trump for pardons.
Aww, poor babies. Don’t do coups and this won’t happen. Or, do coups, then be prepared to accept the consequences. Even if you are very, very stupid.
According to many libs, though, that means you wana killa gramma. And why do you want to kill gramma, gramma-killer? Huh?
Wow.
Typos I do not ever want to make in work messages:
* meet / meat
* sec / sex
* clock / 🐓— Jen Gentleman 🌺 (@JenMsft) January 13, 2021
I had a project manager once send me an email where she wrote, “I apologize for the incontinence.”
She meant “inconvenience.”
It was everything I could do not reply with something about how pissy the project was, or make allusions to the “golden shower” of work that we’d undertaken. Damn, it was so tempting.
It's annoying when media gets simple terminology wrong.
This is obviously a tank. https://t.co/pXJasBVnZQ
— Brian Wilson (@bayouwilson) January 15, 2021
Specifically, that’s an Oshkosh-produced M1083 A1P2 5-ton MTV in A-kit configuration.
It’s a cargo vehicle, in other words, that can carry up to 5 tons of stuff.
congratulations you played yourself https://t.co/TrCJp0uUrT
— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) January 15, 2021
Ahahahaha!
That’s great. It’s dipshits all the way down. I love it. Still can’t wait to leave this country, but that’s some great stuff.
I am exactly the same drunk as I am sober.
I am not sure what this means.
"we are trying to start a decentralised, open social media"
FORUMS. YOU ARE DESCRIBING FORUMS. THAT IS WHAT WE DID AND HAD BEFORE THE INTERNET BECAME THREE WEBSITES.
TECH BROS LOVE TO INVENT THINGS THAT ALREADY EXIST AND CALL THEM SHIT LIKE "BLUESKY" pic.twitter.com/nCiOr3Qya3
— Punchy (@Succinct_Punchy) January 14, 2021
That always makes me laugh. Techbros “invent” shit all the time that I used on a BBS in 1986.
NEW from @Reuters: Federal prosecutors have offered an ominous new assessment of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, saying they had "strong evidence" that "the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials."https://t.co/ieFrpb6YFG
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) January 15, 2021
YOU THINK?
Of course that was the goal of the dozen or so serious people there in the scrum of galoots, galumphers and gadabouts.
It’s amazing that it takes normals more than a week to determine something I was able to acurrately assess in 10 seconds of looking at videos.
went into manhattan yesterday for the first time in almost a year for my mandatory yearly doctor checkup and it was both weird how normal everything still sort of looked and horrifying how many things have closed up for good
— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) January 14, 2021
Lockdown goal achieved. This is exactly why it has lasted so pointlessly long.
european cuisine, so chichi. https://t.co/pnaqXswT4I
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) January 13, 2021
Recite the mantra: I will not live in the pod and I will not eat bugs.
I really need that other planet now.
Facebook was more helpful to the riot than Parler.
Let's follow the logic here.
Parler's business model is dangerous and should be illegal. Facebook caused even more violent activity than Parler. Therefore… https://t.co/gXRrbgzn2S
— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 14, 2021
Facebook should be nuked from orbit and every high-level exec there barred from doing anything in that field again.
Been saying that for years. And I’ve been right for years. Where ya’ll been at?
What amazes me is the sheer stupidity that keeps being revealed?
They used a walkie-talkie app rather than just using walkie-talkies? https://t.co/YfHNvQQtrA
— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) January 14, 2021
Of course they trained. The congressmembers were evacuated much faster than the insurrectionists thought would occur and some of their own people got in the way. The serious ones were using these doofuses for cover so they couldn’t advance beyond them much. It was obviously a planned op using opportunists and good-time goons to decoy themselves. As far as that goes, it was a smart tactic but it did not allow for speed and that’s why it failed.
They thought they’d get in and start taking hostages and killing within 2-3 minutes. Instead, it took them more than 10, which was both a lucky failure of mission planning, mostly due to lack of experience with understanding how such operations proceed, and an example of rare competence on the part of those coordinating the evacuation.
What I would’ve done if I’d been planning this operation is minimal weaponry and dressing like the biggest dipshits around, with light body armor concealed under my doofus regalia, and gone in with a real party goon atmosphere running through the halls as part of the first wave, encouraging those who were just there for a riot party to follow along so they could still act as clueless decoys while I moved as fast as possible. Speed is everything in these sorts of things and they didn’t take that into account.
Luckily for us, any variant of the plan above would only work once, and they blew their shot. They weren’t smart — rather stupid, actually — but their strategy overall was not bad.